Viterbi School of Engineering
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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. 6 nationally by U.S. News and World Report.
[edit] 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
- Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) Partner Institution - Current Research
[edit] Specific contributions
- ART image file format - developed by Prof. Irving Reed
- AFL Theory - created by Prof. Seymour Ginsburg
- Baum-Welch algorithm - developed by Prof. Lloyd Welch in collaboration with Leonard 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
- 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
- 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 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
