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2006

2006 News


Software Speeds and Enhances Access to Print Brain Atlases
December 15, 2006
A Viterbi computer scientist led an effort to perfect a cheap, quick and copyright-respecting way to turn existing printed brain atlases into multimedia resources.
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Ringing in the Holidays
December 15, 2006
Whether it's a toy drive or a box of chocolates in the office, everyone seems to be getting into the proper holiday spirit. And Viterbi School staffer Rosa Cervantes, with her own toy drive, is no exception.
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Viterbi experts predict the wake of a pending quake
December 05, 2006
The latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports research by USC and Caltech showing that within the next few decades another tsunami is likely to flood densely populated sections of western coastal Sumatra, south of those that devastated by the tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004.
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Medioni Named to Internet Image Processing Company's Advisory Board
December 04, 2006
Agent Video Intelligence, Inc.™ announced that it has appointed Dr. Gérard Medioni, professor and chair of the USC Viterbi School Department of Computer Science, to the company’s Board of Advisors effective immediately.
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ISI Researcher Awarded Defense Meritorious Service Medal
December 04, 2006
Vicente C. Garcia Jr., who is Director of the ISI Center for Information Operations, has received a high military honor for peacetime service.
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Terry Langdon Wins Achievement Award
November 30, 2006
Terry Langdon, who has appointments in three USC departments, has received the Albert Sauveur Achievement Award.
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Viterbi Engineers Present Energy Ideas to $500 Million Research Consortium
November 29, 2006
The Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America, a non-profit consortium that includes USC, will fund more than $50 million of research annually beginning early next year. The Viterbi School, which hosted a RPSEA forum November 29, has a good chance of securing its share.
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USC Students Win Transportation Scholarships
November 27, 2006
Two outstanding women in the Viterbi School and the School of Policy, Planning and Development have won transportation scholarships that will allow them to compete at the national level.
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William Steier Named 2006 AAAS Fellow for Revolutionary Work in Polymer Photonics
November 23, 2006
The Viterbi School's William H. Hogue Professor of Electrical Engineering has been named a 2006 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his revolutionary work in high-speed opto-electronics and complex optical circuitry.
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Mission: Moon Lander
November 21, 2006
It's called LEAPFROG, and Viterbi students have been jumping to get it done. David Barnhart’s dedicated undergrad/graduate research project to create a Lunar Lander Prototype Vehicle began in September 1 and will proudly show off its hardware December 4th at the 2nd Space Exploration Conference in Houston.
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A Computer for Every Child
November 21, 2006
New service-learning pilot program will train Alexander School kids, their parents and teachers to use latest in computer technology.
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Mike Gruntman Earns Astronautics Honor
November 20, 2006
Professor Michael Gruntman, chair of the Astronautics Division in the Viterbi School of Engineering, has received the 2006 Luigi Napolitano Award for his book on the history of rocketry from the International Academy of Astronautics.
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Sanjit Mitra Elected a Fellow of Indian National Academy
November 20, 2006
Sanjit Mitra, a professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and its Signal and Image Processing Institute, has been elected a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
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Student Programmers Shine Even More Brightly in 2006 ACM Competition
November 17, 2006
It wasn't a fluke! USC Viterbi School CS students followed up their outstanding performance in last year's ACM Collegiate Programming Contest with an even more impressive one in this year's edition.
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A Community Center That's More Than Bricks and Mortar
November 13, 2006
Engineering undergraduate student Christopher Soto and a team of classmates in Ken Robidoux's WRIT 340 advanced writing course find a way to make an African community's dream come true.
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ISI Veterans Win Internet Society's Top Honor
November 13, 2006
ISI Fellow Bob Braden and his longtime colleague Joyce K. Reynolds are this year's recipients of the Internet Society's prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award, the society announced November 12.
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Building a Better Bio-diesel
November 08, 2006
The same oils that fry potatoes are now fueling a rapidly growing number of diesel vehicles. So far, the technology has mostly been improvised. AME's Fokion Egolfopoulos will take the first close look at how to optimize it.
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Immersive sound wizard wins 2006 World Technology Award
November 06, 2006
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Chris Kyriakakis is the winner of the 2006 World Technology Award in media and journalism from the World Technology Network.
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Six Viterbi Students Attend Women in Computing Conference
October 31, 2006
"In other conferences, women are so few. But here, everywhere you look it is just women. You suddenly realize that there are many in the field. And you think, if they go there, I can do it too."
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NAE President Sets High Goal for Viterbi School's CSSE
October 30, 2006
“I applaud this new organization,” said NAE President William Wulf, and declared that its expertise made it uniquely qualified to embark on a striking task: no less than a revised paradigm of engineering method. “We may need to rethink a lot of our assumptions,” said Wulf, “And I think CSSE is a perfect place to rethink them.
