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USC SAIL Researchers Win the Interspeech 2009 Emotion Challenge Award
November 05, 2009
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KNOWME Project Wins Body Computing Slam Contest
November 02, 2009
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.
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Viterbi School Associate Dean Profiled in <i>The New Yorker</i>
October 29, 2009
"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."
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Monte Ung Promoted to Professor of Engineering Practice
October 26, 2009
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Appointment of Professor Krishnamachari to Ming Hsieh Faculty Fellow in Electrical Engineering
October 26, 2009
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Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin to Deliver 2009 Manushian Keynote Lecture
October 26, 2009
"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.
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Intel Fellow Creating a System to Automatically Recognize Emotion
October 25, 2009
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.
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2009 Ice Cream Social
October 16, 2009
The annual Ice Cream Social hosted by the Ming Hsieh EE Department was on 9/30/09.
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Teaching Science: Why Not Do It Scientifically?
October 15, 2009
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.
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Double Distinction: Hsieh Department Assistant Professor Wins Two Prestigious Research Grants
September 27, 2009
Nanophotonics specialist Michelle Povinelli receives both Army Research Office Young Investigator Award and National Science Foundation CAREER Award
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