USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - Viterbi Newswire 2/03/11

February 3, 2011

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

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	TOP STORIES Maja Matarić receives Presidential Mentoring Award from President Obama DHS 5-Year, $16 Million funding of ISI testbed underlines Viterbi national leadership in cybersecurity Ted Berger BME lab's 'smart fence' airport intrusion detection system wins top prize and heads for TSA use Indo-US Science and Technology Forum signs internship partnership with Viterbi
	RESEARCH Annual Meeting of the EFRC on Energy Nanoscience addresses solar energy and lighting developments John Heidemann's latest Internet census explicates looming address shortage Kevin Knight's latest CS project is machine translation of African languages Petros Ioannou lab chosen to partner in Audi Cars-for-Megacities project
	HONORS Northrop-Grumman's Neil G. Siegel, also ISE doctoral candidate, wins IEEE Simon Ramo medal Milind Tambe appointed to National Academies' Soldier Systems Panel Viterbi CS undergrad team takes silver medal in Seoul Capstone Design meet
	EVENTS Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition kicks off with a splash Viterbi School hosting NAE national meeting on Megacities
	IN THE NEWS Scientific American reports on efforts to create a computer model of cancer Memphis Commercial Appeal reports on native daughter Andrea Armani CS artificial intelligence experts discuss IBM's computer Jeopardy! contestant 'Watson' Entrepreneur Steve Poizner joins Viterbi School board of councilors EE's Bart Kosko answers Edge Foundation's "Question of the Year"

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