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2011 News Archive


First-ever Research on Maritime Engine Emission Reductions Shows Promise
December 12, 2011
TCC Chairman Kenneth Koo: "USC seems to be offering the best hope for both the industry and the environment.”
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Viterbi Undergraduates Capture Solar Power for USC Electric Cars
December 09, 2011
Here Came the Sun: Alice C. Parker and Gordon Roesler's Alternative Energy class puts on a brilliantly lit and highly successful demo
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So you want a job at Google — can you answer this question?
December 05, 2011
Viterbi team earns ticket to Warsaw to compete with world’s best student computer programmers
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Digital Energy and Resource Recovery Pioneers Yortsos and Paul Receive SPE High Honors
December 05, 2011
Yortsos' research in the maximized retrieval of hydrocarbons and oil in bypassed areas, and Paul's introduction of digital energy and integrated asset management to oilfield operations, transformed the industry.
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USAID Chooses Viterbi School for Indonesia Geothermal Education Effort
December 01, 2011
USC Center for Geothermal Studies Director Fred Aminzadeh will work with the Institut Teknologi Bandung to train specialists
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Ming Hsieh Institute Hosts Reception for Bay Area Electrical Engineering Alumni
November 29, 2011
Alums gathered to network, share fond memories and learn about current research and work taking place at USC Viterbi.
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Viterbi Researchers Find a Safer Way to Detect Heart Problems in Kidney Patients
November 28, 2011
Recent Hsieh Department Ph.D. Zungho Zun is lead author of a paper on using Arterial Spin Labeling (ASR) to image cardiac muscle blood flow
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Viterbi School Robot Hand Picks Up a Prestigious Best Paper Prize
November 22, 2011
Three young researchers from the Computational Learning and Control Lab demonstrate a superior grasp of programming gentle and accurate touch
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Ming Hsieh Institute Announces 2011-2012 Ph.D. Scholars
November 17, 2011
Chosen through a faculty-led selection process, the five scholars will receive mentorship and funding.
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'Distracters' and 'Supporters' Keep Viterbi Video Analyzer on Target
November 11, 2011
The IRIS Context Tracker system keeps loose track of multiple similar areas in a changing image to reliably find the right motorcycle, pedestrian or baby
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Viterbi Alumni Tour: Two weeks, Five Asian Cities
November 09, 2011
Dean Yortsos visits over a thousand alumni, friends in Hong Kong, Taipei, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing.
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New Sensors and Tools to Track the Multiple Personalities of Buildings
November 09, 2011
Burcin Becerik-Gerber of the Astani Department is probing the details of the "lives" of inhabited structures and hopes the results will lead to more than 20% savings in energy use
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Viterbi Computer Scientists Building a Genetics 'Information Explorer'
November 08, 2011
The Information Sciences Institute is leading a NIH effort to build tools to find medical needles in the genotype/phenotype haystacks
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New Partners in Asia: USC Viterbi and China University of Petroleum (CUP)
November 08, 2011
Beijing workshop and MOU signal new alignment between Viterbi and one of China's premier universities for petroleum study.
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USC Viterbi to Explore Research and Educational Collaborations in Shenzhen, China
November 01, 2011
At a ceremony heralding Chinese car company BYD's arrival in Los Angeles, USC Viterbi signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Shenzhen Municipality.
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Viterbi School Researcher Analyzes Breaths of (Not So) Fresh Air
November 01, 2011
Constantinos Sioutas learns that subway riders' air is worse than light rail riders', but automobile riders' air is worst
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Operational Quantum Computing Center Established at USC
October 29, 2011
USC; Lockheed Martin, Inc.; and D-Wave Systems, Inc.; have teamed up to establish the first operational quantum computer at an academic institution at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute.
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October 26, 2011
Doctoral student Brandon Franzke is the co-author, with Professor Bart Kosko, of a paper that shows how noise energy can power certain important processes.
