December 7, 2001
Computer attacks that flood Internet sites with monsoon-intensity deluges of bogus messages made headlines in 2000, when they took down high-profile portals like Yahoo, Amazon and Ebay for several hours — and continue unabated today. Now, a team from ISI is developing a sophisticated, automated process to make defense both more powerful and more automatic.
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November 27, 2001
For more than a decade Pixar has been a leader in the area of computer animation. In this talk Pixar senior staff scientist Tony DeRose will highlight technical challenges addressed in the past, challenges of the present and likely challenges of the coming decade.
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November 12, 2001
The open source Globus Toolkit(tm)developed by USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and Argonne National Laboratory today became the de-facto international standard in the burgeoning field of grid computing as 12 leading computer vendors and software.
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October 30, 2001
The Center for High Performance Computing and Communication's monthly seminar series continues at 1:30 p.m. November 9th in the Jefferson Conference Room (JEFF 124), when the dynamic Carl Kesselman of USC's Information Sciences Institute will review the current status of Grid computing. The lecture will also be available at ISI via web links.
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October 30, 2001
Our society has evolved to become an information society. Dr. Ramesh Jain, CTO, PRAJA, Inc. and Professor Emeritus, UC San Diego will discuss his ideas about how it is now evolving to become an experience society.
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October 19, 2001
A new ISI agent project aims to turn "user friendly" into more than a catchphrase.
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October 12, 2001
The High Performance Computing and Communication Advisory Council's monthly seminar series continues at 1:30 p.m. October 19, when two faculty members from the department of Physics at UCLA will talk about and demonstrate "AppleSeed: Numerically-Intensive 'Plug-and-Play' Parallel Computing." The talk and all subsequent talks in the series will be available via video conferencing at ISI.
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September 27, 2001
Barbara Denny arrived at the Postel Center for Experimental Networking in September to take her place as PCEN's first Visiting Scholar, PCEN director Joseph D. Touch announced.
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September 27, 2001
In Nebraska, a national drought prediction system prevents crop loss by telling farmers the best places to plant in each county next year. Tucson detectives use an artificial intelligence-based crime lead generator to help them investigate cases with so little starting information they used to consider them unsolvable. These and other innovative uses of information technology by government were the topic of a National Conference on Digital Government Research in Redondo Beach.
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September 27, 2001
In Nebraska, a national drought prediction system prevents crop loss by telling farmers the best places to plant in each county next year. Tucson detectives use an artificial intelligence-based crime lead generator to help them investigate cases with so little starting information they used to consider them unsolvable.
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September 26, 2001
ISI will share as a major partner in a $12.1 million National Science Foundation grant to develop new ways of sharing one-of-kind scientific instruments, data, and programs. NSF announced the award Monday, September 24.
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September 21, 2001
Bob Lucas has a vision of a new breed of computing devices — cheaper, smaller, and much easier to use. He believes that advances made in embedded circuits show the way — and he is heading up a new Computational Sciences Division, Division 1, at ISI to move along this road.
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September 14, 2001
New Center for Grid Technologies at USC's Information Sciences Institute Will Develop Ways to Share Resources Via High Speed Networking.
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September 14, 2001
In a broad-ranging talk at ISI, Dean Max Nikias laid out his plans to bring the USC School of Engineering into the elite inner circle, and explained how Engineering's "hidden jewel," ISI, will be part of those plans, developing into a full-fledged "second
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September 14, 2001
This talk will present a selective overview of the state of digital computers and computing exactly fifty years ago, from today's vantage point. It will advance the thesis that 1951 was a watershed year in the development and use of "large-scale" digitial computers, and it will raise the question, "was computing more fun in 1951?"
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July 18, 2001
**Winner of the ACL 2001 Best Paper Award**
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April 13, 2001
Bob Braden and Eduard Hovy are the newest ISI Fellows.
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April 13, 2001
Peter Will, the founder of ISI's Distributed Scalable Systems division, has added an appointment in the USC School of Engineering.
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April 12, 2001
Zita Wenzel, Brenna Guthrie, Mark Carley and Dale Wong have received ISI Meritorious Service Awards, an honor created to recognize outstanding contributions to ISI's mission.
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April 12, 2001
Bob Braden offers a brief insider's survey of the evolution of the Internet communication protocols over the past 32 years, what we thought we were doing, what we did right as well as some things we did wrong.
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April 12, 2001
Milind Tambe and members of his research group in the Intelligent Systems Division are using themselves as guinea pigs for a new system of computer software "agents," which they whimsically call Elves.
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April 12, 2001
A generation of children grew up mesmerized by the animated exploits of Transformers — small, simple robots with the power to unite themselves to form a whole range of specialized giant ones. Now, the science of robotics is starting to catch up with Saturday morning TV.
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April 12, 2001
ISI will host May 21-23 a national conference on making online government systems available to citizens.
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April 12, 2001
Artificial Intelligence Agents Used to Create Challenging and Unpredictable VR Training Exercises
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March 13, 2001
Joseph D. Touch, Ph.D. is the first Director of the USC/ISI Jonathan B. Postel Center for Experimental Networking.
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March 13, 2001
Leading members of the earthquake engineering community met recently with nationally recognized computer scientists in a workshop at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (ISI) to start designing the first-ever n
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March 12, 2001
An ISI Veteran has new missions on two USC campuses and a new title.
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