Information Sciences Institute

William J. Lynn spoke to an audience of more than 80 business leaders and academics about “Redefining the Front Lines of National Security.”

The event was held under the auspices of a coalition of Internet organizations.

The Wireless Networking Division will have staff on both coasts, as well as collaboration with USC faculty and with other institutions.

The Aeneas project is one of a handful of new efforts through SERC.

PEDSS uses statistical methods to estimate how many of the potential victims of a disaster in a given specific location will be children and what they will need.

Kesselman is adapting grid computing to aid clinicians trying to bring together enormous volumes of medical research with huge volumes of information about individual patients.

ISI Project Leader Ewa Deelman will employ the Pegasus Workflow Management System and associated technologies to support the data analysis and data management within the project.

The launch represents the first public action since BIRN was re-funded by the National Center for Research Resources in early 2009.

The new center will be part of ISI’s Distributed Scalable Systems Division.

Deelman’s group will join with other investigators from various institutions around the country.