The New Yorker: The Origins of Video Voice Chat
Chris Kyriakakis was interviewed about how to improve the acoustics of voice calls over the internet.
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ACM: 2020 ACM Fellows Recognized for Work that Underpins Today’s Computing Innovations
Maja Matarić, Sven Koenig and Mike Zyda were recognized for “innovations that ushered in significant improvements across many areas of technology, industry and personal life”
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Youtube: 2021 USC Viterbi–Axilor Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lecture Series
Annual series hosted by USC Viterbi and startup incubator Axilor provides thought leadership to entrepreneurs and alumni around the world.
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Association of Computing Machinery: People of the ACM: Timothy Pinkston
Timothy Pinkston was interviewed about his research, the future of network routing algorithms and architecture research, as well as the importance of diversity and inclusion to the future of computing.
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Happy Holidays 2020
From Dean Yannis C. Yortsos and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Adobe Spark: How Working from Home Changed Us
After March’s stay-at-home orders took effect, USC researchers studied the impact of widespread work from home on well-being and productivity.
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KNBC: Tracking LA County’s COVID-19 Cases
Cyrus Shahabi was interviewed about California’s new contact tracing app.
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BBC: The Heat Gap Dividing a Major US city
George Ban-Weiss was interviewed about the disparity in LA as to how people experience excessive heat and are vulnerable as a result of this exposure
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Washington Post: Which Astronauts Will Go to the Moon?
Garrett Reisman was interviewed about the future of NASA’s Artemis program under the new presidential administration.
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The Wrap: Can Artificial Intelligence Help Predict Movie Ratings?
The SAIL Lab’s work on media informatics and the content of movies was featured
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KNX: Working from Home Affects Health
New study from USC Viterbi faculty highlighted the negative impacts of working from home
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Ohio State: Ayanna Howard Named Next Dean at OSU
Roboticist and Viterbi alumnus named next dean of OSU’s College of Engineering
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Youtube: Quadruped Robots to Disinfect
Working with Professor Gupta and Professor Nguyen, students are developing semi-autonomous robots to disinfect hard to-reach spaces to protect against COVID
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WIRED: Proning COVID Patients Seems to Save Lives
Andrea Armani was interviewed on simple interventions that can improve COVID-19 patient outcomes
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USA Today: Were voters manipulated by QAnon ?
Emilio Ferrara commented that more swing-state voters believed in QAnon conspiracies and how that may have contributed to inaccuracy in the polls
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KQED: Starfish Gallop With Hundreds of Tubular Feet
Research by Eva Kanso regarding how starfish move was featured.
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Wall Street Journal: What Makes People Abuse Robots
Maja Matarić was quoted as to why people may mistreat robots.
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New York Times: Tracking Viral Misinformation About the 2020 Election
Research by Emilio Ferrara found that during the 2020 Election season 13 percent of all accounts tweeting about conspiracy theories were automated.
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Nature: The next-generation bots interfering with the US election
Research by Emilio Ferrara on how bots were influencing discussions around the upcoming election was featured.
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Los Angeles Daily News: Should Aliso Canyon Remain Open?
Najm Meshkati commented on whether the Aliso Canyon gas facility should remain open.
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Business Insider: Elon Musk’s SpaceX keeps winning US military contracts
Steve Nutt was interviewed on why SpaceX keeps receiving U.S. military contracts.
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Happy Diwali 2020
From Dean Yannis C. Yortsos and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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KGTV-TV: Goats used as a tool to help clear brush, prevent wildfires in Western U.S.
ABC News San Diego quoted Essam Heggy regarding the use of goats to help clear brush and prevent wildfires.
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KABC-TV: COVID-19 unemployment may be contributing to rise in rent dispute calls to LAPD, data shows
KABC-TV featured research by Crosstown, a collaboration between Viterbi and the USC Annenberg School on the increase in landlord-tenant disputes around rent collection.