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Mission to Arabic: It’s Not Your Father’s Language Lab
The program already has features designed to adapt it to each individual user, noting consistent errors or difficulties, which can be targeted for extensive or remedial practice.

ISI Web Search Agents Find WI 2003 Conference Grand Prize
In the prize competition, the conference reviewers selected eight papers out of the hundreds submitted.

Cyberdefender Comes to ISI
Prior to joining USC ISI, Benzel was a Division Vice President at Network Associates, Inc.

Carl Kesselman Newest ISI Fellow
Dr. Kesselman, who serves as director of the Center for Grid Technologies at ISI, is a research associate professor in the USC School of Engineering department of computer science.

Proteus Web Service Engine Changes Shape to Grant Wishes
A powerful tool that could flexibly automate processes like this would be useful for many scientific and high-level commercial applications.

The Seismic Matrix, Loaded: Earthquake Engineering Grid Alive and Simulating
Besides the work of Dr. Kesselman’s center at the Schools’ Information Sciences Institute, Dr. Erik Johnson and the USC department of civil and environmental engineering are playing an important role.

Schorr Named to AHF Hall of Fame Advisory Board
Dr. Schorr’s appointment was announced by Robert A. Malone, Chairman of Automation Hall of Fame, Inc. and of the Advisory Board.

AI Expert Jeff Rickel: 1963-2003
Rickel was a project leader in the Intelligent Systems division of ISI and a research assistant professor at the USC School of Engineering department of computer science.

USC Researchers Build Machine Translation System — and More — For Hindi in Less Than a Month
Teams at 11 different sites across the US and one in the UK jumped into action, and twenty-nine days later can present an impressive array of information processing tools for Hindi.

Modi Wins Meritorious Service Award
The honor was for Modi’s work with the AI grads, the group of Computer Science Graduate Research Assistants working in the Intelligent Systems Division.