IMSC has been prominent in the media recently.
Multimedia magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) published a major article by IMSC faculty members on IMSC's Remote Media Immersion (RMI) system in its June issue (http://imsc.usc.edu/press/pdfs/04_04_01_2.pdf). The authors were Prof. Roger Zimmermann, Prof. Chris Kyriakakis, Prof. Cyrus Shahabi, Prof. Christos Papadopoulos, Prof. Alexander A. (Sandy) Sawchuk and Prof. Ulrich Neumann.
Prof. Shri Narayanan's project on voice recognition technology to recognize frustration in callers' voices when they interact with automated phone call centers continued to receive press coverage three months after the media first reported on the project. Newsweek featured the project in its May 17 issue (http://imsc.usc.edu/press/pdfs/Shri_Newsweek_5_17_04.pdf).
Other coverage of the voice recognition-call center project included:
Prof. Adam C. Powell, a member of IMSC's Board of Councillors and visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, spoke about IMSC's research into immersive television news coverage on the Research Channel in a program that was first broadcast in early May and then re-broadcast later in the month.
The June edition of IEEE's Computer magazine published a major article by IMSC investigators and researchers at an IMSC spin-off, Digital Media Works, on IMSC's Virtual Classroom, which is being developed for assisting children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (http://imsc.usc.edu/press/pdfs/04_04_01.pdf). The authors were Prof. Albert (Skip) Rizzo, Dr. Todd Bowerly, Prof. Cyrus Shahabi, Prof. J. Galen Buckwalter, Dean Klimchuk and Roman Mitura.