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	ISI Team Builds Bot in 5 Hours to Best MIT and 4 Others May 23, 2008 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 May 1, 2008 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 April 24, 2008 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 April 14, 2008 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

April 6, 2008

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 March 21, 2008 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 March 6, 2008 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 March 5, 2008 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 February 26, 2008 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 February 8, 2008 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 February 7, 2008 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 November 30, 2007 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 November 1, 2007 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 October 15, 2007 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

October 8, 2007

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 October 5, 2007 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 September 28, 2007 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 September 20, 2007 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

September 13, 2007

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 August 29, 2007 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 August 23, 2007 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 July 10, 2007 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 July 9, 2007 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 June 28, 2007 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 June 1, 2007 After more than three decades at ISI, Lisa Moses retires as Human Resources Director, and Sharon Nealon comes aboard


	RAW Talent Tackles Risk Analysis May 29, 2007 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 April 25, 2007 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 April 10, 2007 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

April 8, 2007

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 March 22, 2007 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 March 9, 2007 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 February 15, 2007 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 February 13, 2007 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 January 25, 2007 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 January 23, 2007 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 January 22, 2007 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 January 19, 2007 ISI's impressive roster of non-male IT professionals hosted a delegation from USC's Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) organization.

Software Speeds and Enhances Access to Print Brain Atlases

December 11, 2006

An ISI computer scientist led an effort to perfect a cheap, quick and copyright- respecting way to turn existing print brain atlases into multimedia resources. The software, now available in an experimental beta version for free download, is a robust and user-friendly interface that works on all the most popular computer operating systems.

ISI-Developed Tactical Iraqi Now a Standard Tool for Troops

December 4, 2006

Following extensive evaluations by the U.S. Armed Forces, a novel PC-based videogame originally conceived at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Insitute is educating thousands of officers and enlisted personnel how to communicate in Iraq safely, effectively, and with cultural sensitivity.


	ISI Researcher Awarded Defense Meritorious Service Medal November 30, 2006 Vicente C. Garcia Jr., who is Director of the ISI Center for Information Operations, has received a high military honor for peacetime service.


	Breaking the Medical Image Communication Barrier November 26, 2006 Using an ISI-developed new grid computing system, physicians at 40 hospitals all over North America are now quickly and easily exchanging high-resolution medical images.


	ISI Veterans Win Highest Internet Society Honor November 13, 2006 ISI Fellow Bob Braden and his longtime colleague Joyce K. Reynolds are this year's recipients of the Internet Society's prestigeous Postel Award, the society announced November 12.


	ISI Prepares Party for Prime Pixel Patent October 9, 2006 A modest celebration will take Nov. 3 at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute to mark the 35th anniversary of the filing, by ISI's Peter Will and others, of the very first patent using the word "pixel."

ISI Building $1.5 Million NASA Satellite Sensornet Gateway

September 15, 2006

The USC Information Sciences Institute will play the lead role in a NASA project that will use space satellites to deliver data from sensor networks, and then speedily and flexibly structure this data for effective use by scientists. One possibility for early investigation is much more detailed monitoring of microclimates.


	ISI to Play Major Role in 5-year $300 Million DOE Supercomputing Research Program September 8, 2006 The USC Viterbi School of Engineering will take the lead on more than $20 million in new research programs announced September 7 by the US Department of Energy, and share in two more � and ISI is involved in three of the four USC projects.


	ISI Associate Named to Prestigious NSF Advisory Board August 23, 2006 The USC Information Science Institute�s Yolanda Gil has been has been appointed to the Advisory Committee of the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation.


	First Annual Graduate Student Symposium Showcases Young Researchers' Skills August 18, 2006 A new tradition kicked off vigorously August 18 at the Information Sciences Institute Intelligent Systems Division, as eight grad students specializing in AI presented their research in a prize competition.


	ISI Wins Share of $10.2 Million Homeland Security Effort July 27, 2006 The USC Information Sciences Institute and the USC Viteribi School department of computer science will partner with three universities and the Institute for Discrete Sciences in a new Department of Homeland Security initiative on advanced information analysis.


	Six ISI papers presented at AI 2006 conference July 20, 2006 The 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in July in Boston, featured six papers by USC Information Sciences researchers, and was co-chaired by ISI's Yolanda Gil


	Biologist Brings NeuroScholar Project to ISI July 20, 2006 His mission: conquering neurobiology information overload. Gully A. P. C. Burns, a British specialist in neuroinformatics, has arrived in the Institute's Intelligent Systems Division.


	Real-Time Pediatric Disaster Response System Takes Shape at USC July 19, 2006 A pediatrician and a computer scientist are creating a powerful tool to save young lives in large-scale emergencies.


