USCs Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a unit of the universitys Viterbi School of Engineering, is a world leader in the research and development of advanced information processing, computing, communications and artificial intelligence technologies. ISIs 400 faculty, professional staff and graduate students carry out extraordinary information sciences research at three distinct locations - Arlington, VA; Marina Del Rey, CA; and Waltham, MA.Information processing capabilities are more important than ever, including hardware architectures and systems-on-chip that can reach new heights of efficiency, agility, security and more. Such problems of national importance are being tackled by ISI, which is developing game-changing hardware architectures, specialized tools,