Andrea Hodge and Gaurav Sukhatme Elected 2023 AAAS Fellows
Hodge and Sukhatme join more than 40 USC peers previously inducted to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a distinguished lifetime honor
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CBS News: Fung Finds a New Life from “Swim with Mike”
USC Viterbi data science master’s student Natalie Fung was interviewed about how she persevered after an accident and how the Swim with Mike scholarship allowed her to attend graduate school.
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CNET: Hallucinations: Why AI Makes Stuff Up, and What’s Being Done About It
Professor Swayamdipta explained AI hallucinations and suggested the implementation of standards to address them.
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WIRED: 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI
Alumni Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar were highlighted in an article that highlighted the authors of “Attention Is All You Need”
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USC Institute for Creative Technologies: The Email Which Changed My Life
An essay from Jacki Morie, one of the founding research scientists of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies from 1999 to 2013.
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Scientific American: Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies
Jesse Thomason of USC Viterbi and PhD student, Ishika Singh, were highlighted for their work to help robots complete real-world tasks.
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Sustainability Next: AI Can Reduce Poaching, Help Conservation
Bistra Dilkina was interviewed about her use of AI to predict sea-level rise, protect biodiversity and prevent poaching
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BBC: Film and Representation
Shri Narayanan was interviewed about USC SAIL’s AI-based text and language analysis of media representation and portrayals.
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Department of Commmerce: Biden-Harris Administration Announces First-Ever Consortium Dedicated to AI Safety
USC was announced as an inaugural member of a new DOC consortium dedicated to AI safety; Yolanda Gil will lead the effort from USC
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Economic Times: Using AI tools, we are exploring if linguistic ability can mediate cognitive decline
Shri Narayanan spoke with ET Healthworld about USC health research collaborations in India involving AI tools as well as other opportunities for AI in health
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‘A powerhouse director for a powerhouse school’: USC celebrates inauguration of School of Advanced Computing director
Professor Gaurav Sukhatme, “a thoughtful and responsible innovator,” was installed as the inaugural director of the university’s 23rd school during a Wednesday ceremony on the University Park Campus.
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USC Launches School of Advanced Computing
Gaurav Sukhatme has been appointed the school’s inaugural director for the “school within a school”
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NPR: AI has become a tool in climate in search for climate solutions
Yolanda Gil was interviewed about her work with using AI for controlled burns and preventing wildfire.
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Hindustan Times: USC Viterbi School of Engineering Unveiled: A conversation with Professor Gaurav Sukhatme
Executive Vice Dean Gaurav Sukhatme was interviewed about the opportunities at USC Viterbi for international students including in AI, robotics and space.
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IEEE Spectrum : A Bold New Plan for Preserving Online Privacy and Security
Barath Raghavan, an associate professor in computer science, proposes a plan to take cloud security into our own hands by decoupling our identities from our data.
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NPR: New proteins, better batteries: Scientists are using AI to speed up discoveries
Yolanda Gil was interviewed about AI’s potential to advance scientific research
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USC News: USC selected by Department of Defense for Microelectronics Commons hub
The university will lead one of eight regional innovation hubs funded by the CHIPS and Science Act.
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Intel: Swabha Swayamdipta Receives Intel 2023 Rising Star Award
Swabha Swayamdipta, an assistant professor of computer science, is among 15 early-career academic researchers selected by Intel this year.
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The Economist: Could AI transform science itself?
Yolanda Gil tells The Economist that cross-disciplinary research will become more common due to AI
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LA Times: These family robots can play trivia and act as security. Can they cure loneliness?
Maja Matarić was interviewed about the potential for socially assistive robotics
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WIRED Middle East: Robots are teaching other robots to learn more stuff
New research by Laurent Itti and Ph.D. student Yunhao Ge was featured.
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The Conversation: Emilia Ferrara Explains How To Tame Bias in AI
Computer Science Professor Emilio Ferrara explains why blindly eliminating biases in AI can have unintended consequences. Instead, he says, bias in AI can be controlled to achieve a higher goal: fairness.
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Politico: Artificial Intelligence Can’t Work Without Our Data
Barath Raghavan and co-author Bill Schneier suggest an “AI Dividend”
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Github ReadMe Project: Coding Accessibility: Disability as Catalyst for Creativity
Computer science student Paul Chiou’s research focuses on automatically finding and fixing keyboard accessibility issues in both web and Android apps.
