Law Review, 2009. Cohen is a member of the Georgia Tech Bar Association as well as the executive board of JNFuture, the young leadership organization within the Jewish National Fund.
Bill Murdock, PhD CS 01, is part of the algorithms team that helped develop Watson, the IBM machine that in February defeated two of the most successful contestants to ever compete on the TV game show Jeopardy! Murdock, whose research interests include natural-language semantics and analogical reasoning, began working on the IBM Jeopardy! Challenge in 2006, and he built many of the components that Watson utilizes to discern right answers from wrong answers. Murdock was on the Georgia Tech campus just a day after Watson’s victory to discuss how the computer works — and to try to explain why it responded to a Final Jeopardy clue in a category about U.S. cities with “What is Toronto?” Murdock told the crowd of students and professors gathered in a Klaus Building classroom that IBM already was looking at ways to use the technology powering Watson to solve some of the world’s problems.
Joe DeLisle, CE 93, was named to Georgia Trend magazine’s 2010 Legal Elite list. He is an attorney with Miller & Martin PLLC. Watson Lee Dorn III, Arch 92, and his wife, Alice, announce the birth of a daughter, Margaret Calhoun, on July 2. Margaret joins Caroline, Robert and Ruthanna at the family’s home in Greenwood, S.C. Dorn is a partner with Furman Architects, at which he practices health care, industrial, religious and educational architecture. Tamara Lindell Garbett, ME 99, and Neal Garbett, CS 98, announce the birth of son Ethan Thomas Garbett on July 29. Ethan joins his sister, Allison, at the family’s home in San Diego. Tammy is a quality engineering consultant at NuVasive, a spine implant company. Neal is a department head at HSM-75, flying SH-60R helicopters. Glenn Gaudette, MS ME 92, was promoted to associate professor of biomedical engineering and granted tenure at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. With funding from the National Institutes of Health and American Heart Association, Gaudette established an active research program in cardiac tissue regeneration. He has a PhD in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Edward L. Lowe, M CP 94, and his wife, Tammie, announce the birth of son Coy Gregory on Feb. 28. Coy joins brother Edward Reece, 3, at the family’s home in suburban Detroit. Anne Bracken McGraw, Mgt 99, and her sister, Ali, have created the website savingsmultiplied.com, which helps parents of multiples, including twins, triplets and quadruplets, buy and sell sets of children’s gently used clothing. McGraw, who has two young daughters, serves as president of the Nashville, Tenn., Georgia Tech Club. Myra Monreal, CE 96, MS CE 05, has been appointed planning commissioner of the city of Orlando, Fla.
Craig Mueller, MS AE 94, has been elected a shareholder of Sheridan Ross, the largest Denver-based intellectual property law firm. A patent attorney, Mueller specializes in preparation and prosecution of patent applications based on mechanical devices and related processes. He also practices in aerospace, electro-mechanical and civil areas of technology. Dan Prudhomme, Mgt 96, was promoted to digital sales director within Cox Media Group Orlando, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, in November. Prudhomme lives in Maitland, Fla. Victoria Selfridge, IE 96, was recognized as a 2011 Rising Star by The Colorado Springs Business Journal. The Rising Star awards program recognizes 40 business leaders under age 40 who have made significant contributions to their chosen industries and the community.
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Simit Shah, CmpE 99, has been named the vice president of web content for Atlantabased eRollover. Shah is the former head of web operations and development at CNN. com. He serves as board chair for Vox Teen Communication, a nonprofit organization serving youth in Atlanta. Ernest G. Strauss IV, Mgt 99, has been promoted to senior vice president and chief compliance officer of Triad Advisors Inc. His responsibilities include oversight of daily compliance functions and ensuring compliance with state, federal and selfregulatory agency regulations. He previously served as vice president and deputy chief compliance officer. Hunter Yancey, EE 99, and his wife, Martha, celebrated their son Jackson Wyatt Yancey’s first birthday on April 8. The family recently moved to San Diego, where Yancey continues his intellectual property law practice as patent counsel for Qualcomm
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