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The Computer Says He Sounds Drunk
October 26, 2011
Viterbi professor Shri Narayanan's team receives an international award for a program that analyzes speech to detect alcohol consumption by speakers
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Star Mexican Student Brings His Talents to USC Viterbi School
October 24, 2011
BME doctoral student Juan-Miguel Ramírez-Rocamora compiled the best undergraduate engineering record in recent UNAM history
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Laufer Lecture 2011,
October 19, 2011
On Friday, Oct. 7, USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department presented its 2011 Laufer Lecture, hosting John Bush, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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A New Discipline, Behavioral Informatics, Takes Shape at the USC Viterbi School
October 17, 2011
Shrikanth Narayanan is intensively developing new ways to use information technology to understand non-verbal action in children with ASD, couples and other subjects
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IIT Bombay Sends High Level Delegation to the Viterbi School
October 14, 2011
Expansion of the iPodia network to the subcontinent is on the agenda, as well as recruitment of USC engineering alumni as faculty
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Chinese Academy Sponsors Symposium Honoring Software Luminary Barry W. Boehm
October 14, 2011
One of the Viterbi School’s most distinguished faculty members spent his 75th birthday in Beijing at an event that underlined USC's international reach
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Remembering a Master Theorist
October 13, 2011
John "Jack" Marburger (1941-2011) was a gifted theoretical physicist who had a major impact on USC engineering, recalls the USC Viterbi School's Martin Gundersen
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CEN Reviews Two Years of Energy Nanoscience at USC and Prepares for Three More
October 12, 2011
Center for Energy Nanoscience director and USC Viterbi Professor Dan Dapkus welcomed researchers from 18 teams researching new ways to turn light into energy and energy into light
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Just How Contagious Are Ideas?
October 12, 2011
USC Viterbi School social networking specialist Kristina Lerman compares the spread of viruses with the "viral" spread of information
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October 09, 2011
ISI's Yolanda Gil: "It is impossible to be prepared for every possible security breach, so we need to learn to do work while a network is under attack."
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Motivating Exercise: What's More Cost-Effective, What's Less
October 09, 2011
ISE's Shinyi Wu assembled a precise comparison of 91 recently tried ways to increase physical activity, from coaches to motivator phone calls to simple signs next to elevators
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September 22, 2011
Viterbi School faculty and staff filled Town and Gown to hear their dean share a stirring list of accomplishments and set a lofty goal
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Viterbi Stars Shine in Communications, Nanotech, Sensor Nets, Security and More
September 15, 2011
Yannis Yortsos, Guiseppe Caire (EE), Michael Gruntman (ASTE), Qiang Huang(ISE), Bhaskar Krishnamachari (EE/CS), Aristides Requicha (CS/EE) and Milind Tambe (CS) honored
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Top American Physical Society Prize Goes to
September 09, 2011
"His stature has been hugely influential in attracting top students and faculty alike to the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department," said AME chair Geoff Spedding
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Viterbi Joins with Metrolink to Create Safety Culture
September 02, 2011
USC professor Naj Meshkati and colleagues help 50 Southern California commuter rail leaders study past disasters in order to learn how to prevent future ones
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Bhaskar Krishnamachari and Jernej Barbič selected members of the TR35 Class of 2011
August 26, 2011
Algorithms for next gen wireless networks and improvements in real-time computer simulations put two Viterbi researchers into the latest Technology Review list of top under-35 innovators
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John Slaughter Welcomes Latest Center for Engineering Diversity Summer Institute Students
August 23, 2011
When John Slaughter was a kid tinkering with electronics, he told 36 incoming Viterbi freshmen, "people who were black or brown didn’t think about being engineers"
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Leading Experts Ponder the Problems of Exascale Computing
August 19, 2011
Bob Lucas of the Information Sciences Institute and colleagues hosted a Department of Energy gathering on how to program the equivalent of a billion laptops running simultaneously
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China Meets Taiwan in Viterbi’s “No Distance” Classroom
August 08, 2011
Imagine the best students with the best faculty — all connected around the world under the banner of USC Viterbi’s iPodia. Stephen Lu already has.
