Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Vol. 89, No. 04 2013

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ARE YOU SAFE? Digital barbarians are at the gate, but Tech is armed for battle.

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CONNECTION POINT P56

ARE YOU SAFE? P64

Tech’s Invention Studio is producing the next generation of engineers—and they aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty.

AirWatch founder and CEO John Marshall, IE 96, placed himself at the center of the wireless industry.

Digital barbarians are at the gate, but Georgia Tech is armed for battle.

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ALUMNI HOUSE

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012 Talk of Tech What’s the big deal about Big Data?

076 A Night in Phonathon Student employees make the call to support Tech.

020 Student News

078 Networks and Groups

022 Innovate An Angry Kitten, a new crutch and more from Tech’s brightest minds.

080 Wrecks at Work Career tips to consider before you jump ship.

025 By The Numbers Under the hood of Tech’s first MOOC.

082 Travel

026 10 Questions

RAMBLIN’ ROLL

028 Office Space

ON THE FIELD

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030 Athlete Profiles 032 Ted Roof Comes Home Again Yellow Jackets star player returns as defensive coordinator.

IN THE WORLD

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085 Out & About 086 Weddings 090 Births 092 In Memoriam

TECH HISTORY

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103 Artifact The sophomore class of 1908 and the anti-jackets battle.

034 Dollars & Sense

104 Memories

036 @Issue

105 Time Machine

038 Jacket Copy 040 On The Job The National Weather Service’s Jason Tuell, PhD GS 90, keeps a sunny outlook.

Cover illustration: Adrian Tomine

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A father, a son, an unexpected discovery on move-in day.

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Protecting Our Loved Ones and Zeroes

Digital data is ubiquitous in our lives today, and with it comes all sorts of advantages and challenges. Much of our private and commercial data now resides in the cloud, which may be more convenient, but it also means we have to be smarter about both our personal security and our national security.

Georgia Tech is involved in many aspects of protecting our data and other sensitive information. To name just one example, the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s C y b e r Te c h n o l o g y a n d Information Security Laboratory conducts research to develop technologies that can identify and respond to threats to the United States’ information systems.

Held on campus in March in partnership with the National Academy of Engineering and Federal Bureau of Investigation, the 2013 Georgia Tech Cyber Security Symposium highlighted the current technologies, challenges and policies surrounding cyber security.

It is critical work that will continue to stimulate economic growth and development.

Georgia Tech alumni also are pioneering ways to address data storage and security vulnerabilities. We all know about Chris Klaus, Cls 96, and Tom Noonan, ME 83, who developed Internet Security Systems (now owned

by IBM) into a vanguard of the cyber security industry. Klaus, alongside College of Computing professor Sy Goodman, offers his thoughts on surveillance technology in our @Issue section on page 36. A new leader in the field is John Marshall, IE 96, the founder, president and CEO of AirWatch, a 10-year old mobile security and enterprise mobility management company based in 0 0 6

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Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Vol. 89, No. 4 Publisher Joseph P. Irwin, IM 80 Editor Van Jensen Assistant Editor Rachael Maddux designer Joshua Baker | joshbkr.com COPY EDITOR Rebecca Bowen student assistants Asia Wilson, Christine St. Jean executive committee Steve Chaddick, EE 74, MS EE 82, Chair Walt Ehmer, IE 89, Past Chair Robert N. Stargel Jr., EE 83, Chair-elect/Vice Chair of Roll Call Benton Mathis Jr., IM 81, Vice Chair of Finance David Bottoms, Mgt 01, Member at Large Eric Pinckney Sr., ME 86, M CP 93, Member at Large Sheri Prucka, EE 82, MS EE 84, Member at Large Joseph P. Irwin, IM 80, President & CEO Board of Trustees Stanley E. Anderson, IM 75; Nathan Bennett, PhD Mgt 89; J. Paul Austin, Mgt 99; Jeni Bogdan, Mgt 89, MS MoT 96; Arthur Brannen, IM 73; Fred H. Carlson, CE 01, MBA 04; Ralph Cleveland Jr., ME 86; Sean Corcoran, ChE 95; C. Richard Crutchfield, IM 69; Richard DeAugistinis, IE 92; A. Ray Douglas Jr., Arch 75; Jeanene Fowler, IE 84; Rick Garcia, CE 73; Nicolette A. Gordon, ME 93; John Hammond, ChE 72, MS IE 75; Russell H. Heil, AE 64; Timothy Heilig, IE 75; Thomas N. Herrington Jr., IM 82; Justin Honaman Jr., IE 96; Tracey K. Jennings, ME 89; Andrea L. Laliberte, IE 82, MS IE 84; Judy Liaw, ME 98; Errika N. Mallett, IE 96; Michelle Mason, ChE 86; James L. Mitchell, CE 05; Tyrone Murray, ME 82; Whitney Owen, IA 03; Anu Parvatiyar, BME 08; Michael John Rafferty Jr., EE 02; Dr. Michael Rooney, Chem 73; Leslie R. Sibert, EE 85; Julie Sumerford

Atlanta. AirWatch is growing by leaps and bounds and has an implied market value of $1 billion. For a profile of Marshall and AirWatch, check out page 56.

Throughout the rest of the issue, you’ll find many examples of how Tech students, faculty and graduates are innovating in this rapidly expanding, sometimes controversial and crucially important field.

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As a recovering journalist (my first Atlanta job was at the Constitution) and as a lawyer for media for many years, issue Vol. 89, No. 3 was a really fine job in editorial, art, composition, layout, theming and cover. A real home run!”

Joseph R. Bankoff, chair, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs

the plane and asks his copilot for some music.

Well, copilot Wayne puckers up and starts whistling “Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech.” I could not believe it. I must have seen that movie a dozen times, but this was the first time I remember hearing John Wayne whistle “Ramblin’ Wreck.” I know that the University of California has a fight song to the tune of the “Wreck,” but the Duke went to USC, and I doubt if he would be whistling anything for Cal. I have to believe it was for Tech. My question to other alumni is simple: How did John Wayne choose to whistle “Wreck”?

Not Gone, or Forgotten

What happened to ROTC at Tech?

Bernie Kilgore, ME 59 Macon, Ga.

Editor’s Note:

ROTC is still going strong on campus. For more information, visit rotc.gatech.edu. The Alumni Magazine is planning a military-centric issue and would love to hear from alumni who were in ROTC or served in the military. Contact us at editor@alumni.gatech.edu or (404) 894-0761.

Helluva Lot More

I just read a fascinating interview with Dr. Paul Goldbart, our new dean of the college of Sciences [Vol. 89, No. 3]. Obviously brilliant, he sounds like he will lead the College well. We can’t forget that many Georgia Tech students will never become a helluva engineer, but perhaps a helluva mathematician, or a helluva biochemist!

Jon L. Albee, ME 92 Houston

It’s High-school Physics, Guys!

I am surprised that everyone is confused or undecided about whether [Rick Cavallaro’s] machine can “sail” faster than the wind [“How to be Wrong,” Vol. 89, No. 2]. Forget about sailing. Imagine that instead of the propeller there was a simple large coil spring being wound up from a connection to the craft’s axle as the wind drag pushes the craft to almost wind speed, then the shaft on the spring was connected to the wheels. The craft would use this stored energy to accelerate beyond the wind speed until 0 0 8

Jim Meyer, ME 68 Sausalito, Calif.

Remembering Patrick Cotrona

the spring wound down. Then the process would repeat. His propeller system, more complicated than a coil spring, uses the momentum of the craft to spin the propeller giving thrust to the craft instead of a coil spring turning the wheels. It’s all about the conservation of energy for coil spring or momentum for the propeller driver. This is high-school physics, guys!

Robert Chapman, AE 53 Fair Grove, Mo.

Was the Duke a Yellow Jackets Fan?

Recently I was watching the classic 1954 movie, The High and the Mighty. It starred John Wayne and Robert Stack, among others. Toward the end of the movie when the plane has crossed over the Farallon Islands on its approach to [San Francisco], Stack takes control of

I was just made aware of this story in the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine concerning my brother, Patrick Cotrona [In Memoriam, Vol. 89, No. 3]. My family and I are so appreciative that you took the time to write (and read) about my brother’s tragic death.

Georgia Tech was not just where my brother went to school and earned his degree—the university provided an outlet where Patrick could be himself and learn and grow into the wonderfully unique individual that he was. We are troubled by the fact that his killers have not yet been caught, and my family plans to host fundraisers for his justice. If you or someone you know is interested in learning about any upcoming events, please email hisnamewaspatrickcotrona@gmail.com.

Thank you all for your love and support.

Kate Cotrona Krumm Posted at gtalumnimag.com

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Recognize These Stubs?

In a recent Alumni Magazine [Vol. 89, No. 2], you folks published an article regarding the “Man Cave” of Joe Belcher, Cls 91, which contained all of the Tech memorabilia he had collected over the years. You also expressed an interest in any Tech memorabilia anyone else might have. I would be very interested in having your help identifying more accurately the games represented by the two ticket stubs given to me some time ago by a friend who knew I was a Tech alumnus. The games were obviously played at Grant Field in different years, and both appear to be games against UGA, but the dates are nowhere to be found on these stubs. From the ticket prices listed I would venture to say they are in the range of 60 years old.

CONTRIBUTORS

Adrian tomine’s illustration work appears on the cover of this issue, and opens “Are You Safe?” on page 64 . Tomine has been featured in numerous publications, including many times on the cover of The New Yorker.

Burton M. Courtney, CE 61, MS CE 65, bcourtne@rose.net Thomasville, Ga.

Whither the Engineer?

As an engineer I was pleased to receive a copy of the first issue of Georgia Tech Engineers from [College of Engineering] Dean Gary May. When reading the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine I sometimes wonder if Tech still produces engineers since we hear so much about the College of Business and other colleges. I applaud the recent successes of these colleges, but let us never lose sight of the fact that Georgia Tech is one of the top engineering universities in the world. Let’s keep it that way and not forget those who are “Helluva Engineers.”

Gordon Waring, IE 70, MS CE 73 South Africa

Editor’s Note:

The Alumni Magazine is created and distributed to all Tech alumni, so we balance our coverage across the entirety of Tech, including each of its six colleges.

That said, in recent issues we have had significant coverage of the College of Engineering and its alumni (including in five of our past six feature articles).

‘Space is Lighter Than Orange’

Clearly I am “left-brained,” and this article [“Left Brain, Meet Right Brain,” Vol. 89, No. 3] reminded me of an experience when I first came to Georgia Tech. I started as an architecture major; alas, my only artistic talent was drafting. In one class we were told our assignment was, and I quote, “space is lighter than orange.” I raised my hand and, using my left brain, asked simply, “What does that mean?”

In my midterm feedback I was told, “You have a bad attitude.” Happy ending—I subsequently left Arch and was a cum laude graduate in engineering and have had a successful career.

Mark McFarland, IE 77 Posted at gtalumnimag.com

robert lemos explored Tech’s involvement in the cybersecurity arena (“Are You Safe?,” pg. 64). He has written for several sites and magazines, including Wired.

Pass it to Bob!

I played pick-up basketball afternoons in the Old Gym under the stadium off and on from 1966 through 1971 and never realized there was an NBA playing at noon [“The Noon Basketball Association,” Vol. 89, No. 2]. Almost everyone playing when I played were students. I remember showing up one day and I was the only one there. As I was shooting, three other students showed up at the other end of the court and asked me to play. Being a follower of Tech sports, I knew who the players were—Bob Seemer and Tommy Wilson, both forwards on the basketball team, and Larry Good, quarterback on the football team. I was a decent intramural player, but I wasn’t in the league of those athletes, and I quickly learned why I was hanging out as a gym rat and not on an athletic scholarship. My best play was to pass the ball to Bob Seemer (about 6 feet, 10 inches tall) and let him shoot.

Natalie nelson, who brought Tech’s Subreddit to life (pg. 14), is an illustrator living in Atlanta.

Mitch ginn, Arch 82, M Arch 85, interviewed former Jacket and new defensive

Everett Stonebraker, EE 71

coordinator Ted Roof (pg. 32).

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The walkway between the Klaus Advanced Computing and College of Computing buildings is a visible reminder of Tech’s focus on data.

Rumor has it that the binary code translates as “To Hell With Georgia!”

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A glimpse at the biggest—and, sometimes, the strangest—news from campus.

The Big Deal About Big Data Andrew Moseman

Tech researchers try to make sense of a morass.

The amount of raw data in the world is expanding exponentially. Not just words and numbers in databases, but YouTube videos, MP3 audio files and

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metadata—data about the data itself.

The world’s data pile has now reached the zettabyte scale (trillions of gigabytes), and there are no signs of stopping.

The challenge for researchers and the world isn’t simply finding a place to store all this stuff, says Richard Fujimoto, Regents professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering and interim director of the Georgia Tech Institute for Data and High Performance Computing. Now that everything is documented, new insights are buried within the morass of data, waiting to be discovered. But changing the world through big data requires having enough computing power to process the information, smart algorithms and data visualization techniques to find patterns among the noise, and a knack for asking the right questions—all Georgia Tech specialties.

“We’ve been interested for quite some time, well before people started calling this big data,” Fujimoto says. “You need to put together teams of scientists and engineers and computer science professionals to attack these problems.”

Georgia Tech now finds itself at the forefront of a groundswell of interest in massive sets of information, with Tech researchers using big data to make warehouse deliveries more efficient, build better climate models, thwart computer malware, pinpoint possible cancer warning signs and more.

Consider the explosive growth of social media. Facebook and Twitter are of special interest to David Bader, a professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering and executive director of the new Center for High Performance Computing. He imagines Facebook as a mass of millions of points (representing the users) and connection lines

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(representing friendships or shared content); his team has devised algorithms to identify the most important actor in a network—not necessarily the one with the most friends, but the one who yields the most influence. The team’s work is about more than figuring out who makes a particular news story popular on Facebook. “Those same algorithms can work in other domains,” Bader says. “That type of [approach] has been applied to how HIV is transmitted within jail populations, to how jazz musicians find the most influential musicians, and to how transportation networks try to find congestion points.” He’s also looked at the U.S. power grid, and how cascading failures spread.

Big data also plays a significant role in Tech’s new Institute for Materials, which is developing new materials for industry.

“The human genome spawned a revolution in the biomedical industry to try out new approaches to developing cures for diseases,” Fujimoto says. “With the materials genome, the idea is to have a similar transformative project focus on the atomic structures of these different materials.”

With a smart catalog for engineers to work from, Fujimoto hopes to cut the development time for a new material from prototype to market—currently about 15 years—in half.

Even the next generation of video games could benefit from Tech’s big data research. This year, doctoral student Alexander Zook, under the guidance of principal investigator Mark Riedl, used big data to push dynamic difficulty adjustment in games. “You want to change the game based on the players,” Zook says.

“Most games as they exist right now … are a one-size-fits-all experience.” In a smallscale experiment, Zook showed that by gathering data on how a host of gamers

for example, a researcher would need to access weather sensor data, weather forecasts, perhaps satellite imagery, even tweets from those who evacuated. “There are so many aspects that we need to bring together,” Bader says.

Part of the problem is that these data can exist in disparate parts of the cloud.

Part of it lies in the challenge of researchers getting together the computing power, smart computing architecture and advanced algorithms to deal with the data.

The world’s data pile has now reached the zettabyte scale (trillions of gigabytes), and there are no signs of stopping. handled a particular problem, he could design a game to adjust on the fly, preventing it from becoming too easy or too hard.

In Bader’s estimation, the future of big data—the ability to employ these approaches to solve big, national-scale problems—depends upon researchers’ ability to unify multiple enormous data sets. To analyze how residents fled from the devastating Colorado floods in September,

Whether scientists are trying to revolutionize personalized medicine, bolster national security, or help people evacuate a disaster area, the key to making the world a better place through big data is finding the meaningful connections.

“All of these are problems where we have data—massive data,” he says. “But we don’t know yet how to put it together and make sense of it in near-real time.”

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of Georgia roadways used in a two-year study by Tech 18,000 Miles researchers that promises to revolutionize road maintenance.

in millions of dollars, received by Tech researchers 2 Amount, to develop “origami” antennas that can fold and move.

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A glimpse at the biggest—and, sometimes, the strangest— news from campus.

Reddit or Not

Austin L. Ray

Exploring Georgia Tech’s slice of one of the internet’s biggest communities.

Founded in 2005, Reddit is a social-

oriented website and self-described “online community where users vote on content,” an interface filled with funny links and images combined with a democratic popularity-ranking system. It’s easy to use, addictive and massively popular: In September 2013 alone the site reported more than 80,000,000 unique visitors. Entries are sorted into contentbased collections called subreddits, of which there’s one for pretty much any community or area of interest under the sun—including for colleges and universities. It should come as no surprise, then, that Georgia Tech’s subreddit (located at reddit.com/r/gatech) is big and buzzing.

After spending more time browsing its pages than we’d like to admit, here’s a highly scientific breakdown of what we found.

The Good: There’s third-floor library gos-

sip, including asbestos hearsay “from a random dude at the Library info desk,” but it’s quickly followed by news stories and anecdotes from former employees. An FBI report showing that Georgia Tech is safer than Emory, while snarked on by users, brings relief to some. There are threads about the best places for phone interviews (room 455 at the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons is a favorite) and between-class power naps (“your bed” and Under the Couch did well). We learn that, in Maulding Residence Hall, there’s a free microwave up for grabs that “works no problem,” though it had no takers as of press time. Elsewhere, a popular thread about the Campus Freethinkers reveals that they’re apparently a decent, if •

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opinionated, group of folks (one prone to enjoying “delicious baked treats”), at least according to the majority of the 25 comments there.

