Carnegie Mellon University President Jared L. Cohon will present the findings of the National Academies Committee he chaired and discuss what can be done

The USC scholar receives one of engineering's highest professional distinctions.

The Director of USC's Petroleum Engineering Program talks to USC Viterbi alums at Saudi Aramco.

During the visit, Dean Yortsos and others met with top universities, corporations, policymakers and alumni.

Lidar, Scientific Director of the USC Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center, provides what the hosts of KPFK's "Digital Culture" deem "the best explanation of quantum computing ever."

Viterbi students celebrate the 2012 Chinese New Year

The distinguished university professor and communications theory specialist adds Sigma Xi's highest honor to his list of accomplishments.

The longtime Information Sciences Institute leader will continue to serve while a search committee finds a successor, and plans to maintain his association with the Viterbi School

A pioneer in biomedical imaging technology, Singh joined USC's Department of Radiology in 1977 and was jointly appointed in Biomedical Engineering in 1988.

Willner is a Fellow of five organizations, the highest ranking of any professional society

A mobile laboratory: USC Viterbi’s new Audi smart car sparks ideas on intelligent parking, outwitting traffic and personalizing the driving experience.

Newly named Industrial and Systems Engineering Department chair comes from success at Ohio State University

Brazilian-born specialist comes to Viterbi by way of MIT and Carnegie Mellon

Undergrads Rosa Lau and Christine Mercado win scholarships from the L.A. chapter of WTS

TCC Chairman Kenneth Koo: "USC seems to be offering the best hope for both the industry and the environment.”

Here Came the Sun: Alice C. Parker and Gordon Roesler's Alternative Energy class puts on a brilliantly lit and highly successful demo

Constantinos Sioutas discusses his team's work studying air quality around Da Vinci's masterpiece, aiding preservationists in reducing pollution's effect on the painting.

Viterbi team earns ticket to Warsaw to compete with world’s best student computer programmers

Yortsos' research in the maximized retrieval of hydrocarbons and oil in bypassed areas, and Paul's introduction of digital energy and integrated asset management to oilfield operations, transformed the industry.

In its article on the U.S. alma maters of various world leaders, the magazine mentions new Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib's time at USC.

USC Center for Geothermal Studies Director Fred Aminzadeh will work with the Institut Teknologi Bandung to train specialists

Alums gathered to network, share fond memories and learn about current research and work taking place at USC Viterbi.

Three young researchers from the Computational Learning and Control Lab demonstrate a superior grasp of programming gentle and accurate touch

Chosen through a faculty-led selection process, the five scholars will receive mentorship and funding.

Dean Yortsos visits over a thousand alumni, friends in Hong Kong, Taipei, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing.

Burcin Becerik-Gerber of the Astani Department is probing the details of the "lives" of inhabited structures and hopes the results will lead to more than 20% savings in energy use

Professor Ted Berger discusses his goal of creating a device to aid the formation of long-term memories in patients with severe memory loss.

Beijing workshop and MOU signal new alignment between Viterbi and one of China's premier universities for petroleum study.

The director of the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering noted that while the process can get a project fielded early it does have "some failure modes"

CNN.com reports — after 42 years of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, electrical engineer Abdurrahim El-Keib (MS EE '76) will navigate Libya's future.

At a ceremony heralding Chinese car company BYD's arrival in Los Angeles, USC Viterbi signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Shenzhen Municipality.

Constantinos Sioutas learns that subway riders' air is worse than light rail riders', but automobile riders' air is worst

USC; Lockheed Martin, Inc.; and D-Wave Systems, Inc.; have teamed up to establish the first operational quantum computer at an academic institution at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute.

In light of a recent interim report on causes of the fatal 2009, Air France Flight 477 crash, Najm Meshkati warns aviation against complacency in the midst of advances in the industry's technology.

On his receipt of the top International Medal of the U.K.'s Royal Academy of Engineering, Andrew Viterbi discusses the algorithm that bears his name with the BBC World Service. Listen to the Click radio interview here.

Doctoral student Brandon Franzke is the co-author, with Professor Bart Kosko, of a paper that shows how noise energy can power certain important processes.

