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Newsletter

IMSC e-News, August 2004

Contact: Nichole Phillips, (213) 740-3237 nicholep@imsc.usc.edu.

IMSC DEPUTY DIRECTOR HONORED BY OPTICAL SOCIETY - IMSC Deputy Director Alexander (Sandy) A. Sawchuk, professor of electrical engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Service Award of the Optical Society of America (OSA). (http://imsc.usc.edu/news/sawchukaward.html)

RAPTOR CONTRIBUTES SWITCHES - Raptor Networks Technology, Inc., of Santa Ana, CA, contributed high-bandwidth, multi-layer switches to IMSC in August. The switches will be used for the Distributed Immersive Performance (DIP) project, according to IMSC key investigator Prof. Roger Zimmermann. The DIP project is developing enabling technologies for immersive, interactive and collaborative environments, including an application to enable musicians in different physical locations to perform together over the Internet. (http://imsc.usc.edu/news/releases/raptor.html)

IMSC IN THE NEWS - The September MIT Technology Review cited the graphics research of IMSC key investigator J.P. Lewis and IMSC Director Ulrich Neumann on the development of realistic digital human faces for films and other applications. (http://imsc.usc.edu/press/pdfs/04_09_15_mit.pdf)

Under the heading, "A new world of entertainment," CNET discussed IMSC's Remote Media Immersion (RMI) technology for streaming movies over the Internet in a major article on broadband. (http://imsc.usc.edu/press/pdfs/04_07_26_cnet.pdf)

The September Home Theater magazine cited the IMSC spin-off, Audyssey Laboratories, Inc., of Los Angeles, in a major article that detailed Audyssey's new audio technology, MultEQ (Multiple Listener Equalization), which automatically corrects frequency response distortions present in every acoustical environment. Audyssey was founded by IMSC key investigator Prof. Chris Kyriakakis, Audyssey Chief Technology Officer; USC PhD and Audyssey President Dr. Sunil Bharitkar; and USC Master's graduate and Audyssey Chief Executive Officer Phillip Hilmes. (http://imsc.usc.edu/press/pdfs/04_09_15_hometheater.pdf)

In August, Mix magazine described multichannel immersive audio technology developed at IMSC. Prof. Kyriakakis and Prof. Tomlinson Holman, USC professor of film sound, are key investigators on immersive audio. (http://imsc.usc.edu/press/pdfs/04_08_01_mix.pdf)

The Integrated Media Systems Center is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center at the University of Southern California.