CNN: 5 ways the Columbia disaster changed spaceflight forever
Professor Garrett Reisman, a former astronaut, discussed how he spent part of his career in connection with the families who lost loved ones on the Challenger disaster.
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Venturebeat: USC Games Expo returns to campus on May 7 with over 60 games
The annual Games expo showcasing student games was highlighted
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BBC: Engineers train dog to walk on the moon
Research by Feifei Qian and colleagues was featured.
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VNN: Viterbi News Now – Episode 67
This Week on VNN: USC Viterbi researchers embark on a new initiative to revolutionize tissue engineering, USC Viterbi alumnus Adithya Bellathur encourages new guitarists and musicians with “Notey’s World” app, we’re highlighting how the USC Viterbi Startup Garage empowers startups to break new ground in technology, and USC Viterbi’s David Barnhart is featured on spacenews.com discussing the evolving role of AI in long-distance space missions.
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CBS News: Fung Finds a New Life from “Swim with Mike”
USC Viterbi data science master’s student Natalie Fung was interviewed about how she persevered after an accident and how the Swim with Mike scholarship allowed her to attend graduate school.
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CNET: Hallucinations: Why AI Makes Stuff Up, and What’s Being Done About It
Professor Swayamdipta explained AI hallucinations and suggested the implementation of standards to address them.
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CBS News: NASA, USC robotics team for space exploration program
Feifei Qian and undergraduate student Ethan Fulcher were interviewed about developing robots that can work on various surfaces
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ABC News: What’s after AI? The next watershed technology could be quantum computing
Daniel Lidar was interviewed about the growth and potential impact of quantum computing
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WIRED: 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI
Alumni Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar were highlighted in an article that highlighted the authors of “Attention Is All You Need”
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Fortune: White House and Gretchen Whitmer to buy a nuclear power plant
Najm Meshkati was interviewed about changing sentiment towards nuclear energy and the importance of plant safety
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The Wall Street Journal: ‘Saving Michelangelo’s Dome’ Review: Looking Up in Rome
A book review of Saving Michelangelo’s Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution, noted author Wayne Kalayjian is a civil engineer who lectures at USC.
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USC Institute for Creative Technologies: The Email Which Changed My Life
An essay from Jacki Morie, one of the founding research scientists of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies from 1999 to 2013.
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VNN: Viterbi News Now – Episode 66
This Week On VNN: USC’s new IBM Quantum Innovation Center, USC Viterbi Prof. Elisabeth Arnold Weiss’ class envisions the future of the LA Memorial Coliseum, Johannes Royset joins USC Viterbi bringing expertise in operations and optimization, Xiang Ren honored as one of MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 for the Asia-Pacific Region.
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Corriere Del Serra/The Evening Standard: Smog, the effects of the war in Ukraine
Research by Constantinos Sioutas and colleagues showing how air pollution increased in Milan increased as a result of the war in Ukraine was featured
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NPR: Just because your favorite singer is dead doesn’t mean you can’t see them ‘live’
Paul Debevec corrects the record on what constitutes a hologram
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Space News: Space loves AI, AI doesn’t love Space
David Barnhart was interviewed about the role of AI for long-distance missions.
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USC News: USC opens first IBM Quantum Innovation Center on the West Coast
The new center will be directed by Daniel Lidar, and boosts USC Viterbi and USC Dornsife researchers’ opportunities for conducting quantum research.
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VNN: Viterbi News Now- Episode 65
This Week on VNN: Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Viterbi naming; meet Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz, a new Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USC Viterbi; congratulations to @nsbe_usc for winning the Chapter of the Region Award for Region 6; The USC Games program is celebrating women and individuals who identify as non-binary in the gaming industry at the recent Women in Games NOW event.
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USC names 7 faculty members University – and Distinguished Professors, 3 with USC Viterbi appointments
Petros Ioannou, Peter Kuhn, and Surya Prakash are among the faculty selected for their research leadership.
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Fox 11: Historic Moon Landing
Garrett Reisman was interviewed about United States’ first return to the moon since 1972.
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Federal Aviation Administration: Review Panel’s Final Report on Organization Designation Authorizations for the Design and Production of Airplanes
Najm Meshkati served on a panel to inform regulatory oversight, safety culture, safety management systems, and human-systems integration related to aviation.
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USC News: First NEMO Prizes fund research partnerships at the intersection of health and engineering
Eun Ji Chung, Wade Hsu, and John Oghalai are co-recipients of the university’s first NEMO Prizes
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Scientific American: Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies
Jesse Thomason of USC Viterbi and PhD student, Ishika Singh, were highlighted for their work to help robots complete real-world tasks.
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Sustainability Next: AI Can Reduce Poaching, Help Conservation
Bistra Dilkina was interviewed about her use of AI to predict sea-level rise, protect biodiversity and prevent poaching
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