Training Algorithms To Make Fair Decisions Using Private Data
USC Viterbi researchers have developed a fairness enhancing algorithm that also keeps data secure.
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A Faster, More Efficient Way to Solve Partial Differential Equations
A new method from Wade Hsu’s group is up to 30,000,000 times faster than existing methods – a game-changer for nanophotonics research and many other disciplines
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The Single Oil Spill that Can Disrupt the Global Energy Supply
A maritime area three times the size of the city of London holds the highest risk for oil spills in the Gulf which can have devastating consequences locally and globally.
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Constantine Sideris One of 25 Researchers Honored by Office of Naval Research
USC Viterbi assistant professor receives three-year grant to pursue work in biomedical sensing, health monitoring.
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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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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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Lights, Camera…Stereotypes? Film Characters’ Actions Reflect Gender Bias
A machine-learning framework developed by USC researchers reveals a pattern of stereotyped actions by male and female characters in films over 100-year period
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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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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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USC at NeurIPS 2022
USC researchers present 23 papers at this leading venue for machine learning research.
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A New Mathematical Model to Improve AI and Machine Learning
USC Researchers combine math, graphs, and one humble little plant
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34 new hires, including the new biomedical engineering chair, join for fall and spring semesters
USC Viterbi New Faculty Hires 2022-2023
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Shanechi Receives the One Mind 2022 Rising Star Award
Maryam Shanechi was honored for her unique engineering approach to mental health.
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New wearable device measures the changing size of tumors below the skin
Electronically sensitive, skin-like membrane can measure changes in tumor size to the hundredth of a millimeter. It represents a new, faster and more accurate approach to screen cancer drugs.
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Legged Robots to Aid with Planetary Research
Feifei Qian is the lead researcher for a NASA grant that could significantly aid planetary explorations.
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Trojans Win Student Design Contest with Autonomous Robots that ‘Learn’
Team of USC Viterbi students places first in a design competition on edge computing
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‘Bekey Changed My Life’
The robotics pioneer’s true gift is not with machines but with people
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IEEE K-12 Education Outreach Initiative
USC faculty and students hold events to encourage careers in signal processing.
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USC Viterbi Student Creates Virtual Reality Button System
Undergraduate student Cami Gomez created a haptics-based virtual reality environment that simulates the feeling of a button clicking.
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New Grant to Help Develop “Forever Implants”
The research, led by USC Viterbi, includes collaborators from USC Keck and Stanford
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USC-Meta Center Brings Progress to AI Education and Research
The inaugural event introduced new initiatives and presented research to industry partners
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Creating Power Without Power: New USC Viterbi Technology Improves the Speed of Data Processing
Jonathan Habif and Alan Willner’s team uses light, first of its kind optical technology to make sharing data on our devices less energy intensive
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In Good Company: Paul Daniel Dapkus Joins Einstein, Curie and Viterbi as Winners of Franklin Medal
USC Viterbi Professor was honored for his groundbreaking contributions in electrical engineering
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What If AI Could Create a Custom App for Small Businesses…In Only 30 Minutes?
Apsy, led by Ph.D. candidate Tooraj Helmi, uses AI to develop inexpensive, quality apps for startups
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USC Viterbi PhD Student Wins Meta Fellowship
The two-year fellowship will support the continued advancement of AI systems.
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“The Best Educated Class In Our History”
At the 2022 commencement ceremony, undergraduates shared laughter, tears and hugs as they embark on a new journey
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“The World Impatiently Waits For You”: 1100 USC Viterbi Master’s Students Graduate
First in-person, satellite ceremonies in two years feature four-star general and former CEO of Yahoo and Verizon Media as speakers
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“Do Better Than Us”: Three Years of USC Viterbi Ph.D.s Receive Their Hoods.
At the 2022 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony, 215 new graduates join Trojan forebears like Andrew Viterbi and Wanda Austin.
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USC ISI works with D-Wave to house one of the first U.S-Based Advantage™ Quantum Computers
New D-Wave Advantage system, housed at the University of Southern California-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center, brings quantum system and hybrid solver access to business and research clients wanting a US-based solution.
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New Startup Brings AI to the People and Organizations
USC Viterbi researchers’ new AI platform is for everyone
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USC Viterbi-Led Team Wins NSF Expeditions in Computing Award, One of Only Two Announced This Year
Massoud Pedram will be PI for multi-university DISCoVER team focused on green computing, superconductor electronics
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Shri Narayanan Named 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
Prolific researcher is one of only two honored nationally for work in computer science
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8 USC Viterbi Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards
The NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculty has now been received by 13 USC Viterbi faculty over the past two years
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Achieving Success Through Imprecision
USC Viterbi researchers aim to build a better brain with a never-before-used approach
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Towards Acing the Turing Test: A Blueprint for Future AI and Robots that Learn Like Living Things
USC Viterbi researchers worked with a DARPA-supported multi-institution team to outline how the machines of the future can achieve lifelong learning, just like humans and other animals.
