The very first student game presentation day for the Information Sciences Institute/USC Viterbi School's GamePipe Laboratory education program took place Dec. 6.

Irving S. Reed is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a winner of the Shannon Prize, the highest honor in signal processing. His memoir, Alaska to Algorithms: My Journey from the Alaskan Frontier through the Dawn of the Digital Age, describes his remarkable career.

Michel Dubois of the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Alan E. Willner, professor of electrical engineering, has been elected president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ (IEEE) Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS).

David Kempe has joined the distinguished circle of Viterbi School faculty who have received NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards.

Bound for medical school, senior Fima Macheret finds a way to help people and use his skills.

As it has since been 1998, final project day for CS445, the upper-level undergraduate introduction to robots class, was a spectacle worth coming to see.

The Viterbi School put in its best performance in memory at the annual ACM progamming contest in Riverside November 14, with its Cardinal team beating out UCLA and UCSD and bringing home a $300 prize — and the search is on for more potential competitors.

Anna Cheng-Zhi Huang, who is working toward degrees in computer science and in music composition, was a finalist in Computing Research Association's 2006 "Outstanding Undergraduate" Award.

Two Southern California engineers have created a mathematical theory of human surprise, working from basic principles of digital communications. Experiments recording eye movements of volunteers watching video appear to provide confirmation of the theory -- and the NSF has made a grant for expanded research on the topic.

Carl Kesselman of ISI will be co-director of a five-year effort to sustain and enhance the Globus Toolkit, the open-source grid software that underpins a rapidly increasing number of large, information-intensive science projects in the U.S. and abroad.

ISI’s Patrick Pantel was part of an elite group of ten young scientists representing the United States at the November 10-12 World Science Forum in Budapest.I

Shrikanth Narayanan was elected a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.

Fundamental changes can transform companies, says Georgia Tech industrial entrepreneur and professor William Rouse, who gave the first in a series of USC Viterbi School centennial lectures.

A team of computer scientists at USC's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) is providing the magic to make geospatial Web maps accurate and easy to access.

The Digital Government Research Center (DGRC) headquartered in in the USC Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute will partner on a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation aimed at encouraging international collaboration on digital government issues.

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering has received a $100,000 grant from the Annenberg Foundation to support intensified research on contour crafting, an innovative computer-automated construction technology that promises to reconstruct areas destroyed in tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes or other disasters.

Software industry veteran and USC Viterbi School alumnus Ken Klein has given an $8-million gift to found a new institute for undergraduate engineering student life.

The USC Viterbi School has established a new $2-million endowed chair to honor former Dean Leonard Silverman, the longest serving dean in the school’s history.

Staff at the USC Viterbi School-operated NASA Far West Regional Technology Transfer Center have created an ultracompact and inexpensive device that can present ultra-high definition video.

Professor George Chilingar of the USC Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has received another in a long line of international honors.

USC President Steven B. Sample has become the 108th Eminent Member of Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), the national honor society for electrical and computer engineering students and professionals.

Iraj Ershaghi and Florian Mansfield are recipients of prestigious awards from, respectively, the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Electrochemical Society.

Two promising faculty in electrical engineering-systems and biomedical engineering have been named to new early career chairs beginning Nov. 1, 2005.

Andrew Viterbi, who with his wife Erna, named the USC Viterbi School of Engineering delivers the keynote address at a USC Law Conference in Washington, D.C.

A new law course designed for the USC Mark & Mary Stevens Institute for Technology Commercialization (SITeC) curriculum will begin teaching “engineers, scientists and other inventors … what you need to know about patents, copyrights, trade secrets and trademarks in order to protect your inventions and add value to your USC degree.”

The Viterbi School of Engineering celebrated its centennial in parallel with USC's Festival 125 in October. Engineering activities included technology demonstrations, special lectures, exhibits and an Oktoberfest before the Trojan-Arizona Wildcats football game.

A report on preventing ocean pollution co-authored by Viterbi School environmental engineer Joe Devinny has won a prize for research excellence from the Regional Water Quality Control Board.

Engineering Writing Program students install a new-and-improved automated barcode system for USC's neighborhood police department.

