Internet Society
The Internet Society is founded to promote the internet's evolution – including its standards, administration and technical infrastructure. Postel races a colleague to become its first member. His member number is 1314159, meaning “one” followed by the first six digits of pi.
Multicast Online Transmission
Multicast transmission over the internet, or Mbone, is co-created by Stephen Casner. Two years later, Mbone will be used to transmit a Rolling Stones concert worldwide via the net for the first time.
Online Payments
Clifford Neumann and an ISI colleague devise NetCash, followed by NetCheque one year later. NetCash and NetCheque are among the first internet-based electronic payment systems, which explode with the rise of online commerce.
Internet Commerce
Created by Danny Cohen, the FastXchange brokering system represents a pioneering online business.
ICANN
As Internet usage explodes, Postel and Internet collaborators work with the White House and Department to Commerce to create the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN). Following suit, IANA management is transferred to ICANN, which is based in ISI's Marina del Rey headquarters building. At a global scale, IANA ensures the coordination of IP addressing, DNS Root, and other Internet protocol resources.
Fetch Technologies
Founded in 1999, Fetch employs technology based on artificial intelligence research being conducted at the USC Information Sciences Institute. In 2012, Fetch Technologies, a USC spinout that has developed online data aggregation and analysis software, will be acquired by Connotate Inc., a New Jersey tech company that sells similar products.
Virtual Reality
ISI spins off the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), a pioneer in virtual reality and other immersive technologies for military and civilian uses. ICT goes on to create breakthrough 3D special effects for the Academy Award-winning film Avatar.
Language Weaver
Founders Kevin Knightly and Daniel Marcu, begin to commercialise a statistical approach to automatic language translation and natural language processing known as statistical machine translation (SMT). In July 2010, Language Weaver will be acquired by SDL plc for $42.5 million and the company will be renamed SDL Language Weaver .
Univa Corp
Univa Corp is company created from ISI research to commercialize Grid Technology and builds optimization and management software for traditional, dynamic and cloud data centers. It will be later acquired by Altair .
Robotic Construction
Robotic construction methods, essentially large-scale 3D printing, are pioneered at ISI in a technique known as Contour Crafting.
Alelo
Alelo Tactical Language Trainer , originated out of a USC ISI research project, is an interactive language training systems.
Geosemble Technologies
ISI researchers developed the core artificial intelligence and geospatial data analysis algorithms for automating the process of discovering, geospatially visualizing, monitoring, and sharing relevant and unstructured information. In 2012, Geosemble Technologies was acquired by TerraGo Technologies.
MYRICOM
Bob Felderman and Danny Cohen – along with eight other scientists from Caltech – help found Myricom, which will become a leader in cluster computing networking technology.
Sports Analytics
ISI researchers Rajiv Maheswaren and Yu-Han Chang apply data analytics to basketball, and successfully launch a startup known as Second Spectrum that commercializes the approach.
Lucid Circuit, Inc.
Originally conceived at ISI through R&D, Lucid Circuit, Inc. comes into existance as a spin off to develop microchips for space-based geospatial analytics in small satellites.
Optimal IC Technologies, Inc.
Optimal IC Technologies, Inc. is a Colorado start-up that licenses technology developed at ISI to commercialize semiconductor design technology.