Having Trouble Remembering Your Password? Forget About It!
Cybersecurity researcher Jelena Mirkovic weighs in on recent security breaches, talks about her work and gives password tips.
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USC Student Wins Big for Plastic Waste Capture Device
Inspired by the plastic pollution problem in his home country, USC computer science student receives $25,000 prize in global IBM competition.
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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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Bob Balzer, ISI pioneer: “We created an out of the office message in 1979”
Robert Balzer was employee No. 1 at USC’s Information Sciences Institute. He remembers the early days of this Silicon Beach trailblazer.
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USC at EMNLP ’22
USC researchers present 17 papers at EMNLP 2022, one of the world’s top natural language processing conferences.
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From Gadgets to Google: Jason Lin’s (’17) Journey to Make the World a Better Place
A USC computer science, business administration alumnus’ curiosity for algorithms and new environments pushes the frontiers of AI.
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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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Cloudwalkers: ISI and the Inventors of the Future
In 1972, USC’s Information Sciences Institute was given the power to design, develop and run the Internet. What followed was one of the greatest explosions of information in human history.
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Award-Winning Student Startup Aims to Revolutionize Brand Deals
A computer science and economics duo has created a software company that streamlines the influencer brand deal process.
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Anycast Agility: A Playbook for Combatting Online Attacks
USC’s Information Sciences Institute Ph.D student Rizvi published the “playbook” at the prestigious USENIX Security Symposium.
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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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USC at IROS ‘22
USC researchers present 15 wide-ranging papers at IROS 2022, one of the world’s largest robotics conferences.
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At the Heidelberg Laureate Forum: A Firsthand Account
ISI researcher Emmanuel Johnson networked with Nobel Laureates and talked shop with Turing Award Winners.
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Fostering a Sense of Belonging for Women in Technology
The Grace Hopper Celebration provides a platform to share ideas, network, empower and support women in tech around the country.
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Student Roboticists’ Ideas Come to Life During Summer Research Program
Visiting students fast-tracked their robotics experience this summer at USC Viterbi’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.
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Moonlight Lights the Way for Accessible NFTs
A group of USC students has come together to form Moonlight, a crowdfunding platform where people can split the cost of a non-fungible token.
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Eleven New Faculty Join USC’s Department of Computer Science
USC Viterbi’s Department of Computer Science welcomes a diverse group of new faculty members for the 2022/2023 academic year.
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USC ISI Research Shows a Promising Future for Animal-like Computer Vision
USC’s Information Sciences Institute researchers present a pathway for adapted biological retinae in machines so their vision can mimic animal eyes.
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling in Science by Looking at Citations
USC’s Information Sciences Institute researchers used artificial intelligence to study gender disparities in science.
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Good Vibrations: Detecting Emotions from Speech Patterns
Computer science student Shannon Brownlee’s startup uses software to detect emotions from speech patterns, which could help people with autism.
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Baby Talk: Detecting Signs of Toxic Stress in Infants
A computer science doctoral student is working with a local children’s hospital to help clinicians detect signs of toxic stress in infants using artificial intelligence.
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A Prescription for the Future of Healthcare: AI, Databases and Video Games
As we celebrate USC’s Information Systems Institute’s 50th anniversary, we look back at the collaborations they’ve done in the medical field that have led to smarter, more efficient medical care.
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From Cell Phones to Siri – Most of Your Favorite Tech Can Be Traced Back to ISI
USC’s Information Sciences Institute, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, has played a pivotal role in the development of most of the tech you use every day.
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USC’s Information Sciences Institute Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation
From a three-man shop in 1972 to a 400+ person Institute, ISI continues to lead the way in computing research.
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ISI Ph.D. Students Land Coveted Summer Internships at Major Tech Companies
ISI students spent their summer sharpening their skills and solving real-world problems.
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AI for Business: USC Marshall and USC Viterbi Announce Joint Undergraduate Degree
Degree will combine curricular expertise from the two schools for digital expertise in a rapidly changing world
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In a Warmer World, Half of all Species Are on the Move. Where Are They Going?
A new computer modeling tool provides a more accurate analysis of species range shifts under climate change – and it’s even bleaker than expected.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment Pledges $3 Million Donation to USC Games Program
Sony Interactive Entertainment becomes latest supporter of the Gerald A. Lawson Fund, furthering USC Games’ effort for games industry diversity, equity and inclusion
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ISI: Internet Innovator for the Past 50 Years
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of USC’s Information Sciences Institute, we take a look back at its role in the development of the defining technology of our age: the internet.
