Cooling Down the Hot Takes on Twitch
USC computer scientists have developed a novel method of moderating toxic content on live-streaming platforms.
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Too Close for Comfort: USC Viterbi Students Use AI to Prevent Aircraft Collisions
USC had two teams among top 10 finalists in national FAA Data Challenge 2023.
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New Robotic System Assesses Mobility After Stroke
A new robotic tool developed by a team of experts in computer science and biokinesiology could help stroke survivors more accurately track their recovery progress.
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Making better robots for humans: USC at CORL 2023
USC computer science faculty and students present their latest work in the field of human-robot interaction.
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USC SAIL Media Intelligence Research Recognized by U.K.’s Royal Historical Society
Interdisciplinary work receives 2023 Deswarte Prize in Digital History
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Finding Answers (About the Best Way to Find Answers)
USC computer scientists evaluate data representation methods for a number of applications.
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Banana Trees to Fight Wildfires
According to a new study, fire buffers composed of banana trees could slow and calm wildfires and generate profit for residents of fire-prone regions
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Error 404, No More
USC Computer Science Associate Professor Harsha Madhyastha and his team introduce FABLE, a new system that finds broken links and redirects users to the correct page
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Spotting Human Activity In Internet Usage Data
USC computer scientists can detect large-scale human events by looking at IP address activity.
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Neil Siegel Receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation
ISE Professor and Alumnus recognized at the White House with the highest honor for technological innovation
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They Traveled 8,000 Miles to Find Each Other
Sujata Banerjee and Vibhu Mittal, who met at USC Viterbi decades ago, reflect on a life together and their recent decision to support Ginsburg Hall
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Trojan Trio Make Waves at Google DeepMind
USC computer science alumni worked on Google’s “first-of-its-kind” robot AI model, the Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2)
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How K-Pop Fans Helped COVID-19 Tweets Go Viral
USC researcher analyzed millions of tweets to shed light on a new dimension of K-Pop’s influence: public health.
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Swabha Swayamdipta Wins Career-Defining Awards for Early Researchers
Combining her interest in computation and human language, Swabha Swayamdipta explores the growingly complex study of natural language processing.
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USC at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
USC researchers present 14 papers at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), showcasing leading-edge research in robotics.
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Faculty and Students Pay Tribute to Software Engineering Pioneer Barry Boehm
Boehm is remembered as a dedicated researcher and a “wonderful advisor”, who greatly shaped the life of his students and colleagues.
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DEN@Viterbi celebrates 50 years of high-impact distance learning
The progressive pedagogy of the pioneering distance learning program has changed the lives of graduate students worldwide.
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Ten New Faculty Members Join the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
The new faculty members hail from top universities, leading laboratories and innovative industry sectors across the nation
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USC Computer Science Named the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
The department will be housed in the new LEED-Platinum certified building, the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Human-Centered Computation Hall.
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Building Better Models Starts With Reexamining the Metrics
USC computer scientists present a better way to measure the performance of generative AI models at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
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Computer Science Student Wins Award for Diabetic Eating Disorder Research
Natalie Humber created the first scoping review for diabulimia, a potentially fatal disorder that occurs when people with Type 1 diabetes stop taking insulin to lose weight
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Predicting the Future, Starting With Billiard Balls and Car Collisions
An ISI team identifies limitations in dynamics prediction and proposes a solution.
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Keeping the Lights On
USC Viterbi’s Bhaskar Krishnamachari and USC economist Matthew Kahn have proposed an ethical plan to promote power and water conservation that targets the biggest users while protecting the poor.
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USC at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
USC researchers will present nine papers at the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), the leading international conference on machine learning
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Six USC Viterbi Faculty Honored with NSF CAREER Awards
The NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculty will boost USC research in disease modeling, groundwater systems, machine learning and robotics.
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AI That Teaches Other AI
A new USC study finds that by sharing knowledge with each other at the same time, AI agents can quickly learn a wider range of tasks, with applications in medicine and beyond.
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ISI at ACL ’23: Learning from Games, Mitigating Anti-LGBTQ+ Bias and Searching Events in Hundreds of Languages
USC’s Information Science Institute (ISI) brings a host of research to the conference – from dialogue models to machine learning to semantic understanding and more.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Leading the Conversation through Intents and Theory-of-Mind
Researchers dive into the study of teacher-student natural language interactions to achieve a shared goal in the fantasy world game, Dungeons & Dragons.
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Codenames Duet: Predicting the Next Guess Based on Cultural Background
USC Information Sciences Institute researchers dive into the nuances of human behavior and how cultural markers affect decision-making.
