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CSE News
Highly successful Viterbi research unit widens focus, brings on new co-director, and looks forward to major Convocation in fall |
Under the leadership of Prof. Barry Boehm and a new co-director, Professor Stan Settles, the USC Center for Software Engineering will complete a change to become the Center for Systems and Software Engineering at a plenary affiliates convocation scheduled for October 23-26, 2006 at the University Park campus.
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Adleman, Boehm elected to National Academy of Engineering
by Eric Mankin
Two members of the School of Engineering's Department of Computer Science have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), among the highest professional distinctions in the field. |
Library
Gives Real-World Challenges to Student Software Designers
by Eric Mankin
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collaboration between the computer science department and
University Libraries has put students to work on real, state-of-the-art
software challenges with extraordinarily successful resuts.
In
one case, the work done by the students in the graduate-level
software engineering class of computer science professor
Barry Boehm will almost certainly go into service at the
library later this year. And the work done on others will
be a boon to libra ry fund raisers in coming months. |
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Inspector
SCRover
The Inspector SCRover (Southern California Rover) is a public
safety robot being developed for the University of Southern
California (USC), Department of Public Safety (DPS). Inspector
SCRover shall enable the DPS to verify threats, involving
suspicious materials, without a risk to human life. DPS
shall send the Inspector SCRover in areas where suspicious
materials may be present. Inspector SCRover shall enter
the areas where hazardous materials are suspected to be
present and return images of the surrounding environment.
The USC DPS personnel shall analyze these images and determine
if the materials pose a real threat to the environment,
and shall act accordingly. DPS has approached the USC’s
Center for Software Engineering (USC CSE) with a proposal
to develop the Inspector SCRover. The Center of Software
Engineering has decided to use the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s
(JPL’s), Mission Data Systems (MDS) framework to develop
this application. The MDS framework is a reusable mobile
rover development software that NASA-JPL is going to use
in their Rocky 7 rover to be sent to Mars in the year 2009.
CSE shall be the first organization to test the reusability
of this framework.
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