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Events for March 22, 2007
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Virtual Communities, The Grid, and Systems Oriented Science
Thu, Mar 22, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Dr. Carl KesselmanFellow, USC Information Sciences Institute; Director, USC Center for Grid Technologies at the Information Sciences Institute; and Research Professor, USC Computer Science Department ASTRACT: Increasingly, significant activities in science, business and society at large take place within the context of distributed, computationally enabled collaborations. Large-scale science collaborations such as those found in astrophysics, astronomy, geophysics, and particle physics are typical of this new type of collaboration. Driven by requirements for a broad range of skill sets, participants and resources, the concept of community becomes central organizing principal for these emerging computationally empowered explorations. However, unlike traditional communities, which tend to have well defined members and boundaries, today's scientific communities are dynamic, distributed, and span institutional boundaries. This has lead to the description of these structures as virtual organizations. Virtual organizations more then just the people, but encompasses the services, resources and capabilities that are shared to achieve the goals of the shared endeavor. This leads to the inevitable question of how these distributed are communities formed, how are they maintained, how to they create new services and capabilities for their members, how do they get work done. Technologies such as service oriented architectures and Grids provide underlying foundation, but now need have mechanisms for identifying, creating and operating distributed virtual communities. In this talk, I will explore the question of how to create and empower virtual communities and how we can support community formation within the context of our information technology infrastructure. BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Carl Kesselman is Fellow in the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. He is the Director of the Center for Grid Technologies at the Information Sciences Institute and a Research Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University at Buffalo. Dr. Kesselman also serves as Chief Scientist of Univa Corporation, a company he founded with Globus co-founders Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke.Dr. Kesselman's current research interests are all aspects of Grid computing, including basic infrastructure, security, resource management, high-level services and Grid applications. He is the author of many significant papers in the field. Together with Dr. Ian Foster, he initiated the Globus Project™, one of the leading Grid research projects. The Globus project has developed the Globus Toolkit®, the de facto standard for Grid computing. Dr. Kesselman received the 1997 Global Information Infrastructure Next Generation Internet award, the 2002 R&D 100 award, the 2002 R&D Editors choice award, the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer and the 2002 Ada Lovelace Medal from the British Computing Society for significant contributions to information technology. Along with his colleagues Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke, he was named one of the top 10 innovators of 2002 by InfoWorld Magazine. In 2003, he and Dr. Foster were named by MIT Technology Review as the creators of one of the "10 technologies that will change the world." In 2006 Dr. Kesselman received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam.THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007, 1:00-2:00 PM, GERONTOLOGY BLDG (GER) 309
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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CS Distinguished Lecture Series
Thu, Mar 22, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Prof. Martha Pollack
University of MichiganTitle: Intelligent Assistive Technology: The Present and the FutureAbstract: Recent advances in two areas of computer sciencewireless sensor networks and AI inference strategies have made it possible to envision a wide range of technologies that can improve the lives of people with people with physical, cognitive, and/or psycho-social impairments. Indeed, some of these same "assistive technologies" can also be a boon for people without impairments. This talk will survey current projects aimed at the development of intelligent assistive technology and will speculate about future design challenges and opportunities.Biography: Martha E. Pollack is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, where she also chairs the Computer Science and Engineering Division. A Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Pollack has conducted research in the areas of automated planning and execution monitoring, temporal reasoning and constraint satisfaction, and natural language processing, as well as on assistive technology for cognitively impaired people. In April of 2004 she testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging about the potential value of assistive technology in an aging world.Hosted by: Prof. Maja MataricLocation: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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Andrew J. Viterbi Distinguished Lecture
Thu, Mar 22, 2007 @ 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
The 2007 Viterbi Lecture is hosted by the USC Ming Hsieh Department of
