Having Trouble Remembering Your Password? Forget About It!
Cybersecurity researcher Jelena Mirkovic weighs in on recent security breaches, talks about her work and gives password tips.
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USC Viterbi Honors Inaugural A.V. ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan Award Recipients
Awardees made important contributions in the area of mathematics of systems
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Catching Some Z’s is a Challenge for Millions. Can Wristbands Help Solve the Problem?
Professor Michael Khoo and his SleepHuB partners look at a range of technologies to uncover sleep problems
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Azad Madni Receives NAE’s 2023 Gordon Prize
For second year in a row, a Trojan receives top award in engineering education
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Azad Madni Receives the Prestigious IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
Madni is being honored for pioneering contributions to model-based systems engineering, education, and industrial impact using interdisciplinary approaches
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Using Computer Generated Images to Create Unbiased Facial Recognition
Information Sciences Institute researchers use machine learning to invent an impartial way to recognize faces
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USC’s Petros Ioannou, Gérard Medioni and J. Joshua Yang Elected as National Academy of Inventors Fellows
The trio joins a distinguished class of 169 new inductees whose innovations have tangibly impacted society.
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USC Viterbi Researchers Named 2023 IEEE Fellows
USC Information Sciences Institute’s Carl Kesselman and Premkumar Natarajan, and Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Bhaskar Krishnamachari were elevated for their impactful research contributions.
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Bob Balzer, ISI pioneer: “We created an out of the office message in 1979”
Robert Balzer was employee No. 1 at USC’s Information Sciences Institute. He remembers the early days of this Silicon Beach trailblazer.
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2022: The Year of the Chip
Forty years after Time magazine named the computer as “Person of the Year,” it’s time to consider another remarkably impactful item.
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Yannis Yortsos Named Editor-In-Chief of PNAS Nexus
The USC Viterbi dean will oversee the prestigious journal published by the National Academy of Sciences in partnership with Oxford University Press
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“Choose Your Own Adventure” – Teaching Machines To Think Before They Speak
USC Information Sciences Institute researchers are programming models to communicate like humans do
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Saving Lives: Heart Attack On A Chip
Megan McCain and postdoc Megan Rexius-Hall have engineered a microscale model that might one day serve as a testbed for personalized heart drugs
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The Potentially Adverse Impact of Twitter 2.0 on Scientific and Research Communication
Is key data going to disappear? The science community is bracing for possible consequences.
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Gridlock Warrior
Ketan Savla is designing computational solutions to improve the flow of traffic in congested cities. “Smarter” stoplights may be just around the corner.
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The MOSIS Service of ISI and SkyWater Collaborate on Silicon IC Design Enablement and Manufacturing Service
The MOSIS Service will provide multi-project wafer (MPW) shuttle access to SkyWater’s S90 and S130 mixed-signal CMOS technologies.Â
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USC at NeurIPS 2022
USC researchers present 23 papers at this leading venue for machine learning research.
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Cloudwalkers: ISI and the Inventors of the Future
In 1972, USC’s Information Sciences Institute was given the power to design, develop and run the Internet. What followed was one of the greatest explosions of information in human history.
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$35 Million Gift: Era of the Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering Begins
USC receives one of the largest naming gifts to a biomedical engineering department in the nation.
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Concrete Built Half Our World, But May Be Harming It. Thomas Petersen Wants to Change That.
New USC Viterbi assistant professor works to engineer “green” cement.
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Making Peace, One Kindergarten at a Time
The USC Aviation and Security Program has raised money to build a new kindergarten in Vietnam to honor USC veterans
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Clearing the (Classroom) Air
A new air purification strategy by USC Viterbi researchers might reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission in classrooms and other indoor spaces by as much as tenfold.
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New Wheel-Legged Robots Navigate Terrain and Combat Obstacles Like Never Before
Research team engineers new wheel-legged robots with advancements in speed, rolling and leverage legged motions
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Maral Mousavi Receives NIH New Innovator Award to Create Nanosensors for the Nervous System
She will use the $2.3 million award to create sensors that will have game-changing applications for disorders such as Alzheimer’s Disease.
