Research News Feed

ISI Names Dr. Paul Mockapetris Visiting Scholar
Mockapetris joined ISI in 1978, and while there developed the first SMTP email server.

Robo-Thespians Help Mothers of Kids with Cancer
In late March, the National Institutes for Health positively evaluated a proposal to create a version of the project for handhelds.

ISI Grid Research in Special Issue of M.I.T. Technology Review Magazine
Gridmaster Carl Kesselman’s collaboration with Ian Foster of Argonne has won national recognition.

ISI Establishes Center For Computer Systems Security
Cliff Neuman says the CCSS will create synergy among the numerous researchers at ISI and USC already working in various aspects of computer security

Grid Lock: USC Supercomputer is Testbed for New Authentication Middleware
Carl Kesselman of the USC School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute is principal investigator on the project, part of NSF’s National Middleware Initiative.

Carl Kesselman wins British Computer Society Lovelace Medal
Kesselman will receive the medal along with Ian Foster of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division for their joint work with the Globus Project and grid computing.

Best Paper Prize for Postel Center Grad Fellow
Pingali’s paper, Computation Regrouping: Restructuring Programs for Temporal Data Cache Locality deals with a new method for minimizing memory stall time

DIVA Chip Breaks Through Memory Wall
USC/ISI Device Will Be Evaluated for Use in HP Platform with DARPA funding. Applications Seen in Multimedia, Complex Scientific Modeling and Database Access.

ISI Gets GRIP on Gigabit/Sec Net Security
The goal of the GRIP project is to offload the processing requirements associated with secure network data communications and free up the resources of the general purpose CPU system.

COSSACK Rides to the Aid of Web Operators
A team from ISI is developing a sophisticated, automated process to make defense both more powerful and more automatic.