• Senior biology major Kristen Jolley pits her school-sweatered intellect against that of students from Georgetown and MIT in tonight’s Jeopardy! College Championship final. [Atlanta Business Chronicle]
• What do you think of Georgia Tech’s plan to offer an online master’s in Computer Science for less than $7,000? [College of Computing]
• Atlanta-based startup Techturized has won the 2013 TAG Business Launch Competition. The Alumni Magazine recently spotlighted one of its founders, Joy Buolamwini, CS 12. All three finalist teams were started by Georgia Tech folks. [TAG]
• A team of security experts from Dell SecureWorks, Damballa Labs and the Georgia Institute of Technology has discovered a new communications mechanism used by spam botnet Pushdo that makes it more resilient to takedowns. [crn.com]
• The Georgia Tech Foundation has named Al Trujillo, AE 81, as its next president and chief operating officer. [Midtown Patch]
• Atlanta speaks with Kyle Azevedo of GPS-enabled bikeshare system Viacycle. [Atlanta Magazine]
• Select students recently got a sneak peek of The Internship, partially filmed at Tech and starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. They report that the campus looks “awesome” on the big screen. [@georgiatech]
Above: Electrical engineering students in an undated photo from the Georgia Tech History Digital Portal.
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