December 13, 2010
All systems were go — and went perfectly — December 8 at Cape Canaveral, with the newly developed Falcon 9 heavy lift vehicle sending into earth orbit a packet of nanosatellites, including a unit that the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and its Department of Astronautical Engineering's Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) jointly played a key role in developing.
Read More >
November 21, 2010
The Knowledge Technologies Group at the USC Information Sciences Institute has created a system that configures facts contributed by human users through a wiki site into a form that the digital Semantic Web system can understand and reason about.
Read More >
November 19, 2010
The Air Force Office of Science Research working through a UCLA-headquartered Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative is funding a $1.4 million study of "Inferring Structure and Forecasting Dynamics of Evolving Networks."
Read More >
October 26, 2010
An Information Sciences
Institute tradition entered its
fifth year on October 22, when
young researchers spent the
day presenting their work to
colleagues and teachers.
Read More >
September 20, 2010
Where can students learn to defend computer systems against the smartest, meanest, most malignant viruses, Trojan horses and malware known - without exposing their own computer systems and the Internet to this nasty code?
Read More >
August 11, 2010
ISI's Gordon Roesler has received a one-year, $2.1-million award from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a new information backbone and energy management strategy at the building level.
Read More >
August 5, 2010
Computer Scientist Kristina Lerman of the Information Sciences Institute recently took a look at Digg, and found that watching the behavior of a relatively few superusers foretold the fate of newly posted stories.
Read More >
July 2, 2010
ISI Executive Director Herbert Schorr has announced that Dr. Michael (Mike) Fritze, currently a Program Manager at DARPA's MTO office, will be joining ISI's technical staff in mid-July, 2010.
Read More >
June 11, 2010
The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy celebrated its 30th anniversary in May - and Terry Benzel received a Computer Security Award for Continuing Service.
Read More >
June 8, 2010
The 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics was held June 1-6, 2010 in downtown Los Angeles, with extensive facilitation by the USC Information Sciences Institute.
Read More >
May 26, 2010
A top-level delegation from the Department of Defense visited Southern California recently and discussed a new domain of defense operations - cyberspace - and its novel and unique challenges.
Read More >
April 9, 2010
A successful DARPA-funded Information Sciences
Institute collaboration with a high technology parts
manufacturer has taken a giant step upward from
R&D to real world applications.
Read More >
March 19, 2010
More than 50 computer pioneers and leaders key to the Internet's ongoing development over the past 40 years gathered Friday, March 19 to recognize the contribution of the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute in the hosting the Request for Comments (RFC) series.
Read More >
March 8, 2010
The new division will also will assist in ISI-wide development efforts, in areas like manufacturing, microelectronics, and other ISI strengths that can be leveraged to create strong programs in wireless technology
Read More >
February 22, 2010
A "Concurrent Water Collection" process developed by a longtime ISI researcher may help prolong well life, and increase production
Read More >
February 11, 2010
The University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, in conjunction with the USC Space Engineering Research Center (SERC), today announced development of a dedicated USC satellite mission, Aeneas.
Read More >
January 31, 2010
A statistical study indicates that the victims of the January 12 quake include an extraordinarily high number of children - 44 percent of the estimated total.
Read More >
