Media Coverage

CNN: Will Americans return to the moon?

July 17, 2019

Anita Sengupta was interviewed about the future of space exploration

KABC: USC engineering students continue legacy of alum Neil Armstrong

July 17, 2019

USC RPL was featured surrounding the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

USC Viterbi News: First Man

July 17, 2019

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong’s Groundbreaking Impact on our Journey to Space

LA Times: Could the Apollo 11 moon landing be duplicated today?

July 14, 2019

James Moore and Garrett Reisman were quoted about if the Apollo 11 moon landing could be duplicated today.

Space: NASA Shakes Up Human Space Exploration Leadership

July 11, 2019

Garrett Reisman was quoted on leadership at NASA.

AirTalk: Bill To Expand EV Rebates Aims To Jolt Sales And Fight Climate Change, But Will It Make More Californians Go Electric?

July 10, 2019

James Moore was interviewed on a California bill that would expand electric vehicle rebates.

Los Angeles Daily News: Los Angeles’ fondness for rail hurts those who rely on public transportation

July 10, 2019

James Moore was quoted regarding L.A. Metro’s focus on rail expansion over bus improvements.

Washington Post: Can airlines force travelers off a plane for being sick?

June 28, 2019

Allen Parmet was quoted as to whether airlines can remove sick passengers from flights.

USA Today: Check your settings if you don’t want Google tracking every move

June 24, 2019

Aleksandra Korolova was quoted on how Google can track your every move.

The Orange County Register: Smart cars learning to avoid unpredictable pedestrians

June 20, 2019

Jeff Miller was quoted on autonomous vehicles learning to predict pedestrian movements.

Engadget: The evolution of cognitive architecture will deliver human-like AI

June 20, 2019

Paul Rosenbloom was quoted on the current state of artificial general intelligence research.

Science Friday: Hot Enough For You? Cooling The Worsening Urban Heat Island

June 14, 2019

George Ban-Weiss was interviewed on his work tailoring high-reflectivity roofs to individual neighborhoods.

USC Viterbi News: Defining the Next Frontier for Humans and Tech

June 13, 2019

Leading academics dissect the most critical issues related to human-building interaction to advance how people work, learn and live

PCMag: Is That Your Fingerprint or a Fake? This AI Can Tell

June 5, 2019

Wael Abd-Almageed was interviewed on new artificial intelligence techniques that can be applied to computer vision, biometrics and multimedia problems.

WIRED: A ROCKET BUILT BY STUDENTS REACHED SPACE FOR THE FIRST TIME

June 5, 2019

A USC team won the collegiate space race by sending a rocket above the Kármán line, the imaginary boundary that marks the end of Earth’s atmosphere.

Scientific American: Simulating Evolution to Determine the Fastest Wing

June 1, 2019

Geoffrey Spedding was quoted on how humans draw inspiration from nature — bird wings and fish fins — to build faster wings for flight.

New Atlas: Bee+ micro-scale robot flyer gets four wings flapping

May 16, 2019

The Bee+ project from the Autonomous Microrobotic Systems Laboratory was featured.

MIT Technology Review: A tiny four-winged robotic insect flies more like the real thing

May 16, 2019

Flying robots are more agile with four wings than two. Engineers halved the weight of a crucial component to make that possible.

USC Viterbi ECE Blog: My Path from South Central to the University of Southern California

May 14, 2019

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