News - 2004
Found in Space: $58 million

GamePipe Lab Plans to be R&D Player

Godiva's Speedy Ride: USC PIM Chip On Track to Beat Itanium

The Wars of the Virtual Worlds

The newly created world is an electronic arena in which top military officers of the U.S. Joint Forces Command can develop tactics for the future - an arena that has taken a significant leap in complexity in the past three years, facilitated by the computer skills supplied by the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute. Read More >
New Postel Visiting Scholar Will Network the Past

'Expert Kernel Hacker' Returns to ISI
July 29, 2004 Annette DeSchon, a standout programmer who left ISI to create key elements of MacOS X and other software for Apple, has returned to build a more secure Internet Read More >USC Smartens HP Server Memory

Thought for Food

A SuperMap for Soldiers - Or Business Travelers

Decades worth of detailed, accumulated geographical information is now available to front-line troops in a concentrated, portable, easy-to-use laptop package created by the University of Southern California. Read More >
Integration Sciences Division in Homeland Bio-threat Center
April 30, 2004 The USC Viterbi School of Engineering will partner with Texas A&M in a new Homeland Security Center aimed a biological threats — and ISI will be a part of the effort. Read More >Ohlander Wins USC Viterbi School Service Award

Intelligent Systems Researcher Wins IEEE/ACM Conference Honor
April 27, 2004 Sundeep Pattem, recently a research assistant with Dr. Kristina Lerman at ISI's Intelligent Systems Division, has won a prestigious best paper award at the recent ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN). Read More >Intelligent Systems Researcher Wins IEEE/ACM Conference Honor
April 27, 2004 Sundeep Pattem, recently a research assistant with Dr. Kristina Lerman at ISI's Intelligent Systems Division, has won a prestigious best paper award at the recent ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN). Read More >Six New AAAI Fellows Named - Two are From USC

Wireless Networker Wins NSF Early Career Grant
April 7, 2004 Only two years after joining USC straight from graduate school at Cornell, Bhaskar Krishnamachari has won a prestigious NSF faculty early career development grant. Read More >Degussa AG Will Work on USC 'House-Printing' Project System Will Build 2,000-Square-Foot House in 24 Hours, Says Inventor

Degussa AG Will Work on USC 'House-Printing' Project System Will Build 2,000-Square-Foot House in 24 Hours, Says Inventor

$2 Million NSF Grant Funds Grid Security Research and Builds Self-Defense Toolkits at USC

Now, funded by a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, computer scientists at the University of Southern California and international collaborators are creating tools to enable the Grid to defend itself, automatically. Read More >
Mission to Arabic: It's Not Your Father's Language Lab