The recently-established USC Viterbi School of Engineering GamePipe Laboratory has begun work on its first R&D contract: a $272,000 effort funded by the National Science Foundation to improve K-12 biology teaching.

Bionics is the word Hollywood invented in the 1970s to explain the “Six Million Dollar Man.” Today USC is on the cutting edge of neural implant technologies to restore sight, hearing, movement and memory.

USC Provost and former dean of the USC Viterbi School C. L. Max Nikias has formally announced the search for a dean of the Viterbi School.

Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and his family have given $15 million to the school's department of chemical engineering and materials science.

Well-known for his work in sleep apnea, Khoo is cited for his contributions to the mathematical modeling of the disorder.

Enrollment figures for the fall semester show that the USC Viterbi School's innovative graduate distance education program is continuing its rapid growth and expanding its geographical reach.

The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering has reached an agreement with Korean Air to offer a wide range of graduate engineering programs to Korean Air employees worldwide through the school’s Distance Education Network (DEN).

University Professor Emeritus George Bekey delivered the findings of a major report on the worldwide state of the art of robot technology at an NSF exhibition — and Stefan Schaal and Laurent Itti's humanoid head was a featured exhibit.

One single photon. One solitary quantum pulse of electromagnetic radiation, no more, no less, produced by one single electron, will be the product of a new device under construction by nanotechnologists at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Viterbi School emeritus roboticist George Bekey's latest entry on a long roll of awards comes from UCLA.

W. Lewis Johnson, director of the Center for Advanced Research in Technology for Education (CARTE) at the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute, is one of only two 2005 winners of DARPA "significant technical achievement" awards.

Two Viterbi School computer science graduate students and their advisor won second-place honors recently in National Institute of Technology and Standards Competition.

Trojan engineer Jose Carlos Abesamis shares a moment he'll never forget during Space Shuttle Discovery's launch.

Dean Yannis Yortsos announces new faculty appointments that "will increase diversity and balance across departments."

Science reports work at the Viterbi School-linked Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations that is yielding fundamental insights about how to tailor new kinds of ceramics.

Working civil engineers will be able to stay abreast of the latest building technology and earn MS degrees in two key specialities through the USC Viterbi School’s innovative Distance Education Network (DEN).

The Optical Society of America (OSA) has honored the Viterbi School’s Paul Daniel Dapkus with an award bearing the name of his professional mentor, LED inventor Nick Holonyak, Jr.

August, 2005, marks the 25th anniversary of a free program operated by ISI's MOSIS chip brokerage to fabricate free prototypes of designs created by student engineers.

"Seven weeks have gone by in no time at all," one student remarked at the end of a Viterbi School Study Abroad Program in Rome, Italy. Our last installment of postcards suggests the students spent every ounce of free time taking in the local culture or traveling to other cities or countries.

Computer scientist Cyrus Shahabi, who specializes in databases and information management, has been chosen to attend this year's National Academy of Engineering (NAE) “Frontiers of Engineering” symposium.

Just eight months old, USC’s Mark and Mary Stevens Institute for Technology Commercialization has already begun enrolling students, undergraduate and graduate, for innovative multidisciplinary programs in entrepreneurship.

Nenad Medvidovic´ and Viktor Prasanna are the latest Viterbi winners of $10,000 Okawa computer science grants.

George Bekey, who once remarked that he found robotics fascinating “because you learn so much about humans,” has earned the highest honor the IEEE bestows in the field — an award that is only the latest entry in a long list of honors.

The departments of chemical engineering and materials science have merged to increase resources and accelerate progress in important new fields.

Two second-year entrants from the USC schools of architecture and engineering capture first place by drawing up plans for a Disney hotel. The teams hopes its success will promote more interdisciplinary collaboration at the university.

A radio commercial for the Viterbi School's Distance Education Network (DEN) begins airing June 27.

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering has created a new endowed chair to honor the late Jack Munushian who died May 28. Approved by Provost C. L. Max Nikias, the chair with be called the Jack Munushian Early Career Chair.

Terence G. Langdon, Leonhard Professor of Engineering at the Viterbi School, has won a prestigious international award for the most significant research on materials.

Three distinguished engineering faculty will become endowed chair holders beginning July 1, 2005.

