USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - Viterbi Newswire 1/15/10

January 15, 2010

The Viterbi Newswire is a digest of recent USC Viterbi School of Engineering news stories. For a complete listing of recent news and events visit the Viterbi Website - http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/recent-news.htm

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	TOP STORIES Paul Debevec of CS wins Academy Award® for his Lightstage technology Terrence Sanger to lead the new HST@USC(Health Sciences and Technology) education effort Astani Department’s Aggeliki Barberopoulou, Jose Borrero and Costas Synolakis redraw California tsunami threat map
	IN THE NEWS Viterbi School ‘Visionary’ Maja Mataric’ profiled in Los Angeles Times Magazine LA Times editor discusses Visionary profiles on KTLA Internet architect Paul Mockapetris on NPR cites first-ever Internet address: www.isi.edu Transportation magazine GO! highlights Yan Xiao’s (CE) work on structural bamboo Costas Synolakis (CE) widely quoted on fifth anniversary of Indian Ocean tsunami
	FACULTY HONORS ACM distinctions for CS Chair Shanghua Teng and Professor Cyrus Shahabi Physician-Biomedical Engineer Tzung "John" Hsiai elected to ASCI medical honor society Michael Kassner, Shrikanth Narayanan, and Viktor Prasanna named AAAS Fellows Supercomputing visualization specialist Aiichiro Nakano now APS fellow Ari Requicha, Shri Narayanan and Antonio Ortega are 2010-11 IEEE Distinguished Lecturers
	STUDENTS GamePipe Demo Day brings 16 company reps to see 21 student-made games KABC TV zooms in on Viterbi student game builders and educators
	IN MEMORIAM Teh Fu Yen, Astani Department Professor, 1927-2010 John Cohoon, Viterbi School Communications Professional, 1943-2010

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