Electrical Engineering and Viterbi School of Engineering"Learning to Teach the Viterbi Algorithm"Prof. Robert J. McElieceCalifornia Institute of TechnologyThursday March 22, 2007Reception: 4:00-5:00PMLecture: 5:00-6:15PMGerontology AuditoriumAbstract: One of Andrew Viterbi's most important contributions to modern technology is the celebrated Viterbi Algorithm, which is the cornerstone of modern coding theory. I have taught the Viterbi Algorithm to many generations of Caltech students using a variety of pedagogical devices, including string models, multilevel transparencies, and computer animations. In this talk I will discuss these methods as well as others, and what I have learned by teaching the Viterbi Algorithm.Bio:Robert J. McEliece is currently the Allen E. Puckett Professor and Professor of Electrical Engineering, at the California Institute of Technology. He has also been a regular consultant at the Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. At JPL Dr. McEliece has contributed to the design and analysis of numerous coded interplanetary telecommunication systems, for example the Golay coded non-imaging system for the Voyager spacecraft, and the Big Viterbi Decoder, which has been used by the Galileo, Pathfinder, Cassini, and Mars Rover missions. As a faculty member at Caltech, he has five times won awards for excellence in teaching, and mentored more than 30 Ph.D. students. From 1990-1999, he served as Executive Officer for Electrical Engineering, and under his leadership Caltech's small (15 FTE) EE Department rose to rank 5th nationally. Dr. McEliece is the author of three textbooks and more than 250 research articles, jointly with more than 100 coauthors. Among his research accomplishments are "McEliece's Theorem," on weight divisibility in cyclic codes, the "JPL Bound" (jointly with Eugene Rodemich, Howard Rumsey, and Lloyd Welch), which has been the world record-holder in the basic combinatorial problem of coding since 1977, and which was selected for a Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Award in 1998, the ``McEliece public-key cryptosystem,'' which has withstood the attacks of cryptanalysts for more than 25 years, and "repeat-accumulate codes" (jointly with Dariush Divsalar and Hui Jin), which bridge the gap between turbo-codes and LDPC codes. He won the 1998 Leonard G. Abraham Prize for his paper (joint with David MacKay and Jung-fu Cheng) "Turbo decoding as an instance of Pearl's belief propagation algorithm," and was awarded an IEEE Third Millenium Medal in 2000. In 2004 he was awarded the IEEE Information Theory Society's Shannon Prize. Dr. McEliece is a member of the American Mathematical Society, a Fellow of the IEEE, a past president of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - ontology Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Rosine Sarafian
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ENSR Information Session
Thu, Mar 22, 2007 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Current Engineering Undergraduate/Graduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Special Acess: An Insiders Guide to Careers in the VideoGame Industry
Thu, Mar 22, 2007 @ 06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Alumni
Receptions & Special Events
Have you ever thought about a career in the booming $7 billion Video Gaming Industry?Are you currently working in the industry and looking to expand your networking contacts and learn more about the latest trends?The USC Career Planning & Placement Center (CPPC) and the USC Alumni Association in partnership with the Information Technology Program at the Viterbi School of Engineering are pleased to announce the latest event in the popular Alumni Speaker Series:This premier alumni event will bring together leading video gaming company experts to discuss what it takes to succeed and move up in the growing video game industry. This event is designed to provide a forum for USC alumni and friends to gain information, career leads and network.Date: Thursday, March 22, 2007
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.Location: USC, University Park Campus, Kaprielian Hall (KAP) 160Keynote Speaker: Anthony Borquez, VP, Konami and USC AlumnusExpert Moderator: Dr. Ashish Kanchan Soni, Director Information Technology Program, and USC Faculty Member within the USC Viterbi School of EngineeringOur distinguished panel includes:-Angela Baker- Recruiter/HR Generalist, Insomniac Games-Michael Gimartin- Director of Quality Assurance, Blizzard-Jason Gregory- Senior Engineer, Naughty Dog-Kevin Mack- Senior Designer, Electronic Arts, Los Angeles-T.J. Summers- Sr. Partner, Digital Artist Management, Inc.-Patrick Sweeney- Business/Legal, Haight, Brown and BonesteelSPACE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED. Past Special Access events have sold out.PLEASE RSVP BY TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2007 AT MIDNIGHT AT THE FOLLOWING LINK: http://careers.usc.edu/events/view/3/Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall 160
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kirstin Strickland
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Dancing with Shakti: Viji Prakash and the Shakti Dance Company
Thu, Mar 22, 2007 @ 07:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
The acclaimed South Indian dance troupe, the Shakti Dance Company, will participate in a series of events at USC, including a master dance class, a screening and discussion of the film Dancing with Shakti and a full performance. This evening performance is open to the public and will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.For more information, please visit the Visions and Voices website: http://www.usc.edu/webapps/events_calendar/custom/113/index.php?category=Item&item=0.861495&active_category=Day
Location: Bovard Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
