I was looking up some stuff about USC and Google, and this came up:
MD5 code is used for security, was written by the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, and is derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. Message-Digest Algorithm.
Google Desktop Copyright Notices
ISI is even more amazing than I’d thought… supposedly, they were also right behind Google in both Chinese-English and Arabic-English translation, in an NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) project.
The complete copyright notice…
* Copyright (c) 1995 University of Southern California.
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
* provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
* duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation,
* advertising materials, and other materials related to such
* distribution and use acknowledge that the software was
* developed by the University of Southern California, Information
* Sciences Institute. The name of the University may not be used
* to endorse or promote products derived from this software
* without specific prior written permission.
Some of the stuff that people manage to do here is really amazing. It gies some confidence to know that other people here are doing things on the cutting edge; why couldn’t I?