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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ScienceNews: A new computer program generates eerily realistic fake videos
Kyle Olszewski was quoted on a new computer program that can generate realistic fake videos of a person’s movements and expressions.
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TechCrunch: Duo Security researchers’ Twitter ‘bot or not’ study unearths crypto botnet
Research by Emilio Ferrara of the Information Sciences Institute was quoted on monitoring Twitter conversations.
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TechRepublic: Tesla’s Autopilot: Cheat sheet
Jeffrey Miller was quoted about existing regulations regarding the testing of self-driving vehicles.
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Daily Beast: Platypus Venom Could Treat Diabetes
Research by Yang Yang and Yong Chen was highlighted on how the structure of lobster claws could be replicated to produce concussion-proof helmets for athletes.
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USA Today: Why you might want to wrap your car key fob in foil
Clifford Neuman was quoted about the growing need to protect car fobs from being remotely accessed and used to steal vehicles.
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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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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.
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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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USC News: Gift supports biomedical therapeutics at USC
Retired ophthalmologist Allen Ginsburg and his wife, Charlotte, donate $10 million to name the USC Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics
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USC News: Stem cell-based retinal implant tested for common cause of vision loss
It’s the first human trial, which is designed to replace a single-cell layer that degenerates in patients with dry age-related macular degeneration.
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PC Mag: Looking for a New Gig? How About Cyber Crime Spy School?
PC Mag sat down with Professors Michael Gregory Crowley and Joseph S. Greenfield to discuss how their professional experiences influence the shape of courses for the computer and digital forensics minor at the Information Technology Program.
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U.S. News & World Report: USC Viterbi Ranked in Top Ten Engineering Programs According to US News & World Report
USC Viterbi is the only school ranked in the top 10 for these 3 rankings: Best Graduate Schools, Best Online Graduate Engineering Program, Best Online Graduate Information Technology (or Computer Science) Programs
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WIRED: The Quest to Make a Robotic Cat Walk With Artificial Neurons
Want to create machines that move more naturally? Maybe start by replicating the spinal cord
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Space News: On the verge of a space renaissance
After the recent signing of the Space Policy Directive by President Trump, Astronautical Engineering Lecturer Madhu Thangavelu believes “we are entering a renaissance era in human spaceflight”
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