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Barry Boehm, a “Living Legend” in Systems and Software Engineering, Dies at 87
A pioneer in the field of computer science with a career spanning six decades, USC Viterbi Professor Emeritus Barry Boehm “defined an era in software engineering.”
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Cracking the Code to Help Planet Earth
50 Years of ISI: How ISI has used computer science to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change and aid paleoclimatologists in natural disaster detection and management
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Lost in Translation at the Border
A USC computer science student is developing natural language processing tools to tackle the translator shortage for Indigenous asylum seekers.
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Symposium on the Future of Computing Research
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of USC’s Information Sciences Institute, the symposium will look at how computing research must evolve in the decades to come.
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“The new generation of computer scientist wants to benefit society”
Professor Jim Kurose discusses the type of science computing researchers are focusing on and the future of the field based on the newest generation’s interests.
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“The computing research community should think about its social responsibility”
VMWare’s Chris Ramming discusses how to plan collaborative research between universities and companies, how researchers should tackle twenty-first century problems
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“We are more demanding of AI than we are of ourselves”
USC Provost toured the Information Sciences Institute and met with inspired Ph.D students
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Comparing Data While Keeping It Private
Tanmay Ghai’s work in maintaining privacy in entity resolution has garnered attention at the University of Southern California and beyond.
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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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Going Digital, With Low Code and Low Cost
Electronic records startup Frontida Records raises funds to organize medical information in low resource settings across the world
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Busting Anti-Queer Bias in Text Prediction
New research at USC demonstrates how to train a popular language model to remove homophobic, anti-queer bias
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Finding Bugs Faster Than Hackers
USC Information Sciences Institute researchers have developed a novel approach to quickly identify security vulnerabilities.
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Stefanos Nikolaidis Receives Agilent Early Career Professor Award
Computer Science Assistant Professor Stefanos Nikolaidis earns prestigious honor for his contributions to collaborative robotics.
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USC Trojan Team Headed to Finals of “Coding Olympics”
The USC team will compete against top colleges at the world final of the International Collegiate Programming Contest.
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Machines can learn from fables
USC’s Information Sciences Institute uses short stories with moral implications to test human-like reasoning in AI
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USC at ICML ‘22 Conference
USC researchers present 8 papers on notable topics including model explainability, game theory and multi-agent reinforcement learning.
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USC’s InfoLab Celebrates 25 Years
On June 29, InfoLab celebrated a quarter of a century of information management and data science discoveries – and looked forward to the next 25.
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USC at the NAACL ’22 Conference: Gender Bias in AI, a Tool to Study News Revisions, and Methods to Avoid Toxic Content
Notable research also includes work on mitigating anti-queer bias and improvements for e-commerce stores.
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USC Presents Latest AI Findings at Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference
USC partnered with other universities and companies such as Microsoft in research on image and video generation, facial recognition, and more.
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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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Tech Internship Top Tips: A Q&A with Glory Kanes (’21)
Recent computer science grad Glory Kanes (’21) shares some top tips on securing a successful tech career.
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USC ISI researchers track crypto pump-and-dump operations on social media
They monitored social media and showed attempts to inflate coins’ value are coordinated via conversations on various platforms.
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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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USC Department of Computer Science Names New Chair
An internationally recognized leader in software engineering, Neno Medvidović will begin his new role on July 1.
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A Life in Robotics
Jiaoyang Li, Ph.D. ’22, joins Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute this fall, focusing on AI and multi-robot coordination
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Bistra Dilkina Appointed as Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Early Career Chair
Dilkina was honored by Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg as the perfect “heroic engineer” at May 3 ceremony.
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Adam Novak Spent 100 Hours in Meditative Silence. From This, Shift SC Was Born.
USC Viterbi student cofounded new student club to explore technology in all its dimensions, including ethics
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How to Make Virtual Touch More Human (and Less Annoying)
Robotics Researchers Identify Key Hallmarks of Reassuring Human Touch
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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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ISI researchers train artificial intelligence models to consider common-sense when generating responses
The goal: help those algorithms accurately predict a human’s next thought.
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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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‘That’s Just Common Sense’. USC researchers find bias in up to 38.6% of ‘facts’ used by AI
A team of researchers from the USC Information Sciences Institute studied two AI databases to see if their data was fair. They found that it wasn’t.
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USC Researchers Simulate COVID-19 Classroom Transmission
Model predictions show that universal mask usage can reduce new infections by up to 72% and high vaccination rates successfully curb transmission for more contagious variants.
