December 4, 2002
The Los Angeles Access Point (LAAP), operated by the University of Southern Californiaís Information Sciences Institute, and PAIX.net, Inc. (PAIX), a carrier-neutral Internet exchange and subsidiary of Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. (MFN), have announced.
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December 4, 2002
A unique University of Southern California design for self-
organizing robots controlled by "hormonal" software is
moving toward space.
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November 14, 2002
Led by USC President Steven B. Sample, a glittering group of friends, family and colleagues assembled on the USC University Park campus November 13 to pay tribute to ISI's founder.
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November 8, 2002
A new center dedicated to research and development in all areas of computer security is now in place at USC's Information Sciences Institute.
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November 6, 2002
Ray Mason, Dale Wong, Chris Smiley, Sheila Coyazo, and Ken Johnson have received the ISI Meritorious Service Award for their support of the School of Engineering Dean's Retreat, the 30th Anniversary event, and the Ron Brachman DARPA visit.
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November 6, 2002
Ray Mason, Dale Wong, Ed Jones, and Jim Koda's work installing the Southern California Edison (SCE) Preferred Emergency Circuit has earned them an ISI Meritorious Service Award.
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November 4, 2002
USC's Linux Cluster Supercomputer is the testbed for a new Grid security feature, tested as part of a multimillion-dollar National Science Foundation-funded, USC-led effort to put Grid Technology resource-sharing tools into the hands of working scientists.
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October 18, 2002
The British Computer Society will present the 2002 Lovelace Medal to Carl Kesselman, professor of computer science at the USC School of Engineering and director of the USC Information Sciences Institute's Center for Grid Technologies, in London in May.
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October 11, 2002
Computer scientist Keith Uncapher, 80, whose pioneering research and development on computer networking helped lay the foundations for the Internet, died Oct. 10 in Los Angeles from a heart attack.
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October 3, 2002
The ISI-codirected Center for High Performance Computing and Communications has announced plans to build up its cluster computer to make it one of the top five in the nation, and named a new chair for its faculty advisory council. Meanwhile, an internationally renowned team of cluster computing experts have joined USC.
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September 26, 2002
R&D Magazine's Magazine 40-year old tradition of honoring each year's hundred best contributions to technology this year embraces the Globus Toolkit Grid Middleware co-developed by the University of Southern California and Argonne National Laboratory.
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September 5, 2002
For decades, electronics have been getting smaller and smaller. Now, engineers are turning to one of mankind's oldest arts — weaving — for a cost-effective way of making certain devices bigger and bigger.
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August 9, 2002
Postel Center for Experimental Networking Graduate Fellow Venkata Pingali brought home the prize for best student paper from the 16th Annual ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, held June 22-26, 2002 in New York City.
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August 6, 2002
A highly decorated Marine Air Group has just begun streamlining planning and reducing operational risk with a new software system developed by the University of Southern California and Vanderbilt University.
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July 29, 2002
USC/ISI Device Will Be Evaluated for Use in HP
Platform with DARPA funding. Applications Seen in
Multimedia, Complex Scientific Modeling and Database
Access.
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May 4, 2002
A new system developed by ISI East researchers has broken through a critical security bottleneck limiting the usefulness of new, high bandwidth networks.
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March 4, 2002
Creating computer models of the Southern Californias seismic environment accurate enough to guide planners and builders is the topic of the Friday, March 15 entry in the monthly HPCC seminar series.
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January 11, 2002
The USC School of Engineering solidified its status as a leader in a key emerging area of computer science, Intelligent Agents, by hosting a special week-long "Agents School" Jan. 6-11.
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