November 30, 2007
Dozens of Viterbi School of Engineering freshmen poured off a
bus and explored the corridors of the School's Information
Sciences Institute on a November Friday.
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November 1, 2007
Grants from four separate government agencies totally
approximately $1 million are funding research carried on
both at ISI and an ISI/Viterbi USC spin-off company,
Geosemble Technologies, Inc., located in El Segundo,
California.
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October 15, 2007
The Grid, co-developed at ISI and Argonne National
Laboratories, has played a key role in IPCC climate change
research, recognized October 11 by a Nobel Peace Prize shared
with former Vice President Al Gore.
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October 8, 2007
Researchers at the University of Southern California
Information Sciences Institute, one of the birthplaces of the
Internet decades ago, have just completed and plotted a
comprehensive census of all of the more 2.8 billion
allocated addresses on the Internet — the first complete
effort of its kind in more than
two decades, they say.
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October 8, 2007
Researchers at the University of Southern California
Information Sciences Institute, one of the birthplaces of the
Internet decades ago, have just completed and plotted a
comprehensive census of all of the more 2.8 billion
allocated addresses on the Internet — the first complete
effort of its kind in more than
two decades, they say.
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October 5, 2007
Childrens Hospital's Dr. Jeffrey S. Upperman, who has long
collaborated with ISI's Robert Neches on designs for next-
generation pediatric emergency response systems, has just
received a $5 million grant from the Department of Health
and Human Services to develop such a system.
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September 28, 2007
ISI researcher John Tran, also known as Captain John J. Tran,
California National Guard Ready Reservist, finished five years
in
the Computational Services Division with a martial flourish.
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September 20, 2007
Ewa Deelman's ISI team will use its share of a 3-year $1.7
million
NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure grant to improve the
usability
and breadth of support of their automated task organization
and execution system.
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September 13, 2007
The plan was for company A to secure the northern
approach to the target, a suspected enemy concentration,
but company A is bogged down in traffic. The commander
frowns at the map visible on his combat computer; but
opens an option screen. And the USC Viterbi School
Information Sciences Institute Coordinators system has
suggestions, complete with pre-set orders for all the units
that will be affected.
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August 29, 2007
Impressive scientific imagination and effective showmanship by
graduate students working at the ISI Intelligent Systems
Division were on view at an August 24 competition, the second
of its kind.
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August 23, 2007
MEDICUS, developed by Carl Kesselman and Ann Chervenak
of ISI in connection with Stephan Erberich of Childrens
Hospital Los Angeles was named one of "10 cool cutting-
edge technologies on the horizon now" by the influential IT
publication.
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July 10, 2007
Jon Postel is saluted as one of "the 10 IT People Who Mattered
in the Past 40 Years" in the 40th anniversary issue of the
widely-read publication
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July 9, 2007
The USC Information Sciences Institute is playing a key role
in the 13th International Conference
on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007) which will
take place July 9-13 at a hotel close to the Institute's Marina
del Rey Southern California campus.
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June 28, 2007
A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher thinks she has
found a new source of artificial intelligence computing power to
solve difficult IT problems of information classification,
reliability, and meaning.
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June 1, 2007
After more than three decades at ISI, Lisa Moses retires as
Human Resources Director, and Sharon Nealon comes aboard
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May 29, 2007
An ISI team working under the auspices of the Department
of Homeland Security-funded Center for Risk and
Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) is creating
a system
that will speed and help make more consistent
the difficult task of quantifying risk estimates to guide
policymakers.
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April 25, 2007
Created by ISI researchers and collaborators, MEDICUS,
which uses grid technology to allow researchers and
physicians to share medical images easily and securely, was
one of two projects receiving 2007 Internet2 IDEA Awards.
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April 10, 2007
Craig Knoblock is one of 21
researchers selected from more than 140 competitors for
grants from the software giant.
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April 8, 2007
A growing number of scientific fields suffer from a stifling
embarrassment of riches: data pile up much faster than they
can be analyzed. A team of researchers at the University of
Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering's
Information Sciences Institute is now
building a prototype of a system that will address the
problem by automating scientific workflows.
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March 22, 2007
A revolutionary processor package that changes its
architecture to adapt to the demands of different computing
tasks more than met design expectations in recent trials.
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March 9, 2007
Herbert Schorr, executive director of ISI since 1988, has won
the Presidential Medallion, the University of Southern
California's highest honor.
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February 15, 2007
A new communication protocol for wireless sensor networks
just released by the Information Sciences Institute is the most
efficient yet, more than a tenfold improvement on previous
versions.
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February 13, 2007
On February 13, ISI's Wei-Min Shen reported to NASA
significant progress in developing "SuperBot," identical
modular units that plug into each other to create robots that
can stand, crawl, wiggle and
even roll, illustrating his comments with striking video of
the system in action.
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January 25, 2007
ISI acknowledged the longtime outstanding service of retiring
Deputy Director Ron Ohllander with a reception January 24 that
drew a capacity crowd of about 100 well-wishers.
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January 23, 2007
Readily available information and communications systems
systems could greatly enhance
rescue and rapid response: specialized sophisticated
applications especially created for emergency response
purposes could do much more, a new National Research
Council Report finds.
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January 22, 2007
It's a model lunar lander, and Viterbi School astronautical
engineering grads and undergrads have been jumping to get it
designed and built - with substantial ISI help.
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January 19, 2007
ISI's impressive roster of non-male IT professionals hosted a
delegation from USC's Women in Science and Engineering
(WiSE) organization.
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