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		ISI Team Builds Bot in 5 Hours to Best MIT and 4 Others An ISI team led by Dr. Behnam Salemi won the Planetary Robotic Contingency Challenge competition at the 2008 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IRCA- 2008) in Pasadena, May 21-22.


		Mini-Origami: ISI Folds Up Tiny Packages for Drug Delivery Researchers at the USC Information Sciences Institute have demonstrated a way to manufacture miniscule containers that might be used to deliver precise micro- or even nano- quantities of drugs.


		Spacecraft Builder Honored for Helping Students David Barnhart, director of the Aerospace Technology and Systems Center at ISI, was one of six 2008 USC-Mellon Mentoring Award winners.


		DETER Wins 2008 Excellence.Gov Honor Terry Benzel of the USC Information Sciences Institute accepted a national award from the American Council for Technology (ACT) and its Industry Advisory Council on behalf of the DETER project she co-directs.


		Beyond Chess: Deep Green Models Rapid Change for Combat Commanders Can an artificial intelligence program anticipate military surprises? The USC Information Sciences Institute is playing a $5.9 million part in a DARPA research effort called Deep Green aimed at creating a system that can do so, one that might help future combat commanders in the field anticipate enemy moves.


		ISI Grant Will Ease and Speed Access to Biomed Data The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has announced a four-year grant to support ISI's Gully A.P.C. Burns' efforts to expand and enhance his highly successful NeuroScholar software efforts.


		ISI Leader Named Remarkable Woman Yolanda Gil, Associate Director of Research in the ISI Intelligent Systems Division, shared a high USC honor.


		ISI Role in Internet History Key Part of Arpanet Sourcebook A new study documents the origins of the Internet, including many handwritten original papers from ISI, an early center of development -- documents located by the ISI Postel center.


		SERC Aims for a New Generation of Space Vehicles and Engineers ISI will be part of a new USC Viterbi School of Engineering interdisciplinary research center that will focus on the challenge of building new generations of inexpensive spacecraft with commercial, civil and military applications


		Major AI Prize Named for ISI Alumnus The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems has just named its Best Student Paper Award after Pragnesh Jay Modi, who spent six years in ISI's Intelligent Systems Division.


		Sensornets Go Off-the-Shelf ISI has begun a collaboration with the UCLA-based Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) aimed at putting a long-esoteric technology -- networked sensors -- into the hands of a wide spectrum of non-specialist new users.


		Freshman Engineering Academy Students Visit ISI Dozens of Viterbi School of Engineering freshmen poured off a bus and explored the corridors of the School's Information Sciences Institute on a November Friday.


		ISI Map/Data Mashup Tech Fuels Startup Grants from four separate government agencies totally approximately $1 million are funding research carried on both at ISI and an ISI/Viterbi USC spin-off company, Geosemble Technologies, Inc., located in El Segundo, California.


		Grid Expertise Undergirds Climate Change Nobel The Grid, co-developed at ISI and Argonne National Laboratories, has played a key role in IPCC climate change research, recognized October 11 by a Nobel Peace Prize shared with former Vice President Al Gore.


		62 Days + Almost 3 Billion Pings + New Visualization Scheme = the First Internet Census Since 1982 Researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, one of the birthplaces of the Internet decades ago, have just completed and plotted a comprehensive census of all of the more 2.8 billion allocated addresses on the Internet -- the first complete effort of its kind in more than two decades, they say.


		$5M DHHS Grant to Childrens Hospital Will Spur ISI Research on Pediatric Emergency Response Childrens Hospital's Dr. Jeffrey S. Upperman, who has long collaborated with ISI's Robert Neches on designs for next- generation pediatric emergency response systems, has just received a $5 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to develop such a system.


		Air Force Visitor Travels to ISI to Mark Transition for Tran ISI researcher John Tran, also known as Captain John J. Tran, California National Guard Ready Reservist, finished five years in the Computational Services Division with a martial flourish.


		NSF Funds Rev Up Pegasus Grid Workflow Engine Ewa Deelman's ISI team will use its share of a 3-year $1.7 million NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure grant to improve the usability and breadth of support of their automated task organization and execution system.