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USC to Lead Interdisciplinary Project on Mental Health
A collaborative effort with UCLA will predict psychological health risk factors
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This Chatbot Sounds Familiar
USC researchers have proposed a novel method to give personalities to language models.
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Adam Russell to Lead USC Information Sciences Institute’s Artificial Intelligence Division
Russell sees AI from an anthropologist’s perspective – looking at human behavior in an era of machines, with an expertise in collective intelligence and cross-disciplinary thinking.
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USC at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Conference
USC researchers will present four papers on topics including scalable robot data collection, simulating complex materials and transferring assembly tasks from simulation to reality.
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USC Computer Science Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Emily Nguyen and James Flemings were recognized for their contributions to deep generative models focusing on wildfire prevention and privacy in machine learning.
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USC Computer Science Student Makes Strides in Queer in AI Movement
As a member of the award-winning, international group, Nathan Dennler is empowering LGBTQ+ voices in AI research.
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USC Researchers Present 16 Papers at CVPR
The papers cover topics spanning from vision-and-language navigation, 3D human reconstruction, representation learning and more.
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Russia-Ukraine War: Social Media Platforms Uplift the Vulnerable
Despite the spread of misinformation, USC Information Sciences Institute researchers find that social networks play a key role helping those in distress.
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USC Students Advance Augmented Reality for Artemis Astronauts
NASA SUITS challenges students to boost astronauts’ capacity for safe and ambitious exploration.
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The Internet Has a Dark Side – Can We Teach Machines How To Identify It?
ISI researchers are developing technology that can detect logical fallacies in AI and classify hate speech in internet memes
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USC Games Expo 2023 Takes Flight: From “Birds Aren’t Real” to Immersive Adventures
Sixty student games featured in the annual carnival-like event, held in person for the first time since 2019
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Carl Kesselman Honored with 2023 IEEE Internet Award
The Information Sciences Institute Fellow will receive the prestigious award.
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Wide Awake and Dreaming: USC Viterbi’s 2023 Master’s Commencement Ceremonies
The class of 2023 is “the best educated, the most representative in our history.”
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“At Heart, We’re Problem Solvers:” USC Viterbi Undergraduate Commencement 2023
This year’s ceremony at Alumni Park was headlined by alumnus and venture capitalist, Mark Stevens, who praised the power and versatility of an engineering degree
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“Attention is All You Need”: New Ph.D.s Urged to Attend to “Challenges of Earth’s Eight Billion People.”
The 2023 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony honors 133 new graduates and Jiaoyang Li, winner of this year’s best Ph.D. thesis.
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Best of Brownlee’s Worlds
Graduating senior Shannon Brownlee connects her computer science skills to explore biology and virtual art, all while building her own tech startup
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From Freshman to Future Leader: Revisiting Oju Ajose
First interviewed by USC in 2019, Ojuolape Ajose (’23) shares how her resilience, ambition, and passion for data science shaped her USC experience
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“I Know He Lives on Through Me”: First-Gen Student’s Success Honors His Father’s Memory
For senior Christopher Merino Brito, who joins Microsoft next fall, graduating with a degree in computer science means honoring his father’s memory
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Chris Birmingham, The Robot Whisperer
Inspired by his own health crisis, graduating computer science PhD student develops empathetic robots for therapy
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Can AI Teach Your Child Perseverance?
Postdoc Scholar Emmanuel Johnson is part of a team receiving a $20M National Science Foundation grant to research AI-augmented learning.
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Omar Uraimov’s Love Letter to Central Asia Makes You the Hero of Kyrgyzstan
In tribute to his homeland, graduating computer science student unveils first video game set in Kyrgyzstan at USC Games Expo
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USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science Announces Naming Gift
Through the generosity of the Lord Foundation, the naming gift is part of USC’s $1-billion-plus Frontiers in Computing initiative
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AI for Good: ShowCAIS Event Highlights the Power of AI to Make a Difference
USC CAIS researchers from seven USC schools come together to solve the world’s most pressing problems using AI.
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Two USC Computer Science Juniors Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
Juniors Jordan Cahoon and Allen Chang were recognized for their research in, and beyond, computer science.
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The Top Six GIFs from USC Robotics Open House 2023
At the event, the first in-person since 2019, five local L.A. schools were able to visit five different USC Viterbi robotics labs.
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USC Games 7th Annual Expo Day Returns In-Person With Over 60 Student-Made Games
Global interactive entertainment brand, HoYoverse, announced as a new partner for the school’s annual program showcasing the future of the games industry
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Maja Matarić, Pioneer of “Robots That Care,” Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
USC Viterbi computer scientist joins luminaries such as Emmanuelle Charpentier and Lin-Manuel Miranda among 2023 members.
