A Viterbi computer scientist led an effort to perfect a cheap, quick and copyright-respecting way to turn existing printed brain atlases into multimedia resources.

Whether it's a toy drive or a box of chocolates in the office, everyone seems to be getting into the proper holiday spirit. And Viterbi School staffer Rosa Cervantes, with her own toy drive, is no exception.

The USC Viterbi School GamePipe Laboratory celebrated its third complete semester of game development courses with a B.S. degree in place — and executives from firms like EA, Disney Buena Vista Games, and Motorola were there to take notes.

The latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports research by USC and Caltech showing that within the next few decades another tsunami is likely to flood densely populated sections of western coastal Sumatra, south of those that devastated by the tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004.

Agent Video Intelligence, Inc.™ announced that it has appointed Dr. Gérard Medioni, professor and chair of the USC Viterbi School Department of Computer Science, to the company’s Board of Advisors effective immediately.

Vicente C. Garcia Jr., who is Director of the ISI Center for Information Operations, has received a high military honor for peacetime service.

Terry Langdon, who has appointments in three USC departments, has received the Albert Sauveur Achievement Award.

The Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America, a non-profit consortium that includes USC, will fund more than $50 million of research annually beginning early next year. The Viterbi School, which hosted a RPSEA forum November 29, has a good chance of securing its share.

A new grant will allow researchers to apply principles from the industrial world to large, overcrowded "safety net" hospitals in California.

Two outstanding women in the Viterbi School and the School of Policy, Planning and Development have won transportation scholarships that will allow them to compete at the national level.

Using a new grid computing system, physicians at 40 hospitals all over North America are already quickly and securely exchanging high-resolution medical images. An expansion of the system could allow instant outsourcing of radiology expertise.

The Viterbi School's William H. Hogue Professor of Electrical Engineering has been named a 2006 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his revolutionary work in high-speed opto-electronics and complex optical circuitry.

It's called LEAPFROG, and Viterbi students have been jumping to get it done. David Barnhart’s dedicated undergrad/graduate research project to create a Lunar Lander Prototype Vehicle began in September 1 and will proudly show off its hardware December 4th at the 2nd Space Exploration Conference in Houston.

New service-learning pilot program will train Alexander School kids, their parents and teachers to use latest in computer technology.

Professor Michael Gruntman, chair of the Astronautics Division in the Viterbi School of Engineering, has received the 2006 Luigi Napolitano Award for his book on the history of rocketry from the International Academy of Astronautics.

Sanjit Mitra, a professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and its Signal and Image Processing Institute, has been elected a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

It wasn't a fluke! USC Viterbi School CS students followed up their outstanding performance in last year's ACM Collegiate Programming Contest with an even more impressive one in this year's edition.

Engineering undergraduate student Christopher Soto and a team of classmates in Ken Robidoux's WRIT 340 advanced writing course find a way to make an African community's dream come true.

ISI Fellow Bob Braden and his longtime colleague Joyce K. Reynolds are this year's recipients of the Internet Society's prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award, the society announced November 12.

The same oils that fry potatoes are now fueling a rapidly growing number of diesel vehicles. So far, the technology has mostly been improvised. AME's Fokion Egolfopoulos will take the first close look at how to optimize it.

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Chris Kyriakakis is the winner of the 2006 World Technology Award in media and journalism from the World Technology Network.

"In other conferences, women are so few. But here, everywhere you look it is just women. You suddenly realize that there are many in the field. And you think, if they go there, I can do it too."

“I applaud this new organization,” said NAE President William Wulf, and declared that its expertise made it uniquely qualified to embark on a striking task: no less than a revised paradigm of engineering method. “We may need to rethink a lot of our assumptions,” said Wulf, “And I think CSSE is a perfect place to rethink them.

The Viterbi School celebrates a record-breaking gift and naming of the third department in its history at a red-carpet ceremony held in the Ronald Tutor Hall Courtyard.

Cogent, Inc. co-founder and Viterbi School alumnus Ming Hsieh has given $35 million to name the School's oldest and most prominent department. Read this cover story about him from the upcoming Fall/Winter 2006 USC Viterbi Engineer magazine.

With 54 tenured or tenure-track faculty, the new USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering is the Viterbi School's largest, and one of the largest of its kind in the nation. Learn about some of the department's extraordinary milestones during its 100 years of rich history.

One hundred years after the first engineering class was taught at USC--in electrical engineering--electrical engineer Ming Hsieh names the USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering. "Ming's name adds luster to a department that is already highly distinguished," says USC President Steven B. Sample an electrical engineer who is also a member of the department's faculty.