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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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Haptics Device Creates Realistic Virtual Textures
USC Viterbi computer scientists have created a user-driven haptics method that can generate dead-ringers for real-world textures.
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Students improve mobile app accessibility for people with disabilities
Two USC Viterbi Ph.D. students aim to solve the size-based accessibility gap in our mobile applications
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USC Games Expo 2022 Takes Participants on a Ten Hour, Multi-World Adventure
Over fifty student games debut at 6th annual expo event hosted on Twitch
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Where Does Vaccine Hesitancy Exist? USC AI Researchers Can Predict on the Zip Code-Level, in Real-Time
New software can outperform local and national survey data in gauging public opinions.
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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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USC Computer Science: Class of 2022
Meet USC Viterbi’s Department of Computer Science graduating class of 2022!
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Doug Peacock Scholarship Opens New Doors for Engineering Students
TransDigm’s Doug Peacock Scholarship Fund changes the lives of hardworking students from underrepresented backgrounds at USC Viterbi
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An Attentive Listener
Senior Bryan Huang feels a moral imperative to help those in need, whether serving as president of USC Code the Change or through social entrepreneurship
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Building Better AR and VR
Burgeoning startup Playbook won this year’s MEPC with a vision of simplifying the development of augmented and virtual reality
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‘Another 10 Million Years of Living’: USC Viterbi Start-Up is the No. 1 Virtual Cardiac Rehab Program in the U.S.
Moving Analytics, led by three USC Viterbi alumni, seeks to be in all 50 states by the end of 2023
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USC at ICLR 2022: learning how to learn, decision making in complex environments, better forecasting models
USC researchers advance the state-of-the-art in AI and deep learning at top international conference.
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ISE and CS Students Awarded Prestigious NSF Fellowships for Research to Combat Homelessness
Bill (Yongpeng) Tang and Nathan Justin are developing tools to improve housing resource allocation to the homeless. They have recently been awarded Graduate Research Fellowships.
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ISI collaborates in a $10 million NSF-funded initiative on cyberinfrastructure
The goal is to establish a suite of cyberinfrastructure coordination services to support researchers from all areas of science, engineering research and education.
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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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I Know What You Did on Venmo
A team led by USC Viterbi researchers has discovered millions of “privacy leaks” on the mobile social payments app
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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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ISI talented early career researchers recognized again by NSF
The NSF CRII program helps outstanding researchers launch their research, consistently recognizing USC’s Information Sciences Institute junior talents.
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A student’s mission to make games accessible to everyone
David Barrett (’22) is adapting current games and creating new ones to meet a wide range of disability needs
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Making Urban Environments Sustainable with AI
Sarah Cooney, senior PhD candidate, creates a software system to allow everyday citizens to create designs for urban projects using AI.
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USC Students Win the Coveted IBM App Building Competition
Three-member team placed first out of 1,700 other students in IBM’S Call for Code Education Innovation Case Competition
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Supporting Girls in Space: USC Viterbi Program Returns for Summer 2022
With renewed support, Project Payload returns to offer underrepresented girls in STEM a hands-on experience in aerospace engineering and 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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New App Security Tool Protects Against Attacks
USC researchers have developed an app database security tool that can help protect against “injection attacks,” one of the top 10 app security risks for developers.
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Using Machine Learning to Create Materials that Enable Energy-Efficient Electronics
USC Viterbi researchers have developed a neural network that can model a high-performing new material at a scale never-before seen.
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Could distributive classrooms increase diversity in AI?
Emmanuel Johnson (’21) receives CRA Computing Innovation Fellows award for post-doctoral research on collaboration in a distance-learning world.
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USC Senior Named One of Four Top Undergraduate Computer Science Researchers in North America
The prestigious award honors Leena Mathur for her excellence and outstanding research potential in computer science.
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How to Get a Diagnosis Without Setting Foot in a Doctor’s Office? Try AI and Wearables
USC Viterbi leads $1.2 million, multi-school effort to upgrade wearable technology for next stage of healthcare
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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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Michael Pazzani, pioneer in machine learning, joins ISI to strengthen its AI strategy
His research on explanation can’t always be explained to a ten year old, but his contribution to the machine learning field has led to very concrete innovations, from media personalization to salary predictions for athletes.
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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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“Life Is Matter Plus Algorithms”
Annual USC Viterbi-Axilor Series Inspires Innovators and Entrepreneurs
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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.