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The USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a unit of the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering, is located in Marina del Rey, California.〔(University of Southern California.edu: Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering )〕 It researches and develops information processing, computing and communications technologies. ISI actively participated in the information revolution, including helping to develop and manage the Internet.〔Bekey, George A. ''“A Remarkable Trajectory: From Humble Beginnings to Global Prominence'', The history of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.” Charleston: CreateSpace, 2015. Print.〕〔http://www.internetsociety.org/articles/tcpip-25th-anniversary〕〔http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/03/internet-pioneers-gather-in-los-angeels-to-honor-usc-information-sciences-institute.html〕 The Institute conducts basic and applied research supported by more than 20 U.S. government agencies involved in defense, science, health, homeland security, energy and other areas. Annual funding is about $60 million.〔http://www.isi.edu/about〕 The USC Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering was ranked among the nation’s top 10 engineering graduate schools by ''US News & World Report'' in 2015.〔〔http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings〕 Including ISI, USC is ranked first nationally in federal computer science research and development expenditures.〔 ISI employs about 350 research scientists, research programmers, graduate students and administrative staff at its Marina del Rey, California headquarters and in Arlington, Virginia. About half of the research staff hold PhDs, and about 40 are research faculty who teach at USC and/or advise graduate students.〔 Several senior researchers are tenured USC faculty in the Viterbi School. ISI Executive Director Prem Natarajan, previously an executive vice president and principal scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies, is a natural language expert whose own research focuses on optical character recognition, speech processing and multimedia analysis.〔https://news.usc.edu/52870/former-raytheon-executive-natarajan-takes-the-helm-of-isi/〕 Natarajan joined ISI in 2013, succeeding USC Viterbi School vice dean John O'Brien, who served as interim executive director in 2012 and 2013. From 1988 to 2012, ISI was led by former IBM executive Herbert Schorr.〔〔http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/16/business/fi-golden16〕 ==Research and sponsors== ISI research spans artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity,〔http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-sony-hacked-spreadsheet-salaries-ssns-email-up-20141202-story.html〕 grid computing,〔http://www.infoworld.com/article/2681952/networking/2003-infoworld-innovators--ian-foster--carl-kesselman--and-steve-tuecke.html〕 quantum computing, microelectronics,〔http://science.dodlive.mil/2015/01/09/advancing-dods-ability-to-test-critical-microelectronics/〕〔http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/stopping-hardware-trojans-in-their-tracks〕 supercomputing, nano-satellites and many other areas. AI expertise includes natural language processing, in which ISI has an international reputation,〔https://www.aclweb.org/website/node/442〕〔http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25code.html?_r=0〕〔http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/COLI_a_00171#.VVU8q_lVikp〕 reconfigurable robotics,〔http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2475070,00.asp〕 information integration, motion analysis〔http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-1028-nba-stats-20131028-story.html#page=1〕〔http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/11/02/360943860/new-players-in-the-nba-big-data-user-controlled-jumbotrons〕 and social media analysis. Hardware/software expertise includes cyber-physical system security, data mining, reconfigurable computing and cloud computing. In networking, ISI explores Internet resilience, Internet traffic analysis and photonics, among other areas.〔http://www.isi.edu〕〔http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-innovation-fund-20141123-story.htm/〕 Researchers also work in scientific data management, wireless technologies, biomimetics and electrical smart grid, in which ISI is advising the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power on a major demonstration project.〔http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/07/01/45096/ladwp-flips-the-switch-on-52-000-smart-meters〕 Another current initiative involves big-data brain imaging jointly with the Keck School of Medicine of USC.〔http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/18/local/la-me-usc-ucla-recruit-20130518/〕 Federal agency sponsors include the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and other scientific, technical and defense-related agencies. Corporate partners include Chevron Corp. in the (Center for Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies ) (CiSoft), Lockheed Martin Company in the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computation Center, and Parsons Corp. subsidiary Sparta Inc. in the (DETER Project ), a cybersecurity research initiative and international testbed. ISI also has partnered with businesses including IBM Corporation, Samsung Electronics Company, the Raytheon Company, GlobalFoundries Inc., Northrop Grumman Corporation and Carl Zeiss AG, and currently is working with (Micron Technology, Inc. ), Altera Corporation and Fujitsu Ltd. ISI also operates the (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service ) (MOSIS), a multi-project electronic circuit wafer service that has prototyped more than 60,000 chips since 1981. MOSIS provides design tools and pools circuit designs to produce specialty and low-volume chips for corporations, universities and other research entities worldwide. The Institute also has given rise to several startup and spinoff companies in grid software, geospatial information fusion, machine translation, data integration and other technologies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Information Sciences Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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