Subu Goparaju was one of the "Infoscions" attending the “thought sharing and collaboration event that brings together the best academicians, researchers, practitioners and thought leaders” that came to the USC Viterbi School in October.

Introduced by Hsieh Department chairman Eun Sok Kim, the renowned physicist spoke about academia's lost topics of science.

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."

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.