Washington Post: Racism and Automated Decision-Making
An opinion piece cited research by Aleksandra Korolova that concluded that Facebook served different ads to men and women
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CalMatters: How California can prepare our communities and homes for heat waves
Research by Kelly Sanders’ and George Ban Weiss’ labs was cited.
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WIRED: A simple software fix could limit location data sharing
Research by Barath Raghavan regarding limiting location data sharing was featured
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Wall Street Journal: How to get smarter: start with the brain itself
Dong Song was quoted on how neuroprosthetics could aim in memory
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Washington Post: When passengers are out of control
Thomas Anthony was quoted on the implications of unruly passengers on aircraft safety
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Venture Beat: Is DeepMind’s new reinforcement learning system a step toward general AI?
VentureBeat quoted Saty Raghavachary on scientists who claim to be able to train an AI system to play games without human interaction data.
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USC : Microsoft Contributes to Gerald A. Lawson Fund
Microsoft’s X-Box Studios announced today that it will make a significant contribution to USC Games’ Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund for Black and Indigenous Students.
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US EPA: Amy Childress named Charter Member to EPA Science Advisory Board
Childress was also appointed to the EPA Drinking Water Committee.
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Amazon Science: USC + Amazon Center on Secure and Trusted Machine Learning selects two PhD fellows
Chaoyang He and Ninareh Mehrabi will focus on federated learning, distributed machine learning and fairness in machine learning.
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Wall Street Journal: Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and Where Space Really Begins
Michael Kezirian was quoted on the global implications of the line that demarcates space .
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Refinery 29: How Young Disability Activists Are Using TikTok To Make A Difference
Research by the SAIL Lab and the Geena Davis Institute on the representation of characters in films who have disabilities, was featured.
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Mashable: IKEA furniture instructions just got easier, thanks to this robot
Research by Stefanos Nikolaidis and the ICARUS lab was featured.
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Popular Science: The world uses one emoji more than all others.
Research by Mayank Kejriwal on how we use emojis on social media was featured.
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CNN: Jeff Bezos and Crew Completes 10-Minute Spaceflight
Garrett Reisman commented on Blue Origin recent spaceflight
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WIRED: Jeff Bezos Goes to Space
“2 Funny Astronauts,” a podcast by Garrett Reisman and Mike Massimino was mentioned.
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ACM News : Computer Science Professor Wins ‘Test of Time’ Award for Influential Paper
Shang-Hua Teng co-authored a paper on smoothed analysis of algorithms, which offers a more realistic comprehension of algorithmic performance.
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CTV News : Researchers create artificial intelligence to ‘imagine’ unseen objects
A research team at the University of Southern California has developed a new artificial intelligence system that uses human-like abilities to imagine never-before-seen objects.
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CI Compass: Researchers Support NSF Major Facilities Cyberinfrastructure Through New NSF-funded Center of Excellence
USC ISI’s Ewa Deelman is lead PI on the collaborative project to build cyberinfrastructure for the NSF’s Major Facilities.
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Los Angeles Daily News: Unlike Florida, California leaves the safety of aging high-rises largely in owners’ hands
Los Angeles Daily News quoted Henry Koffman on California’s strict building requirements compared to Florida.
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Mashable: Robots suck at chopping stuff, but this research could change that
Researchers from NVIDIA and USC teamed up to make a simulation engine that could help autonomous robots with their cutting ability.
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The Washington Post: Champlain Towers parking garage flooded often before collapse, residents and ex-worker say
The Washington Post featured Henry Koffman on what caused the recent collapse of a condo building in Florida.
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WIRED: Do These Gadgets Actually Protect You? We Asked the Experts
Wired featured Andrea Armani on the dangers of using UVC light as a primary disinfectant.
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BBC News: UFOs: ‘These objects show physics we don’t understand’
BBC News featured Madhu Thangavelu regarding unanswered questions from the U.S. government’s UFO report.
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WIRED: Why Scientists Love Making Robots Build Ikea Furniture
Wired featured research by Stefanos Nikolaidis’a ICAROA lab that trains robots to build Ikea furniture.
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