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| June 1, 2005 |
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| BUZZwords Hits Milestone Year | |
| BUZZwords, which has undergone several revisions and a name change, is 10 years old. Novel for its day, it's ancient for a continuously published online newsletter. |  |
| Tech, Southern Co. Partner on Wind Power Project | |
| Georgia Tech and the Southern Co. are joining forces to build the Southeast's first offshore wind power project off the coast of Savannah. |  |
| Samsung Announces Design Center at Georgia Tech | |
| The Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. plans to establish a design center at Technology Square to develop next-generation radio frequency integrated circuit technology. |  |
| Tech Wins ACC Baseball Title | |
| Georgia Tech won its seventh Atlantic Coast Conference baseball championship when the Yellow Jackets edged Virginia 4-3 in the championship game May 29. It was Tech's second league crown in the past three seasons. |  |
| Grads Get Out in Georgia Dome | |
| U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman told 2,400 graduates at Georgia Tech's 221st commencement ceremony that ensuring secure and affordable energy supplies, in a way that protects the environment, is one of the most serious challenges facing every nation on Earth. |  |
| Tech Student Traces Worm | |
| A Georgia Tech PhD candidate was one of three researchers who used an innovative technique to trace the spread of the Witty worm, which infected more than 12,000 computers in a little more than an hour in March 2004. |  |
| Wi-Fi Sees Role in Hospitality's Future | |
| StayOnline, an Atlanta company headed by a Georgia Tech alumnus, produced the North American Wi-Fi Symposium to define future uses of wirelessly enabled applications and mobility computing in the hospitality and travel industry. |  |
| Tech Crew Explore Martian Landscape | |
| A six-member Georgia Tech aerospace engineering crew spent two weeks in April exploring a Martian landscape without ever leaving Mother Earth. |  |
| A Google of Profit — Yahoo! | |
| Researchers at Georgia Tech and the University of California at Berkeley have discovered a computer algorithm that could increase profits for search engine advertising. |  |
| McArthur to Lead Space Station Mission | |
| Astronaut William S. McArthur Jr., MS AE 83, and a Russian cosmonaut are set to travel to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft for a six-month mission. |  |
| McMath Named Arkansas Dean | |
| Bob McMath is leaving Tech after 33 years as a professor and vice provost for Undergraduate Studies and Academic Affairs. |  |
| Rookie Professor Wins Award | |
| Subhash Khot, a first-year assistant professor in the College of Computing was one of five winners of the Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Awards. |  |
| Spam Act Signed into Law | |
| Gov. Sonny Perdue signed the Georgia Slam Spam E-mail Act into law during a ceremony on campus attended by representatives from the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, EarthLink and the state Legislature. |  |
| Electrical and Computer Engineering Awards Announced | |
| C. Dean Alford, EE 76, and C. Meade Sutterfield, EE 72, hosted the fourth-annual Electrical and Computer Engineering awards program on April 28, presenting awards to students, staff and faculty who have “shown exceptional dedication to their profession and studies.” |  |
| Inaugural Tyler H. Brown Scholarship Given | |
| Elizabeth Ward, a senior at Woodward Academy in Atlanta, was awarded the inaugural Lt. Tyler Hall Brown Scholarship honoring the memory of Tyler Brown, HTS 01, who was killed last year in combat in Iraq. |  |
| Be a Homecoming Sponsor | |
| Do you want to promote your company in the Tech community? Become a Homecoming sponsor. For more information, contact Melinda McGuire, senior business development manager, at (404)894-0765 or melinda.mcguire@alumni.gatech.edu. |  |
| Fleming Named Chief Commercialization Officer | |
| Stephen Fleming, Phys 83, was named chief commercialization officer of Georgia Tech Commercialization Services, a new initiative that will make the Institute's resources more readily accessible to business and industry. |  |
| Campus Crime Stats Drop | |
| Campus crime decreased by more than 29 percent last year, according to Georgia Tech police statistics. |  |
| Tech Crew Wins Gold at Dad Vail | |
| The Georgia Tech men's light four-plus crew won a gold medal at the Dad Vail Regatta — the national championships of collegiate rowing. |  |
| Sports | |
| Tech baseball wins back-to-back ACC championships and Kristi Miller advances to Sweet 16 of the NCAA women's tennis singles competition. Get all Tech sports at http://ramblinwreck.collegesports.com/ |  |
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