VITERBI NEWSWIRE - JULY 16, 2008

Welcome to this month's issue of the Viterbi Newswire. We'd had many activities and success stories in the last month, so we've organized the stories into categories: TOP STORIES, INSTITUTIONAL, RESEARCH, IN THE NEWS, and HONORS.

TOP STORIES

• 2008 Millennium Technology Laureate Andrew J. Viterbi Feted in Finland.
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/andrew-j-viterbi.htm
• India IT Giant Infosys Technologies Funds New Viterbi Research Center
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/infosys-funds-research.htm
• MySpace Looks to Viterbi CS Researchers to Help Servers Keep Up with Users
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/myspace-looks-to.htm

INSTITUTIONAL

• Eight New Professors Join Viterbi Faculty
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/eight-new-faculty.htm
• Viterbi School Signs Unique Accelerated M.S Agreement with Cal Poly SLO
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/viterbi-school-signs154841.htm
• Viterbi Part of Ambitious Airbus/Korean Air Research Consortium
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/airbus-research-projects.htm
• Mann Institute Establishes Fellowships for Viterbi PhD Candidates
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/mann-institute-established.htm

RESEARCH

• GoogleTunes: Elaine Chew Is Creating a Musical Search Engine.
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/next-stop-musical.htm
• Cyrus Shahabi "Making Sense of Data Overload" as part of Microsoft Research Initiative
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/assets/067/59748.pdf.
• BMES Organizes $200K Biomed R&D Challenge
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/bmes-organizes-biomed.htm
• ISE Student Explores Safety Issues of Expo Light Rail Crossing
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/crossing-over-under.htm
• Viterbi CS Faculty Host World's Biggest Robotics Gathering
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/viterbi-school-hosts.htm
• Astani Professor Yan Xiao Builds Bamboo Houses for Sichuan Quake Victims
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/astani-department-professor.htm

IN THE NEWS

• Mork Department's Iraj Ershaghi Educates CNN Audiences on L.A.'s Oil Potential http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/06/25/rowlands.oil.in.la.cnn
• WIRED Highlights Information Sciences Institute's Creation of Internet Address System 
  http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/06/dayintech_0623
• New Yorker Visits Shri Narayanan's Speech Analysis and Interpretation Lab
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/assets/065/59510.pdf
• Chemical Technology Reports on Ellis Meng's Ocular Drug Delivery System http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTech/Volume/2008/07/eye_drug_delivery.asp
• Natural Gas for Cars? NBC News' Today Show Asks AME's Paul Ronney
  http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25091623#25091623
• Maja Mataric's "Kinder, Gentler Robots" Star in "Aging in L.A.".
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFL2Cs8blac
• Los Angeles Times Explores Viterbi School's Indian Community
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/assets/064/59313.pdf

HONORS

• Terry Langdon Wins Honors from Both European and Chinese Academies
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/langdon-wins-european.htm
• AME's Andrea Hodge Is Pioneer Award Winner in New NSF Program
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/viterbi-wise-ame.htm
• Keith Chugg of Hsieh Department Wins ASEE Terman Award
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/hsieh-professor-wins.htm
• CS Department's Requicha Receives Pioneer Award
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/viterbi-molecular-robotics.htm
• Student Services Director Wins New USC Staff Award
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/student-services-director.htm
• Alan Willner elected editor of Optics Letters
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/viterbi-professor-elected.htm
• Hsieh Department grad student named vice-chair of National Society of Black Engineers
  http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/viterbi-student-rises.htm