Editing Information Sciences Institute (section)

==Research and sponsors==
ISI research spans [[artificial intelligence]] (AI), [[Computer security|cybersecurity]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-sony-hacked-spreadsheet-salaries-ssns-email-up-20141202-story.html|title=Sony execs' salaries, employee SSNs allegedly leaked in breach|first=Saba|last=Hamedy|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=13 August 2018|date=2014-12-02}}</ref> [[grid computing]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/2681952/networking/2003-infoworld-innovators--ian-foster--carl-kesselman--and-steve-tuecke.html|title=2003 InfoWorld Innovators: Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, and Steve Tuecke|first=Paul|last=Krill|website=Infoworld.com|access-date=13 August 2018|date=2003-05-23}}</ref> [[cloud computing]], [[quantum computing]], [[microelectronics]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://science.dodlive.mil/2015/01/09/advancing-dods-ability-to-test-critical-microelectronics/|title=Advancing DoD's Ability to Test Critical Microelectronics|website=Science.dodlive.mil|access-date=13 August 2018|archive-date=April 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430092923/https://science.dodlive.mil/2015/01/09/advancing-dods-ability-to-test-critical-microelectronics/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/stopping-hardware-trojans-in-their-tracks|title=Stopping Hardware Trojans in Their Tracks|website=[[IEEE]]|date=20 January 2015 |access-date=13 August 2018}}</ref> [[Supercomputer|supercomputing]], [[Small satellite#Nanosatellites|nano-satellites]] and many other areas.  AI expertise includes [[natural language processing]], in which ISI has an international reputation,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aclweb.org/website/node/442|title=ACL Member Portal - The Association for Computational Linguistics Member Portal|website=Aclweb.org|access-date=13 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/science/25code.html?_r=0|title=How 18th-Century Copiale Cipher Was Cracked|first=John|last=Markoff|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=13 August 2018|date=2011-10-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1162/coli_a_00171|title=Influences and Inferences|journal=Computational Linguistics|volume=39|issue=4|pages=781–798|date=2013-09-30|last1=Hobbs|first1=Jerryr|s2cid=11237614|doi-access=free}}</ref> reconfigurable [[robotics]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2475070,00.asp|title=How Tiny 'SuperBots' Will Create Cheap, Modular Satellites|website=Pcmag.com|date=January 14, 2015 |access-date=13 August 2018}}</ref> information integration, motion analysis<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-1028-nba-stats-20131028-story.html|title=Stat-conscious NBA switches to the (advanced) metric system|first=Ben|last=Bolch|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=13 August 2018|date=2013-10-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/11/02/360943860/new-players-in-the-nba-big-data-user-controlled-jumbotrons|title=New Players In The NBA: Big Data, User-Controlled Jumbotrons|website=Npr.org|access-date=13 August 2018}}</ref> and social media analysis. Hardware/software expertise includes [[cyber-physical system]] security, [[data mining]], [[reconfigurable computing]] and cloud computing.  In networking, ISI explores Internet resilience, [[Internet traffic engineering|Internet traffic analysis]] and [[photonics]], among other areas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isi.edu|title=Information Sciences Institute|website=Isi.edu|access-date=13 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/|title=Page Not Found - Los Angeles Times|website=Isi.edu|access-date=13 August 2018}}</ref> Researchers also work in scientific data management, [[wireless]] technologies, [[biomimetics]] and electrical [[smart grid]], in which ISI is advising the [[Los Angeles Department of Water and Power]] on a major demonstration project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/07/01/45096/ladwp-flips-the-switch-on-52-000-smart-meters|title=LADWP flips the switch on 52,000 'smart meters'|first=Southern California Public|last=Radio|date=1 July 2014|website=Scpr.org|access-date=13 August 2018}}</ref> Another current initiative involves [[big data]] brain imaging jointly with the [[Keck School of Medicine of USC]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-may-18-la-me-usc-ucla-recruit-20130518-story.html|title=USC made its offer to neuroscientists a no-brainer|first1=Larry|last1=Gordon|first2=Eryn|last2=Brown|date=18 May 2013|website=Articles.latimes.com|access-date=13 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150517001308/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/18/local/la-me-usc-ucla-recruit-20130518|archive-date=17 May 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

Federal agency sponsors include the [[Air Force Research Laboratory]], [[DARPA]], [[United States Department of Education|Department of Education]], [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]], [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]], [[National Institutes of Health]], [[National Science Foundation]], and other scientific, technical, and defense-related agencies.

Corporate partners include [[Chevron Corporation]] in the Center for Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies (CiSoft), [[Lockheed Martin]] in the [[USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center]], and [[Sparta Inc.]], a subsidiary of [[Parsons Corporation]] in the DETER Project, a cybersecurity research initiative and international testbed. ISI also has partnered with businesses including [[IBM]], [[Samsung Electronics]], [[Raytheon]], [[GlobalFoundries]], [[Northrop Grumman]] and [[Carl Zeiss AG]], and currently is working with [[Micron Technology|Micron Technology, Inc.]], [[Altera|Altera Corporation]] and [[Fujitsu|Fujitsu Ltd]].

ISI also operates [[MOSIS]], a [[Multi-project wafer service|multi-project electronic circuit wafer service]] that has prototyped more than 60,000 [[Integrated circuit|chips]] since 1981. MOSIS provides design tools and pools circuit designs to produce specialty and low-volume chips for corporations, universities and other research entities worldwide.  The Institute also has given rise to several [[Startup company|startup]] and [[Research spin-off|spinoff]] companies in grid software, geospatial information fusion, machine translation, data integration and other technologies.