• 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.

• June 8: Brunswick/St. Simons
• June 9: Savannah
• June 10: Statesboro
• June 11: Lake Oconee
• June 11: Athens
• June 11: Lake Lanier

Want to attend a stop on the tour? Contact Alumni Networks senior manager Jane Stoner at (404) 385-2216 or at jane.stoner@alumni.gatech.edu.

Proctor came to Tech with some entrepreneurial experience under her belt: Christine’s Cakes, the one-woman cake baking-and-decorating business she founded at age 14. But if you expected her to put those confectionary inclinations on hold while earning her degree, you were sorely mistaken. Christine’s Cakes has only continued to grow, and Proctor has channeled her passion for small business into the Scheller Society of Entrepreneurs, a networking organization for Tech business students.

Proctor’s double-duty hustle recently caught the eye of Bloomberg Businessweek, who featured a Q&A with the third-year student on their website earlier this week.

Are you planning to keep up with the business after graduation?

I’m being pulled in two different directions. I’ve worked only for myself for about six years. When you’re working alone, there’s only one opinion. I’d love to get someone’s critical feedback. … It’s scary, because I think I should take this on, but I also want to finish school. I’ve done one couple’s engagement cake, wedding cake, and their son’s second-birthday cake. It’s nice to make a product that people live their lives around.

Read Proctor’s Bloomberg Businessweek interview in full here, and order a Christine’s Cake of your own right here.

Above: Proctor, at center, attends a freshman orientation session in 2011.

Students will be able to complete the degree entirely through massive open online courses (MOOCs), and the program will cost a fraction of the cost of traditional on-campus programs.

MOOCs have been available increasingly in recent years, but academic institutions have struggled with the challenge of how to combine online education with traditional degree programs. This effort is seen as a potential blueprint for online degree programs.

“Massive open online courses have quickly become one of the most significant catalysts of innovation in higher education. As parents know all too well, America urgently needs new ideas about how to make higher education accessible and affordable,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. “This new collaboration between Georgia Tech, AT&T and Udacity, and the application of the MOOC concept to advanced-degree programs, will further the national debate—pushing from conversations about technology to new models of instruction and new linkages between higher education and employers.”

More information is available at the College of Computing website.

Hat-tip to @georgiatech for the link.

• As students wrapped up spring finals week, four-legged visitors eased frazzled nerves. [@georgiatech]

• Sending children with asthma a text message each day asking about their symptoms and providing knowledge about their condition can lead to improved health outcomes, Tech researchers find. [Newsroom]

• A redesign of an industrial pecan-cracking machine has won tech’s Spring 2013 Capstone Design Expo. The team’s name? “Nuttin’ But Trouble,” of course. [Newsroom]

• Forbes lists the Institute’s Advanced Technology Development Center among “12 Business Incubators Changing The World.” [Forbes]

• “It really feels safe to be close to the robot.” [Newsroom]

Student Alumni Association and the Alumni Association held the annual Ramblin’ On celebration for graduating seniors on April 26. Festivities included a party on Grant Field and fireworks over Bobby Dodd Stadium. For photos of the event, visit SAA’s Flickr page.

The update covers Tech’s impact regionally, nationally and globally, highlighting key areas of research and innovation. And it’s full of links to supplemental information for those who wish to learn more about robotics research, recent star graduates, business outreach and any other notable developments outlined by the president.

Read the President’s Update online right here [PDF].