Podcasts about viterbi

Curated by Enrico Fink, Shirat Hayam: The Song of the Sea (Centro Primo Levi, 2023) inaugurates the Erna Finci Viterbi Chàzanut Roundtable, a workshop and program series on Italian Jewish music and liturgy established by Centro Primo Levi in memory of a dear friend and board member whose love for tradition and dedication to learning have profoundly contributed to shape the center's principles. This project aims at facilitating new recordings of Italian and Mediterranean cantorial music and circulating the existing ones. Publications, recordings and essays collected for this program are available through the Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music (www.jewishitalianmusic.org) designed to provide tools to those interested in learning, practicing or simply enjoying this art, including scholars, musicians, cantors and bar/bat-mitzvà students wishing to include some of this beautiful music in their liturgical repertoire. The Thesaurus was created by Centro Leo Levi in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi, and the generous contribution of the Viterbi family of San Diego. It is being developed in collaboration with the Jewish Music Research Center of the University of Jerusalem and in partnership with the National Library of Israel, CDEC, and the Fondazione Beni Culturali Ebraici Italiani. Sharing and participating were among Erna's most cherished values and she regarded them as an indispensable foundation of human relations and endeavors. For centuries, partaking in the communal prayer through the knowledge of its musical canons and variations has been an essential component of Jewish life. The repertoires that flourished in small communities throughout the Mediterranean reflect trade, travels and exchanges and resulted in a tapestry of sounds that, still preserved within local communities, can become an inspiration outside of their native environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Curated by Enrico Fink, Shirat Hayam: The Song of the Sea (Centro Primo Levi, 2023) inaugurates the Erna Finci Viterbi Chàzanut Roundtable, a workshop and program series on Italian Jewish music and liturgy established by Centro Primo Levi in memory of a dear friend and board member whose love for tradition and dedication to learning have profoundly contributed to shape the center's principles. This project aims at facilitating new recordings of Italian and Mediterranean cantorial music and circulating the existing ones. Publications, recordings and essays collected for this program are available through the Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music (www.jewishitalianmusic.org) designed to provide tools to those interested in learning, practicing or simply enjoying this art, including scholars, musicians, cantors and bar/bat-mitzvà students wishing to include some of this beautiful music in their liturgical repertoire. The Thesaurus was created by Centro Leo Levi in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi, and the generous contribution of the Viterbi family of San Diego. It is being developed in collaboration with the Jewish Music Research Center of the University of Jerusalem and in partnership with the National Library of Israel, CDEC, and the Fondazione Beni Culturali Ebraici Italiani. Sharing and participating were among Erna's most cherished values and she regarded them as an indispensable foundation of human relations and endeavors. For centuries, partaking in the communal prayer through the knowledge of its musical canons and variations has been an essential component of Jewish life. The repertoires that flourished in small communities throughout the Mediterranean reflect trade, travels and exchanges and resulted in a tapestry of sounds that, still preserved within local communities, can become an inspiration outside of their native environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

Curated by Enrico Fink, Shirat Hayam: The Song of the Sea (Centro Primo Levi, 2023) inaugurates the Erna Finci Viterbi Chàzanut Roundtable, a workshop and program series on Italian Jewish music and liturgy established by Centro Primo Levi in memory of a dear friend and board member whose love for tradition and dedication to learning have profoundly contributed to shape the center's principles. This project aims at facilitating new recordings of Italian and Mediterranean cantorial music and circulating the existing ones. Publications, recordings and essays collected for this program are available through the Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music (www.jewishitalianmusic.org) designed to provide tools to those interested in learning, practicing or simply enjoying this art, including scholars, musicians, cantors and bar/bat-mitzvà students wishing to include some of this beautiful music in their liturgical repertoire. The Thesaurus was created by Centro Leo Levi in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi, and the generous contribution of the Viterbi family of San Diego. It is being developed in collaboration with the Jewish Music Research Center of the University of Jerusalem and in partnership with the National Library of Israel, CDEC, and the Fondazione Beni Culturali Ebraici Italiani. Sharing and participating were among Erna's most cherished values and she regarded them as an indispensable foundation of human relations and endeavors. For centuries, partaking in the communal prayer through the knowledge of its musical canons and variations has been an essential component of Jewish life. The repertoires that flourished in small communities throughout the Mediterranean reflect trade, travels and exchanges and resulted in a tapestry of sounds that, still preserved within local communities, can become an inspiration outside of their native environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/italian-studies

Dedicated to the memory of both his father Achille and his son Alexander, Andrew J. Viterbi's memoir reconstructs the course of his academic career at a time in which technology played a major role in a radical reshaping of the world's economy and society. Attuned to the post-war growing technological needs of government and population, Viterbi and his colleagues began to work in an area where scientific research and capitalistic enterprise could support one another. His main contribution to science, the Viterbi Algorithm, found application in different fields, ultimately leading up to the co-founding of Qualcomm, which became one of the most important communication companies worldwide. His father came from an intellectual but impoverished youth, and imbued family life with the principles of education and social responsibility. Family politics in America were very much in tune with the Democratic party of Franklin Roosevelt, who had favored the poor over the wealthy in raising the nation out of the Depression. Considering his embrace of capitalism, which he sees as a force that incentivizes people to strive to achieve the best of their ability, Viterbi holds firmly to the values of social equality and reform, advocating for equitable taxation, universal education and affordable healthcare. He discussed the importance of public support of basic research in the sciences arguing that the development of knowledge for the benefit of all humanity cannot be entrusted to the private sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

Dedicated to the memory of both his father Achille and his son Alexander, Andrew J. Viterbi's memoir reconstructs the course of his academic career at a time in which technology played a major role in a radical reshaping of the world's economy and society. Attuned to the post-war growing technological needs of government and population, Viterbi and his colleagues began to work in an area where scientific research and capitalistic enterprise could support one another. His main contribution to science, the Viterbi Algorithm, found application in different fields, ultimately leading up to the co-founding of Qualcomm, which became one of the most important communication companies worldwide. His father came from an intellectual but impoverished youth, and imbued family life with the principles of education and social responsibility. Family politics in America were very much in tune with the Democratic party of Franklin Roosevelt, who had favored the poor over the wealthy in raising the nation out of the Depression. Considering his embrace of capitalism, which he sees as a force that incentivizes people to strive to achieve the best of their ability, Viterbi holds firmly to the values of social equality and reform, advocating for equitable taxation, universal education and affordable healthcare. He discussed the importance of public support of basic research in the sciences arguing that the development of knowledge for the benefit of all humanity cannot be entrusted to the private sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In today's episode, I talk to Andrew Viterbi, co-founder of Qualcomm and creator of the Viterbi algorithm.   When Andrew was just 4 years old, he came to the US as a refugee from Italy. By 10 years old, he already had a passion for math and technology and wanted to study at MIT university (spoiler alert… he did!).   Now, Andrew is in his 80s!!!! And he's known for being the co-founder of Qualcomm — a $120 BILLION dollar company!!! And he also invented the Viterbi algorithm.   If you've ever wanted to learn about how to invent an algorithm and make your own luck, you'll love this episode.   In this conversation, you'll enjoy 3 BIG things: - How money changed Andrew's life coming from nothing to being a billionaire - If Andrew regrets working as hard as he did to get major success - And the #1 thing he thinks startups NEED to be successful   Enjoy those 3 things… plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.   If you want to launch your own business but don't know where to start, I reopened my course Monthly1K for just $10. It's helped thousands of people start their business journey and I know it will help you, too. Head over to OkDork.com/Monthly1K to sign up. ✉️ Signup for my weekly newsletter (I reply to emails): https://okdork.com/email-newsletter/ 

There are still stories from World War II that need to be told. Sarah Abreveya Stein, professor of history at the University of California Los Angeles, listens to voices of the past. Sarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor of History, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, and Viterbi […]

Join Emily as she interviews her fellow class of 2022 soon-to-be Viterbi graduates! They reflect on their four years at SC, discuss highs and lows, and touch on goals for the future.

