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Released: 9-May-2019 7:05 PM EDT
Speakers from Google, NBC to Keynote USC Viterbi School of Engineering Commencement Ceremonies Today, Friday, May 10, 2019
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

Yoky Matsuoka, Vice President, Product Management for Google; Ali Velshi, MSNBC Anchor and Business Correspondent for NBC News; and Luiz André Barroso, Google Fellow and VP of Engineering, Core Systems, Google are speaking at USC Viterbi School of Engineering ceremonies on Friday, May 10, 2019--keynote speeches to be streamed live

Released: 2-Apr-2019 4:20 PM EDT
How to Make Self-Driving Cars Safer on Roads
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

At USC, researchers have published a new study that tackles a long-standing problem for autonomous vehicle developers: testing the system’s perception algorithms, which allow the car to “understand” what it “sees.”

Released: 29-Mar-2019 3:55 PM EDT
New Evidence of Deep Groundwater on Mars
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

Researchers at the USC Arid Climate and Water Research Center (AWARE) have published a study that suggests deep groundwater could still be active on Mars and could originate surface streams in some near-equatorial areas on Mars. The researchers at USC have determined that groundwater likely exists in a broader geographical area than just the poles of Mars and that there is an active system, as deep as 750 meters, from which groundwater comes to the surface through cracks in the specific craters they analyzed.

Released: 6-Mar-2019 1:05 PM EST
A “Post-Antibiotic World?”
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

The products of wastewater treatment have been found to contain trace amounts of antibiotic resistant DNA. These products are often reintroduced to the environment and water supply, potentially resulting in the spread of antibiotic resistance.

Released: 26-Feb-2019 2:35 PM EST
New Method Uses AI to Screen for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC), Queen’s University (Ontario) and Duke University have developed a new tool that can screen children for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) quickly and affordably, making it accessible to more children in remote locations worldwide.

Released: 21-Feb-2019 2:05 PM EST
3D-printed Tires and Shoes that Self-Repair
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

Instead of throwing away your broken boots or cracked toys, why not let them fix themselves? Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have developed 3D-printed rubber materials that can do just that.​Instead of throwing away your broken boots or cracked toys, why not let them fix themselves? Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have developed 3D-printed rubber materials that can do just that.​ Assistant Professor Qiming Wang works in the world of 3D printed materials, creating new functions for a variety of purposes, from flexible electronics to sound control. Now, working with Viterbi students Kunhao Yu, An Xin, and Haixu Du, and University of Connecticut Assistant Professor Ying Li, they have made a new material that can be manufactured quickly and is able to repair itself if it becomes fractured or punctured. This material could be game-changing for industries like shoes, tires, soft robotics,

Released: 12-Dec-2018 12:05 PM EST
What can a snowflake teach us about how cancer spreads in the body?
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

Conventional math cannot adequately model the interaction of multiple genes over multiple time frames – a necessary foundation for any cancer-fighting drugs. The study, published in “Frontiers in Physiology” by Mahboobeh Ghorbani, Edmond Jonckheere and Paul Bogdan of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, is the first study that accounts for the memory, cross-dependence and fractality of gene expression

   
Released: 2-Oct-2018 4:45 PM EDT
Can AI Reduce Race Bias in Homelessness?
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

New Algorithm Can Improve Outcomes in Assigning Housing to Homeless Youth and Change Housing Policy

   
Released: 10-Sep-2018 12:30 PM EDT
Researchers Decode Mood from Human Brain Signals
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

Findings may yield new closed-loop, tailored therapies for depression and anxiety

   
Released: 28-Jun-2018 2:05 PM EDT
New Study Finds Taking Breaks Boosts Team Performance
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

Want to be a good team player? Take a break. It may improve not only your own performance but the chances of your team winning overall, says a new study by a team of USC computer scientists.

Released: 13-Jun-2018 6:05 PM EDT
Nature’s Armor: A Lobster Tale
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

A team of USC Viterbi engineers might aid in future CTE prevention and treat other sports injuries with 3-D printed body armor like helmets, other protective devices and prosthetics – all by learning from nature’s toughest structures.

   
Released: 24-May-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Portable Malaria Screening Instrument Developed
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

A prototype for a portable instrument capable of early-stage malaria detection has been developed by a team of researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. The prototype can analyze an unprocessed, whole blood sample in 10-15 minutes using three primary components: a laser, a detector (to detect light), and a magnet.

Released: 24-Apr-2018 2:05 PM EDT
You Are What Your Friends Eat
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

USC’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society’s is developing a comprehensive algorithm that provides health practitioners the tool to form real-life peer support groups based on demographic, social and health-related data self-volunteered by patients.

   
Released: 16-Nov-2017 12:05 PM EST
Smart City Consortium Formed at USC
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

The USC Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM), the USC Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things (CCI), and the USC Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) will announce their commitment to forming a consortium that will design, develop, test, and deploy an IoT system to benefit IOT communities including the City of LA, area residents and industry. The formed Intelligent Internet of Things Integrator (I3) consortium, organized by CTM at the USC Marshall School of Business and by CCI and IMSC at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering will engage governmental agencies and industry partners to encourage the development of community-based IoT networks.

Released: 7-Sep-2017 2:10 PM EDT
Hurricane Harvey Through the Eyes of the Internet
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

USC Information Sciences Institute's John Heidemann tracks internet outages as they hit Southeast Texas

Released: 31-Jul-2017 12:05 PM EDT
How Central Are Female Characters to a Movie?
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

A new study from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL)--which creates automatic tools for signal analysis and linguistic assessment --uncovers how media communicates about gender, race and age finding that in the majority of films, females roles are not central to the plot.

Released: 22-Jun-2017 8:25 AM EDT
USC to Lead IARPA Quantum Computing Project
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

USC will lead a consortium of universities and private companies to build quantum computers that are at least 10,000 times faster than the best state-of-the-art classical computers.Such high-powered machines could help facilitate the solution of some of the most difficult optimization problems such as machine learning for image recognition, resolving scheduling conflicts in events with many participants, as well as sampling for improved prediction of random events.

Released: 2-May-2017 2:50 PM EDT
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Announces 2017 Commencement Speakers
University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering satellite commencement ceremonies will take place on Friday, May 12th, 2017, following USC’s main commencement ceremony. There will be three separate ceremonies featuring three distinguished speakers. All ceremonies will be streamed live on the respective undergraduate and graduate-level commencement pages.



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