Viterbi professor Shri Narayanan's team receives an international award for a program that analyzes speech to detect alcohol consumption by speakers

Terry Benzel's Information Sciences Institute-headquartered DETERLab provides researchers nationwide a safe place to study malicious code

Kevin Knight of the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute and colleagues crack the encrypted rules for the rites of a mysterious secret society

The Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute is home for the devices CU@USC's student-produced news show calls 'real life transformers'

BME doctoral student Juan-Miguel Ramírez-Rocamora compiled the best undergraduate engineering record in recent UNAM history

ABC News interviews Maja Mataric about the Robotics Research Lab and its work studying the interactions between robots and children with autism.

Viterbi professors showcased a broad spectrum of research to mark the occasion. Per a Memorandum of Understanding, USC will collaborate with the organization moving forward.

On Friday, Oct. 7, USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department presented its 2011 Laufer Lecture, hosting John Bush, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The Economic Times interviews Gérard Medioni at length for a story about "How Image Processing Will Move the World"

Biomedical nanotechnology expert Mauro Ferrari led off a day of presentations launching the new center for research on engineering medicine for cancer

A story in Air Transport World recalls the prescient report about the ISE safety expert's warning that it published just three days before the June 1, 2009 Air France disaster

There's something about machines that really seems to resonate with many kids with ASD, says Maja Mataric, co-director of the Robotics Research Lab at USC. "Robots are simpler than people."

Shrikanth Narayanan is intensively developing new ways to use information technology to understand non-verbal action in children with ASD, couples and other subjects

Expansion of the iPodia network to the subcontinent is on the agenda, as well as recruitment of USC engineering alumni as faculty

One of the Viterbi School’s most distinguished faculty members spent his 75th birthday in Beijing at an event that underlined USC's international reach

John "Jack" Marburger (1941-2011) was a gifted theoretical physicist who had a major impact on USC engineering, recalls the USC Viterbi School's Martin Gundersen

Center for Energy Nanoscience director and USC Viterbi Professor Dan Dapkus welcomed researchers from 18 teams researching new ways to turn light into energy and energy into light

USC Viterbi School social networking specialist Kristina Lerman compares the spread of viruses with the "viral" spread of information

"We're using optics to enable higher capacity communications ... to get gigabits to every access point," said Alan Willner in a USC News report on the Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN).

ISI's Yolanda Gil: "It is impossible to be prepared for every possible security breach, so we need to learn to do work while a network is under attack."

ISE's Shinyi Wu assembled a precise comparison of 91 recently tried ways to increase physical activity, from coaches to motivator phone calls to simple signs next to elevators

The USC Stevens Institute announces that a partnership led by Caltech, and supported by USC and UCLA, has been selected to receive a $360,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a national business plan competition for young cleantech entrepreneurs.

The Mork Department professor's highly sensitive, non-destructive method of measuring optical and mechanical properties of thin films is featured in Plastics Engineering

A special supplement on "Inventing the Future" features the School's "Guide Vest" for the visually impaired, explained in detail by co-inventor Gérard Medioni

On ProgressiveRailroading.com, John Fenton enthusiastically discusses collaborating with the School to create the unique Rail Safety Certification Program

The Viterbi School expert on machine-to-machine communication discusses how academic research penetrates — often slowly — industrial and commercial applications

Viterbi School faculty and staff filled Town and Gown to hear their dean share a stirring list of accomplishments and set a lofty goal

"A nuclear accident anywhere has the potential to be a nuclear accident everywhere," writes the Viterbi School's Najmedin Meshkati in a New York Times op-ed

The Trojan Family cheered the launch of the biggest fundraising campaign in the history of USC and of American higher education at an exuberant celebration in Bovard Hall.

A report on METRANS research focuses on the algorithms to move more tons faster that the ISE professor found analyzing the Southern California rail network

Yannis Yortsos, Guiseppe Caire (EE), Michael Gruntman (ASTE), Qiang Huang(ISE), Bhaskar Krishnamachari (EE/CS), Aristides Requicha (CS/EE) and Milind Tambe (CS) honored

In a Quest quarterly article, Astronautical Engineering's Mike Gruntman uses newly released documents to detail the lives of the Soviet space travelers carried aloft by the Vostok rockets

"His stature has been hugely influential in attracting top students and faculty alike to the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department," said AME chair Geoff Spedding

The Viterbi Senior Associate Dean's talk on assistive robotics was part of a recent high-profile IEEE panel on "Science & Entertainment Exchange," now an IEEE.tv video

The Epstein Department's Madni, whose industrial and military simulation systems changed the course of training and rehearsing for real-world situations, received the 2011 INCOSE Pioneer Award.

