2011

Constantinos Sioutas discusses his team's work studying air quality around Da Vinci's masterpiece, aiding preservationists in reducing pollution's effect on the painting.

In its article on the U.S. alma maters of various world leaders, the magazine mentions new Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib's time at USC.

Professor Ted Berger discusses his goal of creating a device to aid the formation of long-term memories in patients with severe memory loss.

The director of the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering noted that while the process can get a project fielded early it does have "some failure modes"

CNN.com reports — after 42 years of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, electrical engineer Abdurrahim El-Keib (MS EE '76) will navigate Libya's future.

On his receipt of the top International Medal of the U.K.'s Royal Academy of Engineering, Andrew Viterbi discusses the algorithm that bears his name with the BBC World Service. Listen to the Click radio interview here.

Terry Benzel's Information Sciences Institute-headquartered DETERLab provides researchers nationwide a safe place to study malicious code

Kevin Knight of the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute and colleagues crack the encrypted rules for the rites of a mysterious secret society

The Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute is home for the devices CU@USC's student-produced news show calls 'real life transformers'

ABC News interviews Maja Mataric about the Robotics Research Lab and its work studying the interactions between robots and children with autism.

The Economic Times interviews Gérard Medioni at length for a story about "How Image Processing Will Move the World"

Biomedical nanotechnology expert Mauro Ferrari led off a day of presentations launching the new center for research on engineering medicine for cancer

A story in Air Transport World recalls the prescient report about the ISE safety expert's warning that it published just three days before the June 1, 2009 Air France disaster

There's something about machines that really seems to resonate with many kids with ASD, says Maja Mataric, co-director of the Robotics Research Lab at USC. "Robots are simpler than people."

"We're using optics to enable higher capacity communications ... to get gigabits to every access point," said Alan Willner in a USC News report on the Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN).

The USC Stevens Institute announces that a partnership led by Caltech, and supported by USC and UCLA, has been selected to receive a $360,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a national business plan competition for young cleantech entrepreneurs.

The Mork Department professor's highly sensitive, non-destructive method of measuring optical and mechanical properties of thin films is featured in Plastics Engineering

A special supplement on "Inventing the Future" features the School's "Guide Vest" for the visually impaired, explained in detail by co-inventor Gérard Medioni

On ProgressiveRailroading.com, John Fenton enthusiastically discusses collaborating with the School to create the unique Rail Safety Certification Program

The Viterbi School expert on machine-to-machine communication discusses how academic research penetrates — often slowly — industrial and commercial applications

"A nuclear accident anywhere has the potential to be a nuclear accident everywhere," writes the Viterbi School's Najmedin Meshkati in a New York Times op-ed

The Trojan Family cheered the launch of the biggest fundraising campaign in the history of USC and of American higher education at an exuberant celebration in Bovard Hall.

A report on METRANS research focuses on the algorithms to move more tons faster that the ISE professor found analyzing the Southern California rail network

In a Quest quarterly article, Astronautical Engineering's Mike Gruntman uses newly released documents to detail the lives of the Soviet space travelers carried aloft by the Vostok rockets

The Viterbi Senior Associate Dean's talk on assistive robotics was part of a recent high-profile IEEE panel on "Science & Entertainment Exchange," now an IEEE.tv video

An extensive feature in The New York Times focuses on the "psychoacoustics" work of the Ming Hsieh Department professor, who is also the founder and chief technical officer of Audyssey Laboratories.

“From Memory to Problem Solving: Mechanism Reuse in a Graphical Cognitive Architecture” brings Kurzweil Prize to Institute for Creative Technologies project leader

Mork Department publications ranked #7 internationally in Thomson-Reuters citation impact study

ISI security expert Jim Blythe programs computers to simulate the kinds of operator errors that leave networks vulnerable, The Economist reports

Pin Wang of the Mork Department has developed a lentiviral vector that latches onto HIV-infected cells, targeting these cells for drugs to hunt them down

"The prototype navigation system is the creation of scientists at the University of Southern California, led by James Weiland"

"When it comes to mapping the real world on computers, University of Southern California computer scientist Cyrus Shahabi takes his work to a whole new dimension"

Molly Martens (AME), Joe Rothenberg (Cinematic Arts) and Jannae Fong (AME) won first prize in the ImagiNations competition with a proposal of a ride for Shanghai Disneyland based on Pixar's movie “Up”.

Najwa Hanel is recognized for support "for faculty and the University that goes beyond the requirements of [her] formal role at USC.”

Mike Zyda's popular GamePipe Laboratory at the Viterbi School is reported as an example of the "growing cachet of the tech industry" in universities nationwide

Milind Tambe and Daniel Lidar have received highly competitive and sought-after five-year grants for interdisciplinary fundamental research

Dean Yannis Yortsos: "Teaching collaboration between programmers, designers and artists is an important challenge. Getting them all to operate together so they can become good at this is actually the biggest success we have as a program."

A team led by the BME professor will develop and test an implanted drug delivery device connected to a wireless network by an external controller for remote monitoring

The story offers details on the Fariborz Maseeh-funded MEPC program, the USC X PRIZE class and KIUEL capstone project work

Craig Western compiled a 3.99 GPA while serving as volunteer project manager for Engineers without Borders and carrying on research, most recently as a NASA intern

John Mork, Viterbi alumnus and member of the Board of Councilors, and his family make a transformational gift

“Railroads are a crucial component of the U.S. freight management and distribution system," writes the Epstein department former chair in a L.A. Times op-ed, "but we do not need and cannot afford a high-speed rail system for passengers.”

Chris McIntosh installed a 9-horsepower dirt bike engine on a La-Z-Boy recliner and "getting to class just got a little faster"

Stefan Schaal's Big Dog and Hubo the Humanoid are two of the visiting writer's five favorites, along with Bandit, PR2, and Glider,

Yannis C. Yortsos and other engineering deans are quoted in a detailed story in the April issue of the National Society of Professional Engineers monthly magazine

"A GRAND CHALLENGE: Sustainable Natural Resources Development on a Small Planet"

After accepting his Viterbi Global Leadership Award in Engineering, USC alumnus Chengyu Fu has been appointed to the newly created position of chairman of China Petrochemical Corp., Asia’s biggest refiner.

"Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of industrial and systems engineering and civil and environmental engineering at [USC], has built a system that can deposit concrete walls without the need for forms to contain the concrete...."

"Robots will be cooking our food and performing surgery on us, in part thanks to the work of Wei-Min Shen of the University of Southern California and his team"

The outstanding Epstein Department Ph.D. candidate's "Student of the Year" prize is featured on Northwestern University's engineering website

The Ideas Empowered program will support Maja Matarić's motion-tracking system for stroke victim rehabilitation, Ellis Meng's drug micropumps, and five other research efforts

The April 26-27 event will explore the numerous fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of software engineering made by the Viterbi School luminary

"I believe it is critical that we encourage and support engineering programs so that our state and nation will keep its competitive edge in the new global economy”

Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering professor honored for accomplishments in multimedia technologies and applications

Salih Eroglu, MCM '03, once Hank Koffman's teaching assistant, now organizes Turkish Clipper fans in addition to pursuing his engineering career

"Everyone should know what proof feels like..." begins the EE professor's response to the query posed to 163 renowned thinkers

Applied Minds founder W. Daniel Hillis, now a research professor at the Viterbi and Keck Schools, is co-directing an NIH-funded $16 million effort to build "the ultimate computer model of cancer"

Andrea Armani's hometown paper, the Commercial Appeal, traces the young Mork Department professor's career back to its inception in the class of a charismatic female science teacher