	Fitting Software to Students July 11, 2006 Instead of learning, some students "game" computer-based teaching programs. New research at the USC Information Sciences Institute is looking at ways of predicting this behavior, and using such predictions to adapt the systems to fit individual student needs. Early results are promising.


	Air Force Funds Surprise-Based Learning Project at ISI July 5, 2006 The Air Force Office of Scientific Research is funding research at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute designed to improve defense planners' ability to make accurate predictions.


	DETER Publishes Latest Community Workshop Papers June 26, 2006 DETER, an NSF/DHS-funded Internet security research consortium headquartered at ISI, held a two-day symposium June 15-16 in Arlington, VA to discuss ongoing activity and research. The papers presented at that event are now available on-line.


	USC Announces B.S. and M.S. Computer Science Game Degrees June 20, 2006 Dean Yannis Yortsos of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering announced today two new degrees: a B.S. in Computer Science (Games) and an M.S. in Computer Science (Game Development). The Viterbi School is the first engineering school to offer both.


	Bob Graybill a 2006 HPCWire Person to Watch June 20, 2006 HPCWire has named Bob Graybill, an ISI division director working in the organization's Arlington Office, as one of 16 "People to Watch."This is the second time Graybill has been so designated.


	ISI Robot Submarine Tries to Look in on Re-Pressurized Rockfish June 9, 2006 Wei-Min Shen's ISI Polymorphic Robotics Lab had a new assignment for its underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV): viewing the results of a marine biology experiment with pressure-shocked rockfish.


	Unpacking Pecking Orders to Get the Gist of Web Gab June 5, 2006 A USC Information Sciences Institute system pulls answers from online conversations by identifying the alpha chatterers.


	ISI Command System Excels in Competitive Trials May 23, 2006 In a competition that pitted a number of different DARPA- funded approaches to "Criticality Sensitive Coordination" against each other, Robert Neches' ISI team took the prize.


	Newest ISI Fellows Feted - and Listened To May 15, 2006 The title of ISI Fellow was instituted in 1999 to honor a limited number of ISI personnel who have achieved a high level of external distinction through notable contributions to science and/or technology. Jerry Hobbs and Kevin Knight, the fifth and sixth recipients of this honor, were honored at a reception May 15 at ISI.


	HDTV UltraGrid Pioneers Look Forward to Videoconferencing in 3D April 13, 2006 After years of demonstrations of a highly successful technique for sending high-definition video over network connections, researchers at USC's Information Sciences Institute are preparing to go 3D. But it won't be easy.


	ISI Technology Competing for History Channel Invention Award March 24, 2006 ISI's Behrokh Khoshnevis's contour crafting process was on display at the California Science Center April 7-14, as part of an exhibit of semifinalists in the Modern Marvels Invent Now� Challenge.


	Two ISI alumni elected to NAE February 20, 2006 The National Academy of Engineering has named Danny Cohen and Paul V. Mockapetris as members, in large part for work done by them at the USC Information Sciences Institute.


	Computer Expression Engine Automates Sneers, Smiles, Stares, Shrugs February 17, 2006 On the screen, computer generated game characters shrug, wink, nod, wave, or cross their arms with skeptical hostility as they follow your every move with attentive gaze. A University of Southern California-developed system module called "Social Puppet" is pulling the strings.


	Distinguished DARPA Program Manager Will Represent ISI in New Federal Tech Initiative January 27, 2006 Robert Graybill is bringing his wide-ranging expertise in computing systems to ISI's Arlington, Virginia campus, where he will guide the Institute's participation in a national project aimed at ensuring continued U.S. competitiveness in world markets.


	ISI Grid Pioneer Wins Honorary Degree January 11, 2006 Computer scientist Carl Kesselman, the co-inventor of open source grid software now widely used all over the world, received an honorary doctorate Jan. 9 from the University of Amsterdam.

The Language of Schemas Meets the Philosopher of War

January 10, 2006

Artificial intelligence researcher Paul Cohen is fascinated by the ability of human infants to learn how the physical world works. He hopes to give machines some of this ability, as part of a multipart $4 million research program now underway at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, a program that will attempt to watch computer agents learn elements from the classic On War


	Student Game Designers Show Off Work for Industry Judges December 22, 2005 It was the very first student game presentation day for the Viterbi School's GamePipe Laboratory education program, and it was a full one: 53 students showed 14 projects to an audience of 12 industry judges.


	John Granacki Honored as Exemplar of Disruptive Innovation December 19, 2005 ISI's John Granacki and his collaborator Ted Berger of the Viterbi School Center for Neural Engineering have been recognized by EE Times in its "Great Minds, Great Ideas Project."

