The Viterbi School of Engineering moved from 12th to 11th in the world in engineering, technology and computer science programs in the recently released 2008 Shanghai Jiao Tong University rankings.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos, Provost C.L. Max Nikias and two distinguished executives with Viterbi School ties were honored in a ceremony welcoming them into the National Academy of Engineering

A three-year award from the National Cancer Institute will support development and testing of a novel ultrasound probe for the detection of prostate cancer.

BME researcher will lead one of the four initial projects planned by a new Engineering Research Center for Technologies for Successful Aging with Disability.

The USC transportation safety expert blames a higher-than-average Metrolink accident rate on "outdated and messy safety-related policies, procedures and practices."

Computer science graduate Oussama Mellouli won the gold in the 1500-meter freestyle swimming competition at this year's Olympic Games in Beijing.

A guest editorial by a Schlumberger executive quotes the Mork Department's Iraj Ershaghi and praises "innovative programs, such as those offered at USC," as key to "a major transformation" in the industry

Francisco Valero-Cuevas will lead a four-year study on "Reverse Engineering the Human Hand," funded by the NSF's Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation Office.

Comprehensive coverage of the award of the 2007 National Medal of Science to USC Trustee and Engineering School namesake Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi, including the White House ceremony and preceding black-tie reception.

The success of the CREATE-funded "keep the bad guys guessing" computer scheduling program at LAX brings Federal Air Marshals to USC to explore its use in their operations.

"Your New Backing Band: Radiohead, Green Day or Both" — Software created by ISE's Elaine Chew and CS PhD alumna Ching-Hua Chuan can generate accompaniment in any style.

Wanda Austin, president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, delivers Epstein Department's second annual Rechtin Keynote Lecture, named after a founding father of systems architecting and engineering.

Scott Easley has joined the Viterbi School full-time as GamePipe Assistant Director.

Structural engineering experts from all over the world converged on Tutor Hall to share the latest developments in the state of their art — and pay tribute to the Viterbi School pioneer who made fundamental contributions to it.

The Viterbi School co-hosts a two-day summit with the Competitiveness Crisis Council, Rossier School and USC Stevens Institute to address strategies for addressing the shortage of science and engineering-bound students in California.

Students and parents discovered the fun of being engineers at a Saturday Tech Fair, held in partnership with the Education Crisis Summit.

For more than a decade, Barry Boehm's graduate software engineering class has looked for challenges not just from textbooks, but from clients in the community.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos reports on the school's progress in his annual talk to the Viterbi School.

"The current regulatory, oversight and operational structure for ensuring rail safety in California is not working," ISE safety specialist Najmedin Meshkati argues in a Los Angeles Times op-ed.

A Viterbi guitarist/computer scientist graduate student working with Viterbi pianist/systems specialist Elaine Chew has built and tested a songwriting system that can create a musical accompaniment in the style of any chosen performer.

A two-week non-residential summer camp reaches out to exceptional high school sophomores and juniors from educationally disadvantaged communities.

The Mork Family Department welcomed its new and returning students to campus with an International Welcome Luncheon and webcast made available to Distance Education students.

V.P. Subrahmanyam "Subu" Goparaju of Infosys Technologies and Viterbi School Dean Yannis C. Yortsos joined in a toast September 5 to launch the company's first-ever research center outside of India.

A 10 percent increase in contributions to this year's fundraising initiative sent a strong message of support and commitment to surrounding communities.

Security Management magazine examines the ARMOR software developed by CS Professor Milind Tambe and PhD student Praveen Parachuri, designed to "Keep the Adversary Guessing," and successfully tested at LAX.

An outstanding group of students from China's premier engineering school worked one-on-one with leading Viterbi School faculty on research destined to advance technology and benefit society.

Researchers came from all over the world to attend the first workshop totally dedicated to an emerging scientific modeling technique the University and the Viterbi School have played a key role in developing.

The September/October issue of Technology Review has an extended article on a Boston "concert and lecture exploring the long-established connection between music and mathematics" by the Viterbi School's Elaine Chew, director of the USC Music Computation and Cognition Laboratory.

Sina Golshany is the first-ever Viterbi School student to place in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aircraft Design Competition.

The world's largest manufacturer of construction equipment will support continuing research on system aiming to build full-scale houses in hours.

The Mork Department's Kristian Jessen will lead an effort to develop tools to enhance recovery of a valuable but elusive resource.

President George W. Bush has announced that USC trustee and namesake of the Viterbi School of Engineering Andrew J. Viterbi is one of the recipients of the nation's highest honor for science and technology.

Viterbi School Dean Yannis C. Yortsos addressed the topic of "Meeting and Managing Rising Student Expectations" at the 2008 Student Affairs Conference.