Theatre Schmooze: A Recurring Lense - Season 2, Episode 3 with Ali Viterbi A Recurring Lense - Season 2, Episode 3 dropped on Wednesday, April 13 with our eleventh guest: Ali Viterbi, playwright and television writer, based in Providence, Rhode Island. Tune in as Ali and Danielle discuss her multiple world premieres of In Every Generation, educational and mentorship experiences, the impact of Jewishness in her work, and unexpected moments of Jewishness showing up in her creative path. Theatre Schmooze, an all-new, monthly podcast from Alliance for Jewish Theatre where we chat with Jewish theatre makers from around the world about their art, Judaism, and vision for theater's future. Hosted by Danielle Levsky (AJT Board Member, writer, clown, performer, educator, producer, and theatre journalist), Theatre Schmooze will feature one-on-one conversations with artists that will illuminate the heart, soul, and diversity of contemporary Jewish theatre. Theatre Schmooze is an Alliance for Jewish Theatre program, produced by Danny Debner and Danielle Levsky. Our theme music is by Ilya Levinson and Alex Koffman, and our logo was created by Michelle Shapiro.

Qualcomm is the world's largest fabless semiconductor designer. The name Qualcomm is a mashup of  Quality and Communications and communications has been a hallmark of the company since its founding. They began in satellite communications and today most every smartphone has a Qualcomm chip. The ubiquity of communications in our devices and everyday lives has allowed them a $182 billion market cap as of the time of this writing.  Qualcomm began with far humbler beginnings. They emerged out of a company called Linkabit in 1985. Linkabit was started by Irwin Jacobs, Leonard Kleinrock, and Andrew Viterbi - all three former graduate students at MIT.  Viterbi moved to California to take a job with JPL in Pasadena, where he worked on satellites. He then went off to UCLA where he developed what we now call the Viterti algorithm, for encoding and decoding digital communications. Jacobs worked on a book called Principles of Communication Engineering after getting his doctorate at MIT. Jacobs then took a year of leave to work at JPL after he met Viterbi in the early 1960s and the two hit it off. By 1966, Jacobs was a professor at the University of California, San Diego. Kleinrock was at UCLA by then and the three realized they had too many consulting efforts between them, but if they consolidated the request they could pool their resources. Eventually Jacobs and Viterbi left and Kleinrock got busy working on the first ARPANET node when it was installed at UCLA. Jerry Heller, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, and James Dunn eventually moved into the area to work at Linkabit and by the 1970s Jacobs was back to help design telecommunications for satellites. They'd been working to refine the theories from Claude Shannon's time at MIT and Bell Labs and were some of the top names in the industry on the work. And the space race needed a lot of this type of work. They did their work on Scientific Data Systems computers in an era before that company was acquired by Xerox. Much as Claude Shannon got started thinking of data loss as it pertains to information theory while trying to send telegraphs over barbed wire, they refined that work thinking about sending images from mars to earth.  Others from MIT worked on other space projects as a part of missions. Many of those early employees were Viterbi's PhD students and they were joined by Joseph Odenwalder, who took Viterbi's decoding work and combined it with a previous dissertation out of MIT when he joined Linkabit. That got used in the Voyager space probes and put Linkabit on the map. They were hiring some of the top talent in digital communications and were able to promote not only being able to work with some of the top minds in the industry but also the fact that they were in beautiful San Diego, which appealed to many in the Boston or MIT communities during harsh winters. As solid state electronics got cheaper and the number of transistors more densely packed into those wafers, they were able to exploit the ability to make hardware and software for military applications by packing digital signal processors that had previously taken a Sigma from SDS into smaller and smaller form factors, like the Linkabit Microprocessor, which got Viterbi's algorithm for encoding data into a breadboard and a chip.  The work continued with defense contractors and suppliers. They built modulation and demodulation for UHF signals for military communications. That evolved into a Command Post Modem/Processor they sold, or CPM/P for short. They made modems for the military in the 1970s, some of which remained in production until the 1990s. And as they turned their way into the 1980s, they had more than $10 million in revenue.  The UC San Diego program grew in those years, and the Linkabit founders had more and more local talent to choose from. Linkabit developed tools to facilitate encoded communications over commercial satellites as well. They partnered with companies like IBM and developed smaller business units they were able to sell off. They also developed a tool they called VideoCipher to encode video, which HBO and others used to do what we later called scrambling on satellite signals. As we rounded the corner into the 1990s, though, they turned their attention to cellular services with TDMA (Time-Division Multiple Access), an early alternative to CDMA. Along the way, Linkabit got acquired by a company called MACOM in 1980 for $25 million. The founders liked that the acquirer was a fellow PhD from MIT and Linkabit stayed separate but grew quickly with the products they were introducing. As with most acquisitions, the culture changed and by 1985 the founders were gone. The VideoCipher and other units were sold off, spun off, or people just left and started new companies. Information theory was decades old at this point, plenty of academic papers had been published, and everyone who understood the industry knew that digital telecommunications was about to explode; a perfect storm for defections. Qualcomm Over the course of the next few years over two dozen companies were born as the alumni left and by 2003, 76 companies were founded by Linkabit alumni, including four who went public. One of the companies that emerged included the Linkabit founders Irwin Jacobs and Andrew Viterbi, Begun in 1985, Qualcomm is also based in San Diego. The founders had put information theory into practice at Linkabit and seen that the managers who were great at finance just weren't inspiring to scientists.  Qualcomm began with consulting and research, but this time looked for products to take to market. They merged with a company called Omninet and the two released the OmniTRACS satellite communication system for trucking and logistical companies. They landed Schneider National and a few other large customers and grew to over 600 employees in those first five years. It remained a Qualcomm subsidiary until recently. Even with tens of millions in revenue, they operated at a loss while researching what they knew would be the next big thing.  Code-Division Multiple Acces, or CDMA, is a technology that allows for sending information over multiple channels so users can share not just a single frequency of the radio band, but multiple frequencies without a lot of interference. The original research began all the way back in the 1930s when Dmitry Ageyev in the Soviet Union researched the theory of code division of signals at Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications. That work and was furthered during World War II by German researchers like Karl Küpfmüller and Americans like Claude Shannon, who focused more on the information theory of communication channels.  People like Lee Yuk-wing then took the cybernetics work from pioneers like Norbert Weiner and helped connect those with others like Qualcomm's Jacobs, a student of Yuk-wing's when he was a professor at MIT. They were already working on CDMA jamming in the early 1950s at MIT's Lincoln Lab. Another Russian named Leonid Kupriyanovich put the concept of CMDA into practice in the later 1950s so the Soviets could track people using a service they called Altai. That made it perfect for  perfect for tracking trucks and within a few years was released in 1965 as a pre-cellular radiotelephone network that got bridged to standard phone lines. The Linkabit and then Qualcomm engineers had worked closely with satellite engineers at JPL then Hughes and other defense then commercial contractors. They'd come in contact with work and built their own intellectual property for decades. Bell was working on mobile, or cellular technologies. Ameritech Mobile Communications, or Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) as they were known at the time, launched the first 1G network in 1983 and Vodaphone launched their first service in the UK in 1984. Qualcomm filed their first patent for CDMA the next year.  That patent is one of the most cited documents in all of technology. Qualcomm worked closely with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US and with industry consortiums, such as the CTIA, or Cellular Telephone Industries Association. Meanwhile Ericsson promoted the TDMA standard as they claimed it was more standard; however, Qualcomm worked on additional patents and got to the point that they licensed their technology to early cell phone providers like Ameritech, who was one of the first to switch from the TDMA standard Ericsson promoted to CDMA. Other carriers switched to CDMA as well, which gave them data to prove their technology worked. The OmniTRACS service helped with revenue, but they needed more. So they filed for an initial public offering in 1991 and raised over $500 billion in funding between then and 1995 when they sold another round of shares. By then, they had done the work to get CDMA encoding on a chip and it was time to go to the mass market. They made double what they raised back in just the first two years, reaching over $800 million in revenue in 1996.  Qualcomm and Cell Phones One of the reasons Qualcomm was able to raise so much money in two substantial rounds of public funding is that the test demonstrations were going so well. They deployed CDMA in San Diego, New York, Honk Kong, Los Angeles, and within just a few years had over a dozen carriers running substantial tests. The CTIA supported CDMA as a standard in 1993 and by 1995 they went from tests to commercial networks.  The standard grew in adoption from there. South Korea standardized on CDMA between 1993 to 116. The CDMA standard was embraced by Primeco in 1995, who used the 1900 MHz PCS band. This was a joint venture between a number of vendors including two former regional AT&T spin-offs from before the breakup of AT&T and represented interests from Cox Communications, Sprint, and turned out to be a large undertaking. It was also the largest cellular launch with services going live in 19 cities and the first phones were from a joint venture between Qualcomm and Sony. Most of PrimeCo's assets were later merged with AirTouch Cellular and the Bell Atlantic Mobile to form what we now know as Verizon Wireless.  Along the way, there were a few barriers to mass proliferation of the Qualcomm CDMA standards. One is that they made phones. The Qualcomm Q cost them a lot to manufacture and it was a market with a lot of competition who had cheaper manufacturing ecosystems. So Qualcomm sold the manufacturing business to Kyocera, who continued to license Qualcomm chips. Now they could shift all of their focus on encoding bits of data to be carried over multiple radio channels to do their part in paving the way for 2G and 3G networks with the chips that went into most phones of the era.  Qualcomm couldn't have built out a mass manufacturing ecosystem to supply the world with every phone needed in the 2G and 3G era. Nor could they make the chips that went in those phones. The mid and late 1990s saw them outsource then just license their patents and know-how to other companies. A quarter of a billion 3G subscribers across over a hundred carriers in dozens of countries. They got in front of what came after CDMA and worked on multiple other standards, including OFDMA, or Orthogonal frequency-Division Multiple Access. For those they developed the Qualcomm Flarion Flash-OFDM and 3GPP 5G NR, or New Radio. And of course a boatload of other innovative technologies and chips. Thus paving the way to have made Qualcomm instrumental in 5G and beyond.  This was really made possible by this hyper-specialization. Many of the same people who developed the encoding technology for the Voyager satellite decades prior helped pave the way for the mobile revolution. They ventured into manufacturing but as with many of the designers of technology and chips, chose to license the technology in massive cross-licensing deals. These deals are so big Apple sued Qualcomm recently for a billion in missed rebates. But there were changes happening in the technology industry that would shake up those licensing deals.  Broadcom was growing into a behemoth. Many of their designs sent from stand-alone chips to being a small part of a SoC, or system on a chip. Suddenly, cross-licensing the ARM gave Qualcomm the ability to make full SoCs.  Snapdragon has been the moniker of the current line of SoCs since 2007. Qualcomm has an ARM Architectural License and uses the ARM instruction set to create their own CPUs. The most recent incarnation is known as Krait. They also create their own Graphics Processor (GPU) and Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) known as Adreno and Hexagon. They recently acquired Arteris' technology and engineering group, and they used Arteris' Network on Chip (NoC) technology. Snapdragon chips can be found in the Samsung Galaxy, Vivo, Asus, and Xiaomi phones. Apple designs their own chips that are based on the ARM architecture, so in some ways compete with the Snapdragon, but still use Qualcomm modems like every other SoC. Qualcomm also bought a new patent portfolio from HP, including the Palm patents and others, so who knows what we'll find in the next chips - maybe a chip in a stylus.  Their slogan is "enabling the wireless industry," and they've certainly done that. From satellite communications that required a computer the size of a few refrigerators to battlefield communications to shipping trucks with tracking systems to cell towers, and now the full processor on a cell phone. They've been with us since the beginning of the mobile era and one has to wonder if the next few generations of mobile technology will involve satellites, so if Qualcomm will end up right back where they began: encoding bits of information theory into silicon.