The Weird: It wouldn’t

be the internet if things didn’t get a little strange. In one post wondering about the smell of the Skiles Building (described with a word unprintable in this magazine), the culprit ends up being gingko trees. One user posted a photo of three squirrels making a window nest at Van Leer; another wonders about the creatures’ SAT scores. A post about the Student Center Subway’s UGA cup promotion elicits an apologetic email from Georgia Tech’s dining services team. Elsewhere, a delightful post dedicated to “the girl that dances everywhere she goes” earns its subject a chorus of complimentary descriptors such as “magical” and “extremely awesome.”

The Ugly: It also wouldn’t be the internet if things didn’t get a little mean sometimes.

A student’s post asking for a ride to the hospital turns into an argument about how many friends that person has. A troll posts a link to FirePaulJohnson.com and fires up pro-Johnson students instead. Elsewhere,

an upperclassmen vs. freshmen class war breaks out via animated GIFs. Maybe the lesson here is one Georgia Tech second-year Nick Selby taught us back in August when his freshman convocation speech video went viral (with some help from Reddit, of course). Whether you want the wisest class schedule or an infusion of cute animal photos, to make Burger Bytes a better place or to wonder out loud whether there’s a disproportionate amount of lazy-eyed people on campus, to get a ride home from the hospital or simply find a place to sleep for a few minutes, with the help of Georgia Tech’s subreddit, you can do that.

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that four Tech students earned in a coding competition 1 Ranking put on by the Clinton Foundation, Jawbone and Tumblr.

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A glimpse at the biggest—and, sometimes, the strangest— news from campus.

‘Nerdy, Badass Prom’

Kristen Bailey

Tech student juggles classwork and cosplay.

Monika Lee is one of about 20,000 students who attend Georgia Tech, but she has an online fan base twice the size of the Institute’s student population.

Lee is somewhat of a celebrity in the world of costume play, or cosplay, where participants dress as characters from books, films, video games or other media, sometimes adding an element of interactivity or role play with one another.

“Cosplay, for me, is like getting pretty and dressing up at prom,” Lee said.

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“Except it’s nerdy, awesome and badass.”

This fall, Lee was featured in Heroes of Cosplay, a show from the Syfy network that followed nine cosplay enthusiasts around the country as they crafted their costumes and traveled to conventions.

When Lee was a teen growing up in Alpharetta, Ga., she discovered online cosplay communities and saw the practice as a way to combine her creativity with an existing love of anime, manga and video games. While in high school, she worked

with a business that creates costume accessories, which eventually connected her to the Syfy opportunity.

Filming took her to Seattle, Houston, Kansas City and beyond for various comic book and anime conventions. “It was extremely difficult to juggle my demanding class schedule with filming, making cosplays and attending conventions, and I definitely learned a lot from it,” she said.

Over the Labor Day weekend, Lee was able to stay in Atlanta, home to the world’s largest fantasy and sci-fi convention, Dragon Con. The city also hosts MomoCon, a convention started in 2005

by Georgia Tech’s anime club. Lee easily found kindred spirits at Tech from the moment she arrived on campus.

“I was most surprised during FASET when I met people who actually knew what cosplay was,” she said. “I spend most of my time explaining to strangers what I do and why it is that I do it, but it’s amazing to be on campus with a community of students who mostly understand cosplay, conventions and the source material.”

A third-year industrial design major, Lee has found her coursework helpful when it comes time to design costumes.

And her experience with constructing costumes and props in middle and high school gave her an edge as an applicant to Georgia Tech. Lee’s creations are mostly a solo effort, with the help of a Husqvarna Viking sewing machine and a Brother serger. However, she did offer credit to her father, an electrical engineer. “If any part of my costume lights up,” Lee said, “it’s because I made my dad hook up the LED circuit.”

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efficiency increase of electric delivery trucks 50 Percent compared to diesel trucks, a Tech study determined.

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TALK of TECH

A glimpse at the biggest—and, sometimes, the strangest— news from campus.

Wisdom of the Crowd-funders

Robert Nesmith

New website opens research fundraising to the public.

Jennifer Leavey needed some money for her bees. She was looking for fund-

ing to jump-start the Georgia Tech Urban Honey Bee Project—$6,750, to be exact—to buy webcams and sensors for the student-oriented research effort studying how an urban habitat impacts bees. But with government funding running dry, Leavey turned to a new campus initiative that enables the Tech community to support itself.

Georgia Tech Starter is a crowdfunding site that allows faculty and students to submit engineering and science project proposals and raise funds toward set goals. Once approved, the proposals and goals are posted online at starter.gatech.edu, and anyone—family, friends, fellow researchers, even just generous strangers—can contribute to the projects’ funding, pitching in any dollar amount.

“We can reach an unconventional funding source for this unconventional project,” said Leavey, a senior academic professional with the College of Sciences. “All different kinds of people—alumni, beekeepers, students’ families, and those interested in urban agriculture and sustainability—will be drawn to the project.”

Georgia Tech Research Institute researcher Allison Mercer began the process of founding the Georgia Tech Starter a year ago after learning that faculty and researchers from other

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universities were using crowd-source funding websites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. Rather than have researchers turn to external sites (which keep up to 5 percent of the funds raised), Mercer had the idea for Tech to host its own crowd-funding hub that would allow researchers to keep every cent they raise.

Approved projects are posted on the Tech Starter site for 60 days, and donors are only charged if the funding goals are reached. proposals and letting the world know “Georgia Tech Starter is different from other sites in that we use the reabout the wonderful research going view process to ensure projects can be on here.” successfully executed before they ever The first group of projects is online hit the site,” said Heyward Adams, a now, with fundraising open through site co-founder and a researcher at November. In addition to Leavey’s Tech. “Technicians at the Georgia Tech honeybee project, other research efStarter Center provide feedback and forts include a study of lasers in space, help project creators craft their mesinvestigation into the impact of Antsages to garner support and appeal to arctic storms on coral reefs and an the community.” effort to use dinosaur tracks to study The site dovetails perfectly with how the creatures moved.

Tech’s goal to define the technologLeavey said that, while the site has ical research university of the 21st its benefits, it also requires more comcentury, said Rafael L. Bras, provost munication. “Along with clear and and executive vice president for Acadefined goals, having a strategy for demic Affairs. “Georgia Tech Starter reaching investors through social netis a perfect example of innovation works is also important,” she said. and thinking outside of the box.

As of press time, her work was paySteve Cross [executive vice president ing dividends, with the project already for research] and I encourage faculty at 21 percent of its funding goal. and researchers Want to fund a Georgia Tech Starter project? To learn more about to par ticipate the research efforts and to support them, visit starter.gatech.edu. by submitting

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of brain training subjects did in a Tech-based study that 20 Days determined such training boosts memory but not intelligence.

(and counting), in dollars, of the invest1,000,000 Value ment portfolio of the Tech Student Foundation.

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Accomplishments, both stunning and silly, by the alumni of tomorrow.

Giving Back Before Getting Out

Rachael Maddux

Student Foundation shares its passion for philanthropy.

For Elizabeth Morris, philanthropy is

personal. The fifth-year biomedical engineering student studies in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (named in honor of the influential engineer) and wouldn’t even be at Tech without the John Staton Sr. scholarship she receives each semester. And she knows she’s not alone. “I think about my group of friends, and over half of us would have never met if we wouldn’t have received a scholarship to attend school here,” says Morris, CEO of the Georgia Tech Student Foundation. “And I think that goes for the majority of campus.”

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of philanthropy can seem limited to older alumni with established careers and ample finances—maybe something to strive for down the line, but far removed from the everyday hustle of classes, labs and homework. But the Student Foundation is seeking to change that mindset.

The Student Foundation, an awardwinning, Alumni Association-supported student organization that offers grants to student groups looking to improve Georgia Tech, this fall kicked off its Philanthropy at Tech initiative with its first annual Philanthropy Week. (The GTSF is funded by an endowment, also overseen by student officers, which recently reached $1 million.)

“Over the past couple years we have seen a significant increase in student awareness about philanthropy and an increase in student donors—but we wanted to push that bar even higher,” Morris said. “It is really our time and our duty, as members of the Student Foundation, to tell future alumni about the importance of philanthropy on our campus. There is no other time where we will have all of the future alumni in a more captive audience than now, before they graduate.”

The week of Sept. 16, 75 signs popped up all around campus, staked into the ground outside 55 buildings, schools and other structures that exist thanks to

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philanthropic efforts. Each told the story of both the building itself and the alumni or friends whose donations made it possible.

“Working on this project has opened my eyes to how absolutely critical our alumni and friend base has been to the growth and even existence of Georgia Tech,” says Matt Jacobson, a sixth-year electrical engineering and business administration double major and a GTSF member at large. “It was impossible to work on this project, to learn the stories about our generous benefactors, and not be absolutely inspired by their commitment and love for our Institute.”

The Student Foundation leaders hope that their fellow students will feel that same sense of awe and appreciation, inspiring them to give back before they get out and continue to give as alumni. Many already do: More than 5,200 became donors in the 2012-13 academic year, and 2013-14 is on track to break that record.

“We are also trying to show that philanthropy is not just about giving monetarily,” Morris notes. “We want students to know that giving up their time and talents to Georgia Tech can be just as philanthropic as giving financially.”

Philanthropy Week concluded with a networking event on Tech Green, where students slurped Coke products and chatted with alumni. John Brock, ChE 70, MS ChE 71, and his wife Mary, Hon 13, took to the balloon-flanked podium to further emphasize the importance of giving back. “Philanthropy wasn’t something we thought about,” Mary Brock said of the years her husband spent at Tech. “We saw names on buildings and thought they must have been someone important, but that was the end of it.

But today, I don’t think you could forget about it.”

WHAT’S IN A NAME? PHILANTHROPY WEEK EDITION Christopher W. Klaus Advanced Computing Building

In 1999, Christopher W. Klaus, Cls 96, donated $15 million toward the creation of a new computing building—the fifth-largest contribution by an individual in Georgia Tech’s history, and he was just 26. While still a student, Klaus had created a company named Internet Security Systems that went public in 1998 and was acquired by IBM in 2006 for more than a billion dollars. His donation was aimed at inspiring students to give back as well as accelerating future technology innovation.

H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering

Stewart, IE 61, is retired chairman and CEO of Standard Group, a company he founded in 1987, and

has a long history of philanthropy at Georgia Tech.

He established the H. Milton Stewart Endowment Fund for ISyE Programs in 1995 and the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair in ISyE in 1999. He has supported scholarships for female students coming to Tech from Habersham High School. The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering was dedicated and named in 2006 in recognition of the Stewarts’ commitment of $20 million.

Carolyn & James Goldin House

This quadrant of the Fourth Street Apartments is coed and houses members of the Women, Science and Technology program; it was constructed in 1995 at a cost of $3.4 million.

In 2005, the building was dedicated to Carolyn M.

and William J. Goldin, IM 54, for their love of Tech and their generosity to the Institute. Captain Goldin served in the Air Force during the Cold War era and later joined the Atlanta Gas Light Company. The Goldins have given to Roll Call for more than 49 consecutive years.

Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Administration Building

In 1998, our most iconic landmark—better known as Tech Tower—was renamed in honor of one of the school’s most generous

supporters, Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans. In 1906, Evans assumed control of the Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company after the death of her husband, Coke-bottling pioneer Joseph B. Whitehead; at the Coca-Cola Co., she became the first woman to serve as director of a major American corporation. Though she had no formal ties to the Institute, she recognized its value in the Atlanta community. Through the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation, her total contributions to the Institute constitute more than $340 million.

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innovate

A few of the most exciting recent breakthroughs from faculty, students and alumni.

Angry Kitten Protects Aircraft

What is it? An adaptive radio frequency jammer (the blue device, visible above, outside the cockpit) used to shield aircraft from opposing radar. Who made it? A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute including Stan Sutphin, research engineer; Roger Dickerson, senior research engineer; and Aram Partizian, senior research scientist.

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system that can utilize different jamming technologies depending upon the type of radar system it encounters. Based on what it goes up against, Angry Kitten can adapt its strategy to help the aircraft better evade detection.

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PRESSGRAM

What is it? A photo-editing and sharing app that allows users to own and control their own images. Who made it? John Saddington, STC 05. What inspired it? Saddington deleted his Facebook account when the social network bought Instagram and changed the app’s terms of service that allowed users’ photos to be used for advertising without compensating users. Why is it game changing? Pressgram, built through support of a successful Kickstarter campaign, allows users to publish photos online through their personal blogs without handing control over to social networks. “Pressgram quickly opens the door for busy people to document and share their work and allows others to encounter and engage with that work more directly and more often,” Saddington said.

MYJOURNEY COMPASS What is it? A pilot project in Rome, Ga., using tablet computers and an app to help patients navigate the cancer treatment process. Who made it? A coalition of two hospitals, a doctors’ group, cancer support organizations and health information specialists from Georgia Tech. What inspired it? The groups saw how patients struggled to make decisions about their cancer treatment because of the complexity of the process and a lack of clear information. Why is it game changing?

For the first time, patients have easy access to their medical histories and treatment records, and they can provide their doctors with immediate feedback on their response to treatment. “This really has the potential for making people’s lives better through education and knowledge, which empowers people,” said Phil Lamson, a health care consultant with Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute.

BETTERWALK

What is it?

A crutch designed to reduce the risk of underarm nerve damage and increase the patient’s comfort. Who made it? Biomedical engineering undergraduate students Partha Unnava, Frankie Swindell and Andrew Varghese. What inspired it? Unnava broke his ankle playing basketball, and during his recovery he learned that standard crutches place a user’s weight on their forearms or underarms, which can lead to fatigue and nerve damage. Why is it game changing? Underarm crutches haven’t been redesigned in some 5,000 years.

The Betterwalk design distributes a user’s weight across a forearm support and a side cuff for a better resting position.

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BY THE NUMBERS

A data-driven look at Tech’s statewide impact.

Kicking The Tires on Tech’s First MOOC A year after Georgia Tech began offering massive open online courses through Udacity and Coursera, how are the MOOCs faring? To gain some insight, Tucker Balch, ICS 84, PhD CS 98, an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing, crunched the numbers on the three sessions of the MOOC he teaches: Computational Investing, Part I.

113,668 74,129 30,450 Students enrolled in the course

Students watched a video

5,184

Students took a quiz

Those who completed the course represent:

Students completed the course

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of those who watched a video

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of those who took a quiz

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10 questions

A chat with someone who makes Tech tick.

All Along the E-Watchtower

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You wouldn’t know it just walking around campus, but Georgia Tech is under attack.

With sensitive research data—not to mention the personal information of thousands of students and employees—stored on servers and swirling around in the ether, it’s a prime target for hackers, spammers, phishers and other scammers. As Tech’s information security engineering principal in the Office of Information Technology, Jason Belford faces the daunting task of protecting that data from would-be meddlers and thieves.

What makes up the majority of the work that you do at OIT? Our work is

How do attackers try to exploit the system? Many of the bad guys are per-

divided into three areas: preventive security, detective security and incident response. In preventive security we work directly with campus IT representatives to analyze system and network configurations. We may help review a unit’s firewall configurations by looking at which ports are opened to other networks, and reviewing which IP addresses are allowed to pass the firewall.

Detective security entails monitoring our systems and networks to identify potential malicious activity. Our tools will indicate when a machine on campus is infected with a virus. In that case, we would reach out and help the system administrator or user to get the virus removed and install anti-virus software to prevent future infections. In some cases malicious activity leads to real damages, like theft or loss of Institute data, or theft of our users’ personal information. When these types of incidents occur, we identify the extent of the damage and forensically examine the digital evidence.

forming reconnaissance to find the weak link into our systems. This information could be gathered from websites, dumpsters or from eavesdropping. They also send phishing messages trying to steal usernames and passwords. Once they have usable information, they exploit it to gain access, steal data, and launch further attacks on our systems.

How many attacks are launched against Georgia Tech on a given day?

What is the worst possible result of a hacker succeeding? Everybody has

The exact number is very difficult to quantify. However, based on the tools we have, we can say that we have about 110 million incidents per day.

something that the bad guys want.

Suppose a user’s email account is compromised. Most systems on our campus use the same login and password as our

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Do you ever get a sense of who exactly is behind the attacks? Years ago,

most hackers were the next-door neighbor’s kids hacking from their basement for bragging rights. Those kids are still there, but now they have formed groups like Anonymous. Today, most hackers are part of an organized crime group or nation state. The organized crime groups are trying to steal credit card numbers or other personal information to commit identity and financial fraud. The state-sponsored hacker groups steal intellectual property and attack our critical infrastructure.

email system. Now the hacker could access our Human Resources system as that user and reroute their paycheck to a different bank account. The hacker could also use that person’s access to steal classified research data. The vast majority of major system compromises around the world start by someone having their email account hacked.

How does your office keep Tech safe?

We implement security controls on our network layer, server layer, desktop layer and user layer. The most important layer is our user layer. We spend a lot of time performing training for faculty, staff and students.

What’s the central advice you try to impart to people? Take a few seconds

and verify the email before clicking or responding.

What is the biggest misconception the average person has about your work?

Some people on campus have referred to us as “Big Brother” or the “Dark Overlords.” These cannot be further from the truth. Our goal is to support the Institute’s strategic initiatives, which includes keeping our computing environments as open as possible. We don’t have the authority or the desire to “spy” on our users. Our systems and tools are purely for the purpose of stopping the bad guys.

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“Based on the tools we have, we can say that we have about 110 million incidents per day.”

Spam and phishing emails are often pretty bizarre. What’s the strangest one you’ve seen? A few users on cam-

pus received a message purporting to be an invitation from the White House.

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message to my office. We tracked the message back to the White House mail server, and after talking to the White House personnel we were shocked to discover the message was legitimate.

The campus folks that submitted this message were right to do so. A legitimate email should never ask you for anything sensitive.

Are there any movies or TV shows about hacking that you enjoy, or do they all get too many details wrong? It’s

off the air now, but I really enjoyed Leverage. Hardison, the hacker, was the comic relief of the show. Were many of the details just wrong and quite far-fetched?

Sure. However, watching a true hacker do his work is just not that entertaining.

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office space

A peek inside the workplace of a fascinating Yellow Jacket.

