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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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September 13, 2005
Holland-born robotic controls specialist Mark Moll will be
responsible for simulation and software development on ISI's
new SuperBot project
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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April 29, 2005
Post-doctoral researcher Dooil Hwang has received top
honors in the 2005 Institute of Industrial Engineers Student
Paper
Competition.
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April 14, 2005
The Venice High School Botball team is a player, thanks in
part to an ISI graduate student.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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