ISI-Co-developed Globus Toolkit Books $13.3 Million NSF Commitment

November 28, 2005

Carl Kesselman of ISI and Ian Foster of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory will lead a five-year effort to sustain and enhance the Globus Toolkit, the open-source grid software they created that underpins a rapidly increasing number of large information-intensive science projects in the U.S. and abroad.


	ISI Researcher Joins Young Colleagues Mulling Future of Science in Budapest November 18, 2005 ISI�s Patrick Pantel was part of an elite group of ten young scientists representing the United States at the November 10-12 World Science Forum in Budapest.

Annenberg Foundation Puts ISI Disaster Rebuilding Technology on Fast Track

November 17, 2005

ISI researcher Behrokh Khoshnevis has received a grant from the Annenberg Foundation to support intensified research on Contour Crafting, an innovative robotic construction technology that promises to reconstruct areas destroyed in tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes or other disasters in weeks rather than months or years.


	ISI Digital Government Research Center Will Share $1 Million NSF Internationalization Grant November 11, 2005 The Digital Government Research Center (DGRC), headquartered in USC�s Information Sciences Institute, will partner on a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation aimed at encouraging international collaboration on digital government issues.

ISI Cyber Security Expert Receives Joint Appointment at Marshall School

October 14, 2005

Terry V. Benzel, a nationally recognized expert in computer security and cyber terrorism, has been named a research scientist at the University of Southern California's Institute for Critical Information Infrastructure Protection. ICIIP is an Organized Research Unit and Center of Excellence at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.


	ImmuneAttack Game Will Teach High School Biology October 12, 2005 USC's GamePipe Laboratory, in which ISI is a partner, has begun work on its first R&D contract: a $272,000 effort funded by the National Science Foundation to improve K-12 biology teaching.


	Juniper Networks Announces Participation in DETER Testbed September 27, 2005 Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) has announced its participation in the Cyber Defense Technology Experimental Research (DETER) testbed operated by the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California and funded by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundatio


	Computing Spaces for Work in Space September 13, 2005 Holland-born robotic controls specialist Mark Moll will be responsible for simulation and software development on ISI's new SuperBot project


	Grammar Lost Translation Machine In Researchers Fix Will September 9, 2005 The makers of a University of Southern California computer translation system consistently rated among the world's best are teaching their software something new: English grammar.


	Tactical Linguist Wins DARPA Distinction August 15, 2005 W. Lewis Johnson, director of the Center for Advanced Research in Technology for Education (CARTE) at USC�s Information Sciences Institute, is one of only two 2005 winners of DARPA "significant technical achievement" awards.


	AI Gamers Visit ISI in Droves, Facilitated by Award-Winning Support Effort August 12, 2005 In June, a conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) in Marina del Rey attracted specialists in the two disciplines from all over the country � and half of them came to visit ISI.


	Museum Goers Teach Common Sense to Computers July 25, 2005 A University of Southern California project is recruiting Internet users and museum visitors to give computers basic knowledge about the everyday human world.


	USC Voice-to-Voice Translation Machine Perfects Bedside Manner June 28, 2005 ISI natural language research has played a key role in the creation of a still-rudimentary but working two-way voice translation system that allows an English-speaking doctor to talk to a Persian-speaking patient.


	Not Old School: Researcher Finding IT Solutions for K-12 Problems June 1, 2005 USC's Information Sciences Institute, long known for its research and development on the Internet and computer science, has embarked on a new challenge: K-12 Education.


	MOSIS Free-Chips-for-Students Program Nears Quarter Century Mark May 25, 2005 In August, 2005, ISI's MOSIS brokerage service will mark the 25th anniversary of a program that manufactures test prototypes of chips designed by student engineers free of charge.


	Contour Crafter Wins $1500 Best Paper Prize April 29, 2005 Post-doctoral researcher Dooil Hwang has received top honors in the 2005 Institute of Industrial Engineers Student Paper Competition.


	ISI Grad Student Counsels Venice High Botballers April 14, 2005 The Venice High School Botball team is a player, thanks in part to an ISI graduate student.


	Falk Appointed to Influential Internet Chairmanship March 25, 2005 Computer scientist Aaron Falk is the new Chair of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). USC Information Sciences Institute Executive Director Herb Schorr congratulated Falk, a project leader in ISI's computer networks division, on the appointment.


	ISI leads R&D effort to build computer advisors for combat commanders March 8, 2005 University of Southern California researchers have begun work on a $12 million computational control system to help combat commanders make quick, accurate decisions in critical situations.