An extensive feature in The New York Times focuses on the "psychoacoustics" work of the Ming Hsieh Department professor, who is also the founder and chief technical officer of Audyssey Laboratories.

USC professor Naj Meshkati and colleagues help 50 Southern California commuter rail leaders study past disasters in order to learn how to prevent future ones

“From Memory to Problem Solving: Mechanism Reuse in a Graphical Cognitive Architecture” brings Kurzweil Prize to Institute for Creative Technologies project leader

Algorithms for next gen wireless networks and improvements in real-time computer simulations put two Viterbi researchers into the latest Technology Review list of top under-35 innovators

Mork Department publications ranked #7 internationally in Thomson-Reuters citation impact study

ISI security expert Jim Blythe programs computers to simulate the kinds of operator errors that leave networks vulnerable, The Economist reports

Pin Wang of the Mork Department has developed a lentiviral vector that latches onto HIV-infected cells, targeting these cells for drugs to hunt them down

Imagine the best students with the best faculty — all connected around the world under the banner of USC Viterbi’s iPodia. Stephen Lu already has.

"PetPal," an exercise-encouraging game created in 2007 by USC computer science students, contained a MEMS mini-app that is now up for licensing

Stefan Schaal and Gaurav Sukhatme welcome colleagues from all over the world -- including former students turned prizewinning researchers

Krystyna Miles of North Salem New York was one of 20 high school juniors who spent two weeks being briefed by high-level energy researchers and industry representatives

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos led a USC Engineering delegation to THU's Beijing campus, where the topic was “Green and Smart for a Sustainable Future"

USC Center for Computer Systems Security Director B. Clifford Neuman and ISI Director of Innovation Winnie Callahan attended Ohio honors ceremony

Jay Kuo to head IEEE-TIFS; Azad Madni joins ranks of INCOSE Pioneers; Milind Tambe earns more kudos for multi-agent security programs; Michael Waterman receives an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University; and Alan Willner reels in another IPS award.

The Lloyd F. Hunt Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department joined USC Engineering in 1974 and received the School's Faculty Service Award in 1981

"The prototype navigation system is the creation of scientists at the University of Southern California, led by James Weiland"

ISI's Jeff Draper will be part of a large-scale DARPA effort to create tests to detect potential failures, inadvertent and deliberate, in integrated circuits

Larry Lim and Ben Louie of the Viterbi Center for Engineering Diversity administer a science- for-middle-schoolers program that bears astronaut Bernard Harris' name.

"When it comes to mapping the real world on computers, University of Southern California computer scientist Cyrus Shahabi takes his work to a whole new dimension"

Ellis Meng, a biomedical and electrical engineering professor at USC Viterbi, stands at the bold crossroads of medical research as she seeks to find new ways to deliver and monitor drugs for patients through nanotechnology and wireless communication.

Theodore Berger's words — 'Flip the switch on, and the rats remember. Flip it off, and the rats forget,' — are repeated in media all around the world

Molly Martens (AME), Joe Rothenberg (Cinematic Arts) and Jannae Fong (AME) won first prize in the ImagiNations competition with a proposal of a ride for Shanghai Disneyland based on Pixar's movie “Up”.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos and Azerbaijan Consul General Elin Suleymanov were part of a large celebratory gathering in the Viterbi Museum

"Flip the switch on, and the rats remember. Flip it off, and the rats forget," said Theodore Berger of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Najwa Hanel is recognized for support "for faculty and the University that goes beyond the requirements of [her] formal role at USC.”

Mike Zyda's popular GamePipe Laboratory at the Viterbi School is reported as an example of the "growing cachet of the tech industry" in universities nationwide

Latest accolades for Andrew Viterbi from three distinctly different societies reflect his breadth of talent, achievement and service to humankind.

Senior Associate Dean Raghu Raghavendra: “The program exposes the labs, research and faculty of the Viterbi School to exceptional students"