December 9, 2011
An Information Sciences Institute tradition entered its sixth year in 2011, when young researchers spent the day presenting their work to colleagues and teachers.
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August 1, 2011
Robert Lucas hosted specialists from all over the world who came to the Marina del Rey California campus of the USC Information Sciences Institute to discuss the challenges of "Exascale" computing.
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July 29, 2011
The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have designated the University of Southern California a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAE-R).
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May 27, 2011
Jeff Draper and Matt French have received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to aid in the creation of reliable methods to detect potential failures, inadvertent and deliberate, in integrated circuits (ICs).
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May 17, 2011
The USC Information Sciences Institute has been selected to develop the design software for the F6 satellite
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May 15, 2011
Dr. Lisa Porter, Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), and several program directors visited ISI on May 11, 2011, as part of a tour of the West Coast.
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April 20, 2011
ISI Executive Director Herb Schorr has announced that Viterbi School Senior Associate Dean John O'Brien will be working closely with — and frequently at — the USC Information Sciences Institute.
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March 29, 2011
A USC delegation led by President C.L. Max Nikias and Provost Elizabeth Garrett recently called on two California legislators to thank them for their support of space research involving ISI students.
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February 18, 2011
Faculty members from the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute were among scientists from eight universities who collaborated with IBM to advance the Question Answering (QA) technology behind the IBM Watson computing system.
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February 4, 2011
As Internet authorities announced that they have handed over all of the available addresses, a USC research group based at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Information Sciences Institute and headed by John Heidemann released its latest Internet census results.
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January 21, 2011
Most world languages don't have the abundant
resources of texts in electronic form that computer
scientists have used to create the now widely-used
machine translation systems that turn (for example)
English into Chinese. Now, Kevin Knight of ISI, who
helped pioneer these earlier systems, is working as
part of a multi-university team in a five-year effort
to find less statistical, more semantic points of
attack on 'low-density' languages, starting with
some spoken in Africa.
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January 13, 2011
Since 2003, the DETER project, supported by the Department of
Homeland Security, the National Science Foundation, and other
government agencies has thrust the USC Viterbi School of
Engineering's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) into national
leadership in research and design on cyber security testbeds.
The US Department of Homeland Security has now signed a 5-
year $16 million contract with USC to expand and improve ISI's
DETERlab testbed. This new project is called DETECT.
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