USC/ISI SGREP
Press Release - Sept. 1999
USC Engineering Dean's Newsletter
This summer a pilot program began in USC/ISI's Computer
Networks Division, called (tentatively) the ISI
Summer Graduate Research Experience Program (ISI-SGREP). This program
is modeled on that of other research institutes, e.g., IBM, AT&T, Bellcore,
and GTE, to provide experience for students. The program was created by
Joe Touch, a Project Leader at USC's Information Sciences Institute
and Research Assistant Professor in USC's Computer Science Department.
This program is designed to provide research experience for graduate students
on real, ongoing research efforts at ISI. Students receive directed research
credit for their work, and gain valuable exposure to long-term, large-scale
research projects. ISI projects gain highly motivated effort to address
aspects of their research that would otherwise be too short-term or tangential
to address in their core effort. This summer five graduate students in
USC's School of Engineering, and one visiting scholar from Spain, joined
the X-Bone project for three months under the direction
of Joe Touch and Anindo Banerjea, also of ISI's
Computer Networks Division and a Research Assistant Professor at USC. The
students performed various tasks associated with the X-Bone project, from
porting software to additional operating systems, to developing new functionality.
The work of the students was presented in a showcase lecture in August
at ISI. We are currently considering how this program might be expanded
to other projects in the Computer Networks Division, and possibly even
ISI-wide, in future summers.
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