Science News: How Twitter bots get people to spread fake news
Research by Emilio Ferrara on how bots spread misinformation was featured.
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- Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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USC News: Scientists find a way to enhance quantum computer performance
Method has the potential to solve some of society’s biggest challenges
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MIT Technology Review: Google has enlisted NASA to help it prove quantum supremacy within months
Daniel Lidar was quoted on quantum computing.
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Inverse: Rising Seas Will Take Out Internet Infrastructure Far Sooner Than We Feared
Research by John Heidemann of the Information Sciences Institute was cited on how natural disasters impact internet access.
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PCMag: Think AI Is Too Scary? This Expert Wants to Calm Your Fears
Yolanda Gil’s work was profiled by PCMag. She discussed why we need to design AI systems that have and encourage ‘ethical and responsible behaviors.’
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Watch the Viterbi Satellite Commencement Ceremonies Streaming
Ph.D. on 5/10 at 9am PDT, Undergraduate on 5/11 at 11am PDT, Graduate on 5/11 at 3pm PDT, Computer Science Graduate on 5/11 at 6:30pm PDT
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Daily Mail: How to Choose the Best Password to Stay Safe Online
Research by Marjan Ghazvininejad and Kevin Knight on parameters for more secure passwords was cited.
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New Scientist: Google’s Quantum Computing Plans Threatened by IBM Curveball
Itay Hen was interviewed about the quantum computing race
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Nature: Quantum Machine Goes in Search of the Higgs Boson
Research by Daniel Lidar applying quantum computing to a physics problem for the first time was featured.
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Wired: How One of Apple’s Key Privacy Safeguards Fall Short
Research by ISI’s Aleksandra Korolova and colleagues was highlighted, showing that Apple is mining users’ data in an effort to boost its “differential privacy.”
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San Francisco Chronicle: Analysts Skeptical iPhone X’s Face ID will be Foolproof
Prem Natarajan was quoted about the security of Apple’s new facial identity feature on the iPhone X.
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Fast Company: Twitter Bots Are Thriving, And They’re More Lethal Than Ever
Research by Emilio Ferrara Information Sciences Institute and colleagues on the prevalence of bots on Twitter and how these bots can affect the spread of false information during an election.
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USC ISI: ISI’s Pegasus Contributed to Gravitational Wave-Detector Discovery
Pegasus, a specialized computer program developed by at team of ISI computer scientists led by Ewa Deelman in collaboration with HTCondor, played a role in the new discovery announced by LIGO.
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Bloomberg: Big Data Shows Big Promise in Medicine
ISI’s Greg Ver Steeg was highlighted for his algorithm CorEx which was used to help friend and computational biologist Shirley Pepke find treatment options for her cancer diagnosis
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WIRED: The Human Army Teaching Phones AI to Drive
Prem Natarajan, the Michael Keston Executive Director of the Information Sciences Institute, was interviewed on the best strategies to develop artificial intelligence
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San Diego Union Tribune: USC’s Expanding Scientific Ambitions Include San Diego
Carl Kesselman of ISI and Michelson Center featured in an article about USC’s efforts to expand its imprint in the biosciences. Kesselman was interviewed regarding his effort to create a means for scientists to organize data digitally
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IARPA: IARPA Launches “QEO” Program to Develop Quantum Enhanced Computers
USC selected to lead quantum computing team which will include CalTech, Harvard, Berkeley MIT, University College London, Saarland University, University of Waterloo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, NASA Ames Research Center and Texas A&M
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Reuters: Amazon deepens university ties in artificial intelligence race
Reuters featured USC Viterbi and the Information Sciences Institute as being selected for the Amazon Alexa Fund Fellowship, a new program to support universities and researchers focused on transformative voice technologies such as text-to-speech, natural language understanding, automatic speech recognition and conversational artificial intelligence.
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CBS News: Behind the Technology Designed to Prevent Voter Fraud
CBS News quoted Clifford Neuman about the possible ways to voter fraud could occur.
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Irish Independent: ISI Researchers Help L.A.’s Homeless
Irish Independent mentioned research by Kristina Lerman on social network and social media.
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Los Angeles Times: A Massive Cyberattack Blocked Your Favorite Websites; FBI and Homeland Security Are Investigating
The Los Angeles Times quoted Joe Touch about the cyberattack on Dyn, which connects web addresses to IP addresses.
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TechRadar: How Do We Create a Quantum Internet?
TechRadar mentioned that the USC’s ISI has one of the four D-Wave 2x quantum computing systems in existence.
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Complex Systems Society: Emilio Ferrara Receives Complex Systems Society Junior Scientific Award
ISI researcher and CS professor recognized for work in network science models and development of tools to study phenomena in large, dynamical techno-social systems.
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Nature: Google Moves Closer to a Universal Quantum Computer
Daniel Lidar was quoted about quantum computing advances.