Faculty members from the Ming Hsieh and Computer Science departments teamed up with a Keck School professor to win the Best Technology Award at a recent conference on implantable medical devices held at USC.

"Born in Belgrade, in what was then Yugoslavia, Maja Matarić originally wanted to study languages and art," begins a 5000-word feature entitled "Robots That Care." The ending: "But robotic interaction should not replace human interaction," she said. "It should only improve it."

"We are in the process of losing ... the right to learn things as we can and better ourselves economically from what we learn." The Stanford physicist will speak on "The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind" Friday November 13.

Emily Mower's research may allow synthetic agents (robots and computer avatars) to understand human expressions of emotion. She presented her most recent findings at the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association held in Brighton, UK.

The annual Ice Cream Social hosted by the Ming Hsieh EE Department was on 9/30/09.

Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman brought his message that current methods of teaching subjects like physics, chemistry and engineering are inefficient to about 100 USC faculty members -- and left behind continuing interest.

Nanophotonics specialist Michelle Povinelli receives both Army Research Office Young Investigator Award and National Science Foundation CAREER Award