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The new tool gives users greater control over AI agents by allowing them to trace, steer and revise their decisions in real time, attracting new funding from Microsoft.
During his career at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies within USC Viterbi and USC Stevens, Professor Jonathan Gratch has helped define the science of affective computing and its role in shaping our increasingly complex relationships with intelligent machines.
A pioneer of socially assistive robotics, Matarić has spent more than 2 decades developing robots that “help people help themselves”
A USC study of nearly 2,000 hours of Holocaust survivor testimony finds that smiling often signals distress, not happiness, and offers a simple clue for telling the two apart.
Joining from the University of Michigan and USC's Information Sciences Institute, the new faculty bring expertise in AI, quantum computing, advanced hardware and machine learning
USC Viterbi and USC Stevens researchers at ISI find that partial internet failures are as common as complete outages and may linger unnoticed for years
Departing Executive Director Craig Knoblock on eight years leading USC Viterbi and USC Stevens' Information Sciences Institute, reviving MOSIS, and what comes next
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Departing Executive Director Craig Knoblock on eight years leading USC Viterbi and USC Stevens' Information Sciences Institute, reviving MOSIS, and what comes next
The new tool gives users greater control over AI agents by allowing them to trace, steer and revise their decisions in real time, attracting new funding from Microsoft.
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