2003

The School of Engineering is featured on the cover of USC's premier publication, Trojan Family Magazine.

Anthony Borquez was interviewed by CNN Headline News about the Information Technology Program's video game courses.

A story in Wired News describes the Information Technology Program efforts to bring video game industry savvy to the classroom.

A CS graduate student and an ISI Senior Project leader brought back a "best paper" prize from a recent IEEE Conference on Web Intelligence and Artificial Agents.

Aerospace engineer Paul Ronney comments on China's plan to become only the third nation to put people in space.

lbourne Australia's largest newspaper examines Behrokh Koshnevis' project to apply rapid prototyping technology to construction.

Chicago Sun-times Looks at Grid Computing, a joint project of Argonne National Laboratories and the School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute. Carl Kesselman is quoted.

Mohammad Sahimi, chair of the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Program writes a history of Iran's nuclear program.

Researcher and surfer Jose Borrero knows how to deal with waves.

The cover story of Industrial Engineer profiles Daniel J. Epstein, USC trustee and member of the the School's Board of Councilors, whose gift named the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Computer scientist Stefan Schaal teaches a robot how to walk.

Ulrich Neumann sees virtual stars filling the screen.

The Economist focuses on Costas Synolakis' digital tools for studying tsunamis.

Electrical Engineer T.C. Cheng discusses the massive power outage and the aging electrical power grid on National Public Radio and the NewsHour on PBS.

Electrical Engineer T.C. Cheng discusses the massive power outage and the aging electrical power grid on National Public Radio and the NewsHour on PBS.

Associated Press feature details how USC computer scientist Leonard Adleman invented DNA computing.

Wei Min Shen's and Peter Will's shape-shifting robots are featured in a Science article.

EW Woman profiles computer sciences doctoral candidate Liang Zhou who is developing tools to translate Hindi into English.

Transportation engineer James Moore takes aim at the newly opened Metro Rail Gold Line and L.A. rail transportation in an L.A. Times commentary.

KCET-TV's Life & Times Tonight profiles Lewis Johnson, his research to humanize computers and his second career as a singer.

A New York Times story on machine language translation features Kevin Knight at the School's Information Sciences Institute.

E-Commerce Times describes how ISI has pushed back the limits of virtual environments by simulating a million moving vehicles.

IMSC Director Ulrich Neumann tells the New York times that new electronic devices are doing to digital video much what the Walkman did to music.

The Indian Express reports on a huge effort lead by Eduard Hovy at USC's Information Sciences Institute to create technology to rapidly translate Hindi into English.

The New York Times reports on the grid computing revolution led by ISI's Carl Kesselman and Argonne National Laboratory.

Paul Ronney's tiny fuel cells, perhaps the next generation of batteries, are named one the "Six Technologies That Will Change the World" by Business 2.0.

LA Weekly takes a look at Behrokh Khoshnevis' dream to use rapid prototyping technology to build houses in 24 hours without human hands.

Carl Kesselman, director of the Center for Grid Technologies at the Information Sciences Institute, and his grid computing colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory, have been named to InfoWorld's list of 2003 Innovators.

ISI researchers are among computer scientists competing to find ways of quickly translating a randomly chose language into English in a DARPA project. The story is in Wired.com.

Biomedical engineer Ted Berger's work to build a "brain-machine interface" - to link the brain to the silicon circuits of a computer - is featured in the May issue of this publication. In addition to Berger, biomedical engineer Vasilis Marmarelis and graduate student Walid Soussou are in the article.

Civil engineer Jose Borrero's study of the tsunami risk in Southern California is covered by the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register and others.

Safety expert Najm Meshkati says the wreckage of the Soviet-era Chernobyl nuclear plant still poses a threat.

Professor Leonard Adleman has been honored by the Association of Computing Machinery with the Turing Prize, often called the Nobel Prize of Computing.

Dean C. L. Max Nikias relates to the April 7, 2003 L.A. Business Journal how he positioned the School to take advantage of defense-oriented research funding following 9/11.

The USC School of Engineering has been ranked eighth in the 2003 US News & World Report rankings consolidating it's place in the top 10.

Civil engineer Henry Koffman, director of the construction engineering and management program, talks about rebuilding Iraq's roads, airports, pipelines, bridges, etc. on the Larry Mantle Show on public radio station KPCC-FM.

Biomedical engineer Michael Khoo uses engineering tools to study the problem of sleep apnea, which plagues millions.

New Scientist reports that Ted Berger, biomedical engineer, will soon begin testing a prosthesis for the hippocampus of the brain.

Computer science graduate Student Monica Nicolescu, who is teaching robots to be more like us, is featured in the New York TImes. Also in the article are her adviser Maja Mataric and robotics legend George Bekey.

Kelly Goulis, director of the School's Distance Education Network, tells the Voice of America, how students are earning masters degrees without setting foot on campus.

In the Orange County Register, Najmedin Meshkati, associate professor of civil engineering, and his graduate student Krista Slonowski, note that a high fatality rate at street-level rail crossings must be addressed before new light rail projects begin operating.

As the field of robotics advances, the idea of human-robot interactions moves steadily from imagination to reality. Two USC joint projects explore the prospect of robot teams assisting with tasks once assigned only to people.

In an op-ed published in the Sacramento Bee, Dean C. L. Max Nikias argues that we need to wire the world for "the next generation Internet" to complete the Internet revolution.

Most L.A. County infrastructure, built more than 50 years ago for a much smaller population, is in decline. In a new ‘scorecard,’ The American Society of Civil Engineers assesses the state of Southland systems – from roadways to wastewater – and recommends what must be fixed.

One of the world's most distinguished universities recently honored one of ISI's newest faculty members. Senior Computer Scientist Jerry R. Hobbs received an honorary degree from the University of Uppsala in Sweden Jan. 24, only three months after joining the USC School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute.

Grid computing research by Carl Kesselman at the Information Sciences Institute is recognized by MIT’s Technology Review. The emerging technology is expected to transform the way lives are led and work is conducted.

Virtual worlds created by There Inc. may become the first sort of digital Club Med where online guests - for a fee yet to be determined - will be able to connect with other people, shop, or simply explore the exotic surroundings. "People spend hours with their e-mail alone for entertainment, and people are getting familiar with big games in which thousands are participating," said Herbert Schorr, executive director of USC's Information Sciences Institute. "Something like this should be a greatly enriching experience for people. I think this will be the next step."

Skip Rizzo and USC’s Integrated Media Systems Center is leading a revolution in the use of virtual reality technology to assess and treat phobias, anxieties and other cognitive disorders.