In this episode, Jordan, Matt, and Paul continue their Viterbi-inspired Dungeons & Dragons campaign once again! Will they be able to defeat the mysterious AI mastermind? Join us to see how the finale of this two-part series!

In this episode, Jordan, Matt, and Paul play a Viterbi-inspired Dungeons & Dragons campaign once again! AI robots are trying to take over Viterbi and Shannon, our Dungeon Master has made sure to prepare some surprises along the way. Join us for this two-part episode and see how our engineers navigate this invasion while balancing their midterms at the same time!

In this live chat, Derek discusses the LGBTQ+ community at Viterbi and USC with Gus, Kate, Chris, and Elissa. They discuss LGBTQ+ resources, events, student life, and more!

In this hour long talk, we discuss our experiences as Black engineers at Viterbi. We answer questions about how we wanted to become engineers, why Viterbi, the resources we've used to find belonging as Black engineers and more!

In this episode, Neha, Jordan, and Pail continue their adventure at the zombie apocalypse right where they left off last time with Neha facing off the Viterbi zombies! Join our brave engineers while they navigate this Dungeons & Dragons campaign set up by the incredible Dungeon Master, Shannon. If you haven't yet, make sure you listen to Part 1 first and see if they can save the day!

In this episode, Neha, Jordan, and Paul do something a little different by playing a Viterbi-inspired Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Shannon, the Dungeon Master, has an incredible zombie apocalypse story prepared for our engineers to navigate and try to solve. Make sure to tune in for this two-episode event and see what happens when zombies overrun Viterbi!

In this episode, Maya speaks with Cyprien and Talha about their experiences with entrepreneurship as undergraduate students at Viterbi. We discuss the process of developing a start-up at Viterbi, the resources available at USC, and how to balance school and work.

In this discussion, Jordan interviews Isaac, Helen, Georgia, and Jevon about their computer science specializations. We break down each of the computer science majors at Viterbi, our experiences in the department, and how we chose our majors!

In this hour long talk, we discuss out experiences as LatinX engineers at Viterbi. We answer questions about how we wanted to become engineers, why Viterbi, the resources we've used to find belonging as LatinX engineers and more!

In this hour long talk, we discuss out experiences as women engineers at Viterbi. We answer questions about how we wanted to become engineers, why Viterbi, the resources we've used to find belonging as women engineers and more!

In this episode, Mahima talks to Trisha, a Freshman Academy coach, about her work in ENGR 102: Freshman Academy. We talk about this unique course, the roles that coaches play, and the lasting impact this course has had on our time at Viterbi.

During this hour long event, we will be talking about our lives as students at USC Viterbi. We are here to answer the questions you may have about classes, students orgs, free time, and what life is *really* like as an engineering student.

¿Qué hay para mí dentro del libro El Arte de Como Ser Disruptivo de Jay Samit? Domina la Transformación Personal para Adaptarse al Cambio hecho por Disruptores. Grupo de Facebook IMPACTO EXPERTO: https://www.facebook.com/groups/impactoexperto Monetiza tus Redes Sociales: https://impactoexperto.com/ Participa del Reto 60/100 para ser una Mejor Versión: https://conocimientoexperto.com/reto60100 Accede a mi sito oficial y desarrolla tu modelo de negocio: https://www.salvadormingo.com/ Accede al Programa Principios Experto: https://conocimientoexperto.com/principios Hazte del libro: https://amzn.to/2Vw69KE Accede a nuestro grupo privado en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conocimientoexperto Mis programas: * Programa Principios Experto: https://conocimientoexperto.com/principios * Libro Conocimiento: https://www.conocimientoexperto.org/unavidaconproposito * Programa Posicionamiento de Expertos en Internet: https://conocimientoexperto.com/programaexperto * Más contenidos gratuitos: https://www.conocimientoexperto.org * Aplicación Móvil Conocimiento Experto: https://www.conocimientoexperto.org/apps/ * Programa Conocimiento Experto Elite: https://conocimientoexperto.com/elite Mis redes: * Sígueme En Instagram en: https://www.instagram.com/salvadormingo/ * Sígueme en Facebook en: https://www.facebook.com/Conocimientoexperto * Sígueme en Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/SalvadorMingoConocimientoExperto * Sígueme en Twitter en: https://twitter.com/s_mingo Puede que pienses que los mejores emprendedores del mundo tienen suerte, pero te equivocas. En lugar de esperar a que llegue el éxito, los verdaderos disruptores pasan a la acción. Día a día, observan cuidadosamente el mundo que les rodea para identificar problemas probados y producir soluciones poderosas. No siempre aciertan a la primera, ni siquiera a la segunda, tercera o cuarta. Pero eso no les preocupa, porque el fracaso es el primer paso hacia el éxito. Estos emprendedores no tienen suerte: son lógicos. Y con los conocimientos adecuados, seguir sus pasos es más fácil de lo que cabría esperar. En este análisis, aprenderás - Cómo identificar ideas de negocio prometedoras; - Por qué los datos son la clave para impulsar la disrupción; y - Dónde se equivocan muchos emprendedores Edición Julio 2015 Jay Samit es un disruptor en serie y uno de los principales expertos mundiales en emprendimiento. En las últimas tres décadas, ha recaudado cientos de millones de dólares para empresas de nueva creación, ha asesorado a empresas de la lista Fortune 500 y ha ayudado a transformar sectores enteros. También es profesor adjunto en la Escuela de Ingeniería Viterbi de la Universidad del Sur de California. Enfoque Negocios Disruptivos Se Firme Salvador Ming Conocimiento Experto #disruptivo #jaysamit #transformacionpersonal