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Brainchip: Podcast With USC Professor Gaurav Sukhatme On Innovation In AI, Robotics & Autonomy
Executive Vice Dean Gaurav Sukhatme was interviewed about his career trajectory and the state of the robotics field
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Spectrum News : USC invests $1 billion into advancing computing research
Dean Yortsos and PhD student Emily Nguyen were featured about the FOC Initiative, Nguyen discussed her work applying AI towards treatments for ovarian cancer.
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New York Times: How Sexist is Hollywood?
The SAIL Lab was mentioned as a collaborator with the Geena Davis Institute to address bias through media intelligence
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LA Business Journal: Cyber Crusaders
Cliff Neuman was quoted on network security.
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CBS Radio: Companies are adopting AI, how it can echo biases and spread misinformation
Wael Abd Almageed was interviewed and discussed the danger of misinformation spread
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Spectrum News : Robots Deployed to Fight Toxic Alage
Isabel Rayas and Christopher Denniston were interviewed about their work in the Robotics Embedded Systems Lab
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Dot.LA: USC Invests $1 Billion in New Computing School to Teach Ethical AI Use
Dean Yortsos was interviewed about “Frontiers of Computing” and how “Computer science, data sciences and AI have become essentially an extension of the original fundamentals.”
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Wall Street Journal: How AI will change the workplace
Jon Gratch shared his research on how interacting with an AI changes human behavior
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KABC: USC Wants to Prepare Students for the Future of AI
Cyrus Shahabi was interviewed about how AI can address LA’s problems and the Frontiers of Computing Initiative
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Forbes: University of Southern California Launches $1 Billion Advanced Computing Initiative
Forbes highlighted FOC and quoted Dean Yortsos saying “The world needs engineers and computer scientists to solve the grand challenges we face.”
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USC News: USC launches $1B-plus initiative in advanced computing
Viterbi to create a School of Advanced Computing and rename the Computer Science Department for benefactor Thomas Lord
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NPR: For Earth Day, Faculty Talk Sustainability Research on “Academic Minute”
Research by Bistra Dilkina, Thomas Petersen and Essam Heggy was featured.
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American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Maja Matarić Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Expert in socially assistive robotics joins leaders selected from academia, the arts, industry, policy, research, and science
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WIRED: ChatGPT Email Scams
Wired published a piece by Barath Raghavan and a colleague
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Scientific American: How to Tell If a Photo Is an AI-Generated Fake
Wael Abd Almageed spoke to SA about the state of detection for AI generated images
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Los Angeles Business Journal: USC Launches AI Research Center
This article mentions that Bill Swartout will co-lead the new Center on Generative AI.
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The Guardian: Venmo users on discovering secrets on the app
A study conducted by experts at USC found that two in five Venmo users publicly revealed sensitive information
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Apple Machine Learning Research: Computer Science Student Named 2023 Apple Scholar in AI/ML
Published on March 8th, 2023Last updated on March 8th, 2023
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VICE: ChatGPT and Essays
Swabha Swayamdipta discussed the status of large language models.
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OfficeChai: The Indian Researchers Whose Work Led To The Creation Of ChatGPT
The article mentions USC Viterbi computer science alumni, Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar, are key contributors to the research that led to ChatGPT
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ARSTechnica: Twitter ditches free access to data
Kristina Lerman was interviewed about the effects of Twitter API change on scientific research
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The Conversation: ChatGPT is great – you’re just using it wrong
Jonathan May contributed a piece on possible uses of ChatGPT
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IEEE Signal Processing Magazine : Signal Processing Comes to the Senses
A haptic texture detection method developed by computer science doctoral student Shihan Lu, advised by Heather Culbertson, is featured in IEEE.
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Philadelphia Inquirer: AI tools can create new images, but who is the real artist
Wael Abd-Almageed commenting on A.I. generated art and other content.
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MIT Tech Review : We Could Run Out of Data To Train AI Language Programs
Swabha Swayamdipta, an assistant professor of computer science, discusses ways to overcome data constraints for large language models.
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Quanta : The Computer Scientist Who Finds Life Lessons in Games
Quanta interviews Shang-Hua Teng, a USC computer science professor who has twice won the Gödel Prize, a top honor in theoretical computer science, but often explores playful applications, like board games.
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Toronto Star: These AI images look just like me.
