USC

Group member: Philip, Gino, Yvonne, Phoena

California's oldest private research university

Established: in 1880 Type: private and non-

profit Location: Los Angeles Size: 900,000 m^2 Subject:

95 undergraduate majors

147 academic and professional minors

Background Information

Background Information

Two primary campus University Park campus Health Sciences campus

President: C. L. Max Nikias Since 2010

Staff: Academic Staff: 4735 Admin. Staff: 10,774

Student: Postgarduates: 19,516 Undergraduates: 17,380

Los Angeles ,frontier town in the early 1870s Judge Robert Maclay Widney establishing a

university in the region in 1879 Widney formed a board of trustees a donation of 308 lots of land from three members

of the community USC first with 53 students and 10 teachers in 1880. Today, USC has:- more than 33,000 students & nearly 3,200 full-time

faculty. located in the heart of one of the biggest metropolises in the world

History

Galen Center

• Home for basketball and volleyball

• Opened: October 12, 2006

• Capacity: 10,258

University Park Campus

Doheny Library

Located in the center of campus

Opened: 1932

Built by: Ralph Adams Cram

University Park Campus

Medical Center Located 5 km from downtown Los Angeles

and 11 km from the University Park campus

major center for basic and clinical biomedical research in the fields of cancer, gene therapy,the neurosciences, and transplantation biology

Health Sciences Campus

• USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

• Marshall School of Business• School of Cinematic Arts• Viterbi School of Engineering• Gould School of Law• School of Medicine of USC• School of Policy, Planning, and Development

Academic Units - famous

University Seal

Tommy Trojan

• major symbol of the university

• nickname of USC’s students

University Seal

Mascot - Traveler

University Seal

USC Computer Science

Outline

• Department overview

• Research projects and labs

• Research experience by

undergraduates

USC Computer Science

Interdisciplinary

socially assistive robotics

computer animation

natural language processing

computational neuroscience

DNA computing

computational economics

Visualizing the Internet –A census of the Internet address space

Department Chair Shang-Hua Teng

Chair, Computer Science Department Seeley G. Mudd Professor Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California

Affiliated Research Professor of Mathematics at MIT

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

RESEARCH: smoothed analysis of algorithms, computational economics and game theory, spectral graph theory, scientific computing, mathematical programming, combinatorial optimization, computational geometry and computer graphics.

Achievements A Quick Glance First program in game development

 the Domain Name System and the TCP/IP

protocols

Invention of DNA computing

One of the first computer viruses and led the

theoretical study of the computer virus concept

Home of one of the nation’s largest robotics

programs

Much-honored faculty includes five members of

the National Academy of Engineering and a

Turing Award winner, Leonard Adleman

USC CS Awards

ICT Light Stage:

used by Hollywood

studios to create

photoreal digital

actors.

Robotics

Can Robots Help

Improve the State of

U.S. Healthcare?

Congress Wanted to

Know

socially assistive

robotics

helping people recover

from stroke

elders suffering from

chronic conditions

Research Areas & Labs

Artificial Intelligence, Agents, Natural Language,

Vision

Databases and Information Management

Graphics, Games & Multimedia

Robotics, Brain Theory, and Computational

Neuroscience

Software Systems and Engineering

Systems, Distributed Systems, Communication

Networks

Theory and Computational Sciences

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

Found by the National

Science Foundation

Support active research

by undergraduate

studentsFeatured project

REU Summer Program

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