Three years of work by a large interdisciplinary team at the University of Southern California has created a rudimentary but working two-way voice translation system.

The June 9 publication in Nature of research on miniaturized portable fuel cells brought worldwide attention to Viterbi School professor Paul Ronney and grad student Jeong-Min Ahn

USC's Information Sciences Institute, long known for its research and development on the Internet and computer science, has embarked on a new challenge: K-12 Education with an ambitious research program headed by a prominent young educational psychologist.

USC Viterbi School engineer and concert pianist Elaine Chew wins a Presidential Early Career Award for her pioneering research.

Waves more than 15 meters (49 feet) high. Flooding of 25 square miles of land. A coastline moved a mile. In the June 9, 2005 issue of Science, civil engineer Jose Borerro presents the results of the detailed survey he made on the scene at Banda Aceh, Indonesia following the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunam

In an award-winning paper, Anita Sengupta says ion engines are a more efficient way of flying deep-space missions.

Yannis C. Yortsos became the new dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering on June 1, 2005, and announced other leadership changes. Former Dean C. L. Max Nikias became provost of the university.

Jack Munushian, a scientist, educator and leader who played a major role in the development of the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, died Saturday, May 29, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 81.

A new USC computer system lets users "drive" musical compositions, using a wheel and foot controls to create their own interpretative performance. The system could be in the hands of consumers in two years.

An interdisciplinary team of engineers and rehabilitation experts join forces to develop new haptics devices for stroke patients.

Some Kodak moments from the Viterbi School of Engineering's 2005 undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremonies.

With degrees in hand, 1,676 new engineering graduates take one giant leap into the future.

May 13, 2005 is the happiest day of the year at the USC Viterbi School for 1,676 students who graduated. Congratulations to the Class of 2005! Click here to explore our extended coverage of commencement.

The USC Viterbi School Distance Education Network (DEN) today granted Master of Science degrees to 171 distance learning students, most of whom earned their degrees while working full-time.

Gang Lu, a graduate student studying with Bhaskar Krishnamachari, won the EE department's 2005 best student paper award for "Delay Efficient Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks"

Computer Science major Brent R. Nash has been named USC’s 2005 salutatorian, and as a bonus, he’s one of the 10 recipients of a coveted $10,000 prize as a Renaissance Scholar.

Post-Doctoral Researcher Dooil Hwang has received top honors in the Institute of Industrial Engineers Student Paper Competition.

Seven Viterbi School researchers will partner with an equal number of counterparts from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in a new research initiative.

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) and The University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering will co-sponsor the first-ever scholarship opportunity to the USC Interactive Entertainment Summer Camp.

A new study, led by engineering professor Najmedin Meshkati and a team of multidisciplinary students, suggests novel approach to saving the city's jewelry district.

USC Viterbi School researchers believe they have discovered how carbon nanotubes spontaneously self-align to form dense, highly ordered and potentially extremely useful arrays on surfaces of sapphire crystals.

Dean C. L. Max Nikias, who becomes USC provost June 1, congratulates engineering faculty and staff for their exemplary service; asks crowd to carry on Viterbi School's ascent.

Viterbi School Engineering Dean C. L. Max Nikias delivers his final 'State of the School' address to faculty and staff.

Sergio Ibarra, Erin Wickstrand, and Antonio Trevilla came home from Sacramento April 10 with a first-place regional trophy from American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Student Design Competition for their stair-climbing transporter robot.

EDGE games founder Tim Langdell, who has played a key role in the development of the USC Viterbi School's interactive gaming curriculum, is the first president of the International Association for Game Education and Research.

Yannis Yortsos, currently senior associate dean for academic affairs, will serve as dean of the USC Viterbi School for an interim period when the current dean, C. L. Max Nikias, becomes USC provost.

USC Viterbi School Computer scientist Aaron Falk is the new Chair of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). Falk IS a project leader in the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute computer networks division.

Viterbi School seniors Jennifer Tsakoumakis and Billy Kaplan won first place in the physical sciences category at the USC 7th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work for their carbon composite fiber violin.

The Venice High School Botball team is a player, thanks in part to an ISI graduate student.

Students in AME 309 designed and built bottle rockets to test their understanding of the principles of aerodynamics — could they predict how what they built would behave in flight? Best of all: no one got wet.