A Habitable Environment Rachael Maddux

As a kid, James Wray dreamed of following in astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s footsteps. It didn’t work out, but you know what they say: Shoot for the moon, and even if you miss, you’ll land on the science team for NASA’s Curiosity rover mission and the Mars reconnaissance orbiter.

An assistant professor in Tech’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Wray works in a minimally decorated office in the Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building. He splits his time between research, conferring with his teams at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and passing on to his students his passion for Martian mineralogy and stratigraphy.

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Wray found these 1.5-billion-year-old rocks while traveling through a giant sedimentary basin in western Montana and northern Idaho. “These [colors] are where water altered the rocks in diverse ways and produced minerals that tell you something about the nature of the water that was there,” he says. “And that’s really the whole game we’re trying to play on Mars: When was water there, and was it acidic or was it basic? Was it salty or was it pure water?”

More of a soda-guzzler than a coffee guy, Wray was given this space shuttle koozie as a birthday present from earth and atmospheric sciences colleague Carol Paty.

This foam moon, signed by retired astronaut and former U.S. senator Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, is Wray’s equivalent of an autographed Babe Ruth baseball. “I’ve met him a couple times,” Wray says. “He was my role model: a scientist who became an astronaut that got to go to the coolest place humans have ever gone.”

This palm-sized replica of the Curiosity rover was a gift from Wray’s mom.

The real deal is about the size of a Mini Cooper.

Wray knows his chances of suiting up for the moon like this Apollo-era figure are slim, though he’s hoping to one day hitch a ride with a private company plotting quick trips to the outer regions of Earth’s atmosphere. “But really, what I’ve become content with in recent years is just the amazing images that we get back from these robotic missions,” he says. “Scientifically, that’s enough to satisfy my thirst.”

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The latest buzz from all of Tech’s teams.

Like a Fish to Water Catherine Richards learned to swim at age 2 while growing up in South Africa. Now a junior on Tech’s swim team and a holder of four top-10 times in the Tech record books, she’s looking to break even more marks this season.

What’s your favorite memory with the Yellow Jackets? I have two, actually. Doing a team workout on Miami’s South Beach while on a training trip in Florida and storming the field at Bobby Dodd Stadium after the football team beat Clemson in 2011.

Do you have any hobbies outside of swimming? I love traveling. Even if it’s just to different parts of Georgia, I love seeing new places.

What’s your favorite movie?

The Blind Side.

What’s your favorite music? A large variety from alternative to hip-hop and even electronic dance. It just depends on my mood.

Why did you come to Tech? For me, Tech was a great combination of swimming and education. With Georgia Tech being an NCAA Division-I swimming school and having a world-renowned academic program, it was the best fit possible.

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What do you plan to do after getting out? I would like to stay in the United States and work in the corporate business world for a short while. After that, I’d like to work in or own a company that owns hotels or holiday resorts in remote locations around the world.

Born to Run Shawn Roberts has spent his final season at Tech building on an alreadyimpressive resume. The Centerville, Ohio, native claimed a first-place finish in the ACC Championships for the cross country team last year and then was a top distance runner for the Yellow Jackets track team.

Why did you come to Tech?

The engineering program and track programs both have great history, and GT has some of the nation’s best coaches.

What’s your favorite memory with the Yellow Jackets?

Qualifying for the NCAA outdoor championships [in the 800 meters in 2012].

What hobbies do you have outside of running?

I enjoy hanging out with the team, and working at Phidippides [an Atlanta retailer that bills itself as the world’s first running store].

What’s the most interesting class you’ve taken?

ME 4041 [Interactive Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design] has been one of my favorite classes so far because it really gets deep into virtual prototyping on a popular software.

What are your post-graduation plans?

Continuing to train through 2016.

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collective score, a school record, on the 985 Tech’s latest NCAA Academic Progress Report.

per game last season by Tech senior guard Tyaunna Marshall, 18.1 Points who was named to the Wade Player of the Year watch list.

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The latest buzz from all of Tech’s teams.

Ted Roof Comes Home Again

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Former Tech star and new defensive coordinator reflects on his journey back to the Flats.

Ted Roof, a linchpin of the Yellow Jackets’ “Black Watch” defense and an All-American player, first returned to Grant Field in 1998, joining Tech to coach outside linebackers before being promoted to defensive coordinator a year later. When coach George O’Leary departed for Notre Dame, Roof, Mgt 87, left Tech for Duke. Then, in January 2013, several coaching stops later, Roof got a call inviting him back home. He accepted, and has since worked quickly to revamp the Yellow Jackets defense. Here, Roof recalls his winding journey through the landscape of college football.

Were you focused on football growing up?

I played three sports: baseball, football and basketball in the winter. Things weren’t as specialized as they are today. I idolized Pete Rose in baseball, Dick Butkus in football, and in basketball I liked the way John Havlicek played.

How did you decide to play at Tech?

I remember the night Coach [Bill] Curry visited. Tech was coming off back-to-back one-win seasons. I said, “All right, if I come to Georgia Tech, I’ve got two questions. Number one: Will we win? And number two: Will you help me be a football coach?” Coach Curry said, “If we get you, and guys like you, yes we will win. And if you are stupid enough to want to be a coach, I’ll help you.”

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What made you want to be a coach?

I loved the competitiveness of coaching, and I also felt that I could one day be a positive impact on kids the same way my coaches were having an impact on me. As a father, your perspective changes, because you know your children are the most important things in the world to you. I treat my players like they are my sons. I want my sons pushed and challenged, because that’s how you grow. At the same time, I want someone to care about them.

What was it like, coming to Tech?

I loved my time here. I lived in Field Dorm, just catty-cornered from the athletic building and the chow hall, and the chow hall’s food was so good. My favorite restaurant was P.J. Haley’s Nest. I remember the painting of 11 Yellow Jackets in the wishbone formation on the building. …

We had a really close group [of players],

and we’ve stayed in touch. After playing here and coaching here, there’s a pretty wide perspective of guys that I’ve been involved with. That’s one of the reasons I came back, because I’m really proud of this place, my teammates and the students I went to school with.

How difficult was it during your tenure as head coach at Duke?

When I look back at my time at Duke, what I remember most was the relationships I had with my players and the guys I worked with. It was a tough job. But even through those tough times you hope to make a positive impact on the players who were there.

What was it like going north to be defensive coordinator at Minnesota?

Our spring game was around the first of May. Three weeks earlier I had watched the Masters on TV with that beautiful Georgia weather. We walk out for the spring game and it is snowing, and I’m thinking “What is wrong with this?” The next January I get a call from Gene Chizik to come down and interview for the Auburn coordinator’s job. I’m driving to the airport and it’s minus 32 degrees, and that’s without wind chill! As I’m walking to the terminal, my eyelashes froze.

What was it like being part of a championship team at Auburn?

It was a great experience. Football is still football, but in that championship year

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per game allowed by the football team through 10 games 22.4 Points this season. Tech allowed 28.3 points per contest last season.

needed for swimmer Erika Staskevicius to finish 24.08 seconds first in the 50 free in the team’s win against Limestone.

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every week got more intense. There was such a fine line between winning and losing. At Duke we were really close, but couldn’t get over the hump. At Auburn, we did get over the hump and we won our close games. That’s the thing I tell our guys today, the difference in having a great year or a disappointing year is what you do in the close games.

Coach Paul Johnson recruited you at the annual coach’s conference in Nashville. How familiar were you with him?

We have known each other for a long time. We started talking and here I am.

I’ve always had great respect for Paul because he always puts a great product on the field. I’ve enjoyed working for him.

How has the transition been, coming home again?

This move has been so neat for my family. My boys now get to spend more time with both sets of grandparents. I wanted to raise my boys in this area, have them to go to high school here. I also want my boys to know the guys I went to school with. That’s important to me. I want them to see what this institution produces and the type of people it attracts.

How different is it from the Tech you left in 2001?

The athletics department has done a great job with the stadium, and what really caught my eye was the indoor practice facility. It’s got to be one of the finest in the nation. But you can’t stop. There is always something that needs improving.

It’s like running a business. If you sit on your hands because you’ve got something nice, pretty soon you will be out of business. We will continue to find ways to get better at everything we do.

What’s your approach to recruiting?

Recruiting is about relationships and having a good product behind you. And for me personally, this place is very easy to promote. I see the doors that open for Georgia Tech grads. You combine that with football at the highest level, and a recruit doesn’t have to settle. Some places have a great gameday environment, but when you graduate you’ve got a degree that you can’t find a job with. Some places offer a great education, but no gameday excitement. At Tech you have the best of both worlds.

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Ramblin’ Wrecks generating buzz beyond the Atlanta campus.

Dollars & Sense: Valerie Montgomery Rice Osayi Endolyn

Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, Chem 83, begins each day with exercise (lately, it’s CrossFit) followed by a solid breakfast. It’s a non-negotiable pairing for the dean and executive vice president of Morehouse School of Medicine, who was recently appointed president and CEO of the institution. She was the first black woman named as permanent president of a freestanding medical school; Rice will begin her term next July.

After years of running an in vitro fertilization practice, serving faculty appointments and spearheading women’s health research in the United States and Africa, Rice’s calendar now revolves around meetings, strategic planning and spreading the Morehouse School of Medicine gospel. Rice talked with the Alumni Magazine about the challenges of running a medical school in the 21st century.

What will be the biggest challenge in the new role? We were founded to ad-

What is most important in teaching medicine today? Creating a living

dress the physician shortage in the state of Georgia, to diversify the health care workforce and to work toward the elimination of health disparities. Morehouse School of Medicine is about 35 years old, so we now have evidence to show that we really do live our mission. We really do take academically diverse students from geographically diverse areas and help them enhance their skill set to compete nationally. But now we need to scale up that model and we need to tell our story better. It’s time for us to share our successes and use them as leverage to engage more students. We’re going to expand our class size by identifying those persons who will give Georgia and the nation the greatest return on the investment.

curriculum. At Morehouse School of Medicine, we have had the opportunity to maintain a level of success without changing our curriculum for several decades. That time is up. This generation learns and embraces knowledge differently. Part of that is because students have immediate access for verification.

So when professors get up in front of a class, not only do they have to be knowledgeable and accurate, they have to be engaging. And we use cognitive diversity, problem-based exercises where students learn from each other using their life experiences. They’re going to see the solution to a problem differently if they are taking into consideration the background of everybody at the table.

How will you find those candidates? We

target underserved counties because we know that the highest probability of a doctor going to serve in an underserved county when they finish here is that they are primary-care focused and that they have some relationship with that county. It’s even better if they come from that county.

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footprint in line with our mission. We’re very clear that we cannot solve all of the major problems of disparities in this country. But there are clearly some diseases that we have to focus on: cancer,

cardiovascular disease, HIV, neurological diseases like stroke. All of those things disproportionately impact people of color. So we direct our resources to support those research areas. We also recognize that sometimes you have to understand the needs of the community before you address the disease. And we’re good at doing that.

How did Tech impact you? I’ve always been a self-disciplined person. But being on the quarter system, there was not a lot of time to play around. I also learned the value of mentorship—from my peers, which was really like a support system, and from resources like [the Office of Minority Educational Development]. And Georgia Tech taught me how to be a critical thinker. It wasn’t just about gathering data and analyzing it. We had to actually put that data in the context of the environment that we were working in. When I think about what I want for our Morehouse School of Medicine students, our residents and our faculty, I want them to be critical thinkers. There’s no one-size-fits-all.

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Answering the question, What does Georgia Tech think?”

Who’s watching you? When former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents that revealed a vast spying operation by the NSA, he prompted a renewed debate over the balance of security and privacy. For insight on the topic, we turned to two Tech experts.

Think Beyond ‘Big Brother’ Sy Goodman In 1949, George Orwell published 1984, depicting a future Stalinist society characterized by its use of advanced information and communications technologies for ubiquitous data collection, information control and manipulation, and surveillance. In (the year) 1984 I was asked to address the reality of such an Orwellian society in the Soviet Union. I concluded that the USSR was far from it, due to severe technological limitations (they did more with paper and informants), but that the United States was closer.

Much “progress” has been made toward the three ubiquities since then, enabled by a vast spectrum of technological development. The availability of digital storage is approaching infinite and free, and it is becoming more trouble to delete information than to keep it forever. Similar observations can be made about devices, particularly mobile phones and cameras, bandwidth, search procedures and massive forms of connectivity.

Another difference between the present day and the worlds of both 1984 and 1984 is who is doing the data-collecting. Beyond “Big Brother” governments, the cast now includes many players in the private and public sectors. It was inevitable that they would devise business models to take advantage of the possibilities that technological development afforded. For several national security agencies, this meant devoting enormous resources to looking for terrorists in cyberspace, which involves plowing through what the rest of us of do there as well. Businesses have become similarly motivated in their own domains.

There are several ways in which these volumes of data are collected. We put it in ourselves, e.g., via Facebook or blogs. “They” watch us make choices, e.g., recording our points and clicks.

“They” watch our traffic Sy Goodman is a professor patterns or collect records of international affairs and on financial transactions. computing at Georgia Tech.

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with camera surveillance in public spaces or GPS tracking of cell phones. “They” are organizations that collect directly, who buy or steal the data from the original collectors, and others who search for or inject (e.g., spyware and malware) lots of stuff online.

These strategies have been successful enough, however defined, so that the different collectors push to excess, seemingly oblivious to anything other than their own goals, leading to damage like in the recent Edward Snowden incident. Such turmoil notwithstanding, it is not clear if most Americans have problems with the ubiquities, or if the current crisis will result in a long-term correction, or if it is just a hiccup in the trends toward ubiquitous data collection and surveillance.

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Ask the Tough Questions Chris Klaus, Cls 96

Edward Snowden’s release of top secret documents has

opened up a legitimate debate on our Fourth Amendment rights (prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures and requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause) and any implied rights to privacy, versus the government’s need for information and data sourcing in the context of its Global War on Terrorism. In light of this, there are several questions that need to be raised.

From the Snowden disclosure, the American public and the rest of the world learned of widespread and far-reaching surveillance being conducted by the U.S. government. However, without all of the facts and justifications for the government’s decisions, it’s difficult for the public to have an open debate on the proper balance

between privacy and the War on Terror. One troubling outcome of these actions is potential for trampling on both the Fourth Amendment rights and any implied rights of privacy without any real checks and balances that have historically been incorporated into our system.

More than 4 million government employees and 500,000 government contractors have top-secret clearance. Based on the Snowden disclosures, the National Security Agency is sharing U.S. citizens’ communication data not only with the Internal Revenue Service, Drug Enforcement Agency and Department of Homeland Security, but also with many other national governments, including those of Israel, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and Canada. With the vast sharing of top secret data, who is protecting the rights of the U.S. citizen? And how does one protect themselves from potential abuses by the government?

It’s very easy to lose trust and very hard to gain it back. With the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s encryption standards being compromised by the NSA, NSA backdoors being added to infrastructure and protocols, and the NSA forcing our high-tech industry to share keys that compromise innocent U.S. citizens’ communications, the U.S. government is breaking the trust of its citizens and the international community. The U.S. has had significant benefits from having everyone’s trust. How will the government regain it?

The U.S. government’s justification that it can spy on foreigners creates a false sense of security that the spying doesn’t affect U.S. businesses and the American people. However, these actions are making it easy for all other countries to justify their own spying. Is the U.S. leading by example and justifying China, Russia and many other countries’ efforts to spy on our citizens as we are spying on theirs?

President Barack Obama has welcomed a debate on the balance of privacy rights of the country’s citizens versus the need for government intervention in light of the War on Terror. The documents leaked by Snowden show that the pendulum has swung toward the War on Terror, at the risk of American citizens’ Fourth Amendment rights, implied rights of privacy and certain values that I believe the American public cherishes. The War on Terror needs to be looked at holistically and in depth in order to determine what kind of culture and society we want to live in. We need to ask the tough questions and start this debate, as Chris Klaus founded Interit has huge implications net Security Systems, which on the freedoms of people was sold to IBM in 2006. everywhere.

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In this e-book, Clough—the former Georgia Tech president and current secretary of the Smithsonian Institution—explores the future of museums in the digital age.

A teenaged boy comes of age in a 1950sera military school in this collection of “mostly true stories” penned by Hitt, who himself is a graduate of a military school.

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Celebrating the offbeat careers of Tech alumni.

When It Rains …

In December 2012, Jason Tuell, PhD GS 90, was named the National Weather Service’s director of the Eastern Region, a territory stretching from Maine to South Carolina and as far west as Ohio. Encompassing nearly 100 million people and 23 weather forecast offices, it’s the most population-dense of the Service’s six regions and faces a bevy of environmental threats: blizzards, heat waves, drought, thunderstorms, tornados—there’s even a tsunami risk. “It’s small,” says Tuell, a retired Air Force weather officer who has worked for the Service in various capacities for a decade. He spoke with the Alumni Magazine from his office in Long Island, N.Y., where the sky outside was threatening rain.

You go into the National Weather Service and you talk to the forecasters—most

of them, there was some kind of seminal event, sometime in their childhood, that made them fascinated by weather. I knew I wanted to be a weatherman from when I was 5 years old. My dad and I used to watch this show on public TV back in the early-mid ’60s that was run out of MIT, where the professors used to come on and talk about the computer models and what the forecast was going to be for the next week. That was what did it.

Name: Jason Tuell Degree: PhD GS 90 Title: Director of the Eastern Region Time on the Job: 1 year We tend to improve by a day in forecast skill about every seven to 10 years. That is, today our five-day forecast is as good as our four-day forecast was seven to 10 years ago. Can we always get better? Yes. It’s a humbling science, because no matter how good you think you’re going to do, there are going to be times you’re wrong.

“No matter how good you think you’re going to do, there are going to be times you’re wrong.”