Civil engineering professor, traveling with a U.S. delegation, reported that some cities in earthquake-damaged region would be better off relocating than rebuilding.

USC professors of computer science and electrical engineering will use their awards to foster collaboration and promote courseware and curriculum innovation.

Former USC NCAA Champion Ous Mellouli, a Viterbi School graduate, walked away with the gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

The energy giant gives $915,000 in scholarships and training to USC students as part of its global University Partnership Program (UPP).

Speaking about identity security earlier this month, Chertoff also met with university officials, including Dean Yortsos and CREATE Director Detloff von Winterfeldt.

Shri Narayanan of the Ming Hsieh Department and Laurent Itti of the Computer Science Department are the latest recipients of this prestigious award.

The USC Viterbi School was selected as one of 33 recipients of a 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research Award, which is designed to encourage open collaboration with HP Labs resulting in mutually beneficial, high-impact research.

Childrens Hospital "is working closely with Robert Neches, a division director at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute, on ways to revolutionize disaster-preparation training."

ASME Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference recognizes Epstein faculty member for outstanding scholarship.

A $5.9 million grant will keep one of the Viterbi School's longest running research success stories running for at least another five years.

A team of physicians and faculty from Keck and the USC Viterbi School will join Childrens Hospital in a new study to understand blood flow in people with sickle cell anemia.

A Hsieh Department graduate student has applied the classic tool for eliminating dead-end possibilities in data reception to qubit communications

Undergraduate engineering students fulfill course requirements while getting a taste of Rome's timelessness, turbulent history and engineering marvels in overseas study program.

Professor P. Vijay Kumar's EE-Systems team took the best paper prize at a recent conference on Distributed Computing Systems.

Canada's Discovery Channel website covers efforts by Maja Matarić of the Viterbi School's Computer Science Department to develop a robotic system to aid therapists treating children with ASD.

Alex Dimakis, whose interests lie in communications, coding theory, signal processing, and networking will join the department in June 2009.

A team from the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute will structure data to allow health scientists to quickly and consistently test hypotheses.

Early research by the USC Interaction Laboratory confirms that children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) often interact more easily with mechanical devices and robots than with unfamiliar people

Students in this year's USC-IIT Kharagpur summer exchange program said the hands-on work was valuable and, in some cases, helped them decide whether to pursue an advanced degree.

The Viterbi School's summer MESA science-mathematics-physics institute brings the laws of gravity, motion and celestial orbits into focus for middle and high school teachers.

Newly appointed faculty in electrical engineering, chemical and materials science, astronautics and civil engineering will join the professorial ranks beginning this fall.

The first issue of the new electronic newsletter produced by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency features a Q&A with the director of the USC Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations, both on his work creating supermaterials and on general WMD defense basic research priorities.

A recent report describes how CS Professor Cyrus Shahabi is successfully adapting his Progressive Data Analysis (ProDA) system, which applies signal processing ideas to data processing problems, to the software giant's computing platforms.

As many as five outstanding seniors studying electrical or biomedical engineering at the San Luis Obispo college will this fall be able to speed their paths to USC MS degrees through the new Viterbi Integrated Masters of Science Program

A June 30 story in the Wall Street Journal describes the influence of Viterbi School alumnus Alireza Azmandian, who "was drawn to the motivational-speaker circuit when he was a graduate student in the U.S."

The British tech-in-education magazine Vision takes a long look at how young students might profit from hands-on experience with the modular shape-changing robots developed at ISI

In a new paper called "Math and Music: The Perfect Match," pianist/computational engineer Elaine Chew proposes applications of the increasingly powerful discipline of Operations Research to the ancient art of pitched and rhythmic sound.

Rahul Jain, whose interests lie in networks, games and control, will join the department this fall coming from IBM.

Information theorist Gerhard Kramer of Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, will join the Ming Hsieh Department early next year.

Andrea Hodge has received a $175,000 two-year grant to carry on advanced research in a sophisticated manufacturing process used to coat targets with thin films of various materials.

Iraj Ershaghi of the Mork Family Department discussed the potential for increasing production from the 9-billion-barrel oil field that lies under Southern California.

Viterbi contributes expertise and leadership to the university's High Performance Computing Center

The Aerospace Institute for Engineering Research has embarked on three ambitious, collaborative aerospace research projects that could benefit commercial aviation worldwide.

A 25th anniversary story describes "brilliant" 1983 work by Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel in creating the now-universal .com, .edu, .gov, .org domain name system at the Viterbi School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute.

Keith Chugg's prize honors his achievements in textbook writing, teaching, research and student guidance

An industrial and systems engineering student will examine the safety issues involved in the design of a new Expo Light Rail crossing near Dorsey High School.

