White House: White House Mentions USC Faculty STEM Outreach Effort
CS Professor Sheila Tejada’s Computer Savvy Lab pledge to work with 100 LA-area students was highlighted.
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White House: WH Fact Sheet Mentions ASEE effort led by Dean Yortsos
The White House mentioned a pledge by 200 engineering deans committing to building a more-representative student talent pipeline.
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AAAS: USC Viterbi Professor Roger Ghanem Named AAAS Fellow
Roger Ghanem, the Gordon S. Marshall Professor of Engineering Technology and professor of civil and environmental engineering, was recognized for outstanding contributions to practical, mathematical and computational aspects of uncertainty quantification.
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USC Viterbi: Social Bots and the 2016 Presidential Election
Watch video: with research developed by USC Viterbi’s Emilio Ferrara, some key steps on how to detect a social bot! A handy tool during this year’s presidential election.
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Wall Street Journal: Robot Researchers Not Trying to Replicate People
The Wall Street Journal Digital featured Maja Matarić in a discussion on robotics design, the future of socially assistive robots, and the prominent role of females in robotics development.
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New Scientist: $100 Million Project to Make Intelligence-Boosting Brain Implant
New Scientist highlighted research by Ted Berger to develop a neuroprosthetic to help Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, stroke and other brain disorders and injuries.
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CBS Los Angeles: DMV Computer Outage Raises Fear of Election-Day Cyber Attacks
Cliff Neuman was quoted about the DMV computer outages across the state.
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Desert Sun-Voter Guide: Clinton and Trump on Global Warming, Energy and the California Drought
Kelly Sanders was quoted on the feasibility of Donald Trump’s energy proposals.
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Curbed: How a Short-lived Company Turned Thousands of LA Lawns into Gravel Dead Zones
Research by Pouya Vahmani and George Ban-Weiss on the effect drought-tolerant landscaping will have on Los Angeles’ overall temperature was mentioned.
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The Daily Breeze: Drones: ‘I Have Never Seen an Industry Change as Fast’
Harrison Wolf was quoted about the growing number of drones registered for non-commercial uses.
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San Diego Union-Tribune: USD Creating ‘Cyber Range’ to Train Students to Fight Digital Intruders
An article highlighted USC Viterbi’s new Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the IoT.
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USC Viterbi: 2016 Annual Meeting of the NAE Grand Challenge Scholars Program (GCSP)
The 2016 Annual Meeting of the NAE Grand Challenge Scholars Program (GCSP) was held in Washington, DC, on Friday, October 7, 2016.
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Los Angeles Times: Kirsten Harper Smith Is Helping Build Downtown Los Angeles
Sony Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumna featured for leading a large construction project.
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USC Press Room: USC to show how wearable technology can improve cancer treatment
USC researchers to participate in Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot exhibit at a White House event.
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United Press International: How Climate Change Mitigation and Energy Choices Affect Water
Civil Engineering Professor Kelly Sanders wrote an op-ed how the drought in California can and has affected energy production.
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Complex Systems Society: Emilio Ferrara Receives Complex Systems Society Junior Scientific Award
ISI researcher and CS professor recognized for work in network science models and development of tools to study phenomena in large, dynamical techno-social systems.
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ISI: Yolanda Gil was elected as the president of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Yolanda Gil, USC Viterbi’s research professor in the department of Computer Science, has been elected as the 24th president of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
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Daily Trojan: Film screening panel highlights gender disparity in STEM
Panel of Viterbi ITP professors discuss lack of gender equality in STEM after documentary screening at the Ray Stark Family Theatre.
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New York Times: How Long Is an Actress Onscreen?
A tool co-developed by Shri Narayanan with Google and GDI to analyze representation in film was featured.
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LA Times: Could Artificial Intelligence Help Humanity? Two California Universities Think So
A partnership between USC Viterbi and USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work to launch a Center on Artificial Intelligence for Social Solutions was highlighted.
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Popular Science: John Carlsson Named a 2016 PopSci Brilliant 10
He is Recognized for Use of Geometry to ‘Re-Route the World’
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Twitter: Trojan Spirit is Strong in Texas
Trojans in Texas Host USC Viterbi
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USC Viterbi: Azad Madni Honored for Systems Engineering Excellence
He is Recognized for Service to Industry and Boeing in Systems Engineering Excellence
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CMBE Journal: Stacey Finley Recognized as 2016 CMBE Journal Young Innovator
Work by Viterbi’s Stacey Finley, an investigator in the Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience was highlighted for her work with colleagues to create a predictive computational model of T cell activation
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