Our job in the Weather Service is

With severe weather, we track our false

not only to provide the forecasts and warnings to the public but also work closely with all the county and state governments, the emergency managers, on giving them as much notice on the threat; helping them with the preparation, response and recovery. We call it “decision support services”—engaging the other pieces of government so they’re able to do their jobs.

alarm rate: How many times do we issue a warning and it doesn’t occur? If you over-warn, then people don’t pay attention to the warnings and therefore they are vulnerable. If you under-warn, then you put people at risk. That’s the conundrum of our science.

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As a society we are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of high-impact

events. The majority of the population lives along the coasts, so you’re having increasing population density in areas that are under threat. When you have a significant event, the level of damage, the impact on the public, the lives lost— if people don’t take the right protective actions and listen to their emergency managers and elected officials when they tell them it’s time to evacuate—is potentially greater.

We don’t like the impacts, we don’t like what happens to the public, but forecasting a major blizzard, putting out warnings for tornados, keeping people safe—from a professional perspective, it’s exciting. Conversely, when we put out warnings and people still die or still get hurt, our forecasters take it personally.

Our job is really to help protect life and property, and when we miss a warning or we put out a warning and still have failed to either communicate or get enough word of the threat out in a way that people understand and take action, those are the things that challenge us and motivate us to do better.

Know a Ramblin’ Wreck with a fascinating job? Tell us all about their interesting

career at publications@gtalumni.org.

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KE IT With 3,000 square feet of workshop space, $500,000 in equipment, 500 users a month, a small army of 3-D printers and a whole bunch of protective goggles, Georgia Tech’s Invention Studio is turning out the next generation of engineers—and they aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty.

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If Georgia Tech students can dream it, they can build it. And the Invention Studio makes it possible.

Its ever-expanding arsenal of equipment, housed in the basement of the Manufacturing Related Disciplines Complex on campus, is open and free to all Tech students, faculty and staff— no, really. “Basically anybody affiliated with Tech can just walk in,” says Ravi Haksar, a fourth-year mechanical engineering major and president of Tech’s Makers Club, which staffs the center (funded by the Capstone Design program). “That’s actually a huge part of who we are. Often times people will come in to work on a project, and they’ll [keep coming back] because they can do pretty much whatever they want.”

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“There’s no one in the country that does what we do,” says Haksar. “A few people have been hesitant to let students completely run the space, but I like to feel we’re proving them wrong one semester at a time.” The Makers Club staff prioritizes safety: All student workers get trained on best practices, there’s a box of goggles in every room, and they’re not afraid to boot rowdy folks. So far—despite the plethora of blades, lasers and grinding gears—no one has suffered any major injuries.

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When it was founded in 2009, the Studio was just one room with a laser cutter and a water-jet cutter. These days, the original space boasts three laser cutters, a water-jet cutter, a roller for sheet metal and a kiln. Down a corridor, a machining lab houses both electronic and manual lathes and mills, and a plastic injection mold. Its woodshop, across the building, is silly with sanders, belt saws, chop saws, routers and more. And in its newest workroom, a bevy of 3-D printers (seven hobby-level and five professional grade) keep the Studio on the cutting edge.

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The Invention Studio’s most recent undertaking? A setup that will allow students, faculty and staff to send a file from a personal device to one of the Studio’s 3-D printers (which render physical objects from digital models using molten plastic) and pick the item up at a later time—no special know-how required. “We feel it’s important to keep all our machines accessible, not to set limits on it,” Haksar says. For those who want to get more involved, the studio offers skill-building classes; recent topics include heat-treating, stained glass and micro-controllers.

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Over the summer, the Invention Studio partnered with Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) to offer a STEM-themed summer camp for K-12 students. The kids’ big project? Building quadcopters, like the one seen at left. The parts were designed by Studio staff, cut with the Studio’s machinery and assembled by the campers themselves. “They loved them,” says Haksar, who notes that the lightweight remote-controlled aircraft, which can be made to hover or fly in any direction, is a popular engineering project among the Studio’s grown-up patrons, too.

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Among recent projects completed in the Studio (counterclockwise from right): Josh Mittelman’s gas-powered bike, Billy Allen’s planetary gear transmission, Alexis Noel’s acoustic guitar, and Haksar’s own Go-Kart. All of these folks are mechanical engineering students, but Haksar notes the Invention Studio’s appeal to any Wreck driven to create. “It’s pretty much everyone on campus,” he says, “once they find out what we do.”

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BY CREATING SOFTWARE TO MANAGE MOBILE DEVICES, JOHN MARSHALL, IE 96, HAS PUT HIMSELF AT THE CENTER OF THE WIRELESS WORLD.

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he stories people tell about John Marshall make him sound like a modern-day Paul Bunyan.

As a youth, they say, he quit the Boy Scouts because he thought the group gave out badges too readily, which chafed his competitive spirit.

As a student at Tech, he worked seven co-ops while managing the six-figure-revenue lawn care company he started as a 10-year-old.

Through his international business travels, he has racked up some 3 million frequent flier miles.

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He once took a red-eye flight to London, hopped off the plane and went right to the starting line of the city’s marathon, which he completed in less than four hours.

These stories bounced around the thrumming halls of Atlanta’s Hyatt Regency hotel on the first morning of AirWatch Connect, an event hosted in early September by AirWatch, a mobile management company that Marshall, IE 96, started a decade ago.

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beginnings, AirWatch has become a mobile market leader, growing from 150 employees to more than 1,600 around the world in only three years. Earlier this year, it received a record $200 million in Series A venture capital funding. And it counts among its clients many of the world’s largest retailers, oil companies and airlines, as well as government agencies such as the ATF. At AirWatch Connect, 1,200 of the company’s partners and clients in the mobility industry gathered to show off their latest apps and hardware and to trade ideas. But the event also served as something of a coming-out party for AirWatch and for Marshall—a chance to demonstrate not just what the company has already accomplished, but how much more Marshall still wants to do.

“I’m just competitive,” Marshall says. “If I’m going to do something, I want to be the best.”

That intense drive has been there as far back as he can remember. Marshall was born in Wisconsin and lived there until he was 9, when his father died and the family moved to Charlotte, N.C. His mother ran her own corporate communications business, and while that gave Marshall access to early Mac computers, he used them only casually. His passion, even then, was business.

“We were a middle class family, and if we wanted to do extra stuff, we had to earn money,” he says. “I liked sports, and I wanted to go to summer camps, so then I had to find a way to make extra money.”

At 10, Marshall started mowing one neighbor’s lawn for $5 a pop. Then he added another yard, and another. By the time he was in high school, he had a handful of classmates working for him, hundreds of residential properties to manage and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment. The job required hard physical labor as well as accounting skills; he even

had to process unemployment claims. “I could have stopped at three yards to get a little bit of spending change,” he says. “But I knew at an early age I just liked building stuff.”

Marshall wanted to go into business, but he viewed a traditional business degree as “so much fluff.” His mom suggested Georgia Tech, and they visited campus during the summer before his senior year of high school. As they walked around, they bumped into John Jarvis, then the chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Jarvis described the area of study to Marshall and explained that the combination of skills it requires would be a great asset to an entrepreneur.

“I was sold,” Marshall says. “There was no question—I wanted to come to Tech. It was that one encounter that changed everything for me.”

At the Institute, Marshall split his time between schoolwork and a steady stream of co-op positions. On the weekends, he would fly home to Charlotte to manage the lawn care business, until he sold it during his junior year. Despite his outside commitments, Marshall enjoyed his classes, “even thermodynamics and calculus.”

During his senior year—on a whim—he dropped his resume off at Tech’s career services office, placing it in a folder bound for Manhattan Associates. Eventually, the fledgling warehouse logistics company convinced Marshall to interview for a position. But rather than a typical sit-down interview, Manhattan required applicants to spend a day shadowing its CEO, Alan Dabbiere. On Marshall’s interview day, Dabbiere was flying to Cincinnati for a project kickoff—so Marshall went with him. They met at the airport at 7 a.m.

“While we were driving [to the client’s office], John asked me why a much larger competitor wasn’t squashing Manhattan like a bug. The question put me on my heels,” Dabbiere says. “But when he listened to our full company vision and saw the customer’s

∂ Below: The AirWatch offices in Atlanta create an open environment to encourage collaboration across departments.

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∂ Above: AirWatch began as a Wi-Fi company, but Marshall shifted its focus to mobility in the mid 2000s when he realized how mobile devices would revolutioinize the workplace.

“I was sold,” Marshall says. “There was no question— I wanted to come to Tech. It was that one encounter

that changed everything for me.” reaction, he basically said, ‘I’m sorry, now I get it.’ I didn’t teach him tenacity, he came in with that.”

Marshall was hired as an implementation consultant. At the time, Manhattan had only 30 employees, and it was fighting to expand and win over new customers one at a time. Within six months, Marshall was leading a team of 10. A year after that, he was managing some 100 employees.

In 1997, when Dabbiere decided to expand Manhattan into Europe, he turned to Marshall. Despite the fact that the company didn’t have a single customer on the continent—let alone an office—Marshall signed up.

Marshall would lug a 40-pound AS/400 computer terminal around London, using it to sell Manhattan’s system to

prospective clients. He learned to understand clients’ business needs and to tailor his pitch to each client. He would tour their factories and warehouses and put together a detailed assessment of how to make their operations more efficient.

Leaving a successful position with Manhattan in the U.S. was a risk, but “I have no fear for that kind of stuff,” Marshall says. “I’m not the kind of guy who’ll go jump off a mountain—well, I have been helicopter snowboarding—but in terms of taking chances, understanding my capabilities, I have a lot of confidence.”

Jeff Baum was Marshall’s supervisor at Manhattan’s Europe division. “Whatever he touches, he executes so well,” Baum says. “He’s brilliant in his ability to understand a problem, distill it and solve it. His work ethic is unparalleled.”

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It was Baum who related the tale of Marshall running the post-red-eye London marathon. “A couple of us drank a few pints of beer and cheered him on,” Baum says, sitting at a café table at AirWatch Connect. That was in 1998.

Baum had so much faith in Marshall that he left Manhattan earlier this year to manage AirWatch’s efforts in Asia.

A year after the marathon, Marshall had the itch to take on a leadership challenge, and he joined the startup Celarix as an executive in 1999. But after the company was sold to a larger corporation in the early 2000s, Marshall decided it was time to get back to his entrepreneurial roots. He was interested in the growing use of RFID technology in logistics, as well as Wi-Fi. Wireless was growing more rapidly, so he jumped into the field.

and credit card readers—and companies needed software to connect and manage these devices.

When Marshall and his Wandering WiFi partner didn’t see eye to eye on how to run the business, Marshall sought the advice of Dabbiere, his old boss. Dabbiere had sold Manhattan and stepped away from the business world, but when his advice didn’t resolve the dispute, he bought out Marshall’s business partner and joined in building the new company. Dabbiere joined in 2006, helping re-brand Wandering WiFi as AirWatch and accelerating the push into mobile technology.

Around the same time, Marshall attended a trade show and randomly met an Apple employee with an early-generation iPhone. Many in the tech world had dismissed the

“I CAME BACK TO OUR DEVELOPMENT TEAM, AND I SAID, ‘STOP EVERYTHING THAT YOU’RE DOING. WE ARE GOING TO FOCUS ON APPLE AND SMARTPHONES,’” MARSHALL SAYS. “THEY THOUGHT I’D LOST IT.” His new company, Wandering WiFi, focused on setting up hospitality businesses with internet hot spots.

“All my friends thought I was crazy, that I’d gone off the deep end,” Marshall says. “I was running Cat-5 cable in a bed and breakfast behind a grease trap.” But slowly, the business grew. Marshall hadn’t created a breakthrough technology—he simply saw a need in the market and moved quickly to fill it. His unflagging work ethic made sale after sale. On his way to hospitality trade shows, he would pick up guides to mid-sized hotel chains and call each location along his route. If a hotel didn’t have Wi-Fi, he would stop by and make a pitch.

“I would drive down the highway and stop along the way, and I would darn near install it myself with hardware out of my trunk,” he says. “It was a hard way to build a business, but it got us our first couple of hundred customers.”

Wandering WiFi’s first big break came when Taco Mac, the Atlanta-based restaurant chain, signed on as a client. After that, Marshall spent a year building a tailored pitch for BMW, which needed software to manage all of the wireless devices used at dealerships; Marshall’s software—complete with tailor-made BMW graphics and design—won out against all of his larger competitors. A few other automotive companies signed on after that, and then several large grocery store chains followed suit.

As Marshall worked with his clients and listened to their needs, he heard one thing over and over again: Employees were doing more and more work on mobile devices—computers, rugged devices, BlackBerrys, kiosks

device, but Marshall—who didn’t even own a smartphone at the time—saw it as a revolutionary piece of technology that could change the way individuals and companies do business. “I came back to our development team, and I said, ‘Stop everything that you’re doing. We are going to focus on Apple and smartphones,’” Marshall says. “They thought I’d lost it.”

Dabbiere (who isn’t a Tech alum but does sit on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board) hadn’t plan to venture into mobile technology; he simply had faith in Marshall’s ability to build a company. And he saw that Marshall had grown into a skilled CEO. “He’s learned to hire good people and give them direction, but generally leave them alone to do their job,” Dabbiere says. “John has learned to manage a senior team and effectively govern a large organization. What John hasn’t done is let his success go to his head. He still works as hard as ever, if not harder.”

In the years since Dabbiere came on board, AirWatch has grown rapidly, adding clients and employees as it expands around the globe. The company now employs 500 people overseas in nine global offices.

Marshall still spends much of his life on a plane—200 days per year, by his count. In the week before the Connect event, he stopped in Melbourne, Singapore and Bangalore and met with hundreds of customers over the course of five days. “The fact that mobility is growing so quickly means we don’t have a choice. We have to be international,” he says. “It’s just amazing how quickly we’ve had to move to stay in front of the market.”

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“Every student ... and every senior citizen is going to have a mobile device. ... you go from 5 years old to end of life. we have just scratched the surface.”

His aggressiveness has paid off. Earlier this year, the company moved from The Lumberyard, a small office park off of Howell Mill Road, into its new home in an office tower near Atlanta’s Perimeter Mall. Marshall hates cubicles, so his employees sit in a vast, open room, with different departments seated next to each other, constantly sharing ideas and collaborating. When he’s in Atlanta, Marshall works out of a glass-walled office along one edge of the room, his door essentially always open.

“Everything we’ve done, this ecosystem is built with product managers, developers, marketing, solution engineers all within 100 feet of each other,” he says. “I’m either spending time with partners or customers, or I’m in here, showing what I’ve learned.”

The collaborative, customer-centric focus was on full display at the Connect event in early September. During the first day’s opening keynote, a video—complete with swelling movie-trailer music and slick graphics—flashed statistics revealing the company’s growth and the growing size of the mobility market. The company’s software, which offers easy management and security of corporate information, has won over three of the four largest airlines worldwide.

Pilots once lugged around 45-pound printed flight books; every time a flight detail changed, individual pages would have to be reprinted and swapped. Now, every United pilot carries a roughly one-pound iPad equipped with AirWatch software that connects them with a digital flight book. Information updates automatically and the reduction of weight adds up in significant fuel savings over the course of thousands of flights per year.

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simulator to learn how pilots work, says Jon Merritt, the company’s senior manager of flight operations. “John was in the right seat, and we shut down the engine,” Merritt says. “We said: ‘OK, look up what you’re supposed to do [in the flight book].’ He said, ‘I get it. It’s not the same. It has to be immediate, and it has to work.’”

While Marshall’s effort at landing in the simulator was “bouncy,” Merritt says, he won over United with his dedication.

“We bought in on the concept, but what really has kept us around—beyond the fact that they deliver—is the people,” Merritt says. “It’s a testament to Alan and John. They’re probably two of the easiest executives to reach out to, and they set that mentality from the top down.”

AirWatch also has worked with schools that use tablets in the classroom and health providers that use mobile technology to track patient health. In the past six months alone, the company has filed more than 50 patents.

“This is a massive space,” Marshall says of mobility. “Every student from kindergarten on is going to have a mobile device.

And every senior citizen is going to have a mobile device that will monitor his or her glucose or heart rate or some element of home health diagnostics. You go from 5 years old to end of life.

We have just scratched the surface.”

As he took the stage at the Connect event in a dark suit sans tie, Marshall was comfortable and confident, engaging with his customers and partners. He unveiled new software updates but also solicited feedback.

“We have a long way to go,” he said. “We’re at the start of this journey.”

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PERSONAL COMPUTERS, PRIVATE CORPORATIONS, EVEN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT—ALL ARE VULNERABLE TO A RISING TIDE OF CYBERCRIME. BUT GEORGIA TECH IS HELPING THE WORLD FIGHT BACK.

BY ROBERT LEMOS ILLUSTRATION BY ADRIAN TOMINE

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During late spring 2009, a digital crime wave spread across the internet.

A collection of more than 70 different programs infected the personal computers of unwary users, silently turning control of their systems over to cybercriminals.

Undetected by most antivirus programs until mid-July of that year, the malicious software (aka malware) compromised systems located in more than 190 countries and half of the Fortune 100. Many of the programs were very similar; others completely different. The one common theme among the different variants: Once they infected a user’s system, the programs would send a message to a server in Spain and wait for commands.

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Such collections of compromised computers, known as botnets, have become a common tool of online criminals. But this one, the Mariposa botnet was exceptional: The malware spreading the cybercriminals’ influence had taken control of more than 1 million computers, with the attackers eventually creating more than 4,000 different variations to dodge antivirus defenses.

“It would be easier for me to provide a list of the Fortune 100 companies that weren’t compromised, rather than the long list of those who were,” Christopher Davis, CEO of Defense Intelligence, the security firm that originally detected the Mariposa botnet, said at the time.

By late summer, researchers at Georgia Tech had partnered with Defense Intelligence and Spanish antivirus firm PandaLabs to hunt down the group of criminals behind the Mariposa botnet. The academic researchers and private security professionals, known as the Mariposa Working Group, studied the attackers and, in a bold move, took control of the central servers used to manage the botnet. That action—in combination with subsequent mistakes made by the botnet’s operators at first only known as the DDP Team—enabled researchers to discover their identities.