NAE President William Wulf, John Stenbit, USC President Steven B. Sample, Provost C.L. Max Nikias, Viterbi School Dean Yannis Yortsos and numerous corporate, government and academic software and systems researchers, administrators and developers attend a major software convocation at USC.

A CREATE study addresses the short and long-term costs of introducing a new missile detection system to safeguard airline passengers.

Electrical engineering students and faculty with the Integrated Media Systems Center and the Signal and Image Processing Institute win best paper awards.

A literacy program founded by Viterbi School undergrad and USC trustee scholar Robyn Strumpf, takes hold in L.A. and in some communities abroad. Read this profile to be published in the next USC Viterbi Engineer magazine.

Petros Ioannou, director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology at the Viterbi School, will be part of an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional team working on $6 million funding put up by the US Department of Transportation and Caltrans.

The Viterbi School’s Integrated Media Systems Center, directed by Adam Clayton Powell III (left) will partner with two leading media analysts in a new non-profit institute, iFOCOS, the Institute for the Connected Society.

A Texan who made key contributions to the creation of tools now widely used to accurately estimate costs and time required for software development is the second recipient of the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award.

Three USC Viterbi School theorists describe a breakthough in the critical process of error correction coding in an article published in Science. Their work has the potential to change the rules of the quantum computing game.

After winning the prestigious James H. Mulligan, Jr. IEEE Education Medal, Sanjit Mitra, the Viterbi School’s Varra Professor (Electrical Engineering – Systems), scores a double by winning IEEE Signal Processing's Education Award.

USC is a world leader in ultrasonic imaging and the NIH grant will boost efforts for better UHF arrays to be used in ophthalmology, dermatology, prenatal care and small animal imaging.

The Viterbi School undergraduate aero-design team takes fourth at the 2006 AIAA Design/Build/Fly International Competition in Wichita, Kansas.

Freshmen enrolling in the USC Viterbi School for the fall, 2006 semester show a 30-point gain on SAT scores over last year, making it the best of any class in Viterbi history.

An upcoming story in USC Viterbi Engineer magazine explore's DARPA's next generation prosthetics program. A whole new generation of technologies is ripe for development at the Viterbi School's Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems Center.

In an address to faculty and staff on September 21, 2006, Dean Yannis Yortsos describes the state of the Viterbi School.

The Viterbi School will play the lead role in a NASA project that will use space satellites to capture data from sensor networks, and flexibly structure the data for effective use by scientists.

Robotics expert Gaurav Sukhatme and information systems engineer Giuseppe Caire have won 2006 Okawa Foundation research grants to continue their work.

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering will take the lead on more than $20 million in new research programs announced September 7 by the US Department of Energy's "Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing" program, and share in two more.

The USC Signal and Image Processing Institute, established in 1971 and regarded as one of the world's premier centers for research in the discipline, has a new director.

Technology visionary Cory Doctorow has been selected as the first holder of the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, which will be co-hosted by the Viterbi School’s IMSC.

Following closely on her role in organizing a strikingly successful scholarly conference, the USC Information Science Institute’s Yolanda Gil has won a post "with the potential for great impact on the computer science research community and on the future direction of computer science in the United States"

A new tradition began vigorously August 18 at the Information Sciences Institute Intelligent Systems Division, when eight grad students specializing in artificial intelligence presented their research in a prize competition. Martin Michalowski left won the best paper prize

An interdisciplinary team from the USC Viterbi School, the Keck School and the School of Pharmacy studying atherosclerosis will identify predictive indicators of the disease linked to blood flow patterns.

His joint appointment in the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering will strengthen interdisciplinary ties and augment work in engineering management and systems engineering.

Eduard Hovy (left) of the Information Sciences Institute will lead USC's partnership with three other universities and the Institute for Discrete Sciences on a new Department of Homeland Security initiative on advanced information analysis.

A Navy-bound triathlete and a clear-headed analyst of the prospects for digital manufacturing of the Barbie Doll are the two latest USC recipients of $2000 scholarships from the national engineering honor society.

The USC Center for Software Engineering will complete an change to become the Center for Systems and Software Engineering at a plenary affiliates convocation scheduled for October 23-26.

Instead of learning, some students "game" computer-based teaching programs. New research at the USC Information Sciences Institute is looking at ways of predicting this behavior, and using such predictions to adapt the systems to fit individual student needs. Early results are promising.

Daniel J. Epstein, a member of the Viterbi School's Board of Councilors who named the Daniel J. Epstein Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, has received the President's Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) for his leadership and commitment to industrial engineering.

A group of USC Viterbi engineering students are in Madrid for a seven-week study abroad program. They take accelerated engineering courses taught by Viterbi School faculty fulfilling course requirements, but there’s still a little time left for fun...and to send back postcards.

