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Esri Location Analytics Conference in Los Angeles

Esri brought its location analytics team and an array of speakers to Los Angeles for a one-day workshop in late October.  GIST student Patricia Jula was there to take advantage of the opportunity.  Jula is a GIS analyst at the City of Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety and, along with her colleague Prakash Singh, got the opportunity to…
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Low-water landscaping reduces resource consumption? Not so simple, SSI researcher shows

In a new article published in the International Journal of Biometeorology, SSI Assistant Professor Darren Ruddell shows that despite the best intentions of drought-tolerant landscaping programs, they do not automatically result in reduced water or energy consumption in arid cities.  The paper has broad implications for urban planning to reduce water and energy consumptions and illustrates that…
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Research Update: Rail Yards Disproportionately Affect Air Quality For Poor and Minorities

In a cross-cutting collaboration with USC’s Department of Preventive Medicine, SSI researchers mapped the demographics of communities subjected to high cancer risk around rail yards in California.  Those communities exposed to such risk, defined as a 100-in–a-million cancer risk from the air pollution, were made up of significantly poorer residents than the counties in which the…
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Knoblock Honored with AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award

Research Professor Craig Knoblock has been selected as the 2014 recipient of the Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.  Dr. Knoblock will present a special hour-long lecture at the AAAI annual meeting in honor of one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence research, Dr. Robert S. Engelmore.…
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