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Community Education and Evacuation Planning Saved Lives in Sept. 29 Samoan Tsunami
November 03, 2009
The Viterbi School's Costas Synolakis was a principal investigator of a team that visited the devastated islands and probed the strengths and weaknesses of the emergency response.
ISI Researchers Will Support New Brain Gene Expression Project
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
KNOWME Project Wins Body Computing Slam Contest
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.
Viterbi School Associate Dean Profiled in <i>The New Yorker</i>
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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Senior in Videogames Scores Big EA Scholarship Win
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.
Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin to Deliver 2009 Manushian Keynote Lecture
October 26, 2009
"We are in the process of losing ... the right to learn things as we can and better ourselves economically from what we learn." The Stanford physicist will speak on "The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind" Friday November 13.
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Innovator W. Daniel Hillis to Lead USC-based National Cancer Institute Research Center
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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AME Professor Will Be Part of New Cancer Research Center
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.
Intel Fellow Creating a System to Automatically Recognize Emotion
October 25, 2009
Emily Mower's research may allow synthetic agents (robots and computer avatars) to understand human expressions of emotion. She presented her most recent findings at the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association held in Brighton, UK.
 ISI-led BIRN Launches New Website
October 23, 2009
The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) has launched a website that highlights its broadened focus, including services for the entire biomedical community and enhanced data-sharing and analysis tools and capabilities.
Faculty Members Win $23.6 Million in Stimulus Grants
October 23, 2009
Funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will support a wide range of Viterbi School research in numerous engineering disciplines
Teaching a RoboDog New Tricks
October 23, 2009
Stefan Schaal's Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab's mechanical quadruped performed at a high standard in recent DARPA competitive trials.
Operations Research Expert Arrives from Berkeley
October 20, 2009
Dorit S. Hochbaum, a world-renowned scholar with wide-ranging OR interests, will be the inaugural recipient of the Epstein Family Chair in the Daniel Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Teaching Science: Why Not Do It Scientifically?
October 15, 2009
Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman brought his message that current methods of teaching subjects like physics, chemistry and engineering are inefficient to about 100 USC faculty members -- and left behind continuing interest.
USC Ophthalmologist and Biomedical Engineer Joins IOM
October 15, 2009
Mark Humayun has been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine for his groundbreaking work to restore sight to the blind.
 


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