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Viterbi School Celebrates a Momentous Gift to Name the Department of Electrical Engineering
October 23, 2006
The Viterbi School celebrates a record-breaking gift and naming of the third department in its history at a red-carpet ceremony held in the Ronald Tutor Hall Courtyard.
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Putting a Fingerprint on Electrical Engineering
October 22, 2006
Cogent, Inc. co-founder and Viterbi School alumnus Ming Hsieh has given $35 million to name the School's oldest and most prominent department. Read this cover story about him from the upcoming Fall/Winter 2006 USC Viterbi Engineer magazine.
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USC Electrical Engineering: Innovation and Excellence
October 22, 2006
With 54 tenured or tenure-track faculty, the new USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering is the Viterbi School's largest, and one of the largest of its kind in the nation. Learn about some of the department's extraordinary milestones during its 100 years of rich history.
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Viterbi Alum Ming Hsieh Makes Record Donation To Name USC’s Electrical Engineering Department
October 22, 2006
One hundred years after the first engineering class was taught at USC--in electrical engineering--electrical engineer Ming Hsieh names the USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering. "Ming's name adds luster to a department that is already highly distinguished," says USC President Steven B. Sample an electrical engineer who is also a member of the department's faculty.
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NAE president and Ex-US Assistant Defense Secretary keynote USC software convocation
October 18, 2006
NAE President William Wulf, John Stenbit, USC President Steven B. Sample, Provost C.L. Max Nikias, Viterbi School Dean Yannis Yortsos and numerous corporate, government and academic software and systems researchers, administrators and developers attend a major software convocation at USC.
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Should We Protect Airplanes Against Surface-to-Air Missile Attacks?
October 18, 2006
A CREATE study addresses the short and long-term costs of introducing a new missile detection system to safeguard airline passengers.
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Two Best Paper Awards
October 17, 2006
Electrical engineering students and faculty with the Integrated Media Systems Center and the Signal and Image Processing Institute win best paper awards.
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Books and Blankies
October 12, 2006
A literacy program founded by Viterbi School undergrad and USC trustee scholar Robyn Strumpf, takes hold in L.A. and in some communities abroad. Read this profile to be published in the next USC Viterbi Engineer magazine.
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Viterbi Will Share in METRANS Grant Renewal
October 11, 2006
Petros Ioannou, director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology at the Viterbi School, will be part of an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional team working on $6 million funding put up by the US Department of Transportation and Caltrans.
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IMSC will Partner in New Institute for the Connected Society
October 10, 2006
The Viterbi School’s Integrated Media Systems Center, directed by Adam Clayton Powell III (left) will partner with two leading media analysts in a new non-profit institute, iFOCOS, the Institute for the Connected Society.
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Raytheon Engineer Wins USC Software Award
October 03, 2006
A Texan who made key contributions to the creation of tools now widely used to accurately estimate costs and time required for software development is the second recipient of the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Entanglement unties a tough quantum information problem
September 29, 2006
Three USC Viterbi School theorists describe a breakthough in the critical process of error correction coding in an article published in Science. Their work has the potential to change the rules of the quantum computing game.
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Sanjit Mitra Honored
September 29, 2006
After winning the prestigious James H. Mulligan, Jr. IEEE Education Medal, Sanjit Mitra, the Viterbi School’s Varra Professor (Electrical Engineering – Systems), scores a double by winning IEEE Signal Processing's Education Award.
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Flights of the SCtingray
September 27, 2006
The Viterbi School undergraduate aero-design team takes fourth at the 2006 AIAA Design/Build/Fly International Competition in Wichita, Kansas.
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Class of 2010 Is the Strongest Ever
September 26, 2006
Freshmen enrolling in the USC Viterbi School for the fall, 2006 semester show a 30-point gain on SAT scores over last year, making it the best of any class in Viterbi history.
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A Revolution in Prosthetics
September 22, 2006
An upcoming story in USC Viterbi Engineer magazine explore's DARPA's next generation prosthetics program. A whole new generation of technologies is ripe for development at the Viterbi School's Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems Center.
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State of the School, Fall 2006
September 21, 2006
In an address to faculty and staff on September 21, 2006, Dean Yannis Yortsos describes the state of the Viterbi School.
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Two Viterbi School Faculty Win Okawa Research Grants
September 15, 2006
Robotics expert Gaurav Sukhatme and information systems engineer Giuseppe Caire have won 2006 Okawa Foundation research grants to continue their work.
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USC to Play Major Role in $300 million DOE Supercomputing Research Program
September 08, 2006
The USC Viterbi School of Engineering will take the lead on more than $20 million in new research programs announced September 7 by the US Department of Energy's "Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing" program, and share in two more.
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Technology Guru Joins Integrated Media Systems Center
August 29, 2006
Technology visionary Cory Doctorow has been selected as the first holder of the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, which will be co-hosted by the Viterbi School’s IMSC.