Wael Abd Almageed was quoted about the future of deepfakes
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NBCLA: Does Your Middle-Class Tax Refund Debit Card Have a $0 Balance?
Cybersecurity expert Cliff Neuman was interviewed about how cards might be compromised
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LA Times: Is ChatGPT a marvel or a farce?
Jesse Thomason was interviewed about the significance of ChatbotGPT
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NPR: Today’s interactive Google Doodle honors Jerry Lawson, a pioneer of modern gaming
The story mentions the USC Games’ Gerald A. Lawson Fund that was set up at USC Games to support the next generation of gamers
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Yahoo!: Forget Spotify Wrapped, here’s how to make your own Spotify festival lineup
Computer Science student Anshay Saboo was featured in various outlets after launching his app Instafest, that went viral.
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Google: Using AI to study 12 years of representation in TV
The latest report from Google, the USC SAIL Lab and Geena Davis Institute on media representation was highlighted.
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KTLA: Dark Patterns
Cliff Neuman was interviewed about dark patterns and what consumers could do to protect themselves against online marketing practices.
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AI Hub: Designing Better Voting Systems, With a Little Help From the Animal World
Taking a cue from the animal world, USC researchers discovered a simple voting rule that optimally reflects voters’ opinions about candidates. Lead author Fatih Kizilkaya, a computer science doctoral student, discusses the IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award-winning work.
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Indian Express: Our Own Devices with Nandagopal Rajan
Jon May was featured in a podcast focused on developing tools for more civil online communication
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Amazon Science: Amazon and USC name three new ML Fellows
PhD students will receive fellowship funding and be mentored by Amazon scientists.
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Dot.LA: Homophobia Is Easy To Encode in AI
Research by Katy Felkner to mitigate AI bias towards the LGBTQ+ community was highlighted
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LA Times: Student information remains at risk after massive cyberattack on Los Angeles Unified
Cliff Neuman was quoted on about a recent LAUSD cyber attack and why the district was targeted
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CNN: These robot engineers are inspired by cats (and dogs)
The labs of Francisco Valero-Cuevas and Quan Nguyen were featured in on “Techfor Good” segment on robots and biomimcry
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VICE: Privacy Phone Network Intended to Mask Your Identity
A startup by Barath Raghavan and Paul Schmitt was featured.
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Cosmos: Busting homophobic, anti-queer bias in AI language models
AI research by doctoral student Katy Felkner was highlighted.
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CBS: Disneyland Instagram Hacked
Cliff Neuman explains how the Disneyland hack may have occurred.
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Amazon re: MARS: Luminaries – Maja Matarić, Computer Scientist, Roboticist, AI Researcher
Professor Matarić is one of 6 scientists and engineers featured by Amazon in its MARS “Luminaries” series. Matarić is featured for her work in the field of socially assistive robotics.
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IGN: USC Games Expo 2022 to Feature World Premieres of Over 50 Student-Made Games
The upcoming USC Games Expo was featured
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Study Finds: Are your finances exposed? 2 in 5 Venmo users publicly reveal sensitive information
A study about personal information exposed on Venmo was featured
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Washington Post: USC scholarship aims to help Black, Indigenous workers enter games industry
The USC Games Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund for Black and Indigenous students was highlighted; The forthcoming Games Expo was highlighted.
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Argonne National Lab: Ancient art meets AI for better materials design
Inspired by a type of origami, Viterbi researchers apply autonomous reinforcement learning to develop materials for wearable electronics.
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CNET: Extinct Ice Age Animals Will Be Digitally Resurrected In the Metaverse
A collaboration among the La Brea Tar Pits, NHLA and USC to apply AR as educational tools was highlighted.
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San Bernadino Sun: Cyberthreats from Russia
Cliff Neuman was interviewed about how the challenges of cyberwarfare and cyber defense
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News 18 : USC Viterbi Launches Center for Autonomy and AI
New research Center led Rahul Jain and Jyo Deshmukh was highlighted
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21 Questions with Cheyenne Gaima
Day in the Life of a Skateboarder, Piercer, Poet and Coder
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Science: Dream Machine
Maja Matarić discusses how robots can be used in school to increase social interaction and engagement.