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GamePipe Gizmo Giving Users' Gaits to Game Characters Gains Patent
August 03, 2011
"PetPal," an exercise-encouraging game created in 2007 by USC computer science students, contained a MEMS mini-app that is now up for licensing
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Viterbi School Hosts Premier Robotics Conference
August 02, 2011
Stefan Schaal and Gaurav Sukhatme welcome colleagues from all over the world -- including former students turned prizewinning researchers
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USC/Chevron Frontiers of Energy Resources Summer Camp Scores 2011 Hit
August 01, 2011
Krystyna Miles of North Salem New York was one of 20 high school juniors who spent two weeks being briefed by high-level energy researchers and industry representatives
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USC Viterbi School and Tsinghua University Hold Fifth Faculty Summit
July 29, 2011
Dean Yannis C. Yortsos led a USC Engineering delegation to THU's Beijing campus, where the topic was “Green and Smart for a Sustainable Future"
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NSA and DHS Recognize USC for Academic Excellence in Data Protection Research and Education
July 27, 2011
USC Center for Computer Systems Security Director B. Clifford Neuman and ISI Director of Innovation Winnie Callahan attended Ohio honors ceremony
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Viterbi Faculty Kuo, Madni, Tambe, Waterman and Willner Draw More Honors
July 21, 2011
Jay Kuo to head IEEE-TIFS; Azad Madni joins ranks of INCOSE Pioneers; Milind Tambe earns more kudos for multi-agent security programs; Michael Waterman receives an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University; and Alan Willner reels in another IPS award.
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Tsen-Chung Cheng, Authority on Power Grids, 66
July 19, 2011
The Lloyd F. Hunt Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department joined USC Engineering in 1974 and received the School's Faculty Service Award in 1981
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Good Chip, Bad Chip, Evil Chip: Viterbi Experts Developing Tests to Tell Which is Which
July 15, 2011
ISI's Jeff Draper will be part of a large-scale DARPA effort to create tests to detect potential failures, inadvertent and deliberate, in integrated circuits
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Viterbi School Receives $80,000 ExxonMobil Foundation Grant to Host Prestigious Summer Science Camp
July 13, 2011
Larry Lim and Ben Louie of the Viterbi Center for Engineering Diversity administer a science- for-middle-schoolers program that bears astronaut Bernard Harris' name.
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Transforming Drug Delivery
July 10, 2011
Ellis Meng, a biomedical and electrical engineering professor at USC Viterbi, stands at the bold crossroads of medical research as she seeks to find new ways to deliver and monitor drugs for patients through nanotechnology and wireless communication.
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Viterbi Brain Prosthesis Experiments Receive Wide International News Coverage
July 05, 2011
Theodore Berger's words — 'Flip the switch on, and the rats remember. Flip it off, and the rats forget,' — are repeated in media all around the world
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The Shape of Things That Come to Be Researched
June 21, 2011
Who’s researching what? ISI's Gully A.P.C. Burns applies scientific data mining visualizations to information about National Institutes of Health grants. A new website displaying the result is now open for users.
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Viterbi School Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Azerbaijan Communications Ministry
June 20, 2011
Dean Yannis C. Yortsos and Azerbaijan Consul General Elin Suleymanov were part of a large celebratory gathering in the Viterbi Museum
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Restoring Memory, Repairing Damaged Brains
June 17, 2011
"Flip the switch on, and the rats remember. Flip it off, and the rats forget," said Theodore Berger of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Department of Biomedical Engineering.
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Andrew Viterbi Honored by Three Distinct Societies
June 09, 2011
Latest accolades for Andrew Viterbi from three distinctly different societies reflect his breadth of talent, achievement and service to humankind.
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Summer Brings Elite Interns from All Over the World to the Viterbi School
June 07, 2011
Senior Associate Dean Raghu Raghavendra: “The program exposes the labs, research and faculty of the Viterbi School to exceptional students"
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Engineering Superstar Alumnus Neil G. Siegel Returns to Viterbi to Earn a Ph.D.
