IMSC participated in news coverage of 2013 US presidential Inauguration with the college reporting team sponsored by PBS NewsHour. PBS selected and sponsored 15 students in college journalism to cover the 2013 inauguration.
IMSC Director Cyrus Shahabi participated in the USC Symposium on Digital Media: Research, Education and Innovation. The symposium was aimed at discussing USC’s strategy to build leadership in digital media, where technology, content, policy and business meet. More than 80 researchers in digital media attended this event.
IMSC director Cyrus Shahabi attended CUBIC (CityU Business & Industrial Club) on December 17th. CityU is a university in Hong Kong, founded in 1984. CUBIC was established to build close links between the local business and industrial communities and serves to develop close working relationship between the academia and industry.
IMSC director Cyrus Shahabi offered a remote course to two universities in Vietnam: University of Information and Technology (UIT) and Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT) in Fall 2012, sponsored by Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF). The course title was ‘Geospatial Information Management’, and it was offered simultaneously to USC students.