Eureka! Eureka! The Class of 2018 Has Found It
After long nights that muddled into early mornings in SAL, CED, and Leavey, they’re ready to set sail
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Master’s Class For The Ages
2018 USC Viterbi master’s students shared hugs, laughs and memories at graduation ceremonies.
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2018 Viterbi Master’s Student Awards
Accomplishments of Viterbi Master’s students celebrated at the second annual event
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Marie Curie Dropped the Ph.D. Mic 115 Years Ago. These Trojans Picked It Up.
At the 2018 USC Viterbi Ph.D. Hooding and Awards ceremony, the intellectual descendants of Curie, Drexler and Viterbi took the stage.
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That’s a Wrap: Computer Science Student Gets Behind the Silver Screen
Annie Song, who graduates this month with a bachelor’s in computer science and minor in cinema studies, shares her experiences and lessons learned during her time at USC
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You Have 28 Hours to Protect the World’s Smart Watches, Cars, Pacemakers and Cities. What Do You Do?
The 2nd Annual Viterbi Graduate Hackathon brought together aspiring developers to keep the Internet of Things safe from cyberattacks.
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Dancing to a Different Beat
Passions for dance and computer science combine in Botswana for adventure-seeking student
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USC Women In Science and Engineering (WiSE) helps junior female faculty share their research
The annual WiSE Research Horizons Symposium at USC brought together some of the best minds in academic research
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Football Star Tackles Computer Science
Student-athlete balances sports and academics, training 20 hours per week while earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in just five years
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USC Center for AI in Society Seeks to Reduce Military Suicides
In a groundbreaking project, USC Viterbi School of Engineering and USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work to identify at-risk active military personnel and veterans.
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Cue the robots
USC Robotics Open House leads the way for the next generation of STEM professionals
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Life Hacks 2.0
Hundreds of LA kids participate in a hackathon designed by USC students especially for them
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USC Viterbi’s most prestigious night gives the stage to “heroic engineers”
Legendary alums and engineering pioneers honored at the 40th Viterbi Awards
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USC’s Department of Computer Science Opens its Doors to Prospective Doctoral Students
More than 50 prospective students explored USC’s Department of Computer Science and made new connections during this year’s PhD Visit Day.
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The American Art Collaborative and USC Information Sciences Institute: An Unexpected Partnership.
The Information Sciences Institute and the American Art Collaborative began a partnership that proves that STEM and the arts actually can get along.
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USC Viterbi announces its 2018 NSF CAREER Award Winners
Three USC Viterbi Assistant Professors receive a National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award for outstanding, innovative and promising approaches to research
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You Are What Your Friends Eat
The USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society is transforming public health by calibrating real-life, human intervention
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Computer Science Student Named KPCB Fellow, Sets Sights on Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Startup
Prestigious KPCB summer internship program offers top U.S. college students experience and mentorship with prominent Silicon Valley startups
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ISI Researchers to “Model the World” with New DARPA Award
New project led by Yolanda Gil receives $13 million DARPA award to apply artificial intelligence to large-scale integrated modeling
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USC ISI Researchers Develop Computational Methods to Uncover Hidden Trends in Human Behavior
New research suggests studying and avoiding all-nighters could lead to greater student happiness
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AI Tool Promotes Positive Peer Groups to Tackle Substance Abuse
An algorithm created by USC researchers leverages social networks to optimize substance abuse intervention groups for homeless youth
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Hao Li Earns Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
Li will develop artificial intelligence techniques to create more realistic computer-generated humans for U.S. Navy immersive training simulations
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Memes Are The Future
Len Adleman, recent inductee to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, talks Internet memes and helps protect e-commerce as we know it.
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1,000 Reactions
Can virtual audiences make you a better public speaker?
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Making Facebook Faster
In 2016, Facebook gave Brandon Schlinker a fellowship. In 2017, he and new fellow finalist Yi-Ching Chiu are making the network faster than ever.