May 24, 2011
The Northrop Grumman senior VP already had an IEEE Ramo Award and was an NAE member. But he wanted to study with Barry Boehm
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Viterbi Software Will Plot Possibilities for F6 Satellite
May 20, 2011
Gordon Roesler and Dorit Hochbaum will work with Lockheed Martin on DARPA's ‘fractionated' orbiter
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Three Faculty Honored for Excellence in Leadership, Research and Innovation
May 18, 2011
Howard honors Slaughter, HKN acknowledges Krishnamachari’s early career excellence and promise, and Tambe-TEAMCORE-CREATE group gains further momentum.
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Viterbi School Commencement 2011
May 13, 2011
A magical day as degree candidates turn into engineers and brand new alumni.
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Larry Lim Receives 2011 President's Award for Staff Achievement
May 11, 2011
USC President C. L. Max Nikias honors the Viterbi School director of Pre-College Programs for "outstanding contributions to the enhancement of USC"
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May 11, 2011
Gérard Medioni and Viterbi colleagues have have developed a system that can guide blind users along safe pedestrian paths it finds
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GamePipe Demo Day #12: The Hits Keep Coming
May 11, 2011
Students show media and industry reps why USC is ranked #1 in academic game programs
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CS Class Tackles Web Needs of Student Organization and Local Businesses
May 11, 2011
Michael Crowley's computer science students worked on the web and computing needs of clients like Chrysta Wilson of the "Kiss My Bundt" bakery
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KIUEL-Sponsored Senior Capstone Design Competition Fills Archimedes Plaza with Student Ingenuity
May 05, 2011
Student ingenuity fostered by the Klein Institute for Undergraduate Engineering Life is on display on the Engineering Quad
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May 04, 2011
Mann Institute Director Jonathan Lasch worked with the X PRIZE Foundation's Gianelle Veis developing the course.
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Viterbi Student Aerospace Engineers Take Second Place in National Design/Build/Fly Competition
May 03, 2011
"The RFB," a portable plane named from the initials of team mentor AME emeritus professor Ron Blackwelder, flew three missions successfully
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Viterbi Engineering Researchers Awarded $1.4 Million DOE Grant
May 02, 2011
Patric Muggli and his team will travel to the Facility for Advanced Accelerators and Test Beams (FACET) in Palo Alto to study the new generation of particle accelerators
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Viterbi School Annual Awards Salute Staff and Faculty Excellence in Service and Research
April 30, 2011
Dragana Davidovic was first to be called to the podium, followed by Annie Yu, Andrea Armani, Ellis Meng, Hai Wang, Joe Qin, Angus McColl and Peter Beerel
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USC Engineers Use Nanotechnology to Mimic Brain Synapse
April 27, 2011
Alice Parker and Chongwu Zhou use the single atom-thick carbon nanotubes to create a circuit that mimics the function of the synapse, the inputs to neurons.
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The Viterbi School Lauded as the School with the Best Mentoring Culture at the USC Mellon Awards
April 25, 2011
The Viterbi School of Engineering was in the spotlight at the Mellon Mentoring Awards Ceremony, as five deans received the event’s top honor, and three professors won individual recognition
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Najmedin Meshkati Discusses Nuclear Safety Culture On Air and In Print
April 25, 2011
The USC Viterbi School safety expert expresses his opinions on the developing situation at the Fukushima facilities, on Chernobyl, and California nuclear power
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Dorit Hochbaum Installed in Epstein Chair
April 22, 2011
The noted operations research expert is installed as the Epstein Family chair in a formal ceremony.