¿Qué hay para mí dentro del libro El Arte de Como Ser Disruptivo de Jay Samit? Domina la Transformación Personal para Adaptarse al Cambio hecho por Disruptores.Grupo de Facebook IMPACTO EXPERTO: https://www.facebook.com/groups/impactoexpertoMonetiza tus Redes Sociales: https://impactoexperto.com/Participa del Reto 60/100 para ser una Mejor Versión: https://conocimientoexperto.com/reto60100Accede a mi sito oficial y desarrolla tu modelo de negocio:https://www.salvadormingo.com/Accede al Programa Principios Experto: https://conocimientoexperto.com/principiosHazte del libro: https://amzn.to/2Vw69KEAccede a nuestro grupo privado en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conocimientoexpertoMis programas:* Programa Principios Experto: https://conocimientoexperto.com/principios* Libro Conocimiento: https://www.conocimientoexperto.org/unavidaconproposito* Programa Posicionamiento de Expertos en Internet: https://conocimientoexperto.com/programaexperto* Más contenidos gratuitos: https://www.conocimientoexperto.org* Aplicación Móvil Conocimiento Experto: https://www.conocimientoexperto.org/apps/* Programa Conocimiento Experto Elite: https://conocimientoexperto.com/eliteMis redes:* Sígueme En Instagram en: https://www.instagram.com/salvadormingo/* Sígueme en Facebook en: https://www.facebook.com/Conocimientoexperto* Sígueme en Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/SalvadorMingoConocimientoExperto* Sígueme en Twitter en: https://twitter.com/s_mingoPuede que pienses que los mejores emprendedores del mundo tienen suerte, pero te equivocas. En lugar de esperar a que llegue el éxito, los verdaderos disruptores pasan a la acción. Día a día, observan cuidadosamente el mundo que les rodea para identificar problemas probados y producir soluciones poderosas. No siempre aciertan a la primera, ni siquiera a la segunda, tercera o cuarta. Pero eso no les preocupa, porque el fracaso es el primer paso hacia el éxito. Estos emprendedores no tienen suerte: son lógicos. Y con los conocimientos adecuados, seguir sus pasos es más fácil de lo que cabría esperar.En este análisis, aprenderás- Cómo identificar ideas de negocio prometedoras;- Por qué los datos son la clave para impulsar la disrupción; y - Dónde se equivocan muchos emprendedoresEdición Julio 2015Jay Samit es un disruptor en serie y uno de los principales expertos mundiales en emprendimiento. En las últimas tres décadas, ha recaudado cientos de millones de dólares para empresas de nueva creación, ha asesorado a empresas de la lista Fortune 500 y ha ayudado a transformar sectores enteros. También es profesor adjunto en la Escuela de Ingeniería Viterbi de la Universidad del Sur de California.Enfoque Negocios DisruptivosSe FirmeSalvador MingConocimiento Experto#disruptivo#jaysamit#transformacionpersonal

In this episode, Audrey interviews her fellow Viterbi Student Ambassadors from the Class of 2021: Dominie, Sheetal, Cami, Miranda, Steven, Christina, and Luz. The group discusses lessons learned, favorite memories, and our plans after college. Congratulations to the USC Viterbi Class of 2021, and for one last time, fight on (forever)!

Join Mahima as she talks to freshmen students at Viterbi about their decision making process, their first year online, GESMs, Freshmen Academy and more.

Tune into this live chat where sophomores and juniors specifically speak with Cameron on All Things Viterbi! Learn about life at USC and engineering at Viterbi from underclassmen who were in your shoes not too long ago.

In this episode, Paul gives detailed guidance on first-year admissions decisions, which Viterbi will release on March 30th! Tune in to learn more insight on the admission process and how to access your decision. Thank you to everyone for applying, and congratulations to those who will soon be admitted.

In this episode, Natalie talks with Viterbi faculty who have worked closely on the construction of the Baum Maker Space, a multifunction design lab open to all Viterbi undergraduates.

Communications pioneer Andrew J.Viterbi — who in 1962 earned one of the first doctorates in electrical engineering granted at the University of Southern California — has forever changed how people everywhere connect and communicate. Dr.Viterbi’s lifelong interest in communications began as a child, when his family fled Italy for America in 1939 to escape the persecution of Jews. Born into an analog world, this visionary thinker opened the doors to the digital age with the Viterbi Algorithm, a groundbreaking mathematical formula for eliminating signal interference. Today, the Viterbi Algorithm is used in all four international standards for digital cellular telephones, as well as in data terminals, digital satellite broadcast receivers and deep space telemetry. In the spring of 1967, Dr.Viterbi met Irwin Jacobs at a telecommunications conference in California. Both men, and another of Dr. Viterbi’s colleagues, Leonard Kleinrock, shared an interest in forming a consulting group. With an investment of $1,500 — $500 from each man — the trio founded Linkabit. By the 1970s, Linkabit began providing technology for defense communications satellites using very large antennas. Dr. Viterbi and his Linkabit associates came up with a breakthrough computer to accomplish the task and dubbed it a “microprocessor,” even though it was made up of many chips. His renown grew as fast as the company. In 1975, Italy’s National Research Council awarded Dr. Viterbi one of its highest academic accolades, the Christopher Columbus Award. In 1980, Linkabit merged with M/A-COM of Boston. It soon produced the VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal), the foundation for private satellite communications networks. In 1985, the VSAT division was sold to Hughes. The team of Viterbi and Jacobs had a new dream: together, they founded Qualcomm Corp. to develop and manufacture satellite communications and digital wireless telephones. 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:12 How did you come to write your latest book? 00:03:02 Centro Primo Levi NYC and The Italian Jewish Experience 00:05:27 Knowing Primo Levi 17:53:06 Early days of wireless digital communications 00:23:33 Why didn't you patent the Viterbi Algorithm? 00:25:20 How do you separate tech hype from reality? 4G Vs 5G? 00:30:47 The commercial value of basic research and how to keep funding it. 00:38:16 Would a tax on scientific innovation impeed progress? 00:42:00 What do you think about SETI? How would you communicate with an alien civilization? 00:48:32 What would you put in your ethical will? 00:51:27 What would you put in your billion-year time capsule? 00:53:56 What advice would you give your younger self? Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating And please join my mailing list to get resources and enter giveaways to win a FREE copy of my book (and more) http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php

In the second episode of our Valentine’s Day edition of Viterbi Voices, Paul and Audrey chat with Lydia and Peter who met while studying Industrial and Systems Engineering at USC and are now married. After graduation, Lydia worked in the oil and gas industry and currently works at Apple. Peter worked as a consultant at Capgemini after graduation and now works in business operations at Zendesk. Tune in to hear the story of how Peter and Lydia met and their tips for successful professional careers.

