USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - Viterbi Newswire 12/14/10

December 14, 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

	TOP STORIES Keith Chugg, Eun Sok Kim, Maja Matarić, Patric Muggli, Si-Zhao 'Joe' Qin, and Gaurav Sukhatme elected IEEE Fellows Mexico's National Council on Science and Technology funds fellowships for postgraduate study at Viterbi by Mexican students Viterbi School CAERUS nanosatellite unit blasts off from Cape Canaveral on Space X Falcon 9
	RESEARCH ISI's Kristina Lerman wins $1.4 million to study social network threats Award for Shortopedia, designed by Yolanda Gil team to assist computers in understanding human ideas
	FACULTY HONORS Bhaskar Krishnamachari wins best paper award at Mobicom 2010 conference Allan Willner Wins Optical Society of America Engineeering Excellence Award
	EVENTS Andrew J. Viterbi delivers lecture to capacity audience including mentor Sol Golomb Geoff Spedding presentation on bird models for airplane design stands out at Fluid Dynamics conference Emeritus robotics pioneer George Bekey speaks at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey
	STUDENTS Preview Day brings 200 prospective graduate students to campus to meet faculty, alumni and current grad students Recruiting Engineering Achievers (REACH) inaugural attracts 27 prime prospects Undergrad mentored by Elaine Chew a finalist in Computer Research Association competition
	IN THE NEWS CNN's 'Edge of Discovery' interviews Maja Matarić about her child-motivating robots New York Times front-page feature focuses on ICT Cybertherapy research Corriere della Sera reports Constantinos Sioutas' research on Milan air pollution Behrohk Khoshnevis’ contour crafting process one of 15 innovations that will change the world says Playboy Magazine