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Wes Hansford, MSEE
Title Director, MOSIS
DegreesMS & BS, Electrical Engineering, California
Phone310.448.9199
Emailhansford@isi.edu
Research FocusMOSIS is the first online brokerage for low-cost and low-volume semiconductor chip prototyping and fabrication. MOSIS also offers an educational program that fabricates student chip designs free of charge for universities across the nation. Our focus areas are VLSI and MEMS fabrication, E-commerce and design/analysis tools.
 
John Heidemann, PhD
Title Senior Project Leader, Computer Networks
Research Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, USC
DegreesPhD, Computer Science, UCLA
BS, Computer Science, University of Nebraska
Phone310.448.8708
Emailjohnh@isi.edu
Research FocusSensor networks, sensor net/Internet integration, wireless and media-access (MAC) protocols, Internet protocols, network simulation.
 
Jerry R. Hobbs, PhD
Title Project Leader Intelligent Systems Research Professor, USC
ISI Fellow
DegreesPhD & MS, Computer Science, New York University
BS, Mathematics, Duke University
Phone310.448.9140
Emailhobbs@isi.edu
Research FocusArtificial Intelligence, including ontology, computational linguistics, discourse analysis, parsing, syntax, semantic interpretation, information extraction, knowledge representation, encoding commonsense knowledge, the structure of conversation, origin of language and the Semantic Web.
 
Eduard Hovy, PhD
Title Deputy Division Director, Intelligent Systems
Director, Natural Language Group
Director, Center for Knowledge Integration and Discovery (CKID) Center
ISI Fellow
DegreesPhD & MS, Computer Science, Yale University
BSc, Mathematics and Publications, Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa
Phone310.448.8731
Emailhovy@isi.edu
Research FocusNatural language processing, human language technology, computational linguistics, including text mining, information extraction, text summarization, machine translation, corpus annotation, question answering, language analysis and generation, discourse structure processing. Digital/electronic government, including heterogeneous database alignment, language processing in support of eRulemaking, eParticipation, etc. Ontology construction and use, especially with regard to natural language applications.

 

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