In this special Valentine's Day edition of Viterbi Voices, Paul and Audrey chat with Claire and Ryan, who not only got their degrees but also found love at Viterbi! Claire studied Biomedical Engineering at USC and Ryan studied Electrical Engineering. The couple, now married, met in an electrical engineering course, and after graduating in 2012, they have led successful careers in consulting and tech start-ups. Tune in tomorrow to hear from another amazing couple in Love at Viterbi Part 2.

Join Dominie as she talks with Glory and Leena about what it's like to be a president of a Viterbi student organization. Dominie is the president of a professional organization called the Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering, Glory is the president of a student-run product incubator called LavaLab, and Leena is the president of an artificial intelligence club called CAIS++. Tune in to hear about their thoughts on impactful leadership.

Tune in to last week's Live chat where Derek speaks with Cameron, Elena, Luz, Chris, and Emily on All Things Viterbi. Learn about what campus life is like as well as learning from home over Zoom. Get real students' perspectives on not just engineering, but engineering at USC.

Check out last week's Live Chat where Viterbi students talk about their experiences in various study and travel abroad programs through USC! Our next and final live chat of the series will be all about the transfer student experience on January 24th, 2021.

Check out last weeks live chat where Viterbi students talk about their experiences with internships, USC Viterbi's career center, and other professional resources. Our next live chat all about studying abroad will be on January 3rd 2021

In this episode, Emily talks to Julia, Stephanie, and Leon about their experiences as artists and engineering students. They speak on how they balance art and engineering and how their identities as artists and engineers come into play in their work.

Check out last week's Live Chat where students talk about their experiences with research and projects at USC Viterbi!

In this episode, we discuss how school and extracurriculars have been working online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emily chats with two Viterbi juniors, Anna and Irene, about how their online semester is going. Some topics covered include midterms, clubs, study tips, online projects, and making friends on Zoom!

In this episode, we discuss what it's like to intern during the school year, which is sometimes referred to as a co-op. Audrey chats with two other Viterbi seniors, Christina and Luz, about their co-op experiences at Brown and Caldwell and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We also chat about what it's like to have a virtual co-op as Christina has been working remotely with Brown and Caldwell this semester. Tune in to learn all about co-ops!

USC Queers in Engineering Science and Technology (QuEST) is a student-led organization that provides professional, social and academic support for students who identify as queer within the STEM community at USC. In this episode, Audrey chats with Nick and Mady, two Viterbi students who co-preside over QuEST. Tune in to hear about how QuEST has continued to build a supportive community in a virtual setting, professional opportunities through QuEST, and some excellent science memes. Thank you so much to Nick and Mady for sharing your stories!

In this episode, Christina speaks with three Viterbi students about their unique internship experiences this summer, Emma (ME ‘21) at Northrop Grumman, Christopher (CE ‘22) at Turner Construction, and Dania (ECE ‘22) at Toyota. Tune in to hear all about their exciting experiences, accomplishments, and takeaways from their internships!

In this episode, Mahima interviews two of her fellow engineers, Nilay and Radhika, to learn more about their summers spent doing research. Viterbi's summer research program allowed students to work with their professors on COVID-19 related projects. Nilay, who studies computer science, researched COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter and Radhika, an electrical and computer engineering major, used Python to understand how the virus actually spreads. Tune in to learn about the research conducted remotely and some of their most interesting findings! More details about their research and the program can be found here: http://viterbiundergrad.usc.edu/viterbi-2020-summer-research-showcase/

In this episode, Paul and Audrey talk to Dr. Brandi Jones, Vice Dean for Diversity and Strategic Initiatives at the Viterbi School of Engineering. Dean Jones is responsible for leading and directing equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives for Viterbi School of Engineering. We discuss Dean Jones's expertise from leadership roles at highly selective engineering schools and her research on experiences of underrepresented minority students in engineering disciplines. Dean Jones also shares how she pushes Viterbi to be equity-minded and her vision for what is to come.

Tune in to listen to the recording of the August 16th live chat all about choosing an engineering major at Viterbi. 6 students share their experiences with the whole process

In this episode, Audrey and Luz interview two other Viterbi students, Allison Westley(BME '21) and Prathik Rao (CECS '21) about their first week of school. Tune in to hear all about the first week of online classes during the fall semester and the strategies students have developed to succeed in the online setting! Note: apologies for the audio issues due to a weak internet connection!

Hear from Loic, Luz, Elena, Cameron and Paul as they talk about their involvements, their concerns about studying engineering, their thoughts on the college application process, and their experiences and worries as Black and Latinx students at Viterbi.

Tune in to listen to the first episode of our Viterbi Voices live chat series. During these lives chats we discuss different experiences of Viterbi students.

In this episode, Paul, Audrey, and Sheetal kick-off the sixth season of Viterbi Voices, teasing what is to come for this season!! In this conversation, we catch-up since we last met in May, as well as discuss the statement made by the Viterbi Student Ambassadors emphasizing our commitment to highlight diverse voices through our platforms (full statement linked here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCTxCgfFxMl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link). We can't wait to share more stories of Viterbi students during Season 6!

In this episode, members of our podcast team talk about their experiences switching their majors within the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC

This special episode is a recording of a roundtable discussion with Paul and three Computer Science faculty members: Dr. Jeffery Miller, Dr. William G.J. Halfond, and Dr. Cyrus Shahabi. In the episode, Paul and the professors discuss internships, CS theory and hands-on work, the capstone project, programming experience and more. In the episode, they also answer questions from admitted students submitted via Zoom. Tune in to learn all about computer science at Viterbi!

In this episode, Mahima is celebrating Women's History Month by talking to some of her fellow female engineers. Mahima talks to Jessica and Evie about their involvements, challenges they faced being women in engineering, and most importantly, the uplifting community they've built here at Viterbi.

Tune into this special episode where Paul gives an update on First Year Admission Decisions. Learn more about virtual information sessions and how you can discover Viterbi remotely! Note that this was recorded on 3/25. Up to date information on USC's Covid-19 response can be found here: https://sites.usc.edu/coronavirus/.

In this episode, Christina chats with four Viterbi students, Nick, Kruthi, Sydney, and Audrey, to discuss fun, non-STEM classes that engineers can take at USC. From general education seminars on Italian organized crime to elective film symposiums, tune in to hear about some exciting classes offered at USC, student experiences in the courses, and how they fit into an engineering course plan!

In this episode, learn all about how to transfer to USC's Viterbi School of Engineering! Paul sits down with Rebecca Beiter, the Associate Director of Undergraduate Admission, and Angie Solares, the Senior Assistant Director for Undergraduate Admission, to answer all of your questions about the transfer process. Remember, the transfer deadline is February 1st, so tune in to this podcast and get your applications in!

In the first installment of a new series highlighting alumni, we talk with Ali Fakhari, the current managing director of August Venture Partners. Ali graduated from USC Viterbi with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and received his M.B.A from Harvard Business School. Through his professional career, Ali has helped celebrities develop their brands including boxers and artists, such as Beyoncé. In this episode, we discuss Ali's time at 'SC as well as his numerous professional roles ranging from consulting at Bain & Company to interning with Exxon on an oil rig. Tune in for a great episode that illuminates the many professional paths an engineer can take!

In this episode, Paul sits down with the staff of the Viterbi Admissions Office to answer all your burning admission questions. Paul, Becky, Stacey and Michael talk all about how our admissions process works, how to make your app stand out, and even the Jonas Brothers. Tune in to learn...how to get admitted to Viterbi & more!

Join us as we chat with the president of Code the Change, a Viterbi student run organization, on how the club is working to enable change in all levels, from the individual to the societal!

