Newsletter
IMSC eNews, May 2004
Contact: Nichole Phillips, (213) 740-3237 nicholep@imsc.usc.edu
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SCORE MAJOR SUCCESS IN IMSC OUTREACH PROGRAM - Nine high school students, learning advanced research skills in an IMSC community-outreach program with a Pasadena, CA, research institute, recently scored a major success when their IMSC-sponsored research paper was accepted for presentation at a key international conference. They will travel to Budapest, Hungary, this summer to present the paper at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, July 25-29. The students are conducting the research at the Jisan Research Institute (JRI), a private non-profit organization they attend after school hours. JRI's mission is to provide opportunities for high school students, including those who are financially disadvantaged, to work on research projects sponsored by universities and companies. (For full details and photo, go to http://imsc.usc.edu/news/releases/highschool.html.)
PROF. HOLMAN INSTALLS 20TH 10.2-CHANNEL AUDIO SYSTEM - Prof. Tomlinson Holman, an IMSC key investigator and Professor of Film Sound at the School of Cinema-Television, traveled to Paris in March to install a 10.2-channel audio system at the Institut International du Multimedia, a part of the young and dynamic Pôle Universitaire Leonardo de Vinci as the first setup in Europe and 20th around the world. (For full details and photo, go to http://imsc.usc.edu/news/releases/holman.html.)
SAI WORKSHOP SHOWCASES PROJECTS - Students showcased projects being developed with IMSC's Software Architecture for Immersipresence (SAI) at a successful Spring 2004 SAI Workshop in April. The SAI architecture framework is a model for designing, analyzing and implementing applications performing distributed, asynchronous parallel processing of generic data streams. SAI enables modular design and fast prototyping of real-time systems. (For full details and photo, go to http://imsc.usc.edu/news/releases/sai.html.)
IMSC IN THE NEWS - 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). 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), and several other media outlets covered the project in the past few weeks. 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). (For full details, go to http://imsc.usc.edu/news/releases/imsc_news.html.)
The Integrated Media Systems Center is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center at the University of Southern California.