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New Insights Into Human Kidney Formation Made Possible with Innovative Platform Developed at ISI
USC stem cell scientists used a new “ecosystem of tools” designed by ISI researchers to analyze massive amounts of data to document the similarities and differences between kidney development in humans and mice
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Computer Science Graduate Student Earns NATO Scientific Achievement Award
Stephanie Kemna, a PhD student who researches autonomous underwater vehicles, was part of a team recently honored with a 2017 NATO Science and Technology Organization’s (STO) Scientific Achievement Award
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Fighting Addiction Before It Begins
USC Viterbi’s Yan Liu uses machine learning to fight the opioid addiction crisis sweeping the nation.
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A New Way to Fight the Spread of Infectious Diseases
An algorithm developed by USC researchers could help public health programs better locate, and treat, people living with undiagnosed infectious diseases, says a new study.
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Computer Models Reveal Best Way to Kill Deadly Bacteria
Bacterial spores use “chemical magic trick” to create protective shell, study finds
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Former intern honored with national award
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing recipient Bekah Agwunobi plans to use computer science to drive social change
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Trojan team’s bias-busting app wins third prize at Facebook Global Hackathon
App utilizes virtual reality and natural language processing to create immersive space for unconscious bias training
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USC ISI to Develop Translation and Information-Retrieval System for Uncommon Languages
Researchers receive $16.7 million grant to automatically translate and summarize “low-resource” language documents into English
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Can You Save the World with Origami?
From 3-D origami battles to VR journalism, the GamePipe Laboratory Fall 2017 Showcase showed the range and creativity of USC Games students
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Students Mentored by LA City Leader and Viterbi Students at Code Dojo
Over a thousand students participate in Viterbi’s “Code Dojo” for National Computer Science Education Week
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The Sun Also Rises. And Now We Know How Hot It Gets.
A high school student’s family history leads her to team up with USC Viterbi students to build an app that can save farmworkers from heat death
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Two USC computer science professors named fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sven Koenig and Paul Rosenbloom recognized for outstanding contributions to science
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USC Computer Science Student Teams Win First and Second Place at “Programming Olympics” Regional Contest
USC will progress to world finals of Association for Computing Machinery’s International Collegiate Programming Contest in Beijing, China
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What Lies Beneath: “PipeFish” Robot Patrols City Pipes to Detect Underground Water Leaks
Supported by the Keston endowment, ISI researcher Wei-Min Shen is working to combat deterioration in LA’s aging underground water networks
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Smart City Consortium formed at USC
I3 to bring together academics and practitioners in engineering, business to develop a model for IoT-connected cities in the US
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Computer science PhD student wins “supercomputer” essay contest
Prize of two GPUs will help propel prediction analysis research.
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America’s Next Cyber Warrior
Veteran students like Neil Constantino come to USC to train for a new kind of war
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Can AI Help to Detect and Cure Cancer?
At the USC Michelson Center, Fei Sha will bring an expertise in AI and commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle some of the most vexing issues in healthcare.
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USC ISI to Lead Project to Simulate Dynamics of Online Social Behavior
$4.95 million DARPA contract awarded to develop large-scale computational simulation of online social behavior
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USC ISI Leads IARPA Contract for developing Hybrid Forecasting Systems
Project to combine machine learning and human forecasting to predict geopolitical events
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Meeting of the Minds
Computer scientists, social work researchers and academics from other fields recently gathered at USC to discuss the potential of AI to make the world a better place.
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Protecting The Troops
USC Viterbi receives $4.5 million to help develop Internet of Battlefield Things
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USC ISI researchers poised to crack the code on reducing workplace stress
New research to explore the intersection of data, sensors and artificial intelligence.
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ISI’s Senior Director for Administrative Affairs Receives 2017 Distinguished Service Award from Digital Government Society
Yigal Arens Honored for Contributions to Digital Government
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Coding the Way Towards the “Internet of Things”
The IEEE has recognized USC Viterbi’s Ramesh Govindan as being a leader in the advancement of Internet technology in the modern world.
