Information Sciences Institute

HeraclesMaps can instantly solve life-and-death tactical questions.

Ronald Ohlander was one of five standout performers in Engineering honored at the annual awards luncheon.

Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute has been developing his automated house-building process, called “Contour Crafting,” for more than a year.

The NetShield library will be supported by special virtual private networks (VPN), built on top of the Globus security infrastructure developed at ISI jointly with the Argonne National Laboratory.

The program already has features designed to adapt it to each individual user, noting consistent errors or difficulties, which can be targeted for extensive or remedial practice.

In the prize competition, the conference reviewers selected eight papers out of the hundreds submitted.

Prior to joining USC ISI, Benzel was a Division Vice President at Network Associates, Inc.

Dr. Kesselman, who serves as director of the Center for Grid Technologies at ISI, is a research associate professor in the USC School of Engineering department of computer science.

A powerful tool that could flexibly automate processes like this would be useful for many scientific and high-level commercial applications.

Besides the work of Dr. Kesselman’s center at the Schools’ Information Sciences Institute, Dr. Erik Johnson and the USC department of civil and environmental engineering are playing an important role.