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Interdisciplinary Team Led by USC Viterbi School of Engineering Wins Prestigious Coulter Grant
April 22, 2011
Department of Biomedical Engineering Chair, Norberto Grzywacz leads the interdisciplinary team as Principal Investigator along with Co-PI's from Stevens and CTSI
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Six Viterbi Faculty Honored for Achievements and Service
April 22, 2011
Peers praise Murali Annavaram, Alexandros Dimakis, Martin Eskijian, Terence Langdon, Andreas Molisch and Cyrus Shahabi
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High School Students Go Head to Head in Math and Science Contests at USC MESA Day
April 19, 2011
Hundreds of teenagers from greater Los Angeles came to USC for competitions aimed at applying academic learning to hands-on projects
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A Viterbi Sweep at the Regional Aerospace Sciences Student Conference
April 19, 2011
Ryan Jansen and his research partner Eric Teegarden took a $500 first place prize in San Diego regionals and will move on to the finals in Nashville
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METRANS Named Transportation Organization of the Year
April 19, 2011
Maged Dessouky, James Moore and other Epstein Department faculty play key roles in the interdisciplinary center that will be recognized for excellence June 15
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Inaugural Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition Ends with a Spectacular Finale
April 18, 2011
The Abtum team, who hope to market a tunable cellphone transceiver chip, receives $50,000 prize from the hands of benefactor Fariborz Maseeh
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Elon Musk and William Wang to Speak at 2011 USC Viterbi School of Engineering Commencement Ceremonies
April 18, 2011
Two dynamic and hugely successful technological entrepreneurs will address the graduating classes
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Engineering Fresher American Flowers
April 15, 2011
A USC Viterbi team is working to help California growers compete in a tough global market
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USC Engineering Anti-Terrorism System Begins Tests in Boston Harbor
April 12, 2011
A Viterbi School computer science application is now making U.S. Coast Guard response boat schedules unpredictable to observers in Massachusetts
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33rd Viterbi Awards Banquet Honors Three Extraordinary Trojans
April 08, 2011
Engineering+ x 3: Orna Berry, Ronald Tutor and Chengyu Fu celebrated for combination of entrepreneurship with engineering excellence
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Freeway Air Bad for Mouse Brains
April 07, 2011
Constantinos Sioutas recreates air pollution in the lab to directly measure damage to brains of living mice and mouse brain cells in tissue culture
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Dean Yannis C. Yortsos Elected to Engineering Deans Council Executive Board
March 30, 2011
His two-year term will begin June 29, 2011, at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference
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USC President Thanks California Congressional Leaders for Space Research Support
March 29, 2011
President Nikias gives personal letters of thanks to Representative Jerry Lewis and Senator Diane Feinstein
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Metrolink and USC Viterbi School Partner for Rail Safety
March 25, 2011
Internationally recognized leaders in systems safety will create a first-of-its-kind advanced safety program
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Viterbi Experts Present Findings in Wake of Japan Catastrophe
March 25, 2011
Specialists in tsunamis and nuclear safety focus on California/U.S. consequences
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Three Viterbi Faculty Honored: CAREER, Innovation, Fellowship Awards
March 21, 2011
Jernej Barbic joins NSF CAREER program; Malancha Gupta wins Innovation Award, Andrea Hodge takes Humboldt Research Fellowship
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Costas Synolakis and USC Tsunami Research Center in the World's News
March 16, 2011
In the aftermath of the catastrophic events in Japan, the Viterbi School professor and others in the unit are widely quoted
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Clarence R. Crowell, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering, 1928-2011.
March 10, 2011
He had a 32-year career at USC and passed away peacefully on February 14, 2011
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John Hsiai's MEMS Thermal Sensor Detects Pre-Atherosclerotic Lesions
March 07, 2011
The Annals of Biomedical Engineering reports that angiogram catheters created by "John" Tsung Hsiai detect dangerous plaque in rabbit blood vessels
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Elwyn Berlekamp Delivers Viterbi Keynote Lecture,
March 04, 2011
The distinguished UC Berkeley professor emeritus presents a talk full of reminiscences and puzzle-solving to the keynote namesake and other coding celebrities
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Viterbi Faculty Win Professional Recognition
March 04, 2011
Peers honor Melvin Breuer, Leana Golubchik, Norbert Grzywacz, and Terence Langdon
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Viterbi School Hosts ASCE Bridge Building Contest for High School Students
March 03, 2011
Local high school students learn about engineering and infrastructure in the 17th Annual Popsicle Stick Bridge competition
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Viterbi E-Week Proves to be a Rousing Success
March 02, 2011
Undergrads celebrate Engineers Week with fun and games, the Viterbi Ball and outreach to middle school students.