Shrikanth Narayanan's research into speech emotion detection receives a detailed account in an 'Annals of Technology' story in the June 23 issue.

Research center's business director brings together Army, industry, academia and a foundation to create a lab-bench-to-marketplace competition judged by a blue-ribbon panel

How do you keep a potential half-billion social networkers current? A Viterbi School expert tackles the growth problems of one of the world's largest computing systems.

George Bekey drew on his vast experience in a wide range of engineering disciplines in his speech at the recent IEEE SOSE conference in Monterey, California

A distinguished radar and communications technologist in the Ming Hsieh Department has been appointed professor emeritus in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the field.

Nikias, Yortsos and Golomb journey with him to Helsinki to be part of events honoring the School's namesake and three illustrious colleagues.

Terence G. Langdon has won a 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal for Material Science from the European Academy of Sciences, and will deliver the Lee Hsun Lecture at a Chinese Academy Institute of Materials Science

Glaucoma patients and those with other eye diseases may benefit from a simple polymer device that attaches to the eye, reports Chemical Technology, in its June 9, 2008 review of new work by biomedical engineer Ellis Meng and her colleagues.

Cars can run on the same fuel used in stoves, and "I think the United States, at least in urban areas, could do the same kind of thing that Argentina is doing," make natural gas available at filling stations, AME Professor Paul Ronney said.

Professor Ellis Horowitz will serve as interim chair of the Viterbi School's Department of Computer Science.

Three Viterbi School doctoral students will have their careers generously supported for three years as recipients of Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Doctoral Fellowships.

The giant Bangalore-based IT company will partner with the Viterbi School to create a Center for Research & Education in Advanced Software Technologies on the USC campus

The Viterbi School's Yan Xiao, on sabbatical in China, has created a prototype of a sturdy, quick-to-build bamboo house designed to help the vast number of people made homeless by the May 12 Sichuan earthquake.

The organizers of the mammoth 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation were all from the Viterbi School CS Department. An ISI robotics team took a top prize and a USC specialist in nanorobotics won a prestigious Pioneer Award.

Monica De Los Santos, director of Student Services in the Viterbi School's Admission and Student Affairs Office, has won the USC Outstanding Academic Advising Award.

Aristides A.G. Requicha, holder of the Viterbi School's Gordon Marshall Chair, was honored for his career achievements May 23 at the world's largest gathering of robotics and automation researchers.

Ming Hsieh professor Alan Willner to helm renowned publication in the optics field.

Electrical engineer Michael Johnson moves from regional chair to national Vice-Chairperson of the National Society of Black Engineers, continuing his upward trajectory and high level of involvement both within and without the school of engineering

The director of the Viterbi School's Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems and Senior Associate Dean for Research appears on Paul Peterson's Channel 35 weekly discussion show to explain her vision of mechanical creatures who can help the elderly.

The newspaper portrays the Viterbi School as the destination for "an academic tidal wave from the Indian Ocean," thanks to its excellent overseas reputation, outreach trips and welcoming campus environment. The article spotlights Indian Student Association president Guarav Kumar, Senior Associate Dean Cauligi Raghavendra and others.

"Seven years ago we set a very lofty target...I am extremely pleased to tell you that as of the end of this March, our fundraising total stood at $300,955,609 in cash and pledges."

Parents, siblings, children and friends — some from across the globe — cheer 1,860 newly minted Viterbi School graduates, who have now become part of USC's global Trojan family.

Byeong Ho Gong and Chan K. Song were the first Viterbi Distance Education Network students to win M.S. degrees while studying outside the U.S.

Microtechnology pioneer shares some personal experiences in risk taking, perseverance, competition and the role of money.

The Viterbi School's Distance Education Network's largest-ever graduating class marked a 30 percent increase over 2007 — which had been 30 percent above 2006.

Ken Klein (BSMEE'82), benefactor of the Klein Institute of Undergraduate Engineering Life urges the Class of 2008 to follow their passion in life.

Costas Synolakis praises the Chinese government's willingness to accept outside aid after the devastating 7.9 tremblor, but faults its failure to enforce building codes.

Chemical engineering senior Kelly Nakamura was not only at the top of her class, but the Emma Josephine Bradley Bovard Awardee for having the highest GPA of all graduating senior women at USC.

DemoDay6: Viterbi students demonstrate their original interactive games to industry representatives in the latest installment of what has become an instant USC tradition.

A computer science graduating senior will represent the Viterbi School in university's main commencement ceremony.

The Viterbi School graduating senior, Trojan basketball player and new Rhodes Scholar will be a salutatorian in the university's May 16 commencement ceremony.