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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LA Times: Inflation and delays could add billions more to bullet train project costs
James Moore was quoted in a story about the cost of the California bullet train project.
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VentureBeat: How Researchers are Designing Smart Desks of the Future
Research by Burcin Becerik-Gerber on smart desks and smart buildings was highlighted
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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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PCMag: At This Hackathon, Alexa Gives You More Than Just the Weather
PhD student Brian Cohn from the Valero-Cuevas Lab was featured for winning the $10,000 prize from USC’s recent “Voice Assistants for All” hackathon.
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VentureBeat: Haptic armband lets you feel the sensation of stroking
Heather Culbertson research on a haptic armband was featured
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BusinessLIVE: Are robots the future of therapy?
A study by Jonathan Gratch of ICT was cited on the potential for artificial intelligence in therapy.
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Viterbi Flickr: USC Manufacturing Day
On Oct 5th, USC’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing opened its doors to local industry members and high school students. The center’s researchers showcased their work and high-tech equipment.
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Business Insider: Elon Musk is building a Spaceship
Steve Nutt was quoted on Elon Musk’s vision for the Big Falcon Rocket.
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The Verge: What happens on a plane full of sick passengers? An aerospace medicine expert explains
Instructor Allen Parmet on how infections spread on planes, what happens when passengers fall sick, and how to investigate an in-flight outbreak.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education: What a New Professor Learned After His First Class
Lessons from former NASA astronaut, Professor Garrett Reisman
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Wired: Kelly Slater’s Artificial Surf Pool Is Really Making Waves
The world’s premier surfer has joined forces with Prof. Fincham to create an artificial wave in the middle of the California desert.
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Washington Post: As temperatures keep trending up, ‘heat belt’ cities maneuver to stay livable
Prof. Ban-Weiss was quoted on the innovative ways that can keep homes cool in midst of rising temperatures.
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Quartz: The flying-car future is coming, even if no one can agree on when
Prof. Spedding was quoted on the potential for flying cars and the companies that are developing them.
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NPR: Need To Track A Submarine? A Harbor Seal Can Show You How
Using lessons learned from harbor seals and artificial intelligence, Prof. Kanso may be on to a new way to track enemy submarines
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MIT Tech Review: Niki Bayat Selected as one of MIT Tech Review Innovators Under 35
Alumna Niki Bayat was listed as a Visionary for developing ground-breaking biomedical devices including an injectable hydrogel for sealing eye injuries
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Wall Street Journal: Can a computer program make humans more human?
Shri Narayanan works on better decoding human signals so we can learn from ourselves.
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Wired: LA is doing water better than your city. Yes, that LA
With climate change on the horizon, Los Angeles is rushing to pull water from surprising sources. Professor Amy Childress discusses the desalination process used to treat wastewater before it returns to the tap.
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ALS Association: Megan McCain awarded research grant from ALS Association
McCain works to discover new potential ALS therapeutics and a better understanding ALS disease mechanisms using a unique and innovative tools.
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Swarthmore College: Valero-Cuevas Receives Honorary Degree from Swarthmore
Francisco Valero-Cuevas was awarded an honorary degree from his alma mater, Swarthmore College for his scientific contributions. He spoke at Swarthmore’s commencement ceremony on May 27, 2018
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NSF: Engineering smarter robotic boats for safer, cheaper work on the water
From conducting bridge inspections to search and rescue missions, future unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), currently being developed by Professor SK Gupta in collaboration with Florida Atlantic University, will help humans with dangerous or repetitive work
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International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Milind Tambe Receives IJCAI 2018 John McCarthy Award
Milind Tambe, the Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor in Engineering is being recognized for research and development of important practical applications of AI and multi-agent systems for social good.
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Ellis Meng receives the 2018 EMBS Technical Achievement Award
This award is given annually to an individual “to recognize an individual(s) for outstanding achievement, contribution(s), and/or innovation in a technical area of biomedical engineering.”
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CBS SF Bay Area KPIX: Scientists Create ‘Prosthetic Memories’ In Groundbreaking Brain Research
People who have difficulty remembering things or making new memories because of a stroke, brain injury or illness may one day benefit from a new study that helps patients make new memories.