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ISI Researchers Win Best Paper Award at IEEE COMSNETS 2023
The winning paper describes the team’s work on defending against cyber attacks
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The Magic Behind the Microscope
The same USC software that aided the discovery of gravity waves now automates a unique 3D microscope that first revealed COVID-19.
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Let’s Make a Deal: How Emotion-Aware AI Agents Help Negotiations
USC Viterbi Ph.D. student Kushal Chawla teaches AI how to negotiate with emotional awareness
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Topping Off Ceremony Marks Milestone in New Computer Science Building
The Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Human-Centered Computation Hall is scheduled to open in spring 2024
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The Quiet Revolution of AI on the Edge
AI is running on mobile phones, sensors, and home appliances thanks to the engineering innovations that make the most of the limited memory, reduced computational power, and little energy available in these devices.
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Autonomously Debugging Video Games
Computer science researchers create software that “learns” how to play a video game and fields it for glitches.
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Alumna Builds Her Alma Mater
Nhu Nguyen returns to USC to lead the construction of Ginsburg Hall.
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Robots Predict Human Intention for Faster Builds
In a new paper, USC computer science researchers “teach” robots how to predict human preferences in assembly tasks.
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The Perfect Stitch: Training for Surgery Using AI
Computer scientists and clinicians are designing AI solutions to improve surgical training and create better patient outcomes.
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Is This the Future of Farming?
New computer science study offers a radical new way to think about agriculture and its potential benefits for farming
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AthenaHacks USC Creates Community
More than 400 students took part in USC’s hackathon for marginalized gender identities, now in its seventh year.
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Teaching Robots to Perform Tasks Like Humans
USC computer science study addresses key challenge of teaching machines to perform tasks in realistic environments
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Computer Science PhD student Named Apple Scholar
Xisen Jin selected for his work in speech and natural language processing
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Computer Science Alumna Lina Kogan Blends Art with Technology in New Exhibit
Ukrainian-born computer scientist and artist Lina Kogan ’00 has a unique spin on the “modern” in modern art
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The Early ISI Years: A Firsthand Account from the Hardware Team
The Information Sciences Institute, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022, was a tech innovator from the beginning. Bob Parker was there, and recounts the early days.
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USC Alumni Paved Path for ChatGPT
From “eureka moment” to deployment, USC Viterbi alumni played a key role in the creation of ChatGPT
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Educating Armenia’s Best and Brightest
USC Viterbi collaborates with the National Polytechnic University of Armenia to offer an online program to select engineering students in Armenia
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ChatGPT: USC Experts Break Down What You Need to Know
USC computer science experts share their perspectives on the meteoric rise of generative AI application ChatGPT
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ISI Names Two New Fellows
Researchers Ewa Deelman and Yolanda Gil have received USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute’s highest honor.
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New NSF Center on Soil Research Launched
USC to lead Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Soil Technologies
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USC Wins DARPA Map Feature Extraction Challenge
A joint team between USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute and the University of Minnesota won first place in part of the DARPA AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition
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Operation Pangolin Launches to Save World’s Most Trafficked Wild Mammal
Bistra Dilkina joins a global team addressing pangolin poaching and trafficking
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How Old Is Your Brain? Ask All The Hospitals
Researchers at USC’s Information Sciences Institute are proposing an artificial intelligence system that addresses several of the machine learning challenges in the medical space.
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Robot Tutors Read Children’s Emotions As They Learn
Bored? Frustrated? Tired? New AI models could help robots read emotions and provide more personalized feedback.
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NSF Grant to Make Coding More Accessible for Persons with Physical Disabilities
A USC-led multidisciplinary team aims to create inclusive coding technology for persons with physical disabilities.
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Professors Costas Synolakis and Gérard Medioni and Viterbi Board of Councilors Member Fariborz Maseeh Elected to the NAE
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is considered the highest honor for engineers
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Training Algorithms To Make Fair Decisions Using Private Data
USC Viterbi researchers have developed a fairness enhancing algorithm that also keeps data secure.
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Machines, Are They Smarter Than a Six-Year-Old?
Researchers at USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute are developing an algorithm that teaches machines to learn without human supervision.
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USC Researchers Present 12 Papers at AAAI
USC researchers present 12 papers, and received a AAAI Classic Paper Award, at this leading venue for machine learning research
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Using Robots to Fight Toxic Algae
USC computer scientists and biologists have teamed up to tackle harmful algae blooms using “smart” robots
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Los Angeles’ Silicon Beach goes back to USC’s Information Sciences Institute
The computer research institute established in 1972 was building the internet on the Westside decades before the tech industry took over.
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Streamlining Learning Curves in the Workplace with Machine Learning
ISI’s KNIC program works to build AI that can help new employees kick start their new jobs more efficiently
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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.