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Topological Lasing by Encircling an Exceptional Singularity
USC Viterbi researcher designs a new, more robust laser
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USC at the AAAI ’22 conference: 3D objects recognition, teaching robots to think on their own, finding information in any languages
New models help information detection in many languages and 3-D objects recognition, as well as robots training.
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USC Viterbi Researchers Named 2022 IEEE Fellows
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Murali Annavaram, Krishna Nayak, and Joshua Yang elevated for their impactful research contributions.
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USC Viterbi Professor Petros Ioannou Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering
The leader in control systems and intelligent transportation systems is USC Viterbi’s newest member of the National Academy of Engineering
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USC Launches New Center for Autonomy and AI
The new center will bring together researchers and industry leaders to fuel innovation and provide hands-on learning opportunities for students.
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Francisco Valero-Cuevas Selected As One of 12 U.S. Scientists To Advise on Issues of Medical Rehab and Disabilities
His four year term with the NIH’s Advisory Board On Medical Rehabilitation Research began in July 2021.
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USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Industrial Technology Research Institute to Collaborate on Microelectronics
Research effort between MOSIS and the Taiwanese company will support semiconductor design and manufacturing.
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Evidence of 3600 + Year Old Settlement Uncovered in Eastern Arabian Peninsula
Symmetrical, 2 x 3 Km Buried Formation Points to Evidence of Agriculture, Groundwater Use and Climate Fluctuation
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Using Only 100 Atoms, Electric Fields Can Be Detected and Changed
USC Viterbi researchers create first nano-sized, molecular device potentially capable of sensing and altering the cell’s electric field, ushering in new possibilities for basic research
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Four Viterbi Faculty Receive DURIP Funding
Select projects focus on brain modeling, emerging materials, fuels, and electromagnetic devices
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USC and Meta Collaborate to establish the USC-Meta Center for Research and Education In AI and Learning
New Joint Research Center Strengthens USC Viterbi’s Commitment to Improving AI
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USC’s Cyrus Shahabi, Andrea Armani, and Shri Narayan Elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
The trio joins a distinguished class of 175 new inductees who “demonstrate a prolific spirit of innovation”
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Witness the Power of Graphs
USC Viterbi researchers’ new tool is another step towards true AI
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A Race Car Powered Only by the Sun?
USC Viterbi design team, SC Solar Car, is working to build a fully solar-powered vehicle with plans to compete in the 2022 American Solar Challenge.
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USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Siemens Healthineers Collaborate on New Class of MRI
A new class of MRI improves imaging of moving organs and metal implants to make diagnosis and treatment more accessible
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Research team makes considerable advance in brain-inspired computing
Introduces a more efficient and sustainable hardware device for AI and ML applications
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Honoring Grant Imahara’s Legacy
Honoring Grant Imahara’s legacy with the dedication of a new study lounge and a Day of Making
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AI Can Tell You If a Therapy Session Will Be Effective
New tool automates evaluations of cognitive behavioral therapy
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USC Viterbi Professor and Undergrad Team Up to Improve AI
The duo designed a new tool to make neural networks faster, more powerful, and cheaper
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How AI Could Help Screen for Autism in Children
An interdisciplinary team led by USC computer science researchers is creating a faster, more reliable and more accessible system to help clinicians screen children for developmental disorders such as autism and ADHD.
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Two USC Viterbi PhD Students Win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships
The team is focused on the emerging and important field of federated learning
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Two Beams Are Better Than One
Meet the optical “it couple” helping to speed up and secure wireless communications
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Stopping Deepfake Voices
USC Viterbi researchers develop solutions for more secure and trusted voice recognition
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Is it A Horror Film or a Rom-Com? AI Can Predict Based Solely on Music.
USC Viterbi Professor Shrikanth Narayanan and his research group examined the role of music in film through a computational lens to determine how it affects the audience’s perception of genre
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Viterbi Alumna to Lead Society of Women Engineers
After more than a decade as an active and committed member of SWE, Rachel Morford was recently elected president of the prominent global organization.
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Learning From Lies to Spread the Truth
USC Viterbi researchers use new language analysis tools to combat misinformation
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Undergraduate Researchers Impress Viterbi Community With CURVE Symposium Posters
Over 100 USC Viterbi undergraduates present their year-long research projects virtually at the 2021 Viterbi Research Symposium
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USC+Amazon Center Announces its Selected Projects for 2021-2022
The new center will support five research initiatives from across USC Viterbi.
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Ten USC Viterbi Students Honored with Aerospace Fellowship
A collaboration between the USC WiSE program and the Aerospace Corporation, this prestigious fellowship offers students the opportunity to gain real-life industry experience and develop their skills
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Latest Tests on 6G Return Surprising Results
The research may help lead to haptic internet, mobile edge computing, and holographic communication
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Two USC Viterbi Faculty Win Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards
Rehan Kapadia and Qiming Wang are two of only 38 recipients nationwide.
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What We Know About Water May Have Just Changed Dramatically
Research from USC Viterbi and USC Dornsife points to a potentially strong impact from water purification to drug manufacturing.