Three men, who ranged in age from 25 to 31 years old, had started the botnet as a hobby, but by the end they were making 3,000 euros each month renting out the compromised systems to other criminals. The Mariposa working group’s efforts ultimately led to the arrest of the botnet’s operators in Spain in early 2010. It turned out the three had bought the software to build Mariposa on the internet, not built it.

Because Spain has lax cybercrime laws, none of the men went to jail.

“Going after botnet operators manually is time-consuming and exhausting,” says Paul Royal, a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and one of the members of the GTISC team that investigated Mariposa. “Think about all the effort that was put into the Mariposa takedown and discovering the identities of the operators, for just for three guys who didn’t even have the expertise to create the software they used to build the botnet. Something else has to be done.”

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he Mariposa case is notable not only for its scope, but also for the fact that an investigation into it resulted in the identification of suspects and their subsequent arrests. For more than two decades, online criminals, spies and “hacktivists” have employed viruses, trojan horses and other means of attack to infect consumers’ computers, compromise businesses’ networks and steal secrets from government systems. The seesaw battle between attackers and defenders has been

“YOU CANNOT GUARANTEE PREVENTION IN ANY WAY IN NETWORK DEFENSE, SO WE NEED TO GET FAMILIAR WITH THE NOTION THAT WE ARE ALREADY IN A STATE OF COMPROMISE.”

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through the gates. “We know prevention is not possible,” says Manos Antonkakis, PhD CS 12, chief scientist at network security firm Damballa. “You cannot guarantee prevention in any way in network defense, so we need to get familiar with the notion that we are already in a state of compromise.”

The list of companies and government agencies that have had data stolen by hackers is lengthy ∂ Paul Royal, a GTISC research scientist, stands in front of a map showing and growing all the time: locations of computers infected with the Mariposa botnet.

Google, Lexis-Nexis, peppered with the occasional arrest, botnet shutLockheed Martin, Adobe, Sony, LinkedIn, the down or lawsuit against the attackers. But on the South Carolina Department of Revenue, Living whole, the criminals continue to win, stealing Social and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs money and secrets while remaining out of law have all lost sensitive business data to attackers. enforcement’s reach.

As online thieves and spies—whether private citizens or under the employ of a nation-state—become more and more advanced, hardly a week goes by without news of another data breach.

But as the threats grow, researchers at Georgia Tech are working to arm individuals, companies and governments against them. Through a number of projects and research initiatives at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and the Georgia Tech Research Institute, many of them classified, researchers are buildThe security industry has shifted its efforts from ing better ways to protect data and networks and trying to keep attackers at bay to classifying and root out attackers. Because what’s at stake isn’t just identifying attacks once they have already hapsensitive data, money or state secrets—time gets pened. Companies used to build walls around their stolen, too. networks to try and keep out the digital barbar“The real problem we have today is that the atians; today, security teams are increasingly focused tacker can spend five minutes and make me or on what to do when attackers inevitably break someone else spend days in analysis time on

“YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION IN AN AUTOMATED WAY, ANONYMOUSLY, AND THAT IS WHAT THE APIARY SYSTEM DOES.”

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with Industry something that they send our way,” says Chris Smoak, CS 04, MS IS 12, a GTRI research scientist. “I want to get to the point where if they spend five minutes, I only have to spend five minutes or less.”

Going forward, the success of a security company will be measured not by how many attackers it keeps out, but by how quickly their technology is able to detect a system compromise, how quickly they respond and whether their efforts ultimately hold the attackers at bay.

One Tech-led security effort, called Apiary, analyzes malicious software to give researchers information about the malware’s capabilities and associate the attack with similar programs already identified. Apiary came about in 2010, when Georgia Tech consolidated three network security labs into a single group, the Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory (CTISL). The new mega-lab, which operates under the umbrella of GTRI, started with 85 people and about $24 million in research grants; those numbers have since doubled. Its projects now include making networks more resilient to attacks, automating malware analysis and gathering data on attackers.

Apiary also helps companies work together for their collective defense, sharing sensitive information in an anonymous environment—and this may be just as important as cutting-edge research, says Bo Rotolani, director of the CTISL. “Our goal is to stand up a community that uses the system and adds collective intelligence,” he says.

“The system is better the more people participate.”

Apiary gives defenders more data on the tools and techniques used by the many attackers trying to get into company networks. To do that, it uses virtual machines running in a large computing cluster to crunch through potentially malicious programs. The system then compares the analyzed malware with some 65 million

When the Obama administration— much like the Clinton and Bush administrations before it—discusses cyber security, the idea of a “public-private partnership” is frequently invoked.

Georgia Tech’s ability to work across communities (including military, corporate and academic entities) embodies this approach.

Apiary, for example, would not work as a company, because other companies would not trust its profit motives, says Andrew Howard, a research scientist

with GTRI. “We found that most people working with us would not work with us if we were not Georgia Tech,” he says.

But in other cases, it does make sense for a research project to spin out into a startup. Tapping the resources of the security research community at Georgia Tech and through the efforts of the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), the university’s startup incubator, more than a half dozen security companies have gotten their start at Georgia Tech. Here are a few.

Lancope

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(founded in 2006)

Electrical engineering professor John Copeland founded Lancope after finding signs that hackers had broken into his home network. The company uses behavioral analysis to detect attackers and their malware inside of networks.

Computer science professors Merrick Furst, Wenke Lee and Richard Lipton teamed up with postdoctoral fellow David Dagon to start up Damballa, a security services company aimed at using network traffic to detect attacks.

Pindrop

(founded in 2010)

Vijay Balasubramaniyan, a Ph.D. student in the College of Computing, along with Mustaque Ahamad, then-director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, teamed with School of Computer Science assistant professor Patrick Traynor to create a technology to detect phone fraud by analyzing the audio characteristics of a phone call. After garnering significant interest, Balasubramaniyan started Pindrop with funding from venture capitalists and the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovation Research program.

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samples contained in Apiary’s “digital zoo” of malicious code, looking for a match or at least trying to determine if the software could be related to an already-known malicious program.

“We can say, ‘You know what, we’ve never seen this before, but it sure is doing some really bad stuff, so you better go isolate this thing, because you are being targeted specifically,’” Rotolani says.

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With more information coming in from more sources, Apiary can analyze a massive data set and learn much more about the attacks as they happen.

Researchers compare the analyzed malware with their so-called “digital zoo” of some 65 million samples of malicious programs, looking for matches or commonalities. To analyze the emerging threats, Apiary researchers have built a system to map out attacks, such as the chart for the Mariposa botnet seen above. Colored dots are malware samples, black dots represent clusters as assigned by researchers, and lines show linkages based on observed communication patterns between attackers. The connections are not made based on IP addresses or domains, but instead are based on digitally fingerprinting the structure of the communications.

s the number of participants in the Apiary project grows— it has already added defense contractors, oil and gas companies, and other academic institutions to its roster—the network effect of crowd-sourced intelligence will kick in and allow members to form a better picture of what malicious activity is occurring. This is important, because while U.S. government agencies (like the FBI and Department of Homeland Security) frequently ask for information on attacks, they less often share the same data in a timely manner—and they’re not alone. Aside from some industry-specific sharing initiatives, most companies do not share data on attackers that could help others detect or prevent a compromise. In what plays out as a variant of the prisoner’s dilemma, each company would rather face its attacks alone than admit that someone had breached their network.

“It’s embarrassing for them; it’s like airing your dirty laundry,” says GTRI’s Smoak.

“So what often times they would do is not mention an attack or they try to go only to law enforcement, but not tell other organizations that are [also] likely to be attacked.”

While U.S. companies and government agencies spend billions of dollars each year protecting their networks and data, they remain a few steps behind the most advanced attackers—in part because of this hesitation to cooperate with one another. But sharing so-called “indicators of compromise” (including which codes are used by attackers, which software vulnerabilities are being exploited, which Internet servers attacks are coming from) could help defenders respond more effectively.

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lawsuits and deplete customer confidence. Rotolani understands. “We are all against the bad guys in this battle, but I don’t necessarily want the whole world to know that I have an infected network,” he says.

“You have to be able to share that information in an automated way, anonymously, and that is what the Apiary system does.”

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piary is far from the only project being pioneered at the CTISL. The Network Vulnerability Division focuses on reverse-engineering a variety of technologies such as routers, mobile devices and wireless hardware, an activity that can be both defensive and attack-oriented: Researchers can either find ways to better defend those technologies or spot vulnerabilities that could be used to attack the same technologies. Other CTISL researchers focus on creating software that is both resilient to attack and can be more easily checked for the common software vulnerabilities that so often open applications up to compromise. The Spider Sense project is designing self-healing networks that resist efforts by attackers to more fully compromise systems on the network; if the defenders can detect the attack before attackers expand their foothold, they have a better chance of preventing the intruder from gaining any valuable information.

The goal of all this research, says CTISL director Rotolani, is automated defenses that can react to an attack and repair the damage—much like the human body’s immune system. “You should be able to detect and isolate and remove and clean up an infection automatically,” he says.

But getting to a future of automated analysis and defense will rely on gathering more data from firms, and with more data comes more danger—the systems currently in use can easily be overwhelmed with too much information. To combat this, systems like Apiary use correlation and statistical analysis techniques that resemble the means by which Google processes the immense amounts of Web data to create its search results. Using Google-like analysis to find attacks in the fog of security data will be the only way that companies can stay ahead of attackers that can come from anywhere and attack any internet-connected device, Damballa’s Antonkakis

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says. He has created three systems—Kopis, Notos and Pleiades—that use big-data analysis techniques to collect domain name system queries from customers’ networks and analyze them for signs of malware communications. “We have to change the status quo of the game here,” he says, “because the attacker always has the first move.”

While the use of Google-like techniques—splitting up large data sets among a cluster of machines that process data in parallel—for mining information has gained a lot of attention in the security industry, there are some drawbacks. Systems reliant upon “big data” require much more data to create a model of “good” behavior on a given network, so anomalous activity becomes much more apparent. And while the techniques can result in faster detection of threats, they still require a lot of expertise to implement, Antonkakis says. “You start with a natural handicap, because you don’t know how the attacker will exploit a vulnerability,” he says. “Being a researcher, every day you come across something new, and you are asked to come up with a defense for it. … Effectively it is hand-to-hand combat.”

In the future, Smoak and other Georgia Tech researchers hope to move from parsing the big picture to being able to forecast where attackers may strike next. Already there are some ideas as to how this could be done: If an attacker is known to hit software firms and then move onto defense contractors, that could enable the system to do some predictive analysis. Negative comments on social networks could correlate with subsequent attacks on the organizations against whom the comments were directed.

If Apiary had more companies involved in 2009, for example, the warning signs of Mariposa botnet infections might have been more easily communicated to each company involved. Rather than wind up with more than half of the Fortune 100 infected, a single compromised entity could have tipped off the entire corporate security community to the looming threat. But to even attempt such analysis, Smoak says, researchers need an order of magnitude more data than what they’re currently afforded.

“If we get all sorts of data and all sorts of interactions, we should be able to start forecasting things,” he says. “Will that information better help us better protect ourselves as a community in the future? That is where we are going to go.”

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A Night in Phonathon Rachael Maddux

Students make the call to encourage alumni to support Georgia Tech's annual fund.

One Tuesday evening in late August,

freshman Taylor Herrmann sat in front of a computer monitor, waiting for someone to pick up the phone. All around her, fellow Roll Call Phonathon staffers filled the Alumni House basement with a cacophony of mostly one-sided chatter.

“Hi, I’m calling on behalf of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association ... ” “Thank you, Mr. Meyers. We really do appreciate your donation!”

“I’m a third year student, yes sir … ” “Is there a better time I could call back?”

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two nights a week, 6:30 till 9:30, calling up Tech alumni across the country to seek donations for Roll Call, the Alumni Association’s annual fund. Every year, Roll Call funds go toward enriching the Institute experience: Donations fund scholarships, groundbreaking research efforts, student life programs, even campus developments like Technology Square. And many of those donations result from conversations between alumni and Phonathon staffers, all of them current Tech students.

Tonight, at the beginning of her shift, Herrmann plopped her backpack down

at one of the basement’s 10 computer terminals, logged in and donned a headset (like a drive-through attendant, or Beyonce, might wear). Back in the day, Phonathon callers manually dialed potential donors and recorded pledges by hand. Now the computers do most of the work, cycling through a database and randomly selecting numbers to dial. If no one picks up, Herrmann hits a button on the screen—“NOT HOME”—so that the system knows to dial the number another time. Tonight, she hits “NOT HOME” over and over again.

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This week, the Phonathon staffers—led by Laura Renna, the Alumni Association’s annual fund coordinator— are focusing their efforts on alumni who have given in years past, so when somebody does pick up, it’s an easier sell.

“We’ve already had 60-something pledges tonight,” Renna says. “Our goal is to have 2,000 by the end of the week, 350 in three days—I think we can do it.”

In the cubicle opposite Herrmann’s, Grace Little, a second-year student about to declare a major in international affairs and economics, is having better luck. A few nights before, during her first shift, she brought in 44 pledges alone. She’s on a roll tonight, too. “This is the coolest thing I’ve ever done. It’s literally my second day and it’s probably one of the coolest jobs I’ve had,” she says between calls. “The hours are awesome. I worked as a secretary for my dad’s law firm for a couple of years but this is the first time I’ve done something like this before.

They’re all fantastic people.”

“It’s funny,” says Gisele Ferandel, an industrial engineering major and a seasoned Phonathon caller. “Sometimes you’ll call people that had this job before, and they’ll be like, ‘Oh yeah, of course, I know how hard it is, thank you!’”

A little bit after 7 p.m., Herrmann finally gets her first pickup; the alum isn’t home, but his wife says to call back later. Herrmann notes it in the system, then moves on to the next call—and the next, and the next. A long string of “NOT AT HOME” calls can be tedious, and the occasional unfriendly voice on the other end of the line can be rattling, but all told, the gig’s worth it.

“I like talking to people, and when they’re nice and like to talk to you, it’s great—it’s like motivation knowing that you can get out of Tech and survive,” Herrmann says. “I tend to stumble over my words sometimes. But at the same time, it’s good experience. It’s good to be able to talk to people in a professional setting.

And learning how to talk to people about money is not a bad skill. It’s a lot more than just a two-days-a-week job.”

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Winners Named in Annual Networks Competition

2013 Network Competition Winners

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Friendly contest encourages engagement, fundraising.

Members of Georgia Tech Networks around the world all share

an affinity for their alma mater. But once a year, they become each other's biggest competitors.

As part of the Network League Competition, individual Networks compete with others to determine which Network reigns supreme.

The competition factors in events, volunteering, fundraising and engagement. More than just bragging rights, the top three finishers in each of three leagues receive monetary awards to go toward scholarships.

“We’re proud to be a winner of the competition, but we’re even more proud to be the local representation of Georgia Tech,” said Drew Thorp, ME 10, a member of the Central Florida Network, which placed first in the White and Gold League for 2013. “We strive to make ∂ The Central Florida Network held a wine-tasting gathering as our Network a great resource for one of its scholarship fundraisers. The Network finished first in the White and Gold League. networking, socializing, learning and serving.”

Networks were extremely active in the past year—71 offered scholarships, and a total of $296,700 in scholarship funding was awarded.

“The competition is great at rewarding the work of the officers who strive to put on interesting events to contribute to their scholarship funds,” said John Rafferty, EE 02, a member of the Emerald Coast Georgia Tech Network, which placed first in the Buzz League. “The winners are the Networks, their leaders and, mostly, the incoming students recruited to Ma Tech.”

The competition strives to set goals for Network leaders and stimulate interaction between different Networks. “The real strength of Georgia Tech is found in its alumni and friends,” said Jane Stoner, senior manager of Alumni Networks. “We appreciate the role our Networks play in building the future of Tech through volunteer leadership.”

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The Alumni Association recognized the following Networks for their accomplishments during the 2012-13 fiscal year.

First-place networks received $1,000; secondplace networks received $500; and third-place networks received $250.

Buzz League 1st place: Emerald Coast 2nd place: Golden Isles 3rd place: Northeast Tennessee Ramblin’ Wreck League 1st place: Columbus, Ga. 2nd place: Hampton Roads 3rd place: Richmond

White and Gold League 1st place: Central Florida 2nd place: North Alabama 3rd place: Suncoast Want to join a Georgia Tech Network or Affinity Group?

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The Alumni Association’s Networks and Affinity Groups depend on volunteer leadership to organize gatherings, fundraisers and community service projects. Here are a few leaders who deserve thanks for their hard work.

Jany Brown, Mgt 97, has been a tireless leader of the North Metro Network, serving two years as president and four as presidentelect. During that time, the Network won the networks competition and increased its scholarship giving level despite the economic recession. She also created the Santa Buzz event,

which allows Tech fans and their children to have photos taken with Santa Buzz. It is now the Network’s biggest fundraiser.

Kevin Dee, Arch 04, is past president of the New Jersey/New York Network and now serves as scholarship fundraiser chair. He has spearheaded monthly meet and greets, a better game-watching venue, the first Network outing to an Atlanta Braves vs. the Mets game at Citifield, the first Network event in Central Park and an alumni blog for the Network.

Felix Hu, Arch 07, is president emeritus of the Pride Alumni Affinity Group. He utilized his creativity and strong dedication to Georgia Tech to help the group engage more alumni. He

is a cofounder of Umenta, a startup that helps families capture their stories and preserve legacies.

Christine Norstadt, IA 03, is president of the Georgia Tech Bar Association, an affinity group for alumni in the legal professions. She has used her knowledge in the legal field to create events and opportunities to engage more alumni who are in or have a desire to enter the legal field. She is an attorney at Pursley Friese Torgrimson LLP. James Stovall, CS 01, advocates for Georgia Tech everywhere he goes.

Most recently, he founded the Georgia Tech Home Depot Alumni Network and helped create the organization’s scholarship fund.