Paul, Audrey, Celeste (ME '20), and Roxy (EE '20) discuss USC Troy Camp, a student-run philanthropic organization which provides lifelong mentorship to South LA students through extracurricular programming and a week-long summer camp. Celeste and Roxy are current Viterbi Students and Troy Camp Counselors, and Paul is a Troy Camp alumni! Tune in to learn more about the importance of getting involved in non-engineering orgs, even as a Viterbi student (and for some fun camp stories too!). Interested in donating or volunteering with Troy Camp? Visit the link below to help out with their largest fundraiser, Pass the Can: https://www.troycamp.org/passthecan.html

Ira Pastor, ideaXme longevity and aging ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Alice C. Parker, Dean's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. They talk of Dr Parker's work to build a synthetic brain. Ira Pastor Comments: On the last several shows we have spent time talking to many people working on both "the cutting edge" and "the bleeding edge" as it pertains to the various emerging therapeutic and preventative technologies related to health, diseases and the processes of aging. In doing so we’ve had various guests on who are engineering and building new devices and machines for human enhancement, including bio-artificial hearts, kidneys, bionic prostheses, and exoskeletons. Building a Synthetic Brain Today, we are going to go a bit beyond the bleeding edge of things, into what sounds like science fiction and discuss the topic of "Building a Synthetic Brain." With a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering for North Carolina State, Dr. Parker specializes in a diverse range of disciplines including biomimetic neuromorphic circuits, biomimetic stereo vision, retinal and cortical neuromorphic analog circuits, and nanotechnology. Dr. Alice C. Parker, who is building a synthetic brain: Dr. Parkerhas served as the Division Director for Computer Engineering, Dean of Graduate Studies, and Vice Provost for Research at USC. Extensively published, Dr. Parker's current research focuses on the Biomimetic Real-time Cortex project based off the National Academy of Engineering's Grand Challenge, "Reverse Engineering the Brain," to explore the questions of if, when and how an artificial brain could be constructed for so-called "whole brain emulation," which includes emulating the complexity of the individual neuronal computations, constructing systems on the scale of the human brain with billions of neurons and trillions of synapses, connecting the neurons for effective and efficient communication, and implementing plasticity, or the ability of the brain to change and grow as learning occurs. On the show we will hear from Dr. Parker: About her background, how she got interested in science, engineering, and this fascinating world of neuromorphic computer design. About the basic approach of the Real-time Cortex Project and the next steps in the research process.  Ira Pastor, ideaXme longevity and aging Ambassador and Founder of Bioquark. ideaXme is a global podcast, creator series and mentor programme. Mission: Move the human story forward!™ ideaXme Ltd. Follow @ideaxmon Twitter on Instagram @ideaxme Finally, we’ll gain insight into Dr. Parker’s vision for what these computers could actually be capable of accomplishing in the coming decades and if such computers could exhibit some degree of consciousness.    ideaXme is a global podcast, creator series and mentor programme. Mission: Move the human story forward! ideaXme Ltd.  

In this episode, Dominie sits down with Jennifer, Lani and Kendall, three students involved with different community service and outreach programs on campus. From educating elementary school kids through BME projects to helping teachers craft STEM-heavy curriculums, Viterbi students love working with the local LA community and giving back. Tune in for a fantastic episode about some of the most rewarding involvements we have on campus!!

Welcome back to another installment of our favorite student-focused series, This Viterbi Life! Tune in to hear about one of the most unique classes all freshmen on campus take, Freshman Academy. Freshman Academy, or ENGR-102, is lead by upperclassmen students, known as Academy Coaches, along with a Viterbi professor-- the class is intended to introduce freshmen to the world of engineering through projects, lectures and activities across all disciplines. Tune in for a great episode by Luz, one of our VSAs and an Academy coach herself!

In the second installment of our Engineering Impact series, we discuss the 2019 Min Family Challenge, an annual social entrepreneurship challenge at Viterbi. This year the challenge takes the form of the course, Innovation in Engineering Design for Global Challenge, which is a civil engineering course open to all undergraduates. As part of the class, students work in teams to create a product that can help alleviate challenges associated with the global refugee crisis. While developing their products, students traveled to Lesbos, Greece to get to know their users and test solutions.

In this episode, Paul brings us a special recording from this weekend's bay area livechat event with some incredible Viterbi alumni. Tune in for some amazing words of wisdom from former Trojans!!

This episode is the first installment in our new series, Engineering Impact, which will highlight students, organizations, and people in Viterbi doing work for social good. This week, Audrey profiles the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society’s Student Branch, which is an undergraduate organization that teaches and develops AI applications for social good.

In this episode, Daniel visits Professor Trina Gregory, the Associate Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at USC, and also a lecturer in the ITP department within Viterbi. Tune in for a fantastic episode about all of the different competitions and opportunities USC students have to create their own startups, find funding, and seek out alumni and mentors to bring their ideas to life.

Welcome back to campus USC! Kicking off this semester with a new podcast episode with a little bit of insight on life AFTER college with Kaitlin and Maggie from the Viterbi Career Connections Office. Tune in for a stellar episode about placement after graduation, employers that come to campus, Viterbi engineers' salaries and opportunities on campus to build your professional network.

HAPPY 100TH EPISODE!!!! In this extraordinarily special episode, Rhea interviews Kelly Lynch, the first host of Viterbi Voices, and Alex Budde, the second host. She speaks with Paul about the past, present and future of the podcast, and introduces the new 2018-2019 team-- stay tuned for a fantastic episode filled with jokes, stories, music and more.

In this episode, Paul and Rhea sit down with Becky and Stacey from the USC Viterbi Admission department to answer some of the most commonly asked questions from high school students and parents. Tune in for advice on your application, how our admissions process works, and how to make your app stand out!

Hey y'all, we got a special bonus episode coming at you this week! Thanks so much to those of you who tuned into our fall 2018 livechat, where some USC Viterbi students sat down and answered some of YOUR questions, we had a fantastic time. To those of you who couldn't make it, we're bringing you the same livechat in PODCAST FORM! Throw it on in the car, on your way to school, wherever-- hope you enjoy, and we can't wait to answer more of your questions as application season continues to ramp up!!

Join Rhea, Rachel and Audrey as they talk about the 2018 Viterbi Overseas program in Florence, Italy!! Tune in for a fun conversation about food, Beyonce, more food, traveling around Europe, and more about this super unique study abroad experience.

We're on vacation on Mars, so we won't be communicating with you all directly this week. Though, if we wanted to, we could probably use this episode to help get started. Original Episode: http://lineardigressions.com/episodes/2017/3/19/space-codes Original Summary: It's hard to get information to and from Mars.  Mars is very far away, and expensive to get to, and the bandwidth for passing messages with Earth is not huge.  The messages you do pass have to traverse millions of miles, which provides ample opportunity for the message to get corrupted or scrambled.  How, then, can you encode messages so that errors can be detected and corrected?  How does the decoding process allow you to actually find and correct the errors?  In this episode, we'll talk about three pieces of the process (Reed-Solomon codes, convolutional codes, and Viterbi decoding) that allow the scientists at NASA to talk to our rovers on Mars.

We are kicking off the summer series with a "This Viterbi Life" episode featuring Jose as he talks about his experience working at a co-op at Johnson and Johnson and how other Viterbi students get involved in industry before they graduate!

Join Shuntaro in our SEASON FINALE episode as he talks to Nathan, Celeste, Martin and Nikita about their experiences in the entrepreneurship community here at USC. Nathan and Celeste enrolled in BUAD 301, a technology and entrepreneurship class offered by the Marshall School of Business as an elective, Martin is co-president of SparkSC, an entrepreneurship community on campus, and Nikita founded her own jewelry company while studying biomedical engineering at Viterbi. Tune in for a fun conversation with engineers handling ~the business side~!

In this episode, Ying interviews three Viterbi students about their involvements with the music and dance communities on campus. Tune in for a fun conversation with Catherine, Pia and Priscilla about their experiences playing in a jazz combo, dancing in a hip-hop group, and playing for the FAMOUS trojan marching band!!!!

In this episode, we talk to a few USC Viterbi students about their holiday plans! Tune in to hear about international adventures, bowl games, relaxing with family and traditional Bulgarian cuisine.

In this episode, we invite Jose, Siena and Shuntaro to the podcast to talk about their experiences with the Viterbi Overseas Program this summer in Rome. Hear them talk about the classes they're taking, their (mildly embarrassing) attempts at Italian, and their adventures in Rome, throughout Italy, and all over Europe. Special Bonus: this episode was actually recorded in Rhea's apartment in Rome!

