Viterbi Newswire 11/09/11

TOP STORIES

• Viterbi opens academia's first quantum computing center, directed by Daniel Lidar
• ISI's Kevin Knight cracks encoded rules of mysterious secret society
• Viterbi and Keck Schools create unique four-year M.D./Ph.D. collaboration program
• Libya's new prime minister is a Viterbi engineer (MS EE '86)

RESEARCH

• Shri Narayanan nurtures new discipline, 'behavior informatics,' at Viterbi School
• Special NSF award sends Ellis Meng to 'business bootcamp'
• 'The computer says he sounds drunk' - Narayanan students win best paper prize
• Bart Kosko and student co-author paper on noise-powered Markov convergence
• Costas Sioutas measures commuter exposure to toxic soot: car drivers get it worst
• Antonio Ortega wins IEEE Image Processing best paper award

HONORS

• BBC reports on Andrew Viterbi's U.K. Royal Academy International Medal
• Star Mexican student brings exceptional honors to Viterbi from UNAM
• Terry Langdon receives Acta Materialia Gold Medal
• Mel Breuer wins IEEE computer society lifetime achievement award

EVENTS

• Chinese Academy honors software luminary Barry Boehm in Beijing ceremony
• Viterbi signs MOU with Shenzhen municipality, home of BYD automotive
• School a major presence at USC Global Conference in Hong Kong
• USC engineering research fills the program at Ming Hsieh Institute inaugural event
  

IN THE NEWS

• L.A. Times: Maja Matarić's robots helping kids with autistic spectrum disorder
• N.Y. Times features Kevin Knight's codebreaking breakthrough on Copiale cipher
• Najm Meshkati's prescience on airliner vulnerability praised in Air Transport World
• Gérard Medioni featured in India's biggest business paper, The Economic Times