The Annenberg Center for Communication (ACC) at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

 promotes interdisciplinary research in communications between the USC School of Cinematic Arts

USC School of Cinematic Arts

The USC School of Cinematic Arts, until 2006 named the School of Cinema-Television , is a film school within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest and largest such school in the United States, established in 1929 as a joint venture with the Academy of...

, Viterbi School of Engineering

Viterbi School of Engineering

The Viterbi School of Engineering is located at the University of Southern California in the United States. It was renamed following a $52 million donation by Andrew Viterbi...

, and the separate USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, also funded by Walter Annenberg

Walter Annenberg

Walter Hubert Annenberg was an American publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat.-Early life:Walter Annenberg was born to a Jewish family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 13, 1908. He was the son of Sarah and Moses "Moe" Annenberg, who published The Daily Racing Form and purchased The Philadelphia...

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Personnel

People affiliated with the ACC include Julian Bleecker

Julian Bleecker

Julian Bleecker is an artist and technologist with a history developing innovative mobile research projects.Bleecker holds a Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Program at University of California, Santa Cruz...

, John Seely Brown

John Seely Brown

John Seely Brown is a researcher who specializes in organizational studies with a particular bent towards the organizational implications of computer-supported activities....

, Vinton Cerf, Bill Dutton

Bill Dutton

William Earl Dutton was an American football halfback in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played college football at the University of Pittsburgh and was drafted in the third round of the 1943 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins....

, John Gage

John Gage

John Burdette Gage was the 21st employee of Sun Microsystems, where he is credited with creating the phrase "the network is the computer." He served as Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office for Sun, until leaving on June 9, 2008 to join Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a...

, Joi Ito

Joi Ito

is a Japanese activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Director of the MIT Media Lab.Ito has received recognition for his role as an entrepreneur focused on Internet and technology companies and has founded, among other companies, PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. He maintains...

, Merlyna Lim

Merlyna Lim

Merlyna Lim is a scholar studying ICT , particularly on the social shaping of the Internet in non-Western contexts. She is a faculty member of the School of Social Transformation Justice and Social Inquiry Program and the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University...

, Eli Noam

Eli Noam

Eli M. Noam is a professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business School. He has written over 400 articles and has authored, edited, and co-edited about 25 books. Noam is married to Nadine Strossen, the former National President of ACLU.-Education:Noam attended Harvard University, where...

, Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold

-See also:* Collective intelligence* Information society* The WELL* Virtual community-External links:***** at TED conference** a 48MB Quicktime movie, hosted by the Internet Archive...

, Adrienne Russell

Adrienne Russell

Adrienne Russell is an associate professor of at the University of Denver and co-director of the . She has written mainly on the digital-age evolution of activist communication and journalism. Her most recent book, , was published by Polity Press in 2011....

, Larry Smarr

Larry Smarr

Larry Smarr is a physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure.He received both his BA and MS at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and received a Ph.D...

, Robert Stein, Douglas Thomas

Douglas Thomas

Douglas Thomas is an American scholar, researcher, and journalist. He is currently Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California where he studies technology, communication, and culture...

, and Robert Winter

Robert Winter

Robert Winter is one of California's leading architectural historians. He is the Arthur G. Coons Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus, at Occidental College, Los Angeles. He is particularly known for his contributions to the history of the California branch of the Arts and Crafts...

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2007 Reconfiguration

In March 2007, it was announced that, effective July 2007, the focus of the Annenberg Center for Communication funding strategy would undergo a major shift towards primarily funding graduate fellowships in interdisciplinary research with US$4 million annually planned for 100+ graduate fellowships.http://www.usc.edu/admin/provost/pdf/announcement031907.pdf