December 11, 2003
UMass Amherst scientist Paul Cohen has joined ISI to
serve as deputy director of the Intelligent Systems
Division.
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December 11, 2003
UMass Amherst psychology professor Carole Beal has
joined ISI, working with Lewis Johnson in the Center for
Advanced Research on Technology in Education
(CARTE)
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December 11, 2003
In search of smarter search technology, two ISD grad
students and their advisor won second-place honors
recently in one of the competition tracks of the annual
Text REtrieval Conference (TREC).
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December 11, 2003
ISI newcomer Andreas Harth has been honored in an
international competition for semantic web projects, for
his work on a system that enables collaboration in
online communities.
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November 24, 2003
A University of Southern California inventor has
created a machine that can produce three-dimensional
"printouts" in plastic and even metal
more quickly and cheaply than widely-used existing
systems.
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November 24, 2003
A University of Southern California inventor has
created a machine that can produce three-dimensional
"printouts" in plastic and even metal
more quickly and cheaply than widely-used existing
systems.
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November 6, 2003
A graduate student and an ISI Senior Project leader brought
back a "best paper" prize from a recent IEEE Conference
on Web Intelligence and Artificial Agents.
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October 16, 2003
Computer Security Expert Terry V. Benzel has joined the
University of Southern California's Information Sciences
Institute.
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October 9, 2003
A three-year, $5.46 million grant from the National
Science
Foundation will establish a testbed to evaluate and
improve
defenses against Internet-spread computer worms, viruses
and
denial-of-service attacks, as part of a two-pronged
$10.8 million NSF anti-cybercrime initiative.
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October 9, 2003
A three-year, $5.46 million grant from the National
Science
Foundation will establish a testbed to evaluate and
improve
defenses against Internet-spread computer worms, viruses
and
denial-of-service attacks, as part of a two-pronged
$10.8 million NSF anti-cybercrime initiative.
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September 25, 2003
Computational Grid pioneer Carl Kesselman has been named
an ISI Fellow, and is the fourth to receive the distinction
instituted in 1999 to honor a limited number of USC
Information Sciences Institute personnel who have
achieved a high level of external distinction through notable
contributions
to science and/or technology.
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August 28, 2003
A Microsoft-funded initiative at USC has
developed a
powerful new suite of Web service tools for science and
commerce.
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August 1, 2003
On Wednesday, July 30, as scientists all over the country
looked intently on, a synthetic earthquake shook a half-real
building.
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July 24, 2003
Herbert Schorr, Executive Director of the University of
Southern California Information Sciences Institute, was
named to the Advisory Board of the Automation Hall of Fame
July 24.
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July 24, 2003
University of Southern California computer scientist
Franz
Josef Och has developed a single system that can
translate
between any two languages.
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July 14, 2003
The Office of Naval Research will spend $5.74 million to
expand the use of software for coordinating air operations
and maintenance, developed by the University of Southern
California and Vanderbilt University, to the Marine Corps'
entire lineup of tactical aircraft, USC announced July 21,
2003.
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July 8, 2003
USC computer scientist Jeff Rickel, a "rising star" in the field
of artificial intelligence, died Sunday, July 6, of complications
of cancer. He was 40 years old.
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July 3, 2003
World Technology Network Recognizes ISI Researchers
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June 30, 2003
In less than a month, researchers at USC's Information
Sciences Institute and collaborators nationwide built one of
the world's best systems to translate Hindi text into English
and query Hindi databases using English questions.
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June 26, 2003
A group of computer scientists gathered June 23 to mark the
20th anniversary of the now universally-used Domain Name
System (DNS), which was invented at USC's Information
Sciences Institute and first tested on that date in 1983.
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June 6, 2003
Six-Year ISI Veteran Honored for AI Grads Work
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June 2, 2003
Almost since they were first invented, the reconfigurable
computing platforms called "Field Programmable Gate
Arrays" have had a reputation: "Good idea in theory, but..."
Now, a University of Southern California computer scientist
says two advances her team will report June 4 "will kick a lot
of 'but,'" and help to bring FPGAs into the computing
mainstream.
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May 22, 2003
Researchers at the University of Southern California have
created a new tool for organizing and visualizing collections
of electronic mail. It is designed to help legal researchers,
historians, archivists, and others faced with challenges in
dealing wtih large email archives.
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April 4, 2003
It's a classic dilemma for air travelers in today's world of
wildly varying ticket prices: Buy now, or wait for a better
deal and take the risk that the price will go up?
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April 4, 2003
It's a classic dilemma for air travelers in today's world of
wildly varying ticket prices: Buy now, or wait for a better
deal and take the risk that the price will go up?
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March 27, 2003
Internet pioneer Paul Mockapetris, chief scientist of IP
address infrastructure software provider Nominum, has been
appointed Visiting Scholar by the Postel Center for
Experimental Networking (PCEN), PCEN director Joseph D.
Touch announced March 31.
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March 24, 2003
Cartoon figures animated by robotic artificial intelligence can
help mothers cope with the stresses associated with caring
for a child who has cancer.
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March 10, 2003
Robotics experts Wei-Min Shen and Peter Will were among
four USC School of Engineering faculty honored at the 2003
USC academic convocation.
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February 21, 2003
What if hardware that was optimized for video
decompression to play DVDs could be re-optimized, easily
and almost instantaneously, to do high-security encryption of
personal data for the internet?
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February 20, 2003
A vision long nourished by ISI Executive Director Herbert
Schorr is now bearing tangible scientific fruit on the
campuses of the University of Southern California.
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February 20, 2003
A vision long nourished by ISI Executive Director Herbert
Schorr is now bearing tangible scientific fruit on the
campuses of the University of Southern California.
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February 20, 2003
Joe Sullivan has joined USC's Information Sciences Institute
as Manager of Strategic Development.
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February 6, 2003
One of the world's most distinguished universities recently
honored one of ISI's newest researchers.
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January 9, 2003
University of Southern California researchers are at work on
a fundamentally new way to build houses and other
structures, funded by a grant from the National Science
Foundation.
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January 8, 2003
The collaborative work of Carl Kesselman, director of Information Sciences Institute's Center for Grid Technologies, has been singled out as transformative by M.I.T.'s influential monthly, Technology Review.
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