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Before You Jump Ship Caroline Player

A new position at the same employer might be the right move.

When I meet with alumni who are interested in switching

exciting, challenging and, many times, necessary—but the time and effort you’ve invested in your current position is important, too.

And you may be able to put that time and effort to use on another team within your organization.

We often hear about “company culture” and assume that an organization is run the same from the top all the way down.

But work culture is often dictated by the individual managers in the trenches leading groups and departments within the larger organization. Your experience in the workplace can be very different under different direct leaders or among different team members. You may find satisfaction in another department, rather than a whole new company.

If you are interested in investigating new career areas, consider whether that would be possible within your current organization. Whether you’d like to change tracks entirely or just spend more of your time doing something you already do in your job, you may consider leveraging your longevity and experience with your current employer to make that change. It’s certainly not impossible to change both career track and employer at once, but it can be much more difficult than making a more subtle—but still rewarding—career change.

As the old saying goes, don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. While moving to a new organization might seem like your best possible choice, first consider your options.

A fresh start with your current employer might just be the change you’re looking for.

jobs or pursuing new careers, their desire for change often stems from dissatisfaction with their current position or from frustrations with conditions within their department. I completely understand how negative situations can cloud one’s entire opinion of a company or work situation. But, I tell them, before you hang up your cleats with your current employer, consider investigating opportunities elsewhere in your organization that might better play to your strengths or match the work culture you’re seeking.

Consider this: Whether you’ve worked for a company for one year or for a decade, you’ve developed relaCaroline Player is the director of Career Services at the Alumni Association. tionships, knowledge and—hopefully—a Want to know whether you should stay or go? Sign up for a career counseling credible reputation. By leaving the compasession and learn more about all the career assistance available through the ny entirely, you’ll be starting from scratch Alumni Association at gtalumni.org/career. elsewhere. Pursuing a new employer can be 0 8 0

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Normandy TRIP ITINERARY 1 HONFLEUR, CALVADOS AND LISIEUX Walking tour of historic towns and stops at a distillery and cheesemaking facility 2 GIVERNY AND ROUEN Tour of Claude Monet’s pastoral home and the cradle of Impressionism 3 BAYEUX AND CAEN Tour of historic sites such as the Bayeux Tapestry and the Caen Memorial 4 HONFLEUR Free time to sample the region’s legendary food and cider 5 OMAHA BEACH Tour of the D-Day landing site, U.S. military cemetery at St. Laurent and World War II memorial 6 PARIS Tour of landmarks such as the Champs Elysees, Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde, Madeleine Church and Eiffel Tower

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In May, 25 Georgia Tech alumni, friends and I had the good fortune to visit France’s Normandy region and experience the charming landscape and delicious local cuisine that it had to offer. The picturesque 17th century fishing village of Honfleur served as our home base for most of the trip. Each day brought new and exciting excursions focused on a different aspect of the area’s culture, cuisine and history.

We e n j o y e d some of the local fare such as fresh oysters, Dublin Bay prawns and beef bourguignon. And we were lucky enough to witness some food production firsthand: Pont l’Évêque and Livarot cheeses from the Norman dairy farm Domaine St. Hippolyte, and Calvados, a delicious (and potent) apple cider brandy from the famous Château de Breuil.

In the nearby village of Giverny, we toured Claude Monet’s home and gardens, which were the inspiration for some of his most famous paintings. The well-restored and maintained property and its water lily pond gave us a sense of actually stepping into Monet's canvases to witness Impressionism in person.

No tour of Normandy would be complete without recognition of its deep history. We traveled to Bayeux to see its famous 11th century tapestry and learn how William the Conqueror became King of England after the 1066 Battle of Hastings. Our outing to Rouen revealed the Place du Vieux Marché, the public square where Joan of Arc was martyred in 1431.

However, the most significant and sobering visits for our group were the tours of the Longues-sur-Mer battery, Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach.

June 6, 2014 will mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy. (An alumni travel river cruise will sail from Paris to Normandy in late June through early July 2014.) I am thankful that my fellow travelers and I were able to share such a powerful experience and come home with a deep appreciation for the thousands of Americans who lost their lives defending freedom.

Want to travel with fellow Ramblin’ Wrecks? More information is available at gtalumni.org/travel, or call Martin Ludwig, director of Alumni Travel, at (404) 894-0758.

If you’re itching to travel the world, who better to globe-hop with than your fellow Yellow Jackets?

For more information or to register for any of these trips, visit gtalumni.org/travel.

Paradores and Pousadas, March 17-31, 2014 Take in a distinctive small group journey through the Iberian Peninsula to the intimate lodgings of Spain and Portugal: medieval monasteries, historic fortresses and stately palaces. Feel the spell of Iberia’s rich Roman and Moorish past and the pull of its vibrant contemporary life.

Tahitian Jewels, March 26-April 5, 2014 Savor emerald-green palms, white sand beaches and brilliant turquoise waters aboard the luxurious Oceania Cruises Marina to the most stunning destinations in the South Pacific: Moorea, Bora Bora, Hiva Oa and more.

Springtime in Washington, D.C., March 27-31, 2014 Washington, D.C., is a monument to American history. Conceived in 1791 by George Washington and architect Pierre L’Enfant, it features politics, rich history, fine restaurants and fabulous culture.

Don’t miss this chance to explore this iconic destination on this four-night program.

Machu Picchu to the Galapagos, April 1-15, 2014 They rank as two of South America’s greatest treasures, and a small group tour is the natural selection for both: the enigmatic ruins at Machu Picchu, where we’ll spend the night at an intimate on-site hotel; and the fascinating Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin’s “living laboratory,” where we’ll cruise aboard a privately chartered boat.

Holland and Belgium, April 4-12, 2014 There is no better way to experience the beauty, history and culture of Holland and Belgium than by cruising their legendary waterways. Travel into the heart of one of Europe’s most colorful and fascinating regions with a unique educational program that combines learning, recreation, relaxation and fellowship.

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1950s Marvin Mixon, MS AE 51, published a novel, Chrysanthemum, which follows a business executive framed for murder.

Ray Pettit, EE 54, MS EE 59, published a memoir, Mill-Village Boy, which includes passages on his time at Georgia Tech.

1960s Norman Askins, Arch 66, received the A. Hays Town Award from Southern Living. He operates his own architecture firm in Atlanta that specializes in historic restoration.

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Mel Bost, Phys 69, MS NE 70, published a book, Lessons Learned: Taking Project Management to a New Level in a Continuous Process Improvement Framework.

Frank Sexton, IE 64, MS IM 67, published a book, Old-School Football and Faith: Played Out on the Flats, a memoir of his academic and athletic experiences at Tech.

Ira Silberman, ID 61, was inducted into the Sporting Goods Industry Hall of Fame. He retired as senior vice president of Diversified Products.

John C. Sutherland, Phys 62, MS Phys 64, PhD Phys 67, was appointed interim dean of the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. He is a senior biophysicist emeritus

Engineering a Great Meal Amid a successful engineering career in the Washington, D.C., area, Tim Ma, EE 00, decided to make a big change into the world of food. He uprooted to attend culinary school in New York City and gained experience in kitchens in New York and the Virgin Islands. Ma returned to the D.C. area in 2009 when he opened his first restaurant, Maple Ave., in Vienna, Va. The intimate establishment—it has nine tables—became an immediate sensation, earning rave reviews from the Washington Post, the Washingtonian and North Virginia Magazine. Ma is opening a second restaurant, Water & Wall, in Arlington, Va. It’s been named one of the region’s most anticipated openings by several publications. Ma’s skills as a chef have earned him several honors, including being named third in the Favorite Chef category by Washingtonian and a nomination for Rising Culinary Star of the Year by the Restaurant Association.

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1970s Milton “Frank” Arthur, AE 71, MS AE 74, of Viera, Fla., retired as a senior scientist after 37 years with Harris Corporation.

D. Albert Brannen, Psy 78, was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2014. He is a partner in the Atlanta office of Fisher & Phillips.

Dr. Joseph B. Cofer, IE 72, was appointed chair of the American Board of Surgery. He is professor of surgery and surgery residency program director at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga.

Douglas Cornish, Econ 74, created a music-composing algorithm called "megloid transmigration" (JazzAssistant.com).

Barry Flink, BM 73, co-founded Flex HR Inc., recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in the country.

This year marks the third time in 10 years that Flex HR has won this award. Flink lives in Atlanta.

Jack Hartigan, M CP 74, was named a vice president of Arcadis, a global engineering and consultancy firm.

Manuel Mergal, Arch 79, M Arch 81, is leading the construction of a 35,000-square-foot athletic facility in Bedford Hills, N.Y. He is a partner of Cooper Robertson & Partners and lives in New York.

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Bruce Roth, IM 71, published a book, No Time To Kill, a study of weapons of mass destruction. He is the founder of Roth & Associates, a financial services firm.

Don H. Stafford, CE 70, was elected as a fellow of SAVE International.

He is president of Robinson, Stafford & Rude, an international value management and facilitation firm in Gulfport, Fla. Stefan V. Stein, EE 77, was recognized

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1980s Sherman Banks, EE 87, started the Georgia Tech Alumni Amateur Radio Club and serves as its president. A group for alumni ham radio operators and past members of the student-run Georgia Tech Radio Club, the organization uses call sign AA4XG. Angeline E. Benham, MS Psy 83, PhD Psy 85, was inducted into the Van Buren High School’s Hall of Honor, in Van Buren, Ark., in November. She is a practicing psychologist in Rogers, Ark. Mark Clinard, EE 85, MS Mgt 92, was named an engineering fellow with Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems of El Segundo, Calif. He is a radar systems engineer and lives with his family in Warrenton, Va.

1. John Stack and Paul Sabella, EE 97, form the winning team at the Southern Company Georgia Tech and University of Georgia Networks cornhole tournament to raise funds for scholarships. 2. On the Discover Switzerland alumni tour, Coe Bloomberg, ME 66, enjoys a random meeting with two Tech students who were studying abroad. 3. The Georgia Tech Coweta-Fayette Network hosts its largest ever student send-off gathering at the home of Network president Linda Henson Sorrow, IE 84, with more than 27 incoming freshmen in attendance. 4. Elysia Hwang, BME 11, and boyfriend Dan Huang enjoy an Asian Heritage Alumni happy hour at Villains Wicked Heroes in Atlanta. Hwang is president of the group. 5. L-R: Capt. Lewis G. Harrison Jr., Arch 74; Cmdr. Andrew B. Crigler, CE 94, MS CE 01; Cmdr. Joel K. Sensenig, ME 95; and Lt. Cmdr. Christine B. Cawayan, M BC 07, hold a gathering of alumni working in the Public Works Department, Naval Support Activity in Bahrain. 6. Annie Anton, ICS 90, MS ICS 92, PhD CS 97, battles the wind to fly a Tech flag atop Corcovado, a mountain overlooking Rio de Janeiro. 7. Barbara MacArthur (mother of Steve MacArthur, Mgt 06) shows off Tech pride during a trip to Acadia National Park in Maine. 8. Zvi Galil, dean of the College of Computing, stops to smell the sunflowers in Tuscany. 9. The Black Alumni Organization holds its annual golf tournament, which raises funds for the group’s scholarships.

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1. David Berta, PFE 07, and Brandi Wiltse on May 25 in West Fork, Ark. David is a process engineer. They live in West Fork.

Rob Griffin, Mgt 12, and Mary Courtney Delvin, Bio 11, on Dec. 29, 2012 in Newnan, Ga. Mary Courtney is a student at the University of Georgia Veterinary School. Rob is a project manager for SteelFab Inc. They live in Athens, Ga. 2. Emily Hortenstine, Bio 08, and Matthew McDowell, MSE 08, on June 29 in Atlanta. Emily is a physician’s assistant and Matt is a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology.

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Iarocci, Mgt 11, on July 6. Raschel is a user experience designer at EchoStar Technologies. Steve is a senior operations analyst for Dish Network. They live in Highlands Ranch, Colo.

4. Thomas Park, EE 13, and Julienne Kung, EE 11, on Aug. 9 in Chicago.

Julienne is a QA engineer at Applied Global Technologies. Thomas is a product group project manager at Sidel Incorporated. They live in Kennesaw, Ga. 5. Mihir Pathak, ME 08, MS ME 10, PhD ME 13, and Praachi Jani, ME 10, on July 7, 2012. Mihir is a Presidential Management Fellowship recipient and is serving as a legislative affairs specialist for NASA. Praachi is a product/project

7 engineer at Kids II. They live in Washington, D.C. Georgina Schaefer, ChBE 11, and Christopher Waites on June 2. Georgina is a process engineer and quality assurance manager at a Kemira oil and mining plant. They live in Atlanta.

6. Elizabeth Serafine, IA 08, and Alex Donnelly, Mgt 08, on March 30.

Lizzie works for Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Office of Development. Alex works for Javlin as a sales manager. They live in Arlington, Va. 7. Natalie-Claire Woods, CM 03, and Erik Lyda on Nov. 10, 2011. NatalieClaire is a senior associate with The Hackett Group.

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Capt. Dana R. Gordon, EE 89, assumed the position of executive officer of the USS Iwo Jima, a naval amphibious assault aircraft carrier.

Thomas Richardson, MS CE 83, joined HNTB Corporation as a tunnel construction manager. He lives in Arlington, Va. Tom Rollbuhler, ChE 85, was awarded the District Award of Merit for the Cherokee Pickens District of the Atlanta Area Council Boy Scouts of America. He is a Boy Scouts assistant district commissioner and works as a senior engineering specialist with AkzoNobel.

Mark Samuelian, IE 85, published an article in The Atlantic about the brain-training benefits of playing chess daily. He is a public policy advocate and lives in Miami Beach, Fla. Samuel Vincent Tidwell, ME 80, received professional certification as a residential building inspector. He works at Champia Real Estate Inspections in Alpharetta, Ga.

1990s Robert D. Brown III, ME 92, published a book, Business Case Analysis with R: A Simulation Tutorial to Support Complex Business Decisions.

He is president of Incite! Decision Technologies.

Jeff Chamberlain, PhD Chem 93, is the director of development of demonstration for the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research at Argonne National Labs in Lemont, Ill. Tara D. Elliott, CmpE 98, was named among the 2013 Nation’s Best Advocates: 40 Lawyers Under 40 by the National Bar Association and IMPACT and was named to the Women Worth Watching list in Profiles in

Brewing Up a New Business Last spring, Smith Mathews, Mgt 09, and Carly Wiggins, Mgt 10, ID 10, opened their Savannah, Ga.-based Southbound Brewing Company with three beers: Scattered Sun Belgian Wit, Iron Lion Pale Ale and Hoplin' IPA. After learning the trade at a Charleston, S.C., brewery, Mathews had decided the time was right to strike out on his own. He partnered with classmate Wiggins, who handles the marketing. On Oct. 26, the brewery opened for public tours and tasting—a date chosen specifically because it didn't conflict with a Yellow Jackets home game. To visit Southbound, or to find a store that stocks its suds, visit southboundbrewingco.com.

Diversity Journal. She was selected for the Fellows program of the Legal Council on Legal Diversity and appointed special master by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. She is an attorney for Fish & Richardson and lives in Wilmington, Del. Ed Flachbarth, IE 90, started Procurri, a data center supply company.

Rand Haley, Phys 97, joined Berkeley Research Group as a principal in the firm’s higher education consulting practice.

Jonathan E. Hawkins, IE 98, joined Atlanta law firm Krevolin & Horst as a partner after seven years as an associate with Foltz Martin.

Wab Kadaba, ME 92, received the Cornerstone Award at the 2013 North American South Asian Bar Association in June.

He is the managing partner of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton’s Atlanta firm.

Sandy P. Knight, EE 93, joined the Khan Academy as a math content creator. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Tywanda Harris Lord, IE 96, was named to the 2013 On the Rise class by the Daily Report. Lord is an attorney at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. She was recognized in 2013 as a Georgia Rising Star in intellectual property litigation by SuperLawyers magazine.

Cassandra Johnson, IE 92, cofounded Team Couture, which designs high-end collegiate fashion.

Sanjay Parekh, EE 96, was named to the 2014 class of Leadership Atlanta. He is the founder of Startup Riot, a showcase for startup companies.

W. Jud Ready, MatE 94, MetE 97, MatSci 00, a principal research engineer and adjunct professor at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, was recently awarded two U.S. patents: No. 8,474,805, “Microalloyed Spring,” and No. 8,350,146, “Three Dimensional Multijunction Photovoltaic Device.”

Robert Rivers, HTS 95, earned a doctor of ministry degree from Washington Theological Union in Washington, D.C. He works in education and ministry in Atlanta.

Cdr. John Saccomando, AM 94, assumed command of VR-56 at NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va. Matt Samuelson, CE 96, was named to the 2014 class of Leadership Atlanta. He is the president of IntegralGude Program Management.

Jane Snowdon, PhD IE 94, was promoted to director and chief innovation officer of IBM Federal and was awarded Best of IBM 2013 for her leadership and collaboration skills.

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Stanley Elected Chancellor of AIA College of Fellows William J. Stanley III, Arch 72, was elected chancellor of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. He will be inaugurated in December at a black-tie dinner in Washington, DC. Stanley previously served as bursar and vice-chancellor of the college. “Being elected by my peers to the highest office of the most elite group in my profession is perhaps the greatest professional recognition that one can obtain,” he said.

“It is a culmination of a life of service to the profession.”

Stanley is the founder and principal for design of the firm Stanley,

Scott Steinberg, Mgt 99, is the CEO and lead analyst at TechSavvy Global and a bestselling author and professional speaker.

Tammy Taylor, MS EnvE 98, PhD EnvE 99, was named chief operating officer at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Alex Thomas, EE 94, was promoted to vice president of Southwire Company. He lives in Carrollton, Ga., with his wife and children.

Shane Thomason, CE 93, was named chief engineer of program maintenance for Norfolk Southern in Atlanta.

