A well-used open-source brain imaging tool has just gotten better. "Brainstorm" imaging software developed by a group led by Professor Richard Leahy has gotten a top-to-bottom rewrite that has finished alpha testing and will be introduced as a beta release at an October conference in Santa Fe.

Alexander A. Sawchuk has been awarded this year's Distinguished Service Award by the Optical Society of America (OSA). This award, which honors outstanding service to the optical community and OSA, is presented to Sawchuk for 23 years of dedicated efforts on behalf of OSA, including vital contributions to publications, meetings, international relations and general governance.

Prof. Krishna Nayak has received a 2004 American Heart Association National Scientist Development Grant (SDG) for work on "Coronary Magnetic Resonance Angiography at 3 Tesla". The project aims to develop high-field MRI techniques for evaluating the coronary arteries. The grant will provide funding for four years. For more information, please see: http://mrel.usc.edu

Richard Leahy receives the Senior Research Award from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

Sundeep Pattem, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems at USC, has won a prestigious best paper award at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)

Wired News has an article on "A Way Out of Automated Phone Hell"

Professor Bhaskar Krishnamachari is Co-PI on a recent Information Technology Research Grant with an estimated funding of $2.6 Million.

Andrew & Erna Viterbi donate $52 million to rename the school, the USC Andrew & Erna Viterbi School of Engineering.

P. Daniel Dapkus, the W. M. Keck Professor of Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

USC research team was just awarded with $2 million grant from the NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) program. The team consists of Professors Kai Hwang, Clifford Neuman, and Viktor Prasanna. They investigate Grid computing, network security, and intrusion defense system.

The dramatic pictures from Mars rely on the digital coding research of University Professor Solomon W. Golomb.

This year’s USA Okawa foundation grant awardees include Professor Melvin A. Breuer from the EE Department. Mel was recognized for his pioneering work entitled “Increasing the Effective Yield of VLSI Chips via Design and Test”.

The Fred H. Cole Professorship in Engineering will be held by Robert Scholtz, professor of electrical engineering systems. A faculty member for 40 years, the much-honored Scholtz began the first university research program in ultra-wideband radio, a promising technology with applications in wireless networks, security systems and consumer electronics.

Electrical Engineer T.C. Cheng discusses the massive power outage and the aging electrical power grid on National Public Radio and the NewsHour on PBS.

Professor Robert A. Scholtz and his coauthors Jean-Marc Cramer and Moe Win have been chosen as the recipients of the 2003 A. Shelkunoff Transactions Prize Paper Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.

Sol Golomb, a 40-year faculty member, becomes only the third person affiliated with the School to hold dual membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.

Andrew J. Viterbi, a USC electrical engineering Ph.D. graduate and a prime mover in the era-defining explosion of digital communications and information technology, successfully inaugurated a new seies of annual lectures.

A team of faculty from five major resarch groups in the School of Enineering recently received a $3.6 million award from the Defense Advanced Research projects Agnecy (DARPA)

The event, held on November 14, celebrates the School's highest honor in digital communications. Dr. Viterbi, the first awardee, is the School's most eminent Ph.D. graduate in the Communication Sciences.

IMSC Showcases Immersive 'Internet 2' Symphony Performance