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Commencement 2021: Engineering Grads Take Center Stage at L.A. Coliseum For First Time in 71 Years
In a return to in-person graduation, the Class of 2020 and 2021 celebrate “passage to a post-COVID new world”
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Omid Sani: 2021 USC Viterbi Best Dissertation Winner
“Looking for a needle in a haystack – in the middle of a tornado.” Sani’s quest to decipher emotions and the brain.
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Cami Amein: Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduating Student Q&A
After interning at R&D firm ARiA in Seattle, Cami will be coming back to USC Viterbi to finish a progressive degree program and earn her master’s.
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Five USC Viterbi Faculty Receive 2021 NSF CAREER Awards
Research spans from self driving cars, virtual touch, AI for good, teaching machines commonsense and electromagnetic device design.
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Riding the Quantum Limit
USC ISI’s QLIlab is using quantum physics to help usher in a new level of communications security
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The Return of the Viterbi Awards
After last year’s postponement because of COVID-19, the 42nd annual event celebrated honorees General (retired) Ellen Pawlikowski, alumnus Juan Perez of UPS and Geena Davis.
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Maryam Shanechi to Lead Brain Research Supported by New NIH Award
The $3 million grant will help develop new neurotechnology to treat neurological and mental disorders
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Virus Minority Report
USC Viterbi researchers show how we might one day develop vaccines for viruses that haven’t even evolved yet
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Engineering the Flow of Light
USC Viterbi researchers’ device shapes light in new and exciting ways
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Computing Machinery Faces an Urgent Scarcity
USC Viterbi professor leads panel at international conferences for computer scientists and engineers
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A New Realm of Personalized Medicine with Brain Stimulation
Researchers’ “skeleton key” can unlock a brain.
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USC and Amazon Establish Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning
Center to support novel approaches to trust-centric machine learning and AI innovation
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Researchers Discover Hidden Brain Pattern
The discovery has great implications for treating paralyzed, Parkinson’s patients.
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The Four-Legged Robot That Can Crawl, Crouch, Clean and Fight COVID
A team of USC master’s students creates a disinfection robot to use on COVID-19 prevention.
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Meet CybOrg: USC’s Premier Cybersecurity Club
USC Viterbi student club gives students confidence, networking opportunities, mentors and even job connections.
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Ming Hsieh Recipient of Inaugural IEEE-HKN Madni Award
The USC Trustee and Namesake of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Was Honored for Several Contributions
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Three USC Viterbi Faculty Named National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Professors Keith Chugg, Jay Kuo and Gerald Loeb join this year’s list of 175 distinguished academic inventors
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USC Researchers Explore Improving Measurement Tools for Quantum Physics
The more sensitive measurement tools are, the more information physicists can extract from quantum particles, such as photons.
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New Masters-Level Quantum Computing Degree
Program will draw on decades of quantum computing expertise
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Computer Vision Predicts Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
New Tool Offers Means to Phenotype Patients
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AI Tool May Predict Movies’ Future Ratings
USC Viterbi researchers are using AI as a tool identify violent, substance-abuse and sexual content in movie scripts before a single scene is shot
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Researchers Isolate and Decode Brain Signal Patterns for Specific Behaviors
New machine learning algorithm could discover novel neural patterns and enhance brain-machine interfaces
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How To Prevent A 3-Ton Laundry Robot That Runs Up Your Energy Bill
Professor Joshua Yang creates novel devices for brain-like computers using the least amount of energy and physical space possible
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics” Lecture 6: Predictions on COVID-19 to the C.D.C.
USC Viterbi data scientists helping decision-makers see beyond the fog of data to provide better pandemic forecasts and save lives
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” Lecture 5: Estimation of Risk
Bhaskar Krishnamachari shares how to visualize COVID risk over time for different communities using real data from L.A. County to illustrate the approach.
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Maryam Shanechi Receives Prestigious New Innovator NIH Grant
One of Only 53 in the U.S. to receive such an award, she will use the $2.4M grant for a better understanding of the brain
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Is Neuromorphic Computing the Future of AI and Understanding the Brain?
Alice Parker, co-author of Women in Microelectronics (2020), answers questions about her journey as an “unconventional” engineer incorporating neuroscience in her work.
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USC Viterbi Researchers Lay New Groundwork For Designing Biological Inspired Artificial Intelligence
Findings Published In Scientific Reports Employs New Methods And Tools For Decoding How Cognition, Creativity And Even Disease Evolve In The Brain
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A Sustainable Hackathon
The 4th annual Sustain-A-Thon saw 57 students propose solutions for making the planet more livable and sustainable.
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USC Viterbi Offers Two New Short Courses: “Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” and “Sustainable Energy”
Both lecture series launch the week after Labor Day, offering students a comprehensive faculty coverage of COVID-19 and a series on sustainable energy with Dean Yortsos
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How To Make AI Trustworthy
New tool might aid the adoption of technologies such as autonomous vehicles