Dean Yannis Yortsos announces changes in the USC Viterbi School leadership team including several new senior associate deans and some new department chairs.

National Academy of Engineering member Sanjit Mitra has arrived and now holds the Viterbi School's new Stephen and Etta Varra chair. He joins a host of old USC friends and colleagues in his specialty.

Faculty from the Viterbi School joined other scholars, economists, industry representatives and policymakers in a candid discussion about global energy supply and demand in the next 50 years.

Dean Yannis Yortsos of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering announced today two new degrees: a B.S. in Computer Science (Games) and an M.S. in Computer Science (Game Development).

A group of junior and high school students in the Viterbi School's MESA program met the ocean for the first time in their lives at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center.

Exposed metal surfaces are highly vulnerable to corrosion, but paint or other protective coatings can interfere with some uses, as well as add significant costs. Now, a comprehensive series of experiments suggests a new form of protection: bacteria

An ingenious schematic for creating instant, flexible indexing of course material won the grand prize in a contest for students at the Viterbi School's Distance Education Network (DEN).

User testing is a critical and key element for creating interactive media for entertainment or education. But it remains a highly subjective and relatively unstructured exercise, says researcher Tim Marsh. Directly analyzing the digital datastream the user exchanges with the computer promises to change this, his new study finds.

A Viterbi School system pulls answers from online conversations by identifying the alpha chatterers

Professor Iraj Ershaghi, who worked with the Viterbi School's Distance Education Network to put the world's first Master's degree program in Smart Oil Fields Technology online, is the winner of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Education Service Award.

A USC/Duke University team co-led by the Viterbi School's Alan Willner is slowing the speed of laser data pulses in a flexible and controlled manner, raising the possibility of useful tunable photonic delay lines and even signal processors

A childhood dream of building roller coasters led a young Floridian to the Viterbi School and, in early June, to the finals of Disney's student imagineering contest.

On May 20, at the Koehn Dry Lake launch site in the Mojave desert, a 12-foot rocket named Del Carbon built from scratch by a passionate group of USC Viterbi School undergraduates rose steadily despite severe wind, reaching its planned altitude of 7,000 feet before deploying its parachute and returning gently to earth.

Yannis Yortsos, who had been serving as dean on an interim basis, has been chosen for the position of Dean of the USC Viterbi School.

A complete roundup of all the 2006 USC Viterbi School Commencement news, including a photo gallery.

His dream of becoming a fighter pilot has kept graduating senior Kellen Sick grounded — and on the right track — all of his life.

Viterbi School awards 1,734 engineering degrees in 2006 graduation day ceremonies.

A straight A student, biomedical engineer Aaron Wong is ready to take on new research at Johns Hopkins University.

Music expresses and elicits emotion. But how, exactly? At the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, assistant professor Elaine Chew now teaches a graduate course on using mathematical and computational tools to look for answers

When the Viterbi School established a degree program in advanced methods to use information technology to get more oil out of wells, oil was less than $30 a barrel. Now, with the price hovering around $70 a barrel, the first MS diplomas in the SOFT (Smart Oil Field Technology) program will be awarded Friday.

This year’s DEN graduating class represents 23 percent increase compared with that of 2005. Graduates come from states all across the nation, including Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia, in addition to many Californians.

Students in courses on serious games, advanced game projects, and networked artificial intelligence demonstrated live games including Erm's Migration, Dying, Corporashun, Origin, Cahokia, Tame Tom, Warmaster, the Last Battle, Incident Commander, Cloud, and the NSF-funded Immune Attack and Fish Quest games.

Andrew J. Viterbi and Solomon W. Golomb have been members of the NAS, the NAE, and the AAAS for years. This year, new academy elections gave two more USC faculty members, Leonard M Adleman and Robert Willis Hellwarth, the same rare distinction.

Beverly Hills real estate developer Sonny Astani receives the first distinguished alumnus award given by the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

At the annual Student Recognition Ceremony, Dean Yannis Yortsos and other Viterbi School faculty recognized outstanding students for their contributions in leadership, community service and academics.

Women entrepreneurs in rural Nigeria will soon be able to seek donations and sell their wares over the Internet, thanks to a group of Viterbi School computer science majors.

In the "Next 100 Years Essay Contest," Viterbi School students make their predictions on what the next century of engineering holds.

Professors Leonard M. Adleman and Robert Willis Hellwarth have been elected to two of the nation's most prestigious scientific and arts academies for their research accomplishments and contributions to society at large.

The Viterbi School takes a moment to recognize its own during this year's awards luncheon at Town and Gown.

