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Drone Flythrough – USC School of Advanced Computing
To celebrate the launch of the new USC School of Advanced Computing, USC Viterbi partnered with JayByrd Films to create a drone fly through video of the new school at Ginsburg Hall - the first "one take" indoor flight video on the USC campus
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USC, home of the first operational quantum computer in academia, hosted its second quantum technology forum, bringing together leading experts from industry, academia and government.
From language-driven robot learning to advanced manipulation techniques, USC researchers collaborated across labs and showcased diverse breakthroughs at CORL 2025
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Robin Jia and Ibrahim Sabek among 50 assistant professors nationwide to receive $100,000 grants for computing research.
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New Nature study highlights predictive power of AI in identifying airports used as key nodes in illegal wildlife trade networks
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From health applications to theoretical breakthroughs, USC researchers contribute to a dynamic range of work at this year’s premier machine learning conference
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Viterbi to create a School of Advanced Computing and rename the Computer Science Department for benefactor Thomas Lord

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PhD Thesis Proposal - Amy O'Connell

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11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
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Title: Toward Iterative Development of Modular, Low-Cost, Open-Source Robots for In-the-Wild Human-Robot Interaction Studies   Date and Time: Monday, November 17, from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm   Location: RTH 406   Committee...

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PhD Dissertation Defense - Grace Zhang

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12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: GCS 302C
Dissertation Title: Knowledge Transfer for Data-Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning     Date and Time: November 17th, 2025  | 12:00pm - 1:30pm     Location: Ginsburg Hall (GCS) 302C     Committee...

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PhD Thesis Proposal - Integrating LLM Reasoning with Formal Methods

Mon, Nov 17, 2025
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: GCS 202C
Title: Integrating LLM Reasoning with Formal Methods   Date and Time: Tuesday, November 17th, 2025 | 12:00p - 2:00p   Location: GCS 202C   Committee Members: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Jyortimoy Vinay Deshmukh, Mukund...

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When Self-Driving Trucks Don’t Know What They Don’t Know
When Self-Driving Trucks Don’t Know What They Don’t Know

At the USC Center for Autonomy and AI’s fall workshop, participants grappled with a critical question: Can foundation models power the next generation of autonomous systems?

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What Can Simulate Nature? Aid Blockbuster Drugs? And Get Congress to Agree?
What Can Simulate Nature? Aid Blockbuster Drugs? And Get Congress to Agree?

USC, home of the first operational quantum computer in academia, hosted its second quantum technology forum, bringing together leading experts from industry, academia and government.

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Click Here for Confusion: The State of Privacy Settings
Click Here for Confusion: The State of Privacy Settings

Finding a privacy setting on social media should be simple. But a new study from USC’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) shows it’s anything but.

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Published on February 23rd, 2017Last updated on October 31st, 2025