2010

Playboy Magazine singles out "the world's first completely automated homebuilding technology," under development at the Viterbi School's Epstein ISE Department

The New York Times focuses on work at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies creating virtual environments and characters to help counselors' real patients

The Astani Department's Constantinos Sioutas and colleagues found a 65 percent reduction in dangerous black carbon particles, reports Italy's top paper, Corriere della Sera

Viterbi CS/ICT researcher described as "the man of a thousand faces who makes the digital look real"

A story on "The Idea House: Senior Living" includes images and coverage of "socially assistive robots being developed by the Interaction Lab of the Viterbi School of Engineering"

The Viterbi School's pianist-ISE professor gave a presentation on "De-mystifying Music and Its Performance" at the IBM Research Center in Armonk, New York

Iridescent, founded by AME's Tara Chklovski, "is staffed by volunteers, mostly USC engineering students... its biggest backer is the Navy"

Dean Yannis Yortsos pens an oped article on the NAE Grand Challenges, the X-Prize and innovation.

The Fariborz Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition will encourage engineering students to create business plans and companies, and reward the best ideas.

A detailed story in the magazine explores the background of the Viterbi/Keck faculty member developing the Argus II retinal implant

Huffington Post: "In the inner city schools of Los Angeles, I see a glimpse of the future of science and job creation in this country ... I see a series of concrete measures we can take"

In a widely used Associated Press story, Viterbi Professor Najmedin Meshkati suggests BP's investigation of the Gulf oil spill was seriously flawed.

Shrikanth Narayanan is developing systems that might help people ranging from children with autism to couples in marriage therapy

New theories are "a really interesting body of work," says Todd Brun but adds "I don’t expect these will be tested anytime soon. These are ideas. They’re fun to play with."

In a feature entitled "Full Dimensions: Why building information modeling is taking root," the Astani Department professor discusses growing industry use of her specialty

Science reports the Viterbi School professor's appointment to a team being assembled by the NAE and the National Research Council

"Before we invest a hundred million dollars in a system like this, we ought to look at easing the barriers to jitneys and taxis downtown"

A new USC oncology center directed by computer architect W. Daniel Hillis is modeling lymphoma using IT tools

A front page story features David Feil-Seifer and Maja Mataric's robot Bandit interacting with children with autism.

Michelle Povinelli's method of 'shaping light pulses' could lead to faster telecommunications, Technology Review reports

Next month, Kevin Knight will present a system that deciphered Ugaritic inscriptions in just hours

Science Applications International Corporation gift will support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering Math) educational programs

Catrachos News covers emeritus professor George Chilingar's meeting with incoming President Porfirio Lobo

Terry Benzel received a Computer Security Award for Continuing Service from the IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy

The namesake of the Viterbi School leads the list of USC honorees at the June 26 ceremonies

"In the future, probably every actor on a movie will be digitized at the start of shooting," the Viterbi/ICT professor said

The L.A. Weekly profiles the Viterbi School professor and Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems director in its People issue

Last year, Catherine Ricafort graduated from USC with a degree in industrial engineering. Today, she’s starring in A Chorus Line.

"Working with 20 major hospitals ... a team of USC engineers and students found plenty of low-hanging fruit when it comes to cutting costs," he writes in the Huffington Post

"Andrew Viterbi invented an algorithm that transformed wireless communications. Then he co-founded Qualcomm."

A video shows how Dan Dapkus began a tech revolution in the 70s, customizing LEDs 'atom by atom'

The Association for Computational Linguistics event will take place June 1-6, facilitated by numerous ISI personnel

Information Sciences Institute Project Leader Brian Schott is a co-founder, with ISI's Robert Graybill, of NIMBIS Services, now collaborating with IBM.

The Viterbi School Senior Associate Dean is one of three honorees; praised as a leader in many areas.

"Internet royalty from across the country was there to celebrate," the L.A. Times reports, under the proud eyes of ISI director Herb Schorr

AME materials specialist Andrea Hodge is profiled in La Opinión

Work by Priya Vashista (CS, Mork) reported in ScienceNews opens possibilities for energy production and storage

"'The first step is analyzing what is going on,' said David Belson who has worked with several health care systems on this issue. 'You can start to see where the delays occur.'

The director of the Viterbi School pre-college program, which serves more than 1000 L.A. middle and high school students, is hailed for 30 years of service

In 1987, he was part of a grad student team that won an Apple Corp. prize for its prototype of a tablet computer

IEEE Spectrum reports on Maja Mataric's work with "caregiver robots"

The Economist discusses CS researcher Louis-Philippe Morency's ICT success in programming robotic understanding of human body language

"Having kids made Maja Matarić a different kind of mother of invention. The professor ... heads a team developing creatures with the raison d’être of helping people with special needs."

Epstein Department faculty member part of "Beautiful Science" exhibition at The Huntington