Alumni Magazine - Summer 2008 - (Page 16) TECHNOTES Computing, has announced his decision to step down and return to the faculty by Nov 1. “I leave the dean’s office at a high point in the college’s history,” DeMillo says. “We are now ranked in the top 10 and are poised to climb even higher.” Before joining the college in 2002, DeMillo, PhD ICS 72, was the chief technology officer for Hewlett-Packard, for which he had worldwide responsibility for technology and technology strategy. DeMillo says the College of Computing has “become an international leader in undergraduate education. I hear from hundreds of faculty and students from around the world who are grateful that Georgia Tech took on the challenge of renewing how we teach computing. Our enrollments continue to rise and this year we will enroll the largest number of women and minorities in the college’s history.” DeMillo plans to return to the faculty as a distinguished professor of computing and management. Interim President Gary Schuster says that during DeMillo’s six-year tenure as dean, he “established a culture of budgetary and fiscal responsibility.” “Rich’s creative approach to undergraduate education provides a model for the rest of the Institute. Beginning in the earliest days of his tenure as dean, he reached across administrative and cultural divides to facilitate the establishment of a common basis for computing education for all Georgia Tech freshmen, continued the development of the joint undergraduate degree in computational media and implemented the widely acclaimed Threads curriculum,” Schuster says. “I know Rich has a commitment to commercialization and economic development and has strong beliefs that the truly great computing programs also influence the industry in profound ways,” he says. “This is evidenced by his work to renew the local angel and venture communities, to foster successful startups and to advance our IP management infrastructure.” Tennis Champ Georgia Tech All-American Amanda McDowell completed her run through the NCAA womenʼs singles championships by capturing a straight-set win over Baylorʼs Zuzana Zemenova in the finals to become the first Yellow Jacket tennis player to earn an individual national championship. McDowell finished her remarkable sophomore campaign with a 45-8 singles record and notched 84 singles wins through her first two years at Tech. In early June, McDowell was named the National Player of the Year by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and became the first female athlete in Tech history to be recognized as the top player in the country. Dual Degrees Offered in Italy Georgia Tech is partnering with two leading Italian universities, the Politecnico di Torino and the University of Trento, to offer dual master’s degrees in electrical and computer engineering and computer science beginning this fall. The new degrees represent the first dual graduate programs in these disciplines between American and Italian universities. Both degree programs require four semesters of course work, half at Tech, the rest in Italy. The Politecnico di Torino is a member of the Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research. 16 Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine • Summer 2008
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