Leadership

USC is a leader in networked medicine.  Many faculty members at USC have already expressed interest in body computing and are working on networked medicine.  Elizabeth Fife and Francis Pereira of the Marshall School of Business's Institute for Communication Technology Management have already developed business models for expanding mobile telehealth in the United States. In addition, the Viterbi School of Engineering has produced more than a dozen technologies to complement and enrich body computing: Professor Shrikanth Narayanan's speech-to-speech translation system--which may be of particular use in large urban areas with significant Latino populations-is already in development and improves upon the communication system that "body computing" promotes. And USC's Maja Mataric-a Professor of Computer Science and Neuroscience, the founding director of the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems and the co-director of the USC Robotics Research Lab-has played an important role. Mataric has been a Body Computing panelist; her students won the 2008 Body Computing new innovations competition, and she was featured in an October 2009 New Yorker article about her robot-patient research.