http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/ USC Viterbi School of Engineering News en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:00:02 -0800 dziegiel@imsc.usc.edu (Jason Dziegielewski) 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. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:29:38 -0800 http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/community-education-and.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/community-education-and.htm 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 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:48:37 -0800 http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/isi-data-specialists.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/isi-data-specialists.htm 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. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:46:33 -0800 http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/usc-s-knowme.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/usc-s-knowme.htm "Born in Belgrade, in what was then Yugoslavia, Maja Matari? 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." Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:39:24 -0700 http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/inthenews/2009/in_the_news_20091029.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/inthenews/2009/in_the_news_20091029.htm 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. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:20:34 -0700 http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/viterbi-senior-scores.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/viterbi-senior-scores.htm "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. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:04:43 -0700 http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/inthenews/2009/in_the_news_20091026221766.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/inthenews/2009/in_the_news_20091026221766.htm 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. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:11:37 -0700 http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/inthenews/2009/in_the_news_20091026.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/inthenews/2009/in_the_news_20091026.htm 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. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:34:15 -0700 http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/ame-professor-will.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/ame-professor-will.htm 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. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/robots-have-feelings.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/robots-have-feelings.htm 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. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:35:58 -0700 http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/isi-led-birn.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/isi-led-birn.htm