Audrey Tolson, Econ 91, cofounded Team Couture, which designs highend collegiate fashion.

Amanda Upper, IE 99, is the director of learning development at Duke Energy in Charlotte, N.C. She recently became the 7,459th owner of 0 8 8

Love-Stanley, which oversaw construction of the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center and O’Keefe Gymnasium, among other notable projects. Stanley, who was the first black graduate of Tech’s College of Architecture, remains closely involved with the Institute.

He was a founder of the Office of Minority Education Development and the Georgia Tech Black Alumni Organization.

He and his wife, Ivenue Love-Stanley, Arch 77, were elected as Georgia Tech Legacies by GTBAO. They both have

been members of ANAK, the Alumni Association Board of Trustees and the Georgia Tech Advisory Board.

an all-electric Tesla Model S sedan.

Lee Welborn, Arch 94, was promoted to executive director of the Ernst & Young Orange County, Calif., office.

She is a member of Ernst & Young’s tax practice, working with engineers, contractors and architects.

2000s Dmitri Alperovitch, CS 01, MS IS 03, made the Technology Review TR35 list of influential people in technology under age 35. He cofounded the security company CrowdStrike.

Vijay Balasubramaniyan, MS IS 08, PhD CS 11, made the Technology Review TR35 list of influential people in technology under age 35. He cofounded Pindrop Security.

Justin L. Burns, Bio 05, PhD Bio 10, received certificates of completion for an exclusive business

leadership program.

Rebecca J. Clay, ME 04, joined Burns & McDonnell Southeast as a project manager and process engineer in its Water Practice department.

Teman H. Cooke, PhD Phys 02, wrote a physics textbook, First Semester Physics Survival Guide: A Lifeline for the Reluctant Physics Student.

John Michael Doyle, IE 05, finished as the top amateur in the open division in the Professional Disc Golf Association’s Prodiscus Dutch Open in Amsterdam. He lives in the Netherlands on a two-year work assignment.

Nayan Jain, CM 09, founded Audax Health, which has offices in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., and recently secured $21 million in funding. In July he was named a Presidential Innovation Fellow.

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Technology Review TR35 list of influential people in technology under age 35. She works at the University of Washington, where she directs the Computing for Healthy Living and Learning Lab. Catie Newell, Arch 03, was selected to attend the American Academy in Rome. Newell is a former President’s Scholar.

Adrian Smith, EE 02, is the director of

administrative and enrollment systems at Metropolitan College of New York. He lives in Jersey City, N.J. Holly Webster, BC 08, is project coordinator for RA Nelson in Vail, Colo.

2010s Michael Flanigan, ChBE 10, joined Hypepotamus as operations manager.

Sean Gibel, AM 12, represented Team USA in the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju, South Korea. As stroke seat of the men’s lightweight eight-plus, he led the boat to a bronze medal finish.

Erika Tyburski, BME 12, was recognized by the Metro Atlanta Chamber and the Atlanta Business Chronicle as a Business Person of the Year award winner for her device AnemoCheck, an at-home anemia test.

Trujillo Takes Reins of Georgia Tech Foundation Al Trujillo, AE 81, assumed the role of president and CEO of the Georgia Tech Foundation in July. The Foundation manages the private gifts that provide financial support to the Institute through student scholarships, facilities funding and other investments. The Foundation contributed to projects such as Technology Square, the Campus Recreation Center and the new Engineered Biosystems building. Trujillo previously served as a trustee of the Foundation and as chair of the Alumni Association Board of Trustees. He has served Tech on a variety of committees and initiatives, including the College of Engineering Advisory Board, the Georgia Tech Arts Advisory Board and the Council of Outstanding Young Engineers.

Most recently, he served as a member of the search committee for Tech’s athletic director. Until 2007, Trujillo served as CEO of Recall Corporation and spearheaded the creation of a leading global service organization of more than 5,000 team members, with operations in 23 countries across five continents.

Trujillo emigrated from Cuba as an infant and grew up in South Florida.

He completed his graduate engineering education and MBA at Stanford University. “I am honored to have

been selected for this responsibility,” Trujillo said. “I have a deep sense of commitment to Georgia Tech, a

school that has provided me with opportunities to excel and the foundation of my educational experience.”

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They live in East Point, Ga. Amanda Baskett, PP 07, and Kenny Baskett, AE 08, welcomed daughter Evelynne Dyann on July 14.

Amanda is a research coordinator and Kenny is a software developer.

They live in Covington, Ga. 2. Angela Dunn Cartledge, Mgt 97, and her husband, Brian, welcomed daughter Brynton Elyse, son Henry Nathan and son Charles Benjamin on Feb. 5. Angela is a full-time mom. They live in Asheville, N.C. 3. Jonathan Cochran, Mgt 05, and

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4. Luke Haag, IE 06, MBA 12, and his wife, Brita, welcomed daughter Alana Monét in June 19. Luke is a product-marketing manager at AGCO Corporation. They live in Brookhaven, Ga. 5. David Horwath Jr., CE 05, and his wife, Lisa, welcomed son David Austin on March 7. David is the international business development manager for Lend Lease. They live in Nashville.

6. Shane Joiner, IE 97, and Regina Smith Joiner, CS 99, welcomed son William Allen on June 4. He

joins siblings Zach, 7, Mallory, 4, and Caroline, 2. Shane works for Cisco Systems. They live in Jacksonville, Fla. 7. Erin Kennedy, IE 03, MS IE 04, and her husband, Greg, welcomed son Carter on June 7. He joins brother James. Erin is a systems engineer at NAVAIR. They live in Lexington Park, Md. 8. Clinton Kurtz, BC 06, and his wife, Tara, welcomed daughter Caden on April 26. Clinton is a project manager at Choate Construction.

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11. Sara Ouzts Lindsay, ChE 04, and Ian A. Lindsay, ChE 02, welcomed daughter Piper Elizabeth on May 2. Ian and Sara both work for Chevron North America Exploration and Production. They live in Covington, La. 12. Liz Roellig Manning, ChE 01, and

her husband, Mike, welcomed son Luke Michael on April 2. He joins brother Logan. Liz is a process engineering team lead at LyondellBasell Houston Refining. They live in Houston.

13. David McNicoll, ME 10, and his wife, Chelsey, welcomed son John Turner on July 16. They live in Aiken, S.C. 14. Michael Scott Meuleners, CmpE 04, and his wife, Melissa, welcomed son Michael Simon on Jan. 30.

15. Geoffery Roe, BC 09, and Nicole Erickson Roe, BC 09, welcomed son Harper Glen on April 22. They

live in Eagle Lake, Fla. Grandfather: Robert Erickson, IE 79.

16. Jonathan Sims, Mgt 03, and Lisa Sims, IE 01, welcomed son Jacob and daughter Julie on March 1.

17. Ellen True, CS 05, MS CS 07, and Aaron True, CE 07, MS CE 19. 11, PhD CEE 13, welcomed daughter Ada Louise on April 25. The family recently moved to Boulder, Colo., where Aaron is conducting postdoc research at the University of Colorado.

18. Katie Appleyard Varner, CS 02, and Jeremy Varner, CE 06, MS CE 09, welcomed son Atticus on April 24. They live in Atlanta.

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John Boy, ME 38, of Clewiston, Fla., on July 16. Navy (Capt.), World War II. President, U.S. Sugar Corporation.

Hugh K. Marshall, Arch 38, of Atlanta, on Aug. 8. Army, World War II. Army Reserve (Lt. Col.). Architect.

Project oversight, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and Department of Housing and Urban Development. Reserve Officers Association. Atlanta Institute of Architects.

Demetrius Thomas Papageorge, CE 36, of Atlanta, on Aug. 11. Georgia Department of Transportation. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. Daughter: Maria Artemis, Arch 91. Nephews: George C. Woodward, Phys 68; Thomas Papageorge, Arch 67, MS CE 71.

Allan Raymon Spreen, ME 37, of St. Augustine, Fla., on Aug. 4. Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Company. President, Southern Industries. President, Suburban Manufacturing. Son: Allan N. Spreen, IE 71.

1940s Edward Lee Allman, IE 48, of Manchester, N.H., on June 19. Navy, World War II. American Standard. Thomas A. Edison Industries. Georgia Tech Engineering Hall of Fame.

William Vail Bennett, IE 49, of Savannah, Ga., on June 20. Army, World War II. Savannah Foods.

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Buford Leroy Brock, IE 49, of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., on Aug. 24. Army Air Force, World War II. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Manager of Propulsion, Eastern Air Lines.

Leonard Daniels Jr., ChE 49, of Knoxville, Tenn., on July 30. Army, World War II. Chemical engineer, UOP LLC. Howard G. Dean Jr., EE 43, of Atlanta, on July 30. Army (2nd Lt.). Field engineer, Civil Aeronautics Association. Redstone Arsenal/Ordnance Guided Missile Center. Vice President of Engineering Management and Vice President of Operations and Quality Control, Scientific Atlanta.

Helped develop the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Associate director emeritus, GTRI. Georgia Tech Engineering Hall of Fame.

H. Douglas Garner, ME 44, of Conyers, Ga., on May 25. Senior Scientist and Distinguished Research Associate, NASA. Experimental Aircraft Association's Stan Ditzik Memorial Award for Outstanding Design Contribution for the development of the Electro-Fluidic Autopilot. Two R&D 100 awards for the development of the Smart Compass and the braille mouse. Patent holder.

William Glenn, EE 46, of Boca Raton, Fla., on July 14. Navy. Director of image systems lab, Florida Atlantic University.

Aubrey Lamar Hanna, ChE 49, of Pensacola, Fla., on Sept. 1. Army, World War II. Chemstrand/Monsanto.

Stephen Henry Harrington, Cls 47, of Decatur, Ga., on June 4.

Alvin Hock, Cls 48, of Cincinnati, on Aug. 1. Navy. Former president, Brighton Corp.

Scott White Holman Jr., IM 47, of Houston, Texas, on June 11. Founder and president, Scott Holman Company.

William Holt Jr., ME 42, of Scarborough, Maine, on Aug. 16. Air Corps Reserve (Capt.). Technical assistant, ExxonMobil Corporation.

John Jarriel, EE 43, of Jacksonville, Fla., on July 18. Army, World War II. IBM. Hal W. Lamb Jr., Cls 42, of Chapel Hill, N.C., on June 13. Army Air Corps, World War II. Air Force (Col.). Son: Hal W. Lamb III, IM 66. Grandson: Bill Lamb, Mgt 91.

Leon Meyer, ChE 49, MS Chem 50, of St. Louis, Mo., on Aug. 15. Navy, World War II. DuPont.

Bryan Burdette Mitchell, TE 41, of Alexandria, Va., on June 28. Marines, World War II, Korea and Vietnam (Col.). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Walter Daves Pittman, AE 48, of Austin, Texas, on Aug. 19. Army Air Corps (1st Lt., Distinguished Flying Cross), World War II. McDonnell Aircraft. Aerospace Corporation. NASA. Marvin Otto Richter, EE 47, of Gainesville, Ga., on Aug. 19. Army Reserve (Maj.), World War II. Georgia Power.

George Sellers, IM 48, on July 19.

Marvin Henry Smith, Jr., Text 49, of Atlanta, on July 9. Vice President, Southern Sizing Company. Treasurer, Georgia Republican Party.

Charles Donald Spielberger, Chem 49, of Tampa, Fla., on June 12. President, American Psychological Association. Psychology department chair, University of South Florida Distin-

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E. Warren Woolf, ME 47, of Atlanta, on July 15. Navy Reserve (Lt. Cmdr.).

Director, Baptist Home Mission Board.

Sons: David Woolf, Cls 72; William Woolf, IM 70.

1950s Bobby G. Albritton, IE 54, of Cumming, Ga., on Aug. 13. Navy, World War II. Air Force (Command Pilot; Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters), Vietnam.

Certified safety engineer, loss control industry.

George Lee Clackum, IM 58, of Conyers, Ga., on Sept. 3. Department of Human Resources. Son: Roy Clackum, ME 87.

Vernon Johnson Daniel, IE 50, of Daleville, Va., on July 4. Army, World War II. Director of Engineering, Hanes/Sara Lee.

Meredith Griggs “Max” Clarke, IE 59, of Peachtree City, Ga., on July 25. Air Force. NASA. FAA. Brother: Marshall Clarke, Arch 62.

Hector Joseph Diaz, CE 54, of Tampa, on Aug. 8. Army (1st Lt). DSA Engineering.

Robert E. Clement, IE 55, of Salisbury, N.C., on Aug. 3. District manager, Schneider Electric North America.

James Drury, Arch 50, of Decatur, Ga., on July 1. Army, World War II. Architect, John Portman & Associates.

John Ray Crittenden Jr., EE 54, of New Bern, N.C., on June 5. Chance Vaught.

General Electric. Ferranti.

Kermit Earl Duckett, Phys 58, of Knoxville, Tenn., on June 19. Professor Emeritus, University of Tennessee.

Charles Fleming

Jack Alvarez, EE 50, of Daytona Beach, Fla., on June 23. Engineer, Cape Canaveral Space Program. General Electric. Professor, Daytona State College.

Stanley Warren Armistead Sr., Arch 51, of Atlanta, on June 13. Marine Corps (Purple Heart), World War II. James Baldwin, Arch 52, CE 56, of Atlanta, on July 16. Army (2nd Lt., Purple Heart), Korea.

Samuel C. Barnett, MS ME 56, PhD ME 62, of Chattanooga, Tenn., on June 19.

Army. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations.

Jacob Alexander Blanton, ME 51, of Marietta, Ga., on July 9. Air Force, World War II. Eastern Airlines.

Lockheed Martin.

William P. Britt, Text 58, of Rockingham, N.C., on March 17. Quality control manager, Burlington Worldwide.

Donald Carraway, CE 56, of Tallahassee, Fla., on Aug 19. Army. Safety director, Ardaman & Associates.

Forty-year member, Barbershop Harmony Society.

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harles A. Fleming, CerE 33, of Nashville, on Aug. 10.

A member of Tech’s Army ROTC, Fleming enlisted in the Army to serve in World War II’s European theater, where he was on the headquarters staff of the III Corps attached to General George Patton’s 3rd Army and saw action during the Battle of the Bulge.

He was later involved in seizing the bridge at Remagen and his unit was one of the first Allied forces to cross the Rhine, later capturing thousands of Nazi troops and moving on to Bavaria. Fleming received the Bronze Star, served in the reserves and retired as lieutenant, remaining active in the Military Officers Association of America. In his civilian life, in addition to a career in the ceramics industry, he was a breeder of bull terriers, a member of the Nashville Kennel Club, the Bull Terrier Club of Southern States and one of the first members of the Bull Terrier Club of America. Before his death, he was the oldest living Georgia Tech alumnus.

.Lenton Allen Carter, IE 58, of Gainesville, Ga., on July 3. Chicopee Manufacturing Company. Gladwin Industries.

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Robert Lewis Duling, Cls 50, of Decatur, Ala., on Sept. 22. South Central Bell. Boeing.

Dan W. Estes Sr., Arch 50, of Columbus, Ga., on Aug. 2. Director, Freeman & Associates. Brother: Cecil Estes Jr., CE 39.

Forist G. Dupree, ME 51, of Sumter, S.C., on June 26. Air Force (Col.; Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, Air Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Korean War Service Medal), Korea and Vietnam. Representative and seminar speaker, First Command.

Brother: Charles Dupree, EE 57.

Ralph Edward Gill Jr., EE 51, of Brunswick, Ga., on Aug. 7. Marine Corps, World War II. Member, Association of Energy Engineers. Engineer, Tennessee Valley Authority, Pittsburgh Metallurgical, Lockheed Aircraft and Martin Marietta. Project Gemini space program. Dow Badische Corporation.

Past president, Georgia State Square Dance Association.

Timothy Singleton Peachtree Road Race Founder

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imothy Singleton, IM 59, MS IM 65, of Dahlonega, on July 31. Singleton spent his life on the run. He came to Tech on a football scholarship, was co-captain of his freshman team and later a varsity letterman. And he starred on the Yellow Jackets track team: three years as a letterman, team captain and winner of numerous hurdles championships. While working on his master’s degree, he taught and coached at the Lovett School and West Georgia College; he later became dean of men and cross-country coach at Georgia State University. By then he’d become involved with the Atlanta Track Club, through which he founded the Peachtree Road Race in 1970. That first year, 110 runners pounded 10 kilometers down Atlanta’s most famous street; in July 2013, entrants numbered more than 60,000.

Singleton’s own career as a runner totaled 73 marathons, more than 500 road races and 11 rim-to-rim runs of the Grand Canyon. He also co-authored two management textbooks, made three trips to Bulgaria on the Fulbright Scholarship Exchange, served as a visiting scholar at China’s Yangzhou University, and taught at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the University of North Georgia, where he was honored as professor emeritus upon his retirement. He has been inducted into the Druid Hills High School Athletic Hall of Fame, the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame, and—of course—the Peachtree Road Race Hall of Fame.

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James W. Gray Jr., IM 50, of Winter Haven, Fla., on Aug. 9. Navy (R. Adml.), Korea. Gray Truck Line.

Sons: James W. Gray III, MSci 74; J. Edward Gray, Mgt 76.

Floyd Griffin Jr., EE 56, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., on July 22. Navy.

Founder, Ordnance Research.

Thomas Waterman Hagler, ME 52, of Augusta, Ga., on June 25. Air Force (2nd Lt.). President and CEO, Georgia Iron Works Co. Co-inventor, GIW Hydraulic Slide Rule. Georgia Tech Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni.

Robert Ashley Harley, Cls 51, of Spartanburg, S.C., on Sept. 11.

Harley Bag Co./Harley Corporation. Co-founder, Spartanburg Bank and Trust. Founder, Carolina Southern Bank. Founder and chairman, Carolina Alliance Bank.

Chairman, South Carolina State Development Board. Son: Steve Harley, CE 73.