		ISI Software to Blow Away the Fog of War Excels in Trials The plan was for company A to secure the northern approach to the target, a suspected enemy concentration, but company A is bogged down in traffic. The commander frowns at the map visible on his combat computer; but opens an option screen. And the USC Viterbi School Information Sciences Institute Coordinators system has suggestions, complete with pre-set orders for all the units that will be affected.


		Presentations Shine at 2nd Annual ISD Grad Student Symposium Impressive scientific imagination and effective showmanship by graduate students working at the ISI Intelligent Systems Division were on view at an August 24 competition, the second of its kind.


		MEDICUS grid image-sharing system wins Computerworld Horizon Award MEDICUS, developed by Carl Kesselman and Ann Chervenak of ISI in connection with Stephan Erberich of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles was named one of "10 cool cutting- edge technologies on the horizon now" by the influential IT publication.


		ISI Pioneer's Internet Legacy Celebrated in Computerworld Jon Postel is saluted as one of "the 10 IT People Who Mattered in the Past 40 Years" in the 40th anniversary issue of the widely-read publication


	ISI to Host AI in Education Conference The USC Information Sciences Institute is playing a key role in the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007) which will take place July 9-13 at a hotel close to the Institute's Marina del Rey Southern California campus.


		The Newest AI Computing Tool: People A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher thinks she has found a new source of artificial intelligence computing power to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability, and meaning.


	Farewell Lisa, Hello Sharon After more than three decades at ISI, Lisa Moses retires as Human Resources Director, and Sharon Nealon comes aboard


		RAW Talent Tackles Risk Analysis An ISI team working under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security-funded Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) is creating a system that will speed and help make more consistent the difficult task of quantifying risk estimates to guide policymakers.


		MEDICUS image sharing system honored at Internet2 meeting Created by ISI researchers and collaborators, MEDICUS, which uses grid technology to allow researchers and physicians to share medical images easily and securely, was one of two projects receiving 2007 Internet2 IDEA Awards.


		ISI's Craig Knoblock Wins Microsoft Virtual Earth Award Craig Knoblock is one of 21 researchers selected from more than 140 competitors for grants from the software giant.


		ISI Leads $13.8 Million E-Science Effort to Tame Terabyte Torrents A growing number of scientific fields suffer from a stifling embarrassment of riches: data pile up much faster than they can be analyzed. A team of researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute is now building a prototype of a system that will address the problem by automating scientific workflows.


		MONARCH System-On-a-Chip Excels in Early Testing A revolutionary processor package that changes its architecture to adapt to the demands of different computing tasks more than met design expectations in recent trials.


		ISI Director Wins Top USC Distinction Herbert Schorr, executive director of ISI since 1988, has won the Presidential Medallion, the University of Southern California's highest honor.


		Monitoring with Minimum Power A new communication protocol for wireless sensor networks just released by the Information Sciences Institute is the most efficient yet, more than a tenfold improvement on previous versions.


		Show to Tell: Videos Demonstrate SuperBot Progress On February 13, ISI's Wei-Min Shen reported to NASA significant progress in developing "SuperBot," identical modular units that plug into each other to create robots that can stand, crawl, wiggle and even roll, illustrating his comments with striking video of the system in action.


		Ohlander Takes the Cake ISI acknowledged the longtime outstanding service of retiring Deputy Director Ron Ohllander with a reception January 24 that drew a capacity crowd of about 100 well-wishers.


		ISI Division Directors Contribute to National Academy Report on IT for Disaster Response Readily available information and communications systems systems could greatly enhance rescue and rapid response: specialized sophisticated applications especially created for emergency response purposes could do much more, a new National Research Council Report finds.


		LEAPFROG UPDATE: Engine test a success It's a model lunar lander, and Viterbi School astronautical engineering grads and undergrads have been jumping to get it designed and built � with substantial ISI help.


		ISI (and ICT) Women WiSE up ISI's impressive roster of non-male IT professionals hosted a delegation from USC's Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) organization.

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