"Va' e studia. Che cos'è il Talmud?" IV puntata

"Va' e studia. Che cos'è il Talmud?" III puntata

"Va' e studia. Che cos'è il Talmud?". II puntata

In the second installment of This Viterbi Life Clare interviews some students to get their perspectives on Greek Life. Can you be Greek as an engineer? Do you have to be Greek at USC? Listen on to hear more about how both Greek and non-Greek engineering students have made the most of their college experiences.

"Và e studia. Che cos'è il Talmud?"

It's hard to get information to and from Mars.  Mars is very far away, and expensive to get to, and the bandwidth for passing messages with Earth is not huge.  The messages you do pass have to traverse millions of miles, which provides ample opportunity for the message to get corrupted or scrambled.  How, then, can you encode messages so that errors can be detected and corrected?  How does the decoding process allow you to actually find and correct the errors?  In this episode, we'll talk about three pieces of the process (Reed-Solomon codes, convolutional codes, and Viterbi decoding) that allow the scientists at NASA to talk to our rovers on Mars.

The Viterbi Voices Podcast proudly presents a brand new miniseries: This Viterbi Life. In the first installment we feature Rhea as she tells us her study abroad story and interviews other students about their study abroad experiences. Stay tuned for more miniseries episodes coming soon!

The USC Solar Car team is one of Viterbi's student-run design teams, and their goal is to create a fully functional solar car to enter into the 2017 World Solar Challenge. Listen to learn more about the design process, industry connections, and their plan for the week long cross-continental solar car race. http://www.uscsolarcar.com/

In the first Student Organization episode of Season 2, Paul and Alex talk with Sydney and Jennifer, two leaders in USC's chapter of the Society of Women Engineers. Sydney and Jennifer tell us how SWE seeks to empower Viterbi's large body of women engineers through their many professional, social, and community outreach activities throughout the year.

We're back in full swing with Episode 34 featuring Viterbi's Vice Dean for Administration, Linda Rock. In this episode Paul and Alex talk with Vice Dean Rock about the $50 million expansion efforts that Viterbi has spearheaded over the past decade, as well as upcoming facilities renovation and expansion, including the reimagining of the Science and Engineering Library to include a 10,000+ square foot Maker Space for students and design teams. Be sure to watch the video showcasing the design of the new Library while you listen! Video: https://vimeo.com/165970514

Surprise! In our first ever summer episode we catch up with Budde and Paul to hear what they've been up to since the spring semester finished. We also give you a little taste of what to expect in the coming weeks as the podcast travels the world to keep you updated on Viterbi students' summer plans. Get pumped for Season 2!

Dr Shane is joined in the studio with colleagues Dr Krystal and Chris KP.The team begin discussing science news.Dr Krystal opens with the latest updates on Cancer vaccines, more specifically the method of boosting our own immune system to fight the disease.Chris KP then delves into the world of meerkats, and recent studies into weight being an advantage when selecting an appropriate leader for a meerkat colony. Is it better to be a fat meerkat?Dr Shane shares with the team the news of an exciting and upcoming art exhibition being held at Maroondah access gallery titled 'Between two worlds', then finish on the topic of Panda bears, are they in fact bears? Can they hear higher frequency sounds than first thought?First Guests:Dr Sarah Meachem - President of the Australian society for medical research & also Testicular Physiologist, Department of Anatomy & Biology at Monash University. ANDDr Ted Berger Professor of Biomedical engineering at Viterbi, School of engineering in university of Southern California.The team and guests discuss the upcoming 'Medical research week' happening here in Australia and in particular Ted's prize of 'ASMR Medallist for 2016' for raising awareness of the benefits of medical research in our community. Ted's expertise area is that of neuroprosthetics.Second Guest:Dr Terrance Chong - Academic Unit for Psychiatry for old age at University of Melbourne.Dr Chong and the team discuss multiple topics including Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), Mindfullness and the effects of physical activity on wellbeing and even Dementia.Third Guest:Associate Professor Kate Hoy - Head of the cognitive therapeutics group at Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre at Monash University.The team and Professor Hoy discuss (among other things) the treatment of cognitive impairment through the use of non-invasive brain stimulation. Remember, ""Science is everywhere"", including:Program page: http://www.rrr.org.au/program/einstein-a-go-go/ Facebook page: Einstein A Go Go Twitter: https://twitter.com/einstein_agogoand every Sunday at 11a.m AEST on RRR 102.7mHz FM.

Wonder what the alumni from Viterbi are like? Found out during this episode! Paul hosted a chat with Viterbi alumni which covers memories from college, advice to students, where their careers have taken them, and why they love engineering. Check it out!

Missed the Live Chat? No worries, you are in luck! This episode we have a panel of current engineering students answering all sorts of questions from prospective students. Things like where do engineers live, how can you get involved with research, how to get internships, etc. This episode gives a great feel of what it is like to be student in Viterbi!

The visionary behind the Mama Strut is Jill Bigelow, a serial entrepreneur, finance professional, USC MBA (2007) and mom of three – ages 6, 3 1/2 and a new born. After giving birth to her second child in 2011, she was frustrated that her hospital's solution for her pelvic discomfort was ice in a rubber glove, gauze underwear and pain medication. After scouring both the medical and maternity markets, Bigelow was surprised to discover there was no singular product that truly addressed all her physical ailments as a new mom.Inspired by other braces for soft-tissue injuries, the idea for the Mama Strut was born. In August 2011, Bigelow applied for a patent and turned to innovation incubators, tech contests and clinical trials with multiple departments at USC, including AIM Incubator, Greif Center, Marshall, Viterbi's MEPC Innovation Incubator and the Alfred Mann Institute. Through USC's tremendous support, she was able to bring her vision to fruition and perfect her product. In 2013, her prototype was classified by the FDA and in 2014, she celebrated the launch of her company PELV-ICE™ and its first product of many, the Mama Strut™.Bigelow resides in Los Angeles with her husband and three children and became a Mama Strut user in February 2015 after the birth of her third child.

During our 6th episode, we sit down with Gaurav Sukhatme, our first Viterbi faculty member to be on the podcast! Dr. Sukhatme is the chair of the computer science department, teaches a variety of undergraduate classes, and is involved with research in robotics. During our chat we discussed the structure of the computer science department at USC, the history of the computing field, programming experience, cool classes offered, and common misconceptions about computer science!