Carlton W. Hendrix Sr., Cls 50, of Canton, Ga., on Jan. 1. Tool designer, Lockheed.

Reuben Auburn Holliday, IE 58, of Augusta, Ga., on Aug. 26. Air Force (Capt.).

Joseph T. Huie, ME 57, of Lenoir City, Tenn., on Aug. 2. Air Force (Capt.).

Garner H. Ivey Jr., CE 51, of Kihei, Hawaii, on Nov. 9, 2012. Civil engineer, A&B Properties. Wrestling coach, Baldwin High School.

James Lamar Jordan, IM 50, of Frisco, Texas, on July 5.

Lewis Latimer Sr., MS ChE 51, of West Columbia, S.C., on July 27.

Army, World War II. South Carolina National Guard. Army Retired Reserves (Maj.). Engineer, DuPont.

Brother: Hewlett Latimer, CE 54.

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Tobe C. Karrh, Cls 52, of Swainsboro, Ga., on Aug. 17. Army.

II. Chemical engineer. Administrator, Candler County Hospital.

Martin Hayes Kennedy Jr., MS IE 57, of San Antonio, Texas, on Aug. 21.

Navy (Lt.). R.J. Reynolds. Founder, Vermont Country Foods.

Ralph Edmund Robertson, ME 51, of Huntsville, Ala., on Aug. 11. Aircraft engine mechanic, World War II. Engineer, Redstone Arsenal. Aeronautical engineer, NASA (Apollo projects). Daughter: Karen Thompsen, ChE 80. Son: Jack Robertson, ME 85, MS 87 ME.

Jack Lawrence, EE 50, of Destin, Fla., on Sept. 1. Navy, World War II. Vice President of Power Delivery, Georgia Power. Son: Joe Lawrence, EE 85.

William Evans Martin Jr., IE 58, of Mount Pleasant, S.C., on Sept. 9.

Real estate agent.

Michael “Bud” McAdams, IM 58, of Seaford, Va., on July 27. Army (2nd Lt. Col.).

David E. McHugh, IM 52, IE 55, of Hamlet, N.C., on Aug. 9. Army (paratrooper), World War II. Air Force (Lt. Col.). Chief statistician and analyst, Southern Bell.

Allen P. Morgan Sr., Arch 51, of Decatur, Ga., on July 27. Army, World War II. Sales manager, Horatio Homes.

Joseph Morris, IE 53, of Tucker, Ga., on July 2. Program manager, J.A.M Consultants.

George Young Mosteller, CE 55, of Kingston, Ga., on Aug. 20. Army, World War II. Georgia Power.

Georgia Baptist Children's Homes and Family Ministries.

Thomas Patton Sr., ME 52, of Johnson City, Tenn., on Aug. 13.

Senior engineer, Tennessee Eastman Corporation.

Thomas Broadfield Ray, Cls 50, of Atlanta, on Aug. 22. Navy (Cmdr.).

Established first ham radio aboard a Navy combat ship. Combat information center officer and navigator on USS Essex for Apollo 7 recovery. Realtor. Teacher. Author.

James Calvin Rivenbark, ChE 51, of Metter, Ga., on Sept. 7. Navy, World War

Donald E. Schaffer, CE 51, MS CE 52, of Wilmington, Del., on Aug. 22. DuPont.

Hal Peterson Sikes, IM 51, of Camden, S.C., on Sept. 3. Navy, World War II. DuPont.

1960s Don Charles Banks, CE 62, MS CE 63, of Vicksburg, Miss., on Aug. 11. Chief of the Engineering, Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, U.S. Army Corps Waterways Experiment Station. Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers. Fellow, American Rock Mechanics Association. WES Gallery of Distinguished Civilian Employees.

Contractor, U.S. Department of Defense.

Author. Memorial contributions: Dr. Don C. Banks Civil Engineering Scholarship, Georgia Tech Foundation.

John Caleb Stowers, AE 56, of Austin, Texas, on July 2. Air Force, Korea.

NASA. Charter Title. LandAmerica.

Thomas “Stumpy” Bernard Bradley, MS IE 65, of Newberry, S.C., on June 26. Air Force (Lt. Col.), Vietnam. Honorary Life Member, Lutheran Men in Mission.

Herbert “Bud” Stuart, Arch 51, of Tempe, Ariz., on Aug. 17. President, Building Inspection and Evaluation.

Horace “Bill” W. Bronson, III, IE 65, of Overland Park, Kan., on June 27. Engineer manager, J.C. Penney Catalog Division.

Dan Dasher Stubbs, IM 53, of Waynesboro, Va., on Sept. 7. Navy, World War II. DuPont. Plant manager, WindCo.

William Burson Jr., ME 61, of Charleston, S.C., on Oct. 17, 2012. Owner, Bill Burson & Associates.

Clarence A. Sweets, IE 51, of Saint Louis, on Aug. 13. Army. Solutia.

Walter Branch Clark Jr., Cls 67, of Estero, Fla., on June 14. Army (Capt.), Korea.

Maaco Auto Painting. Bodyworks.

Owen H. Taffe Jr., Arch 51, of Pensacola, Fla., on July 29. Air Force, World War II and Korea. Architect, Navy Public Works Center. Son: Clinton Taffe, Cls 84.

Dennis A. Tuck, AE 52, of Dallas, Texas, on Aug. 10. Navy (Cmdr.), Korea and Vietnam. Test pilot, Tuck Aircraft Engineering.

Thomas Flint Williams, Jr., ME 50, of Houston, Texas, on July 4. Army (2nd Lt.). Founder, Williams Engineering and Williams Machine.

Raymond Douglas Wood, IE 54, of Savannah, Ga., on Aug. 10. Navy.

Engineer, Square D Company. IBM. Manager of economic development, Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce. Chief economic analyst, Savannah Electric.

James George Davis, IM 65, of Okaloosa Island, Fla., on Sept. 1. Marines. Gulf Power Company.

James Douglas Esther, AM 65, of Hixson, Tenn., on July 20. Air Force (Capt.).

Paul Douglas “Skippy” Fowler, IE 54, MS IM 64, of Statesboro, Ga., on July 6. Army, Korea. Lockheed Aircraft.

Professor of engineering technology, Georgia Southern University.

Kenneth Marston Fristoe, CE 60, of Flowery Branch, Ga., on June 9.

Army. Facilities Engineer, Delta Airlines.

Donald Greer, MS Text 69, of Lexington, S.C., on July 17. Army. Nix Marine.

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Patent holder.

Nelson K. Rogers Professor Emeritus

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elson K. Rogers, MS IE 56, of Cartersville, Ga., on Sept. 15. Rogers served in the Navy during the Korean War. His career began at the Sea-Land Corporation, where he was vice president of operations and instrumental in building the industry's first container ships. He taught for many years at Georgia Tech, oversaw the undergraduate program for the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and was eventually named professor emeritus. He also worked as a consultant for the Coca-Cola Company.

Isaac “Bud” Gurney, ChE 60, of Lafayette, La., on July 27. President and founder, Acadia Service Company.

John David Harrison, Cls 63, of Macon, Ga., on June 17. Newcomb & Boyd Engineers. Founder, John D. Harrison and Associates. Director, Georgia Society of Professional Engineers.

Roland B. Kendall, IM 62, of Peachtree City, Ga., on June 29. Army.

Larry Edmund Mashburn, IM 63, of Milton, Ga., on Aug. 24. Marines.

Certified Financial Planner, PPA Investments. President, Georgia Planned Giving Council. Chairman, Executive Committee of the Metro Atlanta March of Dimes. Chairman of the board of trustees, Methodist Children's Home.

John Burgess Matlock, IM 65, of Wilmington, N.C., on Aug. 5. Football coach, St. Pius High School, Randolph-Macon College, University of Louisville, East Carolina University.

Defensive line coach, University of North Carolina.

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Gerald Douglas Mills, IE 66, of Cumming, Ga., on Aug. 10. Attorney.

Joel F. Parker Sr., IM 64, of Pine Mountain, Ga., on July 30. Navy (Lt. Cmdr.). Radiologist.

Glen Parsons, EE 61, of Columbia, S.C., on July 5. Army (1st Lt.). Schneider Electric North America.

James William Penley, Jr., IM 69, of Decatur, Ga., on July 2. Army (Capt.).

John H. Poarch, IE 67, of Greensboro, N.C., on July 27. Sales engineer, Dematic Corporation.

Fred G. Roffe, EE 60, of Hampton Bays, N.Y., on Dec. 29, 2012. Grumman Aerospace. Lieutenant commander and education officer, Peconic Bay Chapter of the U.S. Power Squadron.

James Charles Thomas, IE 61, of Ridge, Md., on June 29. Engineer, Eagan, McAllister Associates. Owner, Simple Solutions.

Jon Tinsley, ChE 60, of Milton, Fla., in August. Chemical engineer. Research and Development. Chemstrand. Mon-

Robert G. Weese, IM 60, of Blue Ridge, Ga., on April 16.

1970s Donald Ballew, IM 73, of Cartersville, Ga., on July 23. Senior project engineer, Brakepro.

Mark Edward Balmes Jr., Mgt 73, of Atlanta, Ga., on July 9. Bellsouth.

Philip W. Brown, AE 71, of Williamsburg, Va., on June 28. Navy. NASA research pilot, Exceptional Service Award. Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame.

John Corrigan, EE 73, of Marianna, Fla., on July 30. Army, Vietnam. Co-founder and development officer, SwiftView.

Hugh J. Hagemeyer, ChBE 76, of Macon, Ga., on July 27. Vice president of Quality and Technical service, Graphic Packaging.

Thomas C. Hankey, Cls 73, of Atlanta, on Jan. 14. Management Cybernetics.

Edward Ernesto Iacobucci, IE 75, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., on June 21. Founder, Citrix Systems, DayJet and VirtualWorks. International Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Gerardo Javier Santeiro, Mgt 72, of Coral Gables, Fla., on Sept. 5. Florida Power & Light Company. Executive director, Guardianship Program of Dade County. Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce Chair. City of Coral Gables Advisory Board on Disability Affairs.

Rick “Henry” Urrutia III, ID 73, of Redwood Shores, Calif., on Aug. 27.

Founder, Automation Controls Group.

Brother: Michael Urrutia, ID 73.

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1980s Steven Richard Franco, CE 82, of Atlanta, on Aug. 6. A.M. Franco Engineers.

Jeffrey A. Goldstein, Arch 83, of Cincinnati, on July 27. Real estate developer, Metro Ventures Development Corporation.

Disease Control and Prevention.

James J. Wesolowski, Cls 99, of Kingston, Tenn., on July 26.

2000s Mark Jeremy Davis, MBA 08, of Asheville, N.C., on Aug. 31. GE Healthcare. Athletic director and

basketball coach, Asheville Catholic School.

2010s J. Ross Alter, Mgt 12, of Atlanta on July 14. Accounting associate, Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology. Brother: A. Wood Alter, IE 14.

Steve Neal, IM 83, of Lakeland, Fla., on Aug. 26. Truck driver, Allied Scrap.

Janet Pierce, Mgt 87, of Decatur, Ga., on July 15. Assistant tax manager, BET.

Edwin Jerome Engram

James W. Puett, Jr., ID 81, of Atlanta, on Aug. 21. President, Accent Display Systems.

“THE COLONEL”

Robert Scott Smith, PhD Chem 80, of Houston, Texas, on June 13. Exxon.

Various chemistry patents.

Stuart Courtenay Walker, Cls 81, of Fort Worth, Texas, on Aug. 3. Texas Steel. General Dynamics.

1990s Gregory Joseph “Gabby” Gabryszewski, AE 90, of Snellville, Ga., on Aug. 30. Navy. Global product line manager. Nordson. Patent holder.

Randy T. Pike, MS MSE 99, of Grant, Fla., on Aug. 11. Polymer chemist, Xerox Corp. Senior microelectronics engineer, Harris Corp. Principle mechanical engineer, Lockheed Martin Corp. Author.

Patent holder. Founder and president, Pike Enterprises. Member, American Chemical Society.

Christina Pearl Olson Tredway, IE 92, MS IA 02, of Savannah, Ga., on Sept. 6. Engineer, Delta Airlines.

Engineer, Hawaiian Airlines. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation.

John Richard Tyler, Arch 98, M Arch 00, of Senoia, Ga., in February 2012. Architect, Centers for

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dwin Jerome Engram, Text 54, of Statesville, N.C, on Aug. 2. After making his way through Tech’s co-op program, Engram fulfilled his Army ROTC requirement and moved from Atlanta to White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico, where he became a general’s aide before entering the Army. In Korea, he commanded a battery artillery and in 1958 began his long career in nuclear weaponry as chief of the storage division at the Seneca Army Depot in Romulous, N.Y. He served in Vietnam as Nuclear Staff Officer to the 548th Artillery NATO unit, once using a lug wrench to remove a burning tire from a tank recovery vehicle wrecked on a bridge. The highest of the awards he received in Vietnam was the Legion of Merit. In 1968, Engram was reassigned as head of the Seneca Army Depot, where he oversaw maintenance and security of the country’s single largest nuclear stockpile. He was later selected for the Atomic Energy Officer Program and reassigned to the Pentagon, where he became Army staff officer for nuclear weapons. In 1972, he was part of one of the Army’s largest operations, a classified relocation of nuclear and chemical weapons from Europe and the Pacific. Engram later served on the Atomic Energy Commission and, in the later years of his career, served as commander of the USAMC’s Surety Field Activity. During his Army career, Engram earned a master’s degree in history from Southern Illinois University. Following his retirement, he managed a chain of bakeries and rental properties, founding the Statesville Landlord Association.

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These days, Georgia Tech students can roll out of bed and schlep off to class in pajamas if they want. But in the Institute’s earliest days, attire was a bit more formal. For one, students were required to wear jackets to class—at least until 1908, when the sophomore class decided to take a stand. Citing the “discomfort occasioned by wearing a heavy garment during several consecutive hours of blackboard work” and noting that “such discomfort interferes with the best mental effort,” the students petitioned to be allowed to remove their coats in class, affirming their collective belief that doing so would not display a lack of discipline or slovenliness. The petition was signed by many sophomores, as well as representatives of the junior and senior classes. The efforts weren’t successful at the time, but—as anyone walking around campus now can attest—sartorial expectations have since been greatly loosened.

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Robert L. Terrell, Text 54, MS IM 58, sent in this photo from 1945, when Coach Bobby Dodd presented the game ball from a recent tilt against Navy to a group of Cub Scouts from Forest Park, Ga. (Tech had lost the match by a good margin, but the boys seemed no less thrilled.) The meeting came about because that Cub Scout den won a contest sponsored by the Atlanta Medical Association. Terrell, at right, recalled proudly posing with Dodd in the Forest Park School’s auditorium as the whole student body watched. In later choosing to attend Georgia Tech, Terrell said the biggest influence came not from Dodd but from another of his boyhood heroes: his father, Lowell Terrell, EE 15.

Time Machine 5 years ago, in 2008, a group of alumni travelers were in China when an earthquake struck. No travelers were injured, and the group donated funds to the Chinese Red Cross.

• 10 years ago, in 2003, plaques were placed in front of the Wardlaw Center to honor Tech’s four Medal of Honor recipients.

• 25 years ago, in 1988, Drownproofing was no longer a required class.

• 50 years ago, in 1963, Tech’s whistle was stolen overnight, and at 7:55 a.m. the whistle-less steam pipe made a “HIIIiiisssss-urgh” sound, according to the Alumnus.

• 75 years ago, in 1938, the Army established a gauge laboratory at Tech with $20,000 of equipment.

• 100 years ago, in 1913, Coach John Heisman led the football team to a 7-2 season.

• 125 years ago, in 1888, William H. Glenn, ME 1891, signed up as the first student at the Georgia School of Technology.

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When air conditioning, and elevators, were still a dream.

Full Circle C.E. Carter III, IM 74

A father, a son, a move-in day surprise.

In 1969, two months before reporting

as freshmen at Georgia Tech, my friend Ernest and I went to a pre-rush fraternity gathering in our hometown of Augusta. We answered the polite, customary questions about planned majors, dorm assignments, family backgrounds and so on.

Coincidentally, we had just received our room assignment. So when the dorm question arose, we quickly said, “Glenn Dorm, room 346.” Hearing that, a sophomore standing nearby leaned in and said, 1 0 6

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“Hey, I had friends in that room. It’s a fourman room on the top floor. Get there early on check-in day and claim the back part.

It’s twice as large as the front, and has windows on two walls.”

In 1969, air conditioning in freshman dorms was still a dream, so a big, top-floor room with two windows was worth getting up early in the morning.

We found out later the other two freshman assigned to room 346 had also learned it was a four-man room and planned to

show up early to claim the back half. But they underestimated us. When the Housing Office opened at 8 a.m. on check-in day, Ernest was the first student in line.

Later that day, we parked in front of Glenn Dorm, and my dad and I began to unpack our car in the 100-degree heat. My dad, Charles E. Carter Jr., Cls 54, had sweated through the same unpleasant fall movein day himself a couple of decades earlier. But if he felt any nostalgia, he pushed it to the side as we began the effort of transporting my ridiculously heavy footlocker from our car to the top floor of the building.

We entered the south end of the building—where you had to go up one flight of stairs just to get to the basement level! We inched our way up one step after another, until—tired and sweaty—we finally ran out of stairs. We shuffled through the empty, front part of room number 346 and into the larger back room, where Ernest had already spread out his belongings to stake our claim.

When Dad and I set down that infernal footlocker, Dad’s expression changed from exhaustion into the strangest look.

He slowly turned around, first one way, and then the other. Then he looked out both windows. We were both gasping for breath so hard that I was afraid he was about to faint, or worse.

“You OK?” I asked. No reply. Just a dazed, far-away look from eyes that were turning glassy. When I asked again, more pointedly, Dad finally, slowly, nodded and spoke.

Smiling through tears, he said, “This was my old room.”

C.E. Carter III is a writer living in St. Simons Island, Ga.

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