USC News: In memoriam: Nobel laureate George Olah, 89
The lauded USC scientist won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Reuters: Amazon deepens university ties in artificial intelligence race
Reuters featured USC Viterbi and the Information Sciences Institute as being selected for the Amazon Alexa Fund Fellowship, a new program to support universities and researchers focused on transformative voice technologies such as text-to-speech, natural language understanding, automatic speech recognition and conversational artificial intelligence.
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CBSLA: USC Graduate Students Work To Improve Drone Technologies
Experimental work of department Chair Geoff Spedding and his Ph.D. students on small scale aerodynamics, applicable to small drones
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Reuters: Coordinated drones fly in synchronized flocks
Nora Ayanian was interviewed by Reuters on her research involving multi-robot coordination
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KPCC: Can Los Angeles Lower Its Own Temperature by Three Degrees?
George Ban-Weiss discusses his research in reflective high-tech material that could replace asphalt.
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LA Times: L.A.’s is too hot. These scientists are figuring out how to cool it down.
The LA Times profiles the work Ban-Weiss is doing with the Mayor’s office to address the heat-island effect in Los Angeles
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NAE: Don Zhang elected to NAE
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering / Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering professor recognized for pioneering work in stochastic modeling of flow in porous media
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Department of Defense: USC Viterbi’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing to be LA hub for DOD Robotics Grant
SK Gupta to lead research effort
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Wired: Tesla’s Self-Driving Car Plan Seems Insane, But It Just Might Work
Wired quoted Jeffrey Miller about the development potential for Tesla’s self-driving cars.
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The Christian Science Monitor: Is NASA Ready for a Human Mission to Mars? No, Say Government Auditors
Mike Gruntman was quoted on why NASA’s plans for a Mars mission lacks feasibility.
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Digital Trends: This 3D Printed Structure Shrinks When Heated, Expands When Cooled
Digital Trends mentioned research by Qiming Wang and colleagues, who created tiny, 3D-printed metamaterials that shrink rather than expand when exposed to heat.
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CBS News: Behind the Technology Designed to Prevent Voter Fraud
CBS News quoted Clifford Neuman about the possible ways to voter fraud could occur.
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Irish Independent: ISI Researchers Help L.A.’s Homeless
Irish Independent mentioned research by Kristina Lerman on social network and social media.
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Science Daily: 3-D-Printed Structures Shrink When Heated
Science Daily highlighted research by Qiming Wang on tiny structures that actually shrink, rather than expand, when heated.
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Los Angeles Times: A Massive Cyberattack Blocked Your Favorite Websites; FBI and Homeland Security Are Investigating
The Los Angeles Times quoted Joe Touch about the cyberattack on Dyn, which connects web addresses to IP addresses.
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USC News: Viterbi Faculty Named National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Mark Humayun and Shri Narayanan recognized for innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact.
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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.