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ISI Graduate Student Symposium Showcases Young Researchers' Skills
August 20, 2006
A new tradition began vigorously August 18 at the Information Sciences Institute Intelligent Systems Division, when eight grad students specializing in artificial intelligence presented their research in a prize competition. Martin Michalowski left won the best paper prize
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USC Wins $2 Million NIH Grant
August 16, 2006
An interdisciplinary team from the USC Viterbi School, the Keck School and the School of Pharmacy studying atherosclerosis will identify predictive indicators of the disease linked to blood flow patterns.
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CREATE Director Detlof von Winterfeldt Joins Viterbi School Faculty
August 08, 2006
His joint appointment in the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering will strengthen interdisciplinary ties and augment work in engineering management and systems engineering.
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Viterbi School Wins Share of $10.2 Million Homeland Security Effort
July 27, 2006
Eduard Hovy (left) of the Information Sciences Institute will lead USC's partnership with three other universities and the Institute for Discrete Sciences on a new Department of Homeland Security initiative on advanced information analysis.
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Postcards from Madrid
July 05, 2006
A group of USC Viterbi engineering students are in Madrid for a seven-week study abroad program. They take accelerated engineering courses taught by Viterbi School faculty fulfilling course requirements, but there’s still a little time left for fun...and to send back postcards.
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Viterbi School Leadership Changes
July 05, 2006
Dean Yannis Yortsos announces changes in the USC Viterbi School leadership team including several new senior associate deans and some new department chairs.
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Signals and Communications Expert Joins SIPI as First Varra Professor
June 29, 2006
National Academy of Engineering member Sanjit Mitra has arrived and now holds the Viterbi School's new Stephen and Etta Varra chair. He joins a host of old USC friends and colleagues in his specialty.
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Energy Experts Urge Transition to New Energy-Fuel Sources
June 22, 2006
Faculty from the Viterbi School joined other scholars, economists, industry representatives and policymakers in a candid discussion about global energy supply and demand in the next 50 years.
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Viterbi School MESA Kids Test the Waters at Catalina Island
June 17, 2006
A group of junior and high school students in the Viterbi School's MESA program met the ocean for the first time in their lives at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center.
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Yannis Yortsos Named Dean of the Viterbi School
May 22, 2006
Yannis Yortsos, who had been serving as dean on an interim basis, has been chosen for the position of Dean of the USC Viterbi School.
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2006 Commencement
May 12, 2006
A complete roundup of all the 2006 USC Viterbi School Commencement news, including a photo gallery.
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2006 Valedictorian Kellen Sick On His Way to an Air Force Career
May 12, 2006
His dream of becoming a fighter pilot has kept graduating senior Kellen Sick grounded — and on the right track — all of his life.
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Commencement Day 2006
May 12, 2006
Viterbi School awards 1,734 engineering degrees in 2006 graduation day ceremonies.
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Nothing But A's for Salutatorian and New BSBME Graduate Aaron Wong
May 12, 2006
A straight A student, biomedical engineer Aaron Wong is ready to take on new research at Johns Hopkins University.
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Distance Diplomas: 210 Receive USC M.S. Degrees via DEN May 12
May 08, 2006
This year’s DEN graduating class represents 23 percent increase compared with that of 2005. Graduates come from states all across the nation, including Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia, in addition to many Californians.
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4 x 3 = Exceptional USC achievement
May 05, 2006
Andrew J. Viterbi and Solomon W. Golomb have been members of the NAS, the NAE, and the AAAS for years. This year, new academy elections gave two more USC faculty members, Leonard M Adleman and Robert Willis Hellwarth, the same rare distinction.
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Sonny Astani Receives Distinguished Alumnus Award
May 04, 2006
Beverly Hills real estate developer Sonny Astani receives the first distinguished alumnus award given by the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
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The Class of 2006!
May 04, 2006
At the annual Student Recognition Ceremony, Dean Yannis Yortsos and other Viterbi School faculty recognized outstanding students for their contributions in leadership, community service and academics.
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The Next 100 Years Essay Competition
May 01, 2006
In the "Next 100 Years Essay Contest," Viterbi School students make their predictions on what the next century of engineering holds.
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Two USC Faculty Elected to Nation’s Top Scientific and Arts Academies
April 30, 2006
Professors Leonard M. Adleman and Robert Willis Hellwarth have been elected to two of the nation's most prestigious scientific and arts academies for their research accomplishments and contributions to society at large.
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2006 Staff and Faculty Awards
April 28, 2006
The Viterbi School takes a moment to recognize its own during this year's awards luncheon at Town and Gown.
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Eberhardt Rechtin, (1926 – 2006) USC Emeritus Professor and Honorary Degree Recipient
April 24, 2006
Eberhardt Rechtin, a USC Viterbi School professor emeritus who had academic appointments in three departments and who also received an honorary degree from USC last May, died April 14 following a long illness.
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And The ‘Viterbi’ Goes To…
April 21, 2006
The Viterbi School Freshman Academies host a night at the Academy Awards.
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