	Thinking Small March 3, 2005 USC's Information Sciences Institute will partner in a new center, directed by ISI Fellow Peter Will, that will work with local aerospace companies to design, build and launch a new, smaller and less expensive class of satellites.

Voting Systems Institute Established at DGRC

February 1, 2005

Against a background of continuing controversy about the reliability, security, and accuracy of voting technology, the USC Information Sciences Institute- headquartered Digital Government Research Center (DGRC) and the Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) today announced the creation of a new institute, the Voting Systems Institute (VSI), to support a growing grassroots effort to develop objective test standards for tamperproof, verifiable, and technologically sound voting systems.


	Arabic-Teaching Videogame Ships Out to Iraq-Bound Soldiers January 28, 2005 A University of Southern California videogame designed to teach soldiers Arabic � quickly � is now going into the hands of Iraq- bound troops.


	ISI Co-Pioneered Software Moves From Toolkit to Consortium, from Science to Business January 25, 2005 The open source grid software package Carl Kesselman of the USC Information Sciences Institute co- developed with colleagues in the Globus Alliance has now received formal endorsement by the world's leading IT companies.


	Found in Space: $58 million November 18, 2004 Researchers from the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) have won three grants totaling more than $58 million from NASA.


	GamePipe Lab Plans to be R&D Player November 17, 2004 Noted interactive game creator and theorist Michael Zyda will join the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering to spearhead an ambitious and widely focused research effort to make game production faster and easier, and make games themselves more powerful, vivid, educational, and useful.

The Wars of the Virtual Worlds

October 18, 2004

Every few months, a continent crackles into life on linked supercomputers. It is a place of huge cities and surrounding countryside with an intricate road network on which tens and even hundreds of thousands of trucks, tanks, mopeds, pedestrians and other vehicles move.

The newly created world is an electronic arena in which top military officers of the U.S. Joint Forces Command can develop tactics for the future � an arena that has taken a significant leap in complexity in the past three years, facilitated by the computer skills supplied by the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute.


	Godiva's Speedy Ride: USC PIM Chip On Track to Beat Itanium October 18, 2004 A critical benchmarking test indicates that a processing-in-memory (PIM) chip designed and prototyped at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute is delivering the speedup designers hoped.


	New Postel Visiting Scholar Will Network the Past August 19, 2004 Internet historian Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan, a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, has been appointed Visiting Scholar at the Postel Center, Center Director Joseph D. Touch has announced.


	'Expert Kernel Hacker' Returns to ISI July 29, 2004 Annette DeSchon, a standout programmer who left ISI to create key elements of MacOS X and other software for Apple, has returned to build a more secure Internet


	USC Smartens HP Server Memory June 24, 2004 Researchers at the University of Southern California have successfully integrated a next-generation "smart memory" chip into a standard HP computer.


	Thought for Food June 18, 2004 A �Eureka moment� has led to an alliance between USC computer scientists and nutrition experts that promises better meals for the 24 million Americans who depend on community pantries.


	A SuperMap for Soldiers � Or Business Travelers May 28, 2004 Meet the military (and commercial traveler's) map of the 21st century. Decades worth of detailed, accumulated geographical information is now available to front-line troops in a concentrated, portable, easy-to-use laptop package created by the University of Southern California.


	Integration Sciences Division in Homeland Bio-threat Center April 30, 2004 The USC Viterbi School of Engineering will partner with Texas A&M in a new Homeland Security Center aimed a biological threats -- and ISI will be a part of the effort.


	Ohlander Wins USC Viterbi School Service Award April 29, 2004 Information Sciences Institute Deputy Director Ronald Ohlander received the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Service Award at a ceremony April 28 in USC's Town and Gown Foyer.


	Intelligent Systems Researcher Wins IEEE/ACM Conference Honor April 27, 2004 Sundeep Pattem, recently a research assistant with Dr. Kristina Lerman at ISI's Intelligent Systems Division, has won a prestigious best paper award at the recent ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN).


	Six New AAAI Fellows Named � Two are From USC April 21, 2004 The American Association for Artificial Intelligence has elected six new fellows - and two of them are from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.


	Wireless Networker Wins NSF Early Career Grant April 7, 2004 Only two years after joining USC straight from graduate school at Cornell, Bhaskar Krishnamachari has won a prestigious NSF faculty early career development grant.

Degussa AG Will Work on USC 'House-Printing' Project
System Will Build 2,000-Square-Foot House in 24 Hours, Says Inventor

March 17, 2004

Degussa AG, one of the world's largest manufacturers and suppliers of construction materials, has announced its intention to collaborate in the development of a University of Southern California computer-controlled system designed to automatically "print out" full-size houses in hours.

