CBS News: SpaceX Launches the First All-Civilian Space Crew
CBS News featured Garrett Reisman SpaceX’s launch of the first all-civilian space crew on a three-day mission.
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CNBC: The FCC is trying to stop robocalls, but the scammers won’t disappear
CNBC quoted Paul Schmitt on the challenges of preventing robocalls.
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Gizmodo: Will It Be Possible to Upload Information to My Brain?
Gizmodo quoted Dong Song regarding the possibility that brain-machine interface technology could directly write information on the brain.
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CNBC: Everything is weird in space, and it’s wonderful, says former astronaut
CNBC featured Garrett Reisman, former NASA astronaut who was the previously the director of SpaceX’s Space Operations, to discuss SpaceX’s all-civilian crew and its historic mission to space.
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Marketplace: Texas’ efforts to fix electrical grid may not be enough to prevent future blackouts
Marketplace quoted Kelly Sanders on Texas’ efforts to fix electrical grid that may not be enough to prevent future blackouts.
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USC News : USC Computer Science Students Place Second in Capital One College Bowl Championship
After 10 weeks of competition, a USC team, including two computer science students, finished second to a trio from Columbia University in the final showdown.
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Michelson Research Foundation: Nanofabrication Laboratory Opens at USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience
The nanofab named in honor of John O’Brien was featured.
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CBS LA: NSF Awards USC $15 Million To Establish Western Hub Of Innovation And Technology
CBS and CBS radio affiliate, KNX Radio, covered USC’s new role in the NSF I-Corps Hub: West Region to help a consortium of research universities to
develop entrepreneurs
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Dot LA: USC Just Got $15 Million Grant To Help Universities Create New Startups
Dean Yortsos was interviewed about the NSF I-Corps Hub: West Region through which Viterbi will lead 8 universities to cultivate deep technologies
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Associated Press Wire: Female scientists set back by the pandemic may never make up lost time
Kristina Lerman penned a piece about her research on how COVID-19 impacted female scientists
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Times Union: An AI expert explains why it’s hard to give computers something you take for granted: Common sense
A piece written by Mayank Kejriwal published
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Los Angeles Times: Ways to Save Water During the Drought
Kelly Sanders suggested that people consider their indirect water footprint to when thinking about saving water.
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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.