Pegasus Powers LIGO Gravitational Wave Detection Analysis

The Pegasus team is very happy to hear about LIGO’s incredible discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes. We congratulate the entire LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration on this incredible achievement.

Cloud Computing on a Grand Scale: ISI Papers Document High-Performance Feasibility

ISI’s high-performance, heterogeneous cloud group – a unit of its Computational Systems & Technology division – had two papers presented at the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing. Both papers show that high-performance applications can be virtualized with very little overhead, suggesting that users soon may be able to conduct supercomputer-level processing through the cloud, using disparate hardware and software of their own choosing. The IEEE conference was held in Anchorage, Alaska from June 27th to July 2nd, 2014.

A-OPPS STP-H4/5 Experiment

ISI Continues International Space Station Sensor-Systems Project

ISI’s research into radiation-tolerant spacecraft sensor systems has received additional support from NASA for testing on the International Space Station. The Autonomous On-board Processing for Sensor Systems (A-OPSS) project, led by Matthew French, employs radiation hardening by software (RHBSW) techniques, which mitigate radiation-induced faults in system-on-a-chip computing architectures.

ISI’s Christine Zhang Helps Lead Major Military Communications Conference

ISI wireless communications research group director Christine Zhang has been invited to serve as deputy technical program chair for the prestigious IEEE Military Communication Conference. MILCOM is the premier international conference and exposition for military communications. It gathers the leading minds of government, military, industry and academia in an interactive forum to further explore, define and leverage the benefits communications bring to today’s and tomorrow’s challenges. The deadline for paper submissions is May 12, 2014. For more details, please check the Milcom website: http://www.milcom.org.

Wireless Networking Expert Christine Zhang Joins ISI

Qinqing (Christine) Zhang, a leading wireless communication and networking expert, joined ISI’s Computational Systems and Technology group in October, 2013. She comes to us from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), where she was a principal research scientist and section supervisor. There she led and directed research on innovative wireless communication and networking technologies for extremely challenging cyber and physical environments.

Balatrarin founder Medhi Yahyanejad joins ISI

Medhi Yahyanejad, who founded a Persian language social and political news website that has become a popular locus for protests against the Iranian regime, joined ISI’s Computational Systems and Technology group in [NOTE: April?], 2013.

Video: Dean Yortsos on the Quantum Computation Center

Space Engineering Research Center Launches Nanosatellite

On Sept. 13, USC’s Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) launched the first “CubeSat” — a miniature satellite built in cubic compartments — with the ability to deploy a parabolic dish and track a point on the surface of the Earth.

Preston Marshall Talks Spectrum Sharing with The New York Times

As experts call for better use of the radio spectrum for wireless communications, the Information Sciences Institute research professor lends his thoughts.

USC Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center Featured in Wired Profile of D-Wave

Wired talks to Daniel Lidar and others about D-Wave's work in quantum computing, including the machine now at USC's Information Sciences Institute.