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Viterbi School Video Game Programs Help Propel USC's #1 <I>Princeton Review</I> Ranking
March 01, 2011
Mike Zyda's creative GamePipe Laboratory combines Viterbi student computer science talent with talented students from other schools
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Viterbi School Opens Bangalore Office, Hosts Forum, Signs MOUs
February 28, 2011
IIT-Hyderabad's Uday B. Desai and USC Viterbi's Yannis C. Yortsos signed a memorandum of understanding following the USC Forum on Globalization and Innovation
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IMSC’s
February 25, 2011
An industry audience is enthusiastic about the new realm of space: not outer space, but the space of people living and working together.
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Viterbi School Deepens Ties with India in 4-City Tour
February 25, 2011
Dean Yortsos and a USC delegation visit Delhi, Agra, Mumbai and Bangalore for a series of events and initiates new collaborations
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Viterbi School hosts the NAE National Meeting on Megacities
February 22, 2011
The Astani Department's Constantinos Sioutas and a host of scientists and engineers discussed the future of giant urban centers worldwide
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Viterbi School Computer Scientists Contributed to the Development of IBM Watson
February 18, 2011
ISI's Ed Hovy, Jerry Hobbs, and Hans Chalupsky were part of the effort to build the computer program that beat humans on TV's Jeopardy! gameshow Feb. 14-16
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Interview with
February 17, 2011
Students sit in with the noted Hollywood producer to gain insight into how engineering is depicted and presented on TV
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Len Adleman and Collaborators Win Top Award in Field Their Initials Named
February 17, 2011
RSA - from Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman - designates their dominant information security algorithm
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Eight Viterbi Faculty Members Receive Professional Awards
February 14, 2011
Peers have recently honored Mel Breuer, Maged Dessouky, Solomon Golomb, Yan Jin, C.C. Jay Kuo, Daniel Lidar, Patric Muggli, and Theodore Tsotsis
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Humayun, Requicha elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 08, 2011
The revolutionary retinal-device co-creator and the nanorobot pioneer will be inducted NAE members, the highest professional distinction that can be accorded an engineer
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Internet Addresses: An Uneven Shortage but an Inevitable One
February 04, 2011
John Heidemann's USC team has turned its latest Internet census into a video and a special web browser. Bottom line: not enough addresses
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Viterbi School Hosts ASCE's Annual Popsicle Stick Bridge Competition
January 28, 2011
250 local high school students participate in a full-day event that showcases and celebrates the engineering profession
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Maja Matarić Receives Presidential Mentoring Award from President Obama
January 28, 2011
The Viterbi School professor of computer science and senior associate dean for research accepted her honor at a White House ceremony January 27
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Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Contest Kickoff Event A Success!
January 27, 2011
Fariborz Maseeh is on hand as 15 highly competitive teams are selected to vie for the $50,000 prize
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Viterbi Engineering Career Expo Scores a Big Win
January 27, 2011
The event brought top recruiters from science, engineering, government and finance to meet enthusiastic student prospects
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USC Smart Fence Recognizes Bad Airport Neighbors
January 24, 2011
A team co-directed by BME's Alireza Dibazar built a alarm system that took a Homeland Security best paper prize in November and is now receiving further fine-tuning in Florida
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Petros Ioannou to Design Smart Cars for the Megacity
January 21, 2011
The Ming Hsieh Department professor and his Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies will partner in the ‘Audi Urban Intelligent Assist’ project
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USC Hosts DOE Center for Energy Nanoscience (CEN) 2011 Annual Meeting
January 21, 2011
A national meeting on USC Campus highlights first year achievements and research agenda at the newly named Center for Energy Nanoscience (CEN)
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Out of Africa, Into Grammatical English
January 20, 2011
Kevin Knight of the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute is part of a team using a 'linguistic core approach' for machine translation of some of the world's less widely spoken languages
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DHS to Underwrite 5-Year, $16 Million Advance of ISI’s Cyber Security Testbed
January 13, 2011
New funding will continue and enhance an effort that has made the Viterbi School a national leader in Cyber defense
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Viterbi CS Team Takes Silver in Seoul
January 13, 2011
Seniors Darryl Deweese and William Everton win second place at the Capstone Design Fair
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