President George W. Bush has announced that USC trustee and namesake of the Viterbi School of Engineering Andrew J. Viterbi is one of the recipients of the nation's highest honor for science and technology.

USC professors of computer science and electrical engineering will use their awards to foster collaboration and promote courseware and curriculum innovation.

Shri Narayanan of the Ming Hsieh Department and Laurent Itti of the Computer Science Department are the latest recipients of this prestigious award.

The USC Viterbi School was selected as one of 33 recipients of a 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research Award, which is designed to encourage open collaboration with HP Labs resulting in mutually beneficial, high-impact research.

A Hsieh Department graduate student has applied the classic tool for eliminating dead-end possibilities in data reception to qubit communications

Undergraduate engineering students fulfill course requirements while getting a taste of Rome's timelessness, turbulent history and engineering marvels in overseas study program.

Professor P. Vijay Kumar's EE-Systems team took the best paper prize at a recent conference on Distributed Computing Systems.

Alex Dimakis, whose interests lie in communications, coding theory, signal processing, and networking will join the department in June 2009.

Students in this year's USC-IIT Kharagpur summer exchange program said the hands-on work was valuable and, in some cases, helped them decide whether to pursue an advanced degree.

Newly appointed faculty in electrical engineering, chemical and materials science, astronautics and civil engineering will join the professorial ranks beginning this fall.

As many as five outstanding seniors studying electrical or biomedical engineering at the San Luis Obispo college will this fall be able to speed their paths to USC MS degrees through the new Viterbi Integrated Masters of Science Program

In a new paper called "Math and Music: The Perfect Match," pianist/computational engineer Elaine Chew proposes applications of the increasingly powerful discipline of Operations Research to the ancient art of pitched and rhythmic sound.

Rahul Jain, whose interests lie in networks, games and control, will join the department this fall coming from IBM.

Viterbi contributes expertise and leadership to the university's High Performance Computing Center

Keith Chugg's prize honors his achievements in textbook writing, teaching, research and student guidance

Shrikanth Narayanan's research into speech emotion detection receives a detailed account in an 'Annals of Technology' story in the June 23 issue.

George Bekey drew on his vast experience in a wide range of engineering disciplines in his speech at the recent IEEE SOSE conference in Monterey, California

A distinguished radar and communications technologist in the Ming Hsieh Department has been appointed professor emeritus in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the field.

Nikias, Yortsos and Golomb journey with him to Helsinki to be part of events honoring the School's namesake and three illustrious colleagues.

The giant Bangalore-based IT company will partner with the Viterbi School to create a Center for Research & Education in Advanced Software Technologies on the USC campus

The newspaper portrays the Viterbi School as the destination for "an academic tidal wave from the Indian Ocean," thanks to its excellent overseas reputation, outreach trips and welcoming campus environment. The article spotlights Indian Student Association president Guarav Kumar, Senior Associate Dean Cauligi Raghavendra and others.

May 16, 2008 - Ming Hsieh Department Commencement Reception Photos.

"Seven years ago we set a very lofty target...I am extremely pleased to tell you that as of the end of this March, our fundraising total stood at $300,955,609 in cash and pledges."

Parents, siblings, children and friends — some from across the globe — cheer 1,860 newly minted Viterbi School graduates, who have now become part of USC's global Trojan family.

The Viterbi School's Distance Education Network's largest-ever graduating class marked a 30 percent increase over 2007 — which had been 30 percent above 2006.

Two prize-winning Hsieh department specialists hope to break a bottleneck that has long limited computing systems that use light - photons - instead of electronics for processing.

Graduating seniors and student leaders were recognized for their exceptional achievements in a special Viterbi Awards ceremony held on campus.

Bart Kosko of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering was one of three recipients of an excellence award from the USC Faculty Senate.

In January, Ed Maby and Adam Fincham's students were given a two-word assignment: "Smart Surfboards." By May, they'd gone surfing.

The Ming Hsieh Department professor is a leader in the field of robust control.

Dean Yortsos recognizes exceptional teaching, research and service in the Viterbi School in his annual "State of the School" speech and awards luncheon.

Three Ming Hsieh EE faculty are recognized for mentoring that made a difference in lives of fellow faculty and/or students.

Six engineering faculty are recognized for mentoring that made a difference in lives of fellow faculty and/or students.

The Viterbi School and Seoul National University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to begin collaborative programs in digital communications, image and video signal processing and other areas of electrical engineering.

University officials from the Shanghai institution have entered into a new partnership with the Viterbi School to develop collaborative student and faculty research programs.

Engineering faculty and deans from USC and China's pre-eminent technical research institution will share ideas on the University Park campus beginning April 30.

Assistant Professor Konstantinos Psounis wins “Best and Most Compelling Presentation and Demonstration” at Stanford University workshop on the future of the Internet.

The new agreement will allow the institutions to develop collaborative academic programs, exchanges and internships.

Chongwu Zhou has helped create a brilliant, luminous active matrix display, the first ever made using transparent transistors and circuits.

The Viterbi School professor of electrical engineering is known for his cutting edge research to improve and miniaturize particle accelerators.

The Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering professor wins the IEEE’s inaugural Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing Outstanding Service award, as well as a Best Paper award.

USC Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, C. L. Max Nikias, will receive the Clifford C. Furnas Award.

Jack Wolf, invited speaker for the Viterbi Distinguished Lecture, chronicled the evolution of audio storage from the days of Thomas Edison to the present.

The Viterbi School's Chris Kyriakakis recently staged Karlheinz Stockhausen’s piano duet Mantra, at Disney Hall, utilizing the immersive audio technology he developed at USC. Mechanical Engineering junior Ilya Golosker, an editor of Illumin online magazine, attended.

The faculty member has won a three-year grant for his novel approach to solving delay problems in ad-hoc wireless networks.

Introduced by Hsieh Department Electrophysics Chair P. Daniel Dapkus, UCSB's Herbert Kroemer spoke on "Heterostructures: From Physics to Devices and Back (A Personal Perspective)."

USC Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs C. L. Max Nikias is among the 65 new members elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Two researchers from the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering present a chip that can detect radio frequency signals coming from 49 distinct angles; applications range from search and rescue to biomedical imaging.

A Viterbi School paper presented at last year's IEEE International Solid State Circuits Symposium has been voted the best of the 125 papers from the event, the major annual meeting in the subject.

Solomon W. Golomb of the Ming Hsieh Department has added to what may be USC's longest list of faculty honors with his appointment January 17 as Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics.

Actor Alan Alda shares some tips with Viterbi School engineering students on the art of public speaking.

Robert Scholtz was recently presented with the first Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society Radio Communications Committee 2007 Technical Recognition Award.

More than 120 experts from four continents assembled at USC for the first-ever conference on quantum error correction. The technique, first proposed in 1995, may be the key to computers with extraordinary capabilities.

Tomlinson Holman, the Hsieh department faculty member whose THX system revolutionized sound in movie theaters, has again been recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to audio recording and reproduction.

Citation notes Lidar's "contributions to the theory of decoherence control of open quantum systems for quantum information processing, especially the decoherence free subspace method."

Simon Ramo, the “R” in TRW and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering, has accepted to an offer to join the faculty of the Viterbi School’s Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering.