Michael Orosz is leading the team working on the tool, called Risk Analysis Workbench, or RAW.

The winning submissions were judged by a distinguished on the depth of their positive impact on their primary users, their technical merit, and the likelihood they application would be more broadly adopted.

The program will distribute funding totaling $1.1 million to help academic researchers innovate in advanced mapping and location-based search technologies.

ISI computer scientist Yolanda Gil leads the newly funded $13.8 million Windward project.

Near-term applications for the MONARCH include space radar and video processing, which require small size and low power.

In a ceremony March 8, USC President Steven B. Sample presented the distinction.

Sensornets are an emerging way to monitor inaccessible and unwired places.

Superbot consists of Lego-like but autonomous robotic modules that can reconfigure into different systems for different tasks.

Deputy Director Ron Ohllander has been with ISI for 21 years.

The 176-page report, released January 22, includes 10 specific recommendations.