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering has joined with the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Science (ISCAS) in a research laboratory partnership, Viterbi School dean Yannis Yortsos announced today.

Eberhardt Rechtin, a USC Viterbi School professor emeritus who had academic appointments in three departments and who also received an honorary degree from USC last May, died April 14 following a long illness.

The Viterbi School Freshman Academies host a night at the Academy Awards.

Former U.S. Air Force Secretary James Roche discusses policy making and systems design in ninth Viterbi School centennial lecture.

IMSC’S Roger Zimmermann has two student teams that have cleared their qualifying initial competition rounds in prestigous national contents - and one has just received word that it will be one of only 15 teams to compete in the Imagine Cup challenge finals.

No other field stands to gain as much from the merging of engineering and biology than medicine, says Roderic Pettigrew, director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, who delivered a Viterbi School centennial lecture on new research directions in health care.

The Viterbi School of Engineering presents President Steven B. Sample with a special Centennial Medallion during the 28th annual Engineering Awards Luncheon, coinciding with 100 years of engineering at USC.

Legendary Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin shares his vision of space exploration beyond the moon.

Alumnus Ken Klein, BS BMEE '82, joins USC and engineering staff, students and faculty in a gala ceremony to launch his new student life institute.

Two Viterbi School professors - Theodore W. Berger of BME, and Hans Kuehl of EE/E - receive awards in USC's solemn annual convocation March 30.

Three days of presentations, lectures and demonstrations by Gérard Assayag, from IRCAM, the renowned center for scientific research in music/acoustics coordination in Paris, will take place April 4-6.

Computer scientist Cyrus Shahabi has won one of eight highly competitive research grants to study advanced geographical visualization and data management systems.

Behrokh Khoshnevis's contour crafting process will be on display at the California Science Center April 7-14, as part of an exhibit of semifinalists in the Modern Marvels Invent Now® Challenge.

Inspired by the recent upsurge of interest in small-scale aerodynamics, some aerospace engineers at USC are raising simple questions with surprisingly elusive answers. ‘If we were to build a small flying machine, what would it look like?’ they ask.

When a best-paper winner envelope was opened at the annual meeting of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) in San Antonio, researchers from USC Viterbi School Prof. Terry Langdon’s group had taken the top two honors in their category.

The USC Viterbi School's Center for Software Engineering welcomed 31 industrial and government partners to the USC campus for three days of collaboration and reports.

Professor Toby Berger discussed the results of turning years of study of signal processing to understanding what goes on in neurons and the brain in the sixth installment of the Viterbi centennial lecture series.

The president of the Georgia Institute of Technology addresses more than 400 faculty, students, alumni and industry guests in USC's Town & Gown in the Viterbi School's fifth centennial lecture.

Assistant professor of Electrical Engineering/Systems Igor Devetak has won a highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Award, the fourth such awarded this year at the USC Viterbi School.

The National Academy of Engineering has named Danny Cohen and Paul V. Mockapetris as members, in large part for work done by them at the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute.

An assistant professor in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering has won a five-year grant for research in early stage design process modeling.

A year ago, Viterbi School engineer Chongwu Zhou described a new way to "grow" orderly arrays of carbon nanotubes on sapphire. His newest publication describes a way to roll these arrays up off the sapphire into neat parcels of working transistors ready to insert into large-scale integrated electronic systems.

In a paper published March 1 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, two engineers at the Viterbi School of Engineering offer a new and potentially more flexible method of mathematically describing mechanical systems. The method also resolves a mathematical paradox that is more than 200 years old, according to Professor Firdaus Udwadia, who co-wrote the paper with his former PhD student, Phailaung Phomosiri.

More than 1,300 students learned the value of first impressions at the Viterbi School’s spring career fair, which attracted 72 engineering companies.

Moore's Law has hit a slippery patch according to Stanford University's charismatic electrical engineer-president speaking at the fourth Viterbi centennial lecture.

An assistant professor of biomedical engineering has won the National Science Foundation's prestigious early career award for pioneering work in microfluidics.

A delegation from Nanyang Technological University visits Viterbi School labs to explore possible collaboration in research and education.

Rudolf E. Kalman spoke Feb. 1 on "The Newtonian Revolution: Interaction of Mathematics and High Technology," sponsored by the Viterbi School's Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, the third event in the Viterbi School's Centennial Lecture Series.

Three civil engineering student projects win grants for novel water conservation studies.

University Professor Solomon Golomb received an evening of praise and reminiscence, and USC Hillel came away with $100,000 in funding.

Creating a system that lets children talk to computers instead of using of conventional mouse or keyboard controls won the 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Society "Best Paper" Award for the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Shrikanth Narayanan and a collaborator.