Eric Mankin

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After a long period out of the market, I want again to contribute to a good outlet.I want to apply my substantial demonstrated skills in accurate information gathering and clear persuasive writing and media creation to creative organizations and products, working with energetic and intelligent colleague in mutually supportive environments. I am a problem-solver and fixer: I can take difficult situations and assignments and pursue them to desired conclusions.

Experience

Freelannce/retired writer: 2012-Present Occasional contributions to various media and outlets, but mostly writing for myself and friends privately. Some work for non-profits and community organizations. University of Southern California 1992-2012

Worked in a wide variety of positions including Executive Director of the USC News Service and Public Information Officer for USC schools and entities including the Viterbi School of Engineering, the USC Department of Libraries and Information Services, and the USC Information Sciences Institute. Wrote hundreds of stories about USC people and achievements, made numerous outside placements in elite media and won a 2001 prize for creating one of academia’s first online news sites,

Freelance writer, editor, and publicist 1987-1989

TV reporting for TV Guide, technology reporting for Electronic Media, environmental and lifestyle writing for L.A. Style and L.A. Weekly, Editor of prizewinning bimonthly newsletter for the Heal the Bay environmental organization. Also: prepared press kits for films by directors including Oliver Stone, Alex Cox and Gus Van Sant Editor and writer, Los Angeles publications 1983-1992 Reporter, Los Angeles Herald Examiner: covered television industry; began now universal custom of yearly stories about Superbowl advertising first year after Apple breakthrough ad. News Editor Los Angeles Weekly: Assigned and edited stories winning Los Angeles Press Club awards for overall excellence and for community service. Editorial Director L.A. Reader: worked with six full time writers plus numerous freelancers and served as film reviewer. Editor-in-Chief, Santa Monica Bay News. Responsible for all aspects of management and production for 40,000 circulation weekly newspaper. Skills & References

Fluent French & Spanish, working Russian & German; basic Cantonese. IT: Microsoft Offiice, Photoshop, Intermediate html skills.. Have worked with numerous professors and USC and elsewhere who can speak to contributions I made to publicizing and making understandable their work;; and numerous journalists; names on request. Education

B.A., philosophy/history, University of Wisconsin, Madison Objectives

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References

The following are some of the people I have worked with, many for many years, who can discuss my abilities to handle engineering research communications and public relations. I can offer many, many more. Reference Specialty Links

Theodore A. Berger

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Silicon-

Brain Two-

Way

Communicat

ion

http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2011/restoring-memory-repairing.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2011/viterbi-rat-brain.htm http://news.usc.edu article/28783/USC-Smart-Fence-Recognizes-Bad-Airport- Neighbors/

http://news.usc.edu article/22008/Plugging-into-the-brain/ Elaine Chew

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ac.uk

Engineering

& Music

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~echew/press/

http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/music-compumaestro.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2006/news_20060510.htm W. Lewis Johnson

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Language

Teaching

Software

http://www.alelo.com/alelo_inc_lewis_johnson.html

http://www3.isi.edu/about-news_story.htm?s=78

http://news.usc.edu article/24931/Experts-Use-AI-to-Help-GIs-Learn-Arabic/ Kevin Knight

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Machine

Translation

http://www.virtualonlinepubs.com/display_article.php?id=888609 http://www3.isi.edu/about-news_story.htm?s=114

Shrikanth Narayanan

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Behavioral

Informatics

http://news.usc.edu article/28440/Behavioral-Informatics-Takes-Shape-at-USC- Viterbi/

http://news.usc.edu article/28961/The-Computer-Says-He-Sounds-Drunk/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NUjIP8IvLbI Solomon Golomb

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Digital

Signals

http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2012/a-truly-grand.htm Alexander ‘Sandy’

Sawchuk

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Digital

Signals

http://sipi.usc.edu/~sawchuk/

http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2011/elwyn-berlekamp-delivers.htm Mike Zyda

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Interactive

Games

http://gamepipe.usc.edu/USC_GamePipe_Laboratory/Home.html http://gamepipe.usc.edu/USC_GamePipe_Laboratory/USC_GamePipe_News/USC_Gam ePipe_News.html

Costas Synolakis

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Tsunamis http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/making-accurate-predictions.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2011/costas-synolakis-and.htm http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/inthenews/2012/in_the_news_20121025.htm Alan Willner

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Photonic

Data

Processing

http://csi.usc.edu/faculty/willner.html

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/uosc-slt051408.php Wei-Min Shen

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Modular

Robots

http://www.isi.edu/~shen/

http://www3.isi.edu/about-news_story.htm?s=6

http://www.isi.edu/robots/inthepress.html

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Maja Mataric

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Assistive

Robotics

http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2008/robot-interaction-may.htm http://robotics.usc.edu/interaction/?l=Miscellaneous:Media Milind Tambe

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Antiterror

Game

Theory

Applications

http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2010/tsa-testing-guards.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-04/uosc-fat041311.php http://security-today.com/articles/2011/04/25/boston-port-authority-not-playing-games- with-its-security_0.aspx

Bart Kosko

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Fuzzy Logic,

Noise and

Information

http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2011/to-get-more.htm http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/10413.html

http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/publications/uscengineer/2006_fall/noise.htm Carl Kesselman

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Grid

Computing,

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/science/15GRID.html?th http://www3.isi.edu/about-news_story.htm?s=100

Ina Jaffe

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NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4503426 Kenneth R. Weiss

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LA Times http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/6825.html Selected stories: (the headlines are mine)

Restoring Memory, Repairing Damaged Brains

http://news.usc.edu article/29100/Restoring-Memory-Repairing-Damaged-

[My much earlier story]

http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/1198.html

One Finger Exercise Reveals Unexpected Limits to Dexterity http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2009/one-finger-exercise.htm Muscle Beach Slackline Turns Viterbi Biomedical Laboratory http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2012/santa-monica-beach.htm Surprise! Computer scientists model the exclamation point http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/uosc-scs112805.php Bringing Sight to Poor Eyes: Customized Computer Enhancement of Displays Promises Improved Vision for AMD Patients

http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2012/viterbi-school-research.htm Computing with DNA (1995)

http://news.usc.edu article/1076/COMPUTING-WITH-DNA/

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