2004 News and Events
December 2, 2004: Kun Fu received the Outstanding
Teaching Assistant Award of USC's
Computer Science Department
for the Fall 2004 semester. He, Wei-shinn Ku (who received the award last
year) and Leo Wang were the TAs for my session of the CSci585 "Database Systems" course.
Congratulations! I would also like to thank the graders, Moses Pawar
and Muralidharan Murugan, and the database administrator Chi-Ngai Wan.
Everybody did an outstanding job for this course.
October 8, 2004: We demonstrated live, two-way high definition
streaming with the High-performance Data Recording Architecture (HYDRA) between
Inha University, Incheon, South Korea, and USC.
September 30, 2004: I attended and presented a paper at the
Workshop on Geographic and Biological Data Management (GDBM 2004), in
conjunction with the 28th Annual International Computer Software and
Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2004), Hong Kong.
September 28, 2004:
The High-performance Data Recording Architecture (HYDRA) was demonstrated at the
Fall 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting held at the University of Texas at Austin.
HYDRA was used to stream four-channels of live, high definition video capturing
the performers of the Miro Quartet and rendering them virtually at a second
venue. The Miro Quartet: Live & Virtual, was the Gala Event of the
conference.
July 27, 2004: Raptor Networks
Technology contributed two high bandwidth, multi-layer
Ether-Raptor-1010 (ER-1010) network switches to IMSC and our
laboratory for use in the Distributed Immersive Performance
project.
May 20, 2004: We have been performing experiments for our
Distributed Immersive Performance project. Vely and Ilia Tosheff of the
Tosheff Piano Duo
have gracefully agreed to help us as test subjects with these
experiments.
May 17, 2004: Kun Fu passed his qualifying exam today.
Congratulations! His dissertation will focus on "Resource Management in
Large-Scale Data Stream Recording Architectures."
April 17, 2004: Our Remote Media Immersion System was
featured in the April/June edition of the IEEE MultiMedia magazine,
special issue on "Digital Multimedia on Demand."
June 21-24, 2004: I will attend the 2004
International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
Applications (PDPTA'04), Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada.
April 14-17, 2004: I attended and presented a paper at the 6th International Conference on Enterprise
Information Systems (ICEIS) in Porto, Portugal.
April 2, 2004: The USC Viterbi School of Engineering has been
ranked #6
among the best engineering schools in the United States by US News & World Report!
March 17, 2004: I demonstrated our HYDRA HD live
streaming system at the CENIC 2004
conference, in Marina del Rey, California, at the Ritz-Carlton
Marina del Rey Hotel. The presentation
slides are available from the CENIC web site.
March 2, 2004: After receiving a generous naming gift, the USC
School of Engineering is now proudly known as USC's Andrew and Erna
Viterbi School of Engineering.
Febuary 5, 2004: "Aloha Broadband!
USC-Honolulu Videoconference Demonstrates High Quality, Low-Cost Internet Streaming," School of Engineering News.
January 28 & 29, 2004: I attended the Techs in
Paradise (TIP 2004) conference at the University of Hawaii, organized
by the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
Consortium (APAN). I was part of a Birds-of-a-Feather session on
issues related to HDTV and we demonstrated a two-way HYDRA HD live
streaming system between USC and the University of Hawaii
(approx. 5,000 km).
January 21-23, 2004: I attended the CiSoft Forum in
Dana Point, CA.
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