Viterbi School of Engineering

The Viterbi School of Engineering (formerly the USC School of Engineering) is located at the University of Southern California in the United States. It was renamed following a $52 million donation by Andrew Viterbi. The USC Viterbi School of Engineering recently celebrated its 100th birthday in conjunction with the university's 125th birthday.

With over $135 million in external funding support, the school is among the nation's highest in volume of research activity. The Viterbi School of Engineering is currently ranked No. 8 nationally by "U.S. News and World Report".

In November 2007, the civil engineering program was officially named the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering after a $17 million grant from USC alumnus, designer and developer Sonny Astani, whose contribution is the largest naming donation ever received by a collegiate civil engineering department.Janna Brancolini, [http://media.www.dailytrojan.com/media/storage/paper679/news/2007/11/30/News/Alum-Gives.17.Million.To.Viterbi-3124926.shtml Alum gives $17 million to Viterbi] , "Daily Trojan", November 30, 2007.]

Major research centers

* Alfred Mann Institute - business incubator for medical device development in preparation for commercialization
* Center for Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems - National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center
* Information Sciences Institute (housed at a separate facility in Marina del Rey, California) - played a major role in the development of the Internet, and continues to be a major research center in computer science
* Institute for Creative Technologies - conducts research in virtual reality and immersive digital environment
* Integrated Media Systems Center - National Science Foundation's Exclusive Engineering Research Center for multimedia and Internet research
* [http://peer.berkeley.edu/PEERCenter/about.html Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) Partner Institution] - [http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/dept/admission/graduate/phd-programs/structural-engineering-and-design.htm Current Research]

pecific contributions

* AFL Theory - created by Prof. Seymour Ginsburg
* ART image file format - developed by Prof. Irving Reed
* Baum-Welch algorithm - developed by Prof. Lloyd Welch in collaboration with Leonard E. Baum
* COCOMO - developed by Prof. Barry Boehm
* Contour Crafting - under development by Behrokh Khoshnevis of ISI
* DNA computing - invented by Prof. Leonard Adleman
* Domain name system (DNS) - developed by Paul Mockapetris and the late Jon Postel at ISI
* Dynamic programming - developed by Prof. Richard Bellman
* Golomb coding - entropy encoding invented by Prof. Solomon W. Golomb that is optimal for alphabets following geometric distributions
* ICANN - founded by Jon Postel, to ensure the stable and secure operation of the Internet's unique identifier systems
* Image compression & recognition - the work of William Pratt, Harry Andrews and subsequently Andrew G. Tescher led to today’s JPEG compression system for still images
* Kerberos - security protocol developed by B.Clifford Newman.
* Lenna - widely used standard test image in image processing experiments
* LOOM - knowledge representation language developed by researchers in the AI research group at ISI
* MBASE - software development process developed by Prof. Barry Boehm and Dan Port
* MOSIS - integrated circuit (IC) foundry service run by ISI
* Network Voice Protocol (NVP) - first implemented in 1973 by Internet researcher Danny Cohen of ISI
* Pseudorandom sequences/shift register sequences - in 1967, Prof. Solomon Golomb published the first book devoted exclusively to pseudorandom sequences
* Reed-Solomon code - invented in 1960 by Prof. Irving S. Reed and Gustave Solomon
* Viterbi algorithm - invented by Andrew Viterbi
* .us - the ccTLD for the United States, originally administrated by Jon Postel of ISI
* 10.2 - surround sound format developed by Prof. Tomlinson Holman (creator of THX) and Prof. Chris Kyriakakis

Organizations

Viterbi Graduate Students' Association (VGSA)

The Viterbi Graduate Students' Association [http://http://www-scf.usc.edu/~egsa (VGSA)] is the students' body for about 3,300 Graduate students at USC. It consists of representatives from all departments and the Engineering Graduate Student in Liaison (EGSL).

Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering

Among the many organizations on campus, the "Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering" ("ASBME") is an undergraduate student organization for biomedical engineering students at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

Activities consist of regular meetings and an annual Corporate Luncheon designed to foster relationships between graduating students and industry.

ASBME serves as USC's chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).

References

External links

* [http://viterbi.usc.edu/ Viterbi School of Engineering site]
* [http://www-scf.usc.edu/~asbme/ Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering web site]