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Twitter Bots for Good: USC ISI Study Reveals How Information Spreads on Social Media
Study co-authored by USC ISI highlights how positive behaviors are reinforced on social networks
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An extra challenge in a crisis: Dealing with rare languages
Information Sciences Institute researchers work on the holy grail of machine translation: a universal system that supports the world’s languages — all 7,000 of them
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Smart Oil Fields, a Reservoir of Emerging Technologies
CiSOFT, a joint venture between Chevron and USC Viterbi, creates innovative technologies beyond oil
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AI for Social Good
Researchers and post-docs from the world’s leading universities came to USC this summer for CAIS Summer Fellows 2017 and to discover AI for social good.
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Salt and Sand
Two USC Viterbi Professors are doing uncommon things with very common materials.
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Everything a computer wanted to know about humans (but was too afraid to ask)
Fifteen years in the making, a new book by ICT’s Andrew Gordon and ISI’s Jerry Hobbs, dubbed “a computer’s guide to humans,” hits the shelves September 7.
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Hurricane Harvey through the Eyes of the Internet
ISI’s John Heidemann tracks internet outages as they hit Southeast Texas
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How Central are Female Characters to a Movie?
New automated analysis of nearly 1000 scripts by USC finds stereotypes of women, race, and aging are created and reinforced in films
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Random Thoughts, With Haifeng Xu
How a PhD student’s algorithm brought order to a chaotic world and won him a Google Fellowship in the process.
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Better, Faster, Smarter: Making Agile Robots
USC Center for Advanced Manufacturing team comes in first at the Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition (ARIAC)
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Better Than Ever
ISI today attracts more federal research funding than at any comparable time in its 45-year history. And the growing institute recently opened a new office in Greater Boston.
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Engineering a Better World
Top researchers gather at USC this summer to work towards using AI to improve the world.
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Pirouettes and Programming
Natalie Monger, a Presidential Scholar earning a combined computer science-business administration degree with a minor in dance performance, sets the stage for technology and art.
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Monitoring Babies’ Lives
Researchers at the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy and the Viterbi School of Engineering team up to examine poor motor development in infants.
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Engineering Laughter
Ajitesh Srivastava, a computer science Ph.D. candidate, spends his free time entertaining crowds at L.A.’s comedy clubs.
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USC Brings in Top AI and Social Work Scholars to Explore Solutions
USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society Hosts First AI and Social Work Fellows Program; Problems Studied to Include Suicide Prevention; Resettlement of Refugees; Wildlife Conservation
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Games bent for commercial success reinforce USC’s position on the world stage
The world’s best video game program takes a victory lap at the USC GamePipe Laboratory Spring Showcase and Demo Day
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2017 Viterbi Master’s Student Awards
Accomplishments of Viterbi Masters students celebrated in inaugural event
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USC Viterbi 2017 Undergraduate Awards
Graduating students from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering were recognized on May 10th at the 2017 Undergraduate Viterbi Awards for their academic, leadership, and service achievements.
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USC Viterbi Faculty Awarded Multiple MURI Grants
Grants awarded to support cyber security, advance quantum computing and improve materials for energy use
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Exploring surrealism in the next generation of virtual reality at the VRSC Student Festival
April’s Festival took the medium to new depths
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Up, up and away at the 2017 faculty and staff awards
Honoring the work and dedication of USC Viterbi faculty and staff
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New Early Career Chair Appointments
Four distinguished junior USC Viterbi faculty appointed to Early Career Chairs
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A hackathon created by and for women
The undergraduate-organized Athena Hacks aims to transform the hackathon culture
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Is Physical Fitness Contagious?