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National Academy of Sciences: Our Future Robot Companions
Maja Matarić gave a virtual talk at the National Academy of Sciences Science & Entertainment Exchange
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Dot LA: USC Expands AI Education With New Research Center, Amazon Partnership
DotLA covered two pieces of Viterbi news this week, Dean Yortsos was interviewed adding, “some sort of a digital literacy will become as important as other general education requirements”
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WIRED: Maybe Green Energy Needs Information Batteries Too
New research by Barath Raghavan was featured
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Analytics India Magazine: Can You Express Your Feelings Through A Haptic Armband, Just Like A Hug?
Professor Culbertson’s research on virtual touch was featured.
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Psychology Today: New Synthetic AI Data May Improve Brain-Computer Interfaces
Research by Laurent Itti that applies the same method that is used to create deep fakes for the benefit of brain- machine interfaces for individuals with disabilities, was featured
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CIFellows 2021: CIFellowships Support Post-Doctoral Research
Emmanuel Johnson and Jasmine Berry have received 2021 Computing Innovation (CI) Fellowships, which help recent and soon-to-be Ph.D. graduates launch their careers in uncertain economic times.
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Washington Post: “We are still here”
The Washington Post wrote about CS PhD student Lina Brixey’s efforts to use computer science to preserve the Choctaw language.
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AI in Healthcare: Behavioral health AI predicts effectiveness of talk therapy
Research by the SAIL lab was featured
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USC Viterbi Magazine : More Than Words – Lina Brixey Uses AI to Preserve the Choctaw Language
Every two weeks a language dies. Lina Brixey, a member of the Choctaw Nation and a USC Viterbi Ph.D. candidate, is determined hers will not be next.
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The Hollywood Reporter: Geena Davis Institute Expands Spellcheck for Bias Partnership with NBCU to Analyze Black and AAPI Representation
The SAIL Lab was mentioned for its collaboration with GDI to identify bias in movie scripts via development of Spellcheck for Bias
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USC News: Are women worse than men at salary negotiation?
USC researchers say this is a fallacy as their new study points to systemic bias on behalf of recruiters in salary negotiations.
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Dot LA: Researchers have begun to study the use of AI to help firefighters strategize controlled burns
Dot.LA featured research that Yolanda Gil, Bistra Dilkina and Michael Pazzani will work on with the San Diego Supercomputer Center to fight wildfires
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USC News : USC Computer Science Students Place Second in Capital One College Bowl Championship
After 10 weeks of competition, a USC team, including two computer science students, finished second to a trio from Columbia University in the final showdown.
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Washington Post: Racism and Automated Decision-Making
An opinion piece cited research by Aleksandra Korolova that concluded that Facebook served different ads to men and women
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WIRED: A simple software fix could limit location data sharing
Research by Barath Raghavan regarding limiting location data sharing was featured
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Venture Beat: Is DeepMind’s new reinforcement learning system a step toward general AI?
VentureBeat quoted Saty Raghavachary on scientists who claim to be able to train an AI system to play games without human interaction data.
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USC : Microsoft Contributes to Gerald A. Lawson Fund
Microsoft’s X-Box Studios announced today that it will make a significant contribution to USC Games’ Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund for Black and Indigenous Students.
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Mashable: IKEA furniture instructions just got easier, thanks to this robot
Research by Stefanos Nikolaidis and the ICARUS lab was featured.
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ACM News : Computer Science Professor Wins ‘Test of Time’ Award for Influential Paper
Shang-Hua Teng co-authored a paper on smoothed analysis of algorithms, which offers a more realistic comprehension of algorithmic performance.
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CTV News : Researchers create artificial intelligence to ‘imagine’ unseen objects
A research team at the University of Southern California has developed a new artificial intelligence system that uses human-like abilities to imagine never-before-seen objects.
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Mashable: Robots suck at chopping stuff, but this research could change that
Researchers from NVIDIA and USC teamed up to make a simulation engine that could help autonomous robots with their cutting ability.
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WIRED: Why Scientists Love Making Robots Build Ikea Furniture
Wired featured research by Stefanos Nikolaidis’a ICAROA lab that trains robots to build Ikea furniture.
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KNBC-TV : USC Study: Political Discourse on Twitter Helped Predict COVID-19 Outbreak Sites
KNBC-TV featured research by Kristina Lerman that linked political discourse on Twitter to future COVID-19 outbreaks.
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Los Angeles Daily News: USC’s Pandemic-Tested 2020, 2021 Classes Graduate In Person
Radhika Agrawal, a 2021 graduate with a degree in computer engineering and computer science, was interviewed for participating in the In-person ceremony.