USC Viterbi School of Engineering - Specific Contributions

Specific Contributions

• AFL Theory - created by Prof. Seymour Ginsburg
• ART image file format - developed by Prof. Irving Reed
• Baum-Welch algorithm - developed by Prof. Lloyd Welch in collaboration with Leonard E. Baum
• CMOS image sensor - invented by Prof. Eric Fossum
• COCOMO - developed by Prof. Barry Boehm
• Contour Crafting - under development by Behrokh Khoshnevis of ISI
• DNA computing - invented by Prof. Leonard Adleman
• Domain name system (DNS) - developed by Paul Mockapetris and the late Jon Postel at ISI
• Dynamic programming - developed by Prof. Richard Bellman
• Golomb coding - entropy encoding invented by Prof. Solomon W. Golomb that is optimal for alphabets following geometric distributions
• ICANN - founded by Jon Postel, to ensure the stable and secure operation of the Internet's unique identifier systems
• Image compression & recognition - the work of William Pratt, Harry Andrews and subsequently Andrew G. Tescher led to today’s JPEG compression system for still images
• Kerberos - security protocol developed by B.Clifford Neuman.
• Lenna - widely used standard test image in image processing experiments
• LOOM - knowledge representation language developed by researchers in the AI research group at ISI
• MBASE - software development process developed by Prof. Barry Boehm and Dan Port
• MOSIS - integrated circuit (IC) foundry service run by ISI
• Network Voice Protocol (NVP) - first implemented in 1973 by Internet researcher Danny Cohen of ISI
• Pseudorandom sequences/shift register sequences - in 1967, Prof. Solomon Golomb published the first book devoted exclusively to pseudorandom sequences
• Reed-Solomon code - invented in 1960 by Prof. Irving S. Reed and Gustave Solomon
• Viterbi algorithm - invented by Andrew Viterbi
• .us - the ccTLD for the United States, originally administrated by Jon Postel of ISI
• 10.2 - surround sound format developed by Prof. Tomlinson Holman (creator of THX) and Prof. Chris Kyriakakis