We present methods for improved handling of morphologically rich languages (MRLS) where we define MRLS as languages that are morphologically more complex than English. Standard algorithms for language modeling, tagging and parsing have problems with the productive nature of such languages. Consider for example the possible forms of a typical English verb like work that generally has four four different forms: work, works, working and worked. Its Spanish counterpart trabajar has 6 different forms in present tense: trabajo, trabajas, trabaja, trabajamos, trabajáis and trabajan and more than 50 different forms when including the different tenses, moods (indicative, subjunctive and imperative) and participles. Such a high number of forms leads to sparsity issues: In a recent Wikipedia dump of more than 400 million tokens we find that 20 of these forms occur only twice or less and that 10 forms do not occur at all. This means that even if we only need unlabeled data to estimate a model and even when looking at a relatively common and frequent verb, we do not have enough data to make reasonable estimates for some of its forms. However, if we decompose an unseen form such as trabajaréis `you will work', we find that it is trabajar in future tense and second person plural. This allows us to make the predictions that are needed to decide on the grammaticality (language modeling) or syntax (tagging and parsing) of a sentence. In the first part of this thesis, we develop a morphological language model. A language model estimates the grammaticality and coherence of a sentence. Most language models used today are word-based n-gram models, which means that they estimate the transitional probability of a word following a history, the sequence of the (n - 1) preceding words. The probabilities are estimated from the frequencies of the history and the history followed by the target word in a huge text corpus. If either of the sequences is unseen, the length of the history has to be reduced. This leads to a less accurate estimate as less context is taken into account. Our morphological language model estimates an additional probability from the morphological classes of the words. These classes are built automatically by extracting morphological features from the word forms. To this end, we use unsupervised segmentation algorithms to find the suffixes of word forms. Such an algorithm might for example segment trabajaréis into trabaja and réis and we can then estimate the properties of trabajaréis from other word forms with the same or similar morphological properties. The data-driven nature of the segmentation algorithms allows them to not only find inflectional suffixes (such as -réis), but also more derivational phenomena such as the head nouns of compounds or even endings such as -tec, which identify technology oriented companies such as Vortec, Memotec and Portec and would not be regarded as a morphological suffix by traditional linguistics. Additionally, we extract shape features such as if a form contains digits or capital characters. This is important because many rare or unseen forms are proper names or numbers and often do not have meaningful suffixes. Our class-based morphological model is then interpolated with a word-based model to combine the generalization capabilities of the first and the high accuracy in case of sufficient data of the second. We evaluate our model across 21 European languages and find improvements between 3% and 11% in perplexity, a standard language modeling evaluation measure. Improvements are highest for languages with more productive and complex morphology such as Finnish and Estonian, but also visible for languages with a relatively simple morphology such as English and Dutch. We conclude that a morphological component yields consistent improvements for all the tested languages and argue that it should be part of every language model. Dependency trees represent the syntactic structure of a sentence by attaching each word to its syntactic head, the word it is directly modifying. Dependency parsing is usually tackled using heavily lexicalized (word-based) models and a thorough morphological preprocessing is important for optimal performance, especially for MRLS. We investigate if the lack of morphological features can be compensated by features induced using hidden Markov models with latent annotations (HMM-LAs) and find this to be the case for German. HMM-LAs were proposed as a method to increase part-of-speech tagging accuracy. The model splits the observed part-of-speech tags (such as verb and noun) into subtags. An expectation maximization algorithm is then used to fit the subtags to different roles. A verb tag for example might be split into an auxiliary verb and a full verb subtag. Such a split is usually beneficial because these two verb classes have different contexts. That is, a full verb might follow an auxiliary verb, but usually not another full verb. For German and English, we find that our model leads to consistent improvements over a parser not using subtag features. Looking at the labeled attachment score (LAS), the number of words correctly attached to their head, we observe an improvement from 90.34 to 90.75 for English and from 87.92 to 88.24 for German. For German, we additionally find that our model achieves almost the same performance (88.24) as a model using tags annotated by a supervised morphological tagger (LAS of 88.35). We also find that the German latent tags correlate with morphology. Articles for example are split by their grammatical case. We also investigate the part-of-speech tagging accuracies of models using the traditional treebank tagset and models using induced tagsets of the same size and find that the latter outperform the former, but are in turn outperformed by a discriminative tagger. Furthermore, we present a method for fast and accurate morphological tagging. While part-of-speech tagging annotates tokens in context with their respective word categories, morphological tagging produces a complete annotation containing all the relevant inflectional features such as case, gender and tense. A complete reading is represented as a single tag. As a reading might consist of several morphological features the resulting tagset usually contains hundreds or even thousands of tags. This is an issue for many decoding algorithms such as Viterbi which have runtimes depending quadratically on the number of tags. In the case of morphological tagging, the problem can be avoided by using a morphological analyzer. A morphological analyzer is a manually created finite-state transducer that produces the possible morphological readings of a word form. This analyzer can be used to prune the tagging lattice and to allow for the application of standard sequence labeling algorithms. The downside of this approach is that such an analyzer is not available for every language or might not have the coverage required for the task. Additionally, the output tags of some analyzers are not compatible with the annotations of the treebanks, which might require some manual mapping of the different annotations or even to reduce the complexity of the annotation. To avoid this problem we propose to use the posterior probabilities of a conditional random field (CRF) lattice to prune the space of possible taggings. At the zero-order level the posterior probabilities of a token can be calculated independently from the other tokens of a sentence. The necessary computations can thus be performed in linear time. The features available to the model at this time are similar to the features used by a morphological analyzer (essentially the word form and features based on it), but also include the immediate lexical context. As the ambiguity of word types varies substantially, we just fix the average number of readings after pruning by dynamically estimating a probability threshold. Once we obtain the pruned lattice, we can add tag transitions and convert it into a first-order lattice. The quadratic forward-backward computations are now executed on the remaining plausible readings and thus efficient. We can now continue pruning and extending the lattice order at a relatively low additional runtime cost (depending on the pruning thresholds). The training of the model can be implemented efficiently by applying stochastic gradient descent (SGD). The CRF gradient can be calculated from a lattice of any order as long as the correct reading is still in the lattice. During training, we thus run the lattice pruning until we either reach the maximal order or until the correct reading is pruned. If the reading is pruned we perform the gradient update with the highest order lattice still containing the reading. This approach is similar to early updating in the structured perceptron literature and forces the model to learn how to keep the correct readings in the lower order lattices. In practice, we observe a high number of lower updates during the first training epoch and almost exclusively higher order updates during later epochs. We evaluate our CRF tagger on six languages with different morphological properties. We find that for languages with a high word form ambiguity such as German, the pruning results in a moderate drop in tagging accuracy while for languages with less ambiguity such as Spanish and Hungarian the loss due to pruning is negligible. However, our pruning strategy allows us to train higher order models (order > 1), which give substantial improvements for all languages and also outperform unpruned first-order models. That is, the model might lose some of the correct readings during pruning, but is also able to solve more of the harder cases that require more context. We also find our model to substantially and significantly outperform a number of frequently used taggers such as Morfette and SVMTool. Based on our morphological tagger we develop a simple method to increase the performance of a state-of-the-art constituency parser. A constituency tree describes the syntactic properties of a sentence by assigning spans of text to a hierarchical bracket structure. developed a language-independent approach for the automatic annotation of accurate and compact grammars. Their implementation -- known as the Berkeley parser -- gives state-of-the-art results for many languages such as English and German. For some MRLS such as Basque and Korean, however, the parser gives unsatisfactory results because of its simple unknown word model. This model maps unknown words to a small number of signatures (similar to our morphological classes). These signatures do not seem expressive enough for many of the subtle distinctions made during parsing. We propose to replace rare words by the morphological reading generated by our tagger instead. The motivation is twofold. First, our tagger has access to a number of lexical and sublexical features not available during parsing. Second, we expect the morphological readings to contain most of the information required to make the correct parsing decision even though we know that things such as the correct attachment of prepositional phrases might require some notion of lexical semantics. In experiments on the SPMRL 2013 dataset of nine MRLS we find our method to give improvements for all languages except French for which we observe a minor drop in the Parseval score of 0.06. For Hebrew, Hungarian and Basque we find substantial absolute improvements of 5.65, 11.87 and 15.16, respectively. We also performed an extensive evaluation on the utility of word representations for morphological tagging. Our goal was to reduce the drop in performance that is caused when a model trained on a specific domain is applied to some other domain. This problem is usually addressed by domain adaption (DA). DA adapts a model towards a specific domain using a small amount of labeled or a huge amount of unlabeled data from that domain. However, this procedure requires us to train a model for every target domain. Instead we are trying to build a robust system that is trained on domain-specific labeled and domain-independent or general unlabeled data. We believe word representations to be key in the development of such models because they allow us to leverage unlabeled data efficiently. We compare data-driven representations to manually created morphological analyzers. We understand data-driven representations as models that cluster word forms or map them to a vectorial representation. Examples heavily used in the literature include Brown clusters, Singular Value Decompositions of count vectors and neural-network-based embeddings. We create a test suite of six languages consisting of in-domain and out-of-domain test sets. To this end we converted annotations for Spanish and Czech and annotated the German part of the Smultron treebank with a morphological layer. In our experiments on these data sets we find Brown clusters to outperform the other data-driven representations. Regarding the comparison with morphological analyzers, we find Brown clusters to give slightly better performance in part-of-speech tagging, but to be substantially outperformed in morphological tagging.

This lecture starts with a review of encoding and decoding. The Viterbi algorithm, which includes a branch netric and a path metric, is introduced as a way to find the maximum-likelihood path during decoding.