Viterbi Newswire 8/08/11

TOP STORIES

• Triple honors for Andrew Viterbi: from AAES,  UK Royal Academy, and CEA 
• Theodore Berger lab turns rat memories on and off at a flip of a switch
• Ming Hsieh Department Lloyd F. Hunt professor Tsen-Chung Cheng, 1944-2011
  

RESEARCH

• Jeff Draper and ISI team deliberately build faulty chips to evaluate chip testing methods
• Gérard Medioni and James Weiland create robotic 'guide vest' for the visually impaired
• Gordon Roesler and Dorit Hochbaum write design software for 'fractionated' orbiter

FACULTY HONORS

• Peers laud Jay Kuo, Azad Madni, Milind Tambe, Michael Waterman and Alan Willner 
• John Slaughter, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, and (again) Milind Tambe win distinctions
• Science and Engineering librarian Najwa Hanel receives distinguished faculty award

EVENTS

• USC signs MOU with Azerbaijan Communications Ministry
• Gaurav Sukhatme and Stefan Schaal host international robotics conference
• Summer interns at Viterbi
  
• K-12 students attend ExxonMobil and Chevron Cisoft summer science programs
  

IN THE NEWS

• Reuters: Viterbi "technology brings new hope for the blind"
• Berger brain prosthesis experiments receive extensive international media coverage
• Shahabi team's 'Geo-Immersion Makes Maps Come Alive,' reports Science Nation
• New York Times feature on academic computer science programs notes USC success
• AME's Molly Martens and Jannae Fong win Disney ImagiNations competition