The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering’s Distance Education Network (DEN) announces an agreement with QUALCOMM Incorporated to open DEN’s wide range of graduate engineering and continuing education programs to non-U.S. based employees of the cell phone and communication giant.

Six undergraduate civil engineering students placed second in the regional Student Steel Bridge competition by building a 21-foot-long, 220-pound truss bridge in less than seven minutes.

The 9th Fred S. Grodins Graduate Research Symposium was dedicated to the memory of a beloved professor, filled with presentations of solid research by faculty and graduate students.

The first attempt to calculate possible losses from tsunamis, as opposed to earthquakes, in the Southern California area spells out the potential damage — from $7 billion to as much as $42 billion

Viterbi School biomedical engineers have successfully demonstrated a novel “High-resolution Ultrasonic Transmission Tomography” (HUTT) that offers 3D images of soft tissue superior to those available from other systems, ultrasound, x-ray, or MRI.

C. L. Max Nikias, professor of electrical engineering and dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has been named provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Southern California. He will begin his new duties June 1, 2005.

A year after the school was named, engineers welcome back their namesake – Andrew J. and Erna Viterbi – for a celebration of Viterbi’s 70th birthday and the opening of the new Viterbi Museum.

Cassini scientist Don Shemansky takes an unprecedented first look deep into the haze enveloping Saturn’s smoggy moon.

A whirlwind trip to Beijing, results in a China strategy. Two USC Viterbi alums play key roles and two great universities agree to collaborate.

The Viterbi School of Engineering has formed a new center, the USC Microsatellite Systems Center to work with local aerospace companies to design, build and launch a new, smaller and less expensive class of satellites.

What do you get when you mix equal portions of cement, binding material and aggregates with a little water, fly ash filler and microscopic glass beads? A concrete canoe fit for competition.

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s 53-year old Aviation Safety program has begun offering classes in air security, the first ever from a university.

USC Viterbi School alumnus Joe Bok makes Howard Hughes' airplanes fly again for The Aviator as well as unmanned aircraft for the Department of Defense.

The Viterbi School’s Milind Tambe added to a long list of honors by being named the recipient of the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award.

USC Viterbi engineering students celebrated National Engineers Week with a week of fun-filled activities, including a pie-throwing contest aimed at professors, a BBQ cookout, dessert competition and formal Friday night ball.

After 25 years of blood, sweat and tears, USC astronautics professor Mike Gruntman finally has his wish: a chance to probe the very edges of our solar system with a new interstellar spacecraft.

Computer chip manufacturers have one standard for their product: perfection. But a USC Viterbi School engineer who has devised ways to have chips test themselves has found that less than perfect is sometimes good enough — and good enough has the potential of saving billions of dollars.

The USC Viterbi School's Center for Interactive Smart Oil Technologies (CiSoft) is on target and meeting expectations at the end of its first year, reported its co-executive directors at the organization's first annual meeting.

The Viterbi School celebrates the birth of a vibrant new home for students and cutting-edge research.

The world's leading IT companies have endorsed Globus Toolkit, an open source grid software package co-devloped by Viterbi computer scientist Carl Kesselman.

James Moore II, chairman of the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has received the 2005 WTS-LA Diversity Leadership Award for his efforts to create new opportunities for women, minority and international students.

A first person account by a USC Viterbi School researcher of his trip to Banda Aceh Province to gather data on the catastrophic South Asia Tsunami. He is overwhelmed by death and devastation.

Adam Clayton Powell III, champion of new media who ran Internet and technology programs for the Freedom Forum (formerly the Gannett Foundation) is the new director of the Integrated Media Systems Center.

How a Distinguished Group of Space-Race Pioneers Landed at USC

A team of engineers takes a unique, top-to-bottom look at ways to improve patient flow in one of the nation's largest public hospitals.

A civil and environmental engineer who studies ocean phenomena such as tsunamis and artifical reefs will gather with scholars from other institutions to discuss the science, economics and zone management of surfing in California.

The Viterbi School’s innovative Distance Education Network (DEN) and Chevron Corp. announced today that DEN will now offer its "smart oilfield technologies” program to ChevronTexaco engineers worldwide.