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November 23, 2009
Subu Goparaju was one of the "Infoscions" who attended the recent “thought sharing and collaboration event that brings together the best academicians, researchers, practitioners and thought leaders” at the USC Viterbi School.
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November 23, 2009
Tzung "John" Hsiai hopes to help clinicians distinguish cardiac emergencies requiring immediate surgery from chronic problems manageable with drugs and lifestyle change.
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November 18, 2009
Ramesh Govindan will lead the USC's Viterbi School of Engineering partnership in an interdisciplinary communication networks research center, sharing $35.5 million in funding over 10 years.
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November 18, 2009
Maja Mataric', director of the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES), will lead an effort to evaluate the effectiveness of robots as exercise coaches.
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November 17, 2009
Patrick Soon-Shiong M.D. and Rick Stephens, both members of the USC Viterbi School’s Board of Councilors, received Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation Eddy Awards® November 12.
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November 16, 2009
Introduced by Hsieh Department chairman Eun Sok Kim, the renowned physicist spoke about academia's lost topics of science.
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November 12, 2009
Fred Aminzadeh, Managing Director of the USC Energy Institute's Global Energy Center, will direct an ambitious 3D mapping and modeling effort focused on the Geysers area in Northern California.
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November 10, 2009
David Geer's GeerHead column offers a detailed look at Wei-Min Shen's "Polymorphic Robotics Lab, which is conducting research into self-reconfigurable, autonomous robots with capabilities derived in part from the study of insect and animal life."
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November 03, 2009
The Viterbi School's Costas Synolakis was a principal investigator of an NSF-funded team that visited the devastated islands and probed the strengths and weaknesses of the emergency response.
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November 03, 2009
Computer scientists Ewa Deelman and Ann Chervenak of the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute will be part of a new $9 million effort headquartered at the Keck School of Medicine at USC
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November 02, 2009
Faculty members from the Ming Hsieh and Computer Science departments teamed up with a Keck School professor to win the Best Technology Award at a recent conference on implantable medical devices held at USC.
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October 29, 2009
"Born in Belgrade, in what was then Yugoslavia, Maja Matarić originally wanted to study languages and art," begins a 5000-word feature entitled "Robots That Care." The ending: "But robotic interaction should not replace human interaction," she said. "It should only improve it."
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October 27, 2009
Charlene Jeune's personal essay and a recommendation from her manager at Entertainment Arts, where she had been an intern, catapulted her into the finals round in which she was awarded one of two EA $2,500 scholarships.
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October 26, 2009
Hillis, a research professor of engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and co-chair of Applied Minds Inc, is the principal investigator for a $16 million effort to bring non-medical scientific expertise to bear on oncology.
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October 25, 2009
Paul K. Newton, a specialist in applied mathematics and modeling, will participate in a new physics oncology center, working with scientists at the Scripps Research Institute and other institutions — and with Andrew J. Viterbi.
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