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ASEE PRISM Reports on Student Retention
May 15, 2012
Vice Dean for Academic Programs James Moore II and Sr. Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs Louise A. Yates publish opinion on student retention rates for engineering schools in influential PRISM Magazine
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PBS NewsHour visits the DETERlab
April 25, 2012
The news program reports on the project's scientific approach to cybersecurity and hopes of preventing large-scale cyber attacks.
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Memorial service at the Shrine Auditorium remembers the lives of Ying Wu and Ming Qu
April 20, 2012
Parents, students, friends and officials along with USC President C. L. Max Nikias and USC Viterbi Dean Yannis C. Yortsos reflect on the lives of Ying Wu and Ming Qu at an emotional memorial service at the Shrine Auditorium
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Assistant professor from USC ICT receives a Young Investigator Award
April 19, 2012
Morteza Dehghani, research assistant professor at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, received a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Forbes Covers New Diagnostic Innovation
April 19, 2012
Forbes Magazine discusses ClariTrac, a medical device that improves efficiency of biopsies for radiologists, developed by a team of USC Viterbi graduate students.
PC Mag Reports on Quantum Computer Inside of a Diamond
April 09, 2012
Daniel Lidar and a team of researchers from around the world built the tiny computer and published their results in Nature.
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Clifford Neuman Discusses Credit Card Security with ABC7
April 06, 2012
The director of USC's Center for Computer Systems Security talks about the recent Visa/MasterCard security breach and how cardholders can protect themselves.
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NASA Discusses Contour Crafting and Lunar Settlement With Behrokh Khoshnevis
April 06, 2012
Supported by the NASA Office of the Chief Technologist's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, Khoshnevis proposes building lunar outposts by preplanting automated construction technology on the moon.
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April 06, 2012
Dean Yortsos discusses Moore's Law, quantum computing, and the future of USC Viterbi in his sit-down conversation with the campus television station.
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Shrikanth Narayanan Talks Speech Translation With Technology Review
March 26, 2012
The professor and behavioral informatics pioneer discusses Microsoft's new software, as well as his own research on speech translation systems.
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USC Viterbi Co-Hosts Safety Workshop With Metrolink
March 22, 2012
The Los Angeles Times notes that the March 20 program "was the first of its kind to reach out to high-ranking officials who oversee public transit systems."
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KPCC Reports On USC Engineers' Work to Prepare California Ports for Future Tsunamis
March 21, 2012
The USC Tsunami Research Center will work with the state of California to better understand the 'phantom currents' generated by tsunamis.
Yahoo! Sports Covers Basketball Analytics Work of USC Researchers
March 12, 2012
Researchers from USC's Information Sciences Institute take the grand prize at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference for their paper, "Deconstructing the Rebound with Optical Tracking Data."
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New Scientist Reports on New Video Analysis of Japanese Tsunami
March 06, 2012
Costas Synolakis contends that there is valuable information to be gained from video records of the 2011 tsunami, especially in preparation for future disasters.
Princeton Review Names USC Top School for Video Game Design for Third Year in a Row
March 06, 2012
USA Today talks to Gamepipe Director Michael Zyda and notes the joint nature of the USC Games program, co-run by USC Viterbi and USC School for Cinematic Arts.
USC Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center Featured in Wired Profile of D-Wave
February 23, 2012
Wired talks to Daniel Lidar and others about D-Wave's work in quantum computing, including the machine now at USC's Information Sciences Institute.
A Smart Oilfield Technology Q&A with Iraj Ershagi
February 08, 2012
The Director of USC's Petroleum Engineering Program talks to USC Viterbi alums at Saudi Aramco.
Maja Mataric Talks Social Robots with The Kavli Foundation
February 08, 2012
The director of USC's Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems discusses human-robot interactions and the key ingredients for a social robot.
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Daniel Lidar Talks Quantum Computing with KPFK
January 31, 2012
Lidar, Scientific Director of the USC Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center, provides what the hosts of KPFK's "Digital Culture" deem "the best explanation of quantum computing ever."
KPCC Visits the Signal Analysis Interpretation Lab
January 10, 2012
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