$2 Million NSF Grant Funds Grid Security Research and Builds Self-Defense Toolkits at USC

February 23, 2004

Grid Computing, with its promise of worldwide sharing of computational power and resources is emerging as a major 21st century technology � and a possible target for pranksters, criminals or even terrorists.

Now, funded by a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, computer scientists at the University of Southern California and international collaborators are creating tools to enable the Grid to defend itself, automatically.


	Mission to Arabic: It's Not Your Father�s Language Lab January 9, 2004 To teach soldiers basic Arabic quickly, University of Southern California computer scientists are developing a system that uses artificial intelligence and computer game techniques.


	Harth Answers Semantic Web Challenge December 11, 2003 ISI newcomer Andreas Harth has been honored in an international competition for semantic web projects, for his work on a system that enables collaboration in online communities.


	AI-Grad Team's Knowledge-mining Work Wins NIST Honors December 11, 2003 In search of smarter search technology, two ISD grad students and their advisor won second-place honors recently in one of the competition tracks of the annual Text REtrieval Conference (TREC).


	Psychologist Joins ISI; Will Work on AI Language Tutoring Project December 11, 2003 UMass Amherst psychology professor Carole Beal has joined ISI, working with Lewis Johnson in the Center for Advanced Research on Technology in Education (CARTE)


	AI Expert Paul Cohen Joins ISI as Deputy Division Director December 11, 2003 UMass Amherst scientist Paul Cohen has joined ISI to serve as deputy director of the Intelligent Systems Division.


	Desktop Manufacturing for Home Desks November 24, 2003 A University of Southern California inventor has created a machine that can produce three-dimensional "printouts" in plastic and even metal more quickly and cheaply than widely-used existing systems.


	ISI Web Search Agents Find WI 2003 Conference Grand Prize November 6, 2003 A graduate student and an ISI Senior Project leader brought back a "best paper" prize from a recent IEEE Conference on Web Intelligence and Artificial Agents.


	Cyberdefender Comes to ISI October 16, 2003 Computer Security Expert Terry V. Benzel has joined the University of Southern California�s Information Sciences Institute.


	USC/UCB 'Mini-Internet' Testbed Will Improve Defenses Against Net Attacks October 9, 2003 A three-year, $5.46 million grant from the National Science Foundation will establish a testbed to evaluate and improve defenses against Internet-spread computer worms, viruses and denial-of-service attacks, as part of a two-pronged $10.8 million NSF anti-cybercrime initiative.


	Carl Kesselman Newest ISI Fellow September 25, 2003 Computational Grid pioneer Carl Kesselman has been named an ISI Fellow, and is the fourth to receive the distinction instituted in 1999 to honor a limited number of USC Information Sciences Institute personnel who have achieved a high level of external distinction through notable contributions to science and/or technology.


	Proteus Web Service Engine Changes Shape to Grant Wishes August 28, 2003 A Microsoft-funded initiative at USC has developed a powerful new suite of Web service tools for science and commerce.


	The Seismic Matrix, Loaded: Earthquake Engineering Grid Alive and Simulating August 1, 2003 On Wednesday, July 30, as scientists all over the country looked intently on, a synthetic earthquake shook a half-real building.


	Schorr Named to AHF Hall of Fame Advisory Board July 24, 2003 Herbert Schorr, Executive Director of the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, was named to the Advisory Board of the Automation Hall of Fame July 24.


	Computer Language Translation System Romances the Rosetta Stone July 24, 2003 University of Southern California computer scientist Franz Josef Och has developed a single system that can translate between any two languages.


	Navy Signs $5.74 Million Software Contract With USC-Led Team July 14, 2003 The Office of Naval Research will spend $5.74 million to expand the use of software for coordinating air operations and maintenance, developed by the University of Southern California and Vanderbilt University, to the Marine Corps' entire lineup of tactical aircraft, USC announced July 21, 2003.


	AI Expert Jeff Rickel: 1963-2003 July 8, 2003 USC computer scientist Jeff Rickel, a "rising star" in the field of artificial intelligence, died Sunday, July 6, of complications of cancer. He was 40 years old.


	World Technology Network Recognizes ISI Researchers July 3, 2003 World Technology Network Recognizes ISI Researchers


	USC Researchers Build Machine Translation System -- and More -- For Hindi in Less Than a Month June 30, 2003 In less than a month, researchers at USC's Information Sciences Institute and collaborators nationwide built one of the world's best systems to translate Hindi text into English and query Hindi databases using English questions.


	ISI Marks 20th Anniversary of Domain Name System June 26, 2003 A group of computer