Researcher Greg Ver Steeg partnered with Evidation Health and Google to investigate how online friends can make you fit
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When life gives you a diagnosis, turn cancer into a company
How Thuy Truong turned a cancer diagnosis into USC’s first ever ‘Hack for Health’
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A Day Ruled by Robots
USC Viterbi School welcomes thousands of local children to campus for the 7th annual Robotics Open House
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2017 USC Viterbi Graduate Hackathon
Five teams competed against each other over spring break at the USC Viterbi Graduate Hackathon to solve problems with facial clustering and IoT security
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Autism, Robots . . . and Dinosaurs
Autism Awareness Month: watch USC Viterbi short film on robots helping kids with autism. Also, a Q&A with Maja Matarić on the present and future of her research.
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USC Viterbi Announces Campus Activities for National Robotics Week
School marks robotics week with events across campus during April; simultaneously highlights National Autism Month with a feature film on socially assistive robotics
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Four USC Viterbi Professors Win 2017 NSF CAREER Awards
Felipe de Barros, a civil and environmental engineer, Han Wang, an electrical engineer and Ilias Diakonikolas and Wyatt Lloyd, both computer scientists, win the National Science Foundation’s top honor for junior faculty
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The Most Hazardous Hour to Drive in LA?
New Data-Driven Journalism project by USC Annenberg and USC Viterbi Will Tell You
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ISI Selected to Participate in New IARPA (RAVEN) Program
USC ISI leads a team of researchers from Northwestern University, Stanford University, and Paul Scherrer Institute to ensure manufacturing integrity of computer chips
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Ilias Diakonikolas Wins 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship
Theoretical computer scientist Ilias Diakonikolas has received a prestigious two-year grant award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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From 32nd Street to Wall Street, how ‘the Toussaint method’ works
This engineering student is an extracurricular extraordinaire with a drive towards leadership.
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Alumnus and current computer science faculty wins Academy Award in Technical Achievement
Parag Havaldar was awarded the 2017 Academy Award in Technical Achievement
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‘We find solutions to social problems using artificial intelligence’
Lucas Hu uses game theory and computer science to fight wildlife poachers, end homelessness, and prevent teen suicide
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‘We look for a quantitative way to figure out how effective a therapist is’
Freshman Nikki Bisarya has already become an integral part of Shri Narayanan’s life-changing lab
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Escape Velocity Episode 4 “The Love Algorithm”
Thornton graduate student teams up with USC ISI data scientists to break down the hidden factors that will help him find true love
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USC Viterbi Reclaims # 1 Online Ranking for Graduate Programs By US News
Both Engineering and CS graduate programs ranked best in the nation
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They 3D Printed Hands for Children in Syria; Now They’re 3D Printing Eyewear for Children in Los Angeles
3D printed projects by students get ready to go from lab to market, including one ‘Spectacles Squad’.
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Heal The World
At the Min Family Engineering Social Entrepreneurship Challenge kickoff, teams gathered in hopes of changing the world through new businesses.
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Paving the Way for Robust Machine Learning
Team from USC Viterbi, UC San Diego, and MIT Has Recipe for Detecting Outliers in High Dimensional Data Sets
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Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs
Members of 17 burgeoning startups and their mentors recently met for the kickoff of the seventh annual Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition.
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It gets ‘Real’ for USC startups
Innovators at ‘The Real Deal @ USC’ meet their matches with Gen. David Petraeus and fellow investors
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Fake Tweets, Real Consequences
A USC Viterbi Computer Scientist worries that robot-generated tweets could compromise the presidential election.
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How Daniel Marcu teaches millions how to write
The “grandfather” of statistical machine translation taught computers to grade SAT essays, now he’s teaching them to grade Common Core
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New Research Center envisions IoT Applied to Personalized Learning
A joint center between USC Rossier and USC Viterbi might make the ‘Internet of Things’ a staple of K-12 classrooms
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This Time, It’s Personal
Researchers Greg Ver Steeg and Shirley Pepke have found a way to personalize ovarian cancer treatment. For Pepke, the answers can’t come fast enough
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AI For A Better Tomorrow
USC Viterbi and the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work launch a new artificial intelligence center