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

 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  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

Galen Center Home for basketball and volleyball Opened: October 12, 2006 Capacity: 10,258

Doheny Library  Located in the center of campus  Opened: 1932  Built by: Ralph Adams Cram

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

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

Tommy Trojan major symbol of the university nickname of USC’s students

Mascot - Traveler

Department overview Research projects and labs Research experience by undergraduates

 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

 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 MITMathematicsMIT  Ph.D. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon UniversityComputer ScienceCarnegie 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.

 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

 ICT Light Stage: used by Hollywood studios to create photoreal digital actors.

 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

 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

 Found by the National Science Foundation  Support active research by undergraduate students Featured project

Seminar: Research projects final presentations and posters by REU site students Visit: Information Sciences Institute (ISI) Seminar: Research projects update by REU site students Seminar: Research methodology Seminar: Computer Science research at USC Visit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Seminar: Professional ethics

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