Associated Press: Amtrak didn’t wait for system that could’ve prevented wreck
Najmedin Meshkati was quoted about how installing and testing a positive train control system might have prevented the fatal Amtrak crash near Seattle.
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KPCC: The science of tsunamis and SoCal
Costas Synolakis of theTsunami Research Center was interviewed about the vulnerability of Southern California to tsunami warnings all around the Pacific Ocean
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Human Resource Executive: Tech Jobs Forge Forward
Nenad Medvidovic was quoted regarding the future job prospects for software developers
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Fresno Bee: Teenager Develops App to Protect Farmworkers from Heat-Related Illness
A collaboration between USC Viterbi students and local high school student Faith Florez to develop a mobile app that alerts farmworkers to heat warnings was featured
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NBC News: Surprising Ways Augmented Reality Will Revolutionize Your Life
Hao Li was quoted about how augmented reality games might evolve
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Discover: ‘Predator’ Vision Drones Get AI to Spot Poachers
Research by the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society to help track poachers using artificial intelligence was featured
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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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CNET: Robot Companions Are Just What the Doctor Ordered
Work by Maja Mataric and Margaret Trost of the Keck School of Medicine to develop robot-assisted therapies and socially assistive robots was featured
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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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Nature: Turbulence Control: Peace in the pipeline
Professor Mitul Luhar on a solution for friction caused by turbulence in pipe flows.
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April 19-20: REACH Preview Program
Selective visitation preview program targeted to traditionally underrepresented minority students interested in pursuing graduate studies in an engineering or related field. Applications due February 15.
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US News and World Report: USC Viterbi’s distance learning graduate programs receive top USNWR rankings
USC Viterbi’s online graduate program in computer science is #1, and the online engineering program, comprising more than 40 degrees, is #2
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Microsoft: CAIS and Microsoft Announce Collaboration on AI and the Environment
Collaboration will support early career research and enable researchers to translate findings into applications
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Scientific American: New Airplane Design Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Working with MIT, Viterbi Assistant Professor Uranga’s design could save up to 66 percent in fuel and fly by 2035
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
from Dean Yannis C. Yortsos, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, our labs and even our drones!
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National Academy of Inventors: Andrew Viterbi and Ming Hsieh named NAI Fellows
Viterbi and Hsieh selected for demonstrating a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society
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Happy Holidays 2017
from Dean Yannis C. Yortsos and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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YouTube: 8th Annual EE Research Festival
Students from across the department shared their work with colleagues, faculty, and industry affiliates in a day-long event celebrating EE Research
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USC News: Creating new heart muscle out of stem cells? This grad student is doing it
PhD student Joycelyn Yip ultimately hopes to test heart disease treatments in ways that reduce risk to patients
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USC News: Saving the lives of hospital patients with one simple app
USC Viterbi biomedical engineers develop a system that tracks vital signs of patients from admission to discharge
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US News: A Look Into USC Viterbi’s Online Graduate Computer Science Program
US News & World Report interviews current master’s student John Ziegler and Binh Tran, Associate Dean, Master’s Services in article highlighting online computer science master’s programs
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Daily Trojan: USC Viterbi offers course on blockchain for first time
USC introduced its first-ever course on blockchain, one of the technological databases behind the cryptocurrency Bitcoin
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USC News: What airline passengers want most: to get through security quickly
The advantages of programs like TSA Precheck far outweigh feared drawbacks, new study finds