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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
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
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
Thanks!More readings:http://www.usc.edu/http://www.cs.usc.edu/