December 8, 2008
ISI will be part of a new Center for Genomic Studies on Mental
Disorders funded by a five-year $42.4 million grant from the
National Institutes of Mental Health.
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December 5, 2008
Wei-Min Shen returned from the 26th Army Science Conference
with an award plaque for research which created a improved
linkage system for his SuperBot modular robots
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October 30, 2008
An ambitious NSF project to create a vast interactive network testbed is moving forward into a $12 million prototyping phase in which ISI division director John Wroclawski will continue and deepen his involvement.
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October 6, 2008
The ISI Intelligent Systems Division continued a tradition by holding its competitive symposium, with prizes for best papers, presentations, and posters.
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September 26, 2008
Information Sciences Insitute project leaders in 2008 have won nearly $7 million in research awards.
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September 12, 2008
ISI project director Vicente Garcia Jr. joined the navy in 1978 fresh out of New Mexico State University. In a solemn 2008 ceremony keynoted by two flag-rank officers he retired from it.
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September 5, 2008
ISI executive director Herbert Schorr and researcher Dan Davis went to Hawai'i to renew long-standing ties with people and institutions on the island of Maui, and explore new opportunities for IT in education
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August 11, 2008
An extensive feature in a prominent medical journal documents the ongoing $5 million effort led by Dr. Jeffrey Upperman of Childrens Hospital, an project in which ISI's Division 2 plays a key role.
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July 17, 2008
Jose-Luis Ambite and Ewa Deelman will be part of a 4-year, $31 million initiative aimed at understanding how genetic variation influences the risk of diabetes, heart pathologies, cancer and other common diseases.
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July 14, 2008
Ke-Thia Yao, an expert on systems acquisition, mining, and management of large and complex data sets, is the newest project leader in ISI's Distributed Scalable Systems Division.
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May 23, 2008
An ISI team led by Dr. Behnam Salemi won the Planetary
Robotic Contingency Challenge competition at the 2008
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IRCA-
2008) in Pasadena, May 21-22.
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May 1, 2008
Researchers at the USC Information Sciences Institute have
demonstrated a way to manufacture miniscule containers
that might be used to deliver precise micro- or even nano-
quantities of drugs.
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April 24, 2008
David Barnhart, director of the Aerospace Technology and Systems Center at ISI, was one of six 2008 USC-Mellon Mentoring Award winners.
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April 14, 2008
Terry Benzel of the USC Information Sciences Institute
accepted a national award from the American Council for
Technology (ACT) and its Industry Advisory Council on
behalf of the DETER project she co-directs.
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April 6, 2008
Can an artificial intelligence program anticipate military
surprises? The USC Information Sciences Institute is playing
a $5.9 million part in a DARPA research effort called Deep
Green aimed at creating a system that can do so, one that
might help future combat commanders in the field anticipate
enemy moves.
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March 21, 2008
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has announced a four-year grant to support ISI's Gully A.P.C. Burns' efforts to expand and enhance his highly successful NeuroScholar software efforts.
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March 6, 2008
Yolanda Gil, Associate Director of Research in the ISI Intelligent Systems Division, shared a high USC honor.
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March 5, 2008
A new study documents the origins of the Internet, including
many handwritten original papers from ISI, an early center of
development — documents located by the ISI Postel center.
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February 26, 2008
ISI will be part of a new USC Viterbi School of Engineering
interdisciplinary research center that will focus on the
challenge of building new generations of inexpensive
spacecraft with commercial, civil and military applications
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February 8, 2008
The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems has just named its Best Student Paper Award after Pragnesh Jay Modi, who spent six years in ISI's Intelligent Systems Division.
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February 7, 2008
ISI has begun a collaboration with the UCLA-based Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) aimed at putting a long-esoteric technology — networked sensors — into the hands of a wide spectrum of non-specialist new users.
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February 7, 2008
ISI has begun a collaboration with the UCLA-based Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) aimed at putting a long-esoteric technology — networked sensors — into the hands of a wide spectrum of non-specialist new users.
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