USC Games Announces Its Virtual Showcase, Streaming Live May 15th
Industry Icon Geoff Keighley to host a showcase of 70 student-made games, with support from Jam City
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Using AI to Decode Unique Cultures
USC ISI researchers awarded $2.2 million grant to create a novel machine learning solution for decoding cultures and informing decision making
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What Game Design Taught Me About Life, Dreams, And 3-D Printing A Human Heart
Gavan Wilhite, ’10 B.S. computer science, created the first social platform for virtual reality, now he’s building the connective tissues in 3-D printed organs
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What If The Internet Was Accessible To All?
Paul Chiou, a USC Viterbi Ph.D. student, seeks to reimagine technology for people with disabilities, sparked by a paralyzing car accident and a passion for computing.
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What Happens To All Those COVID Test Nasal Swabs? That’s Where It Gets Complicated.
Recent XPRIZE finalist Tapestry, led by Manoj Gopalkrishnan, ’08, could save time, money and lives by testing hundreds of samples at once
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A Hackathon to Empower Women
5th annual AthenaHacks hackathon enables over 400 women and non-binary students to create apps, games, and more
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Making the (Virtual) Trains Run On Time: USC Team World Champs in AI Challenge
Ph.D. students conquer the railways at 2020 Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Flatland Challenge
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USC Computer Science Professor Named to DARPA ISAT Study Group
Maja Matarić has been selected among 30 of the nation’s top computer scientists.
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Do Humans Trust AI Coworkers?
USC ISI researchers show that human-AI collaborators may be best at predicting the future. But can they get along?
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Symposium on the Future of AI: Will AIs Ever Be One of Us?
The USC AI Futures Symposium featured a prolific group of researchers and covered a wide range of AI topics
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What Might Sheep and Driverless Cars Have in Common? Following the Herd.
Researchers Show How Social Component of Moral Decision-making Can Influence Programming of Autonomous Vehicles and Other Technologies
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USC Undergraduate Student Team Reaches Final Round of $500k Pandemic Response Challenge
The USC team was among 48 teams from 17 countries chosen to advance to the second and final phase of the competition.
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To Mars and Beyond: USC Student Plays Role in NASA Mars Mission
Devin Martin, an undergraduate student in computer science, dreamed about working for NASA since he was a child. Last summer, that dream came true.
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Wearable Fitness Trackers Useful in Cancer Treatment, Study Finds
Chemotherapy is a powerful tool in the fight against cancer, but so is data, according to a new study led by USC computer science researchers.
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USC at AAAI ’21: Algorithmic Fairness, Electoral College Strategy, De-Biasing Machine Learning
Notable research includes work on algorithmic fairness for pressing social issues and resource allocation in presidential campaigns.
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Three USC Computer Science Faculty Members Elected 2020 ACM Fellows
Association for Computing Machinery honors Sven Koenig, Maja Mataric and Mike Zyda for work that underpins contemporary computing.
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Top Five in the Nation for 9 consecutive years: USC Viterbi’s more than 40 Online Programs in Engineering, Computer Science
DEN@Viterbi, launched nearly 50 years ago, consistently among the best, per U.S. News & World Report
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Crafting Common Sense into AI Models Through Gameplay
Jon May and his team teach AI how to make decisions when encountering new environments through text-based video games.
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Meet CybOrg: USC’s Premier Cybersecurity Club
USC Viterbi student club gives students confidence, networking opportunities, mentors and even job connections.
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USC Researchers Named 2021 IEEE Fellows
USC ISI’s Yolanda Gil and Craig Knoblock elevated to IEEE Fellows for prolific research contributions
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Hour of Code: The Frontier of STEM Equity
USC Viterbi partners with Google and Code.org to introduce computer science to K-12 students and shine a light on how computer science can serve as a catalyst for social justice.
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Technology and Design Keep Holiday Tradition Alive–Even at a Distance
Roboticist and first-year student collaborate on social-distanced tech solution
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Connecting the Globe Through Music: New USC Viterbi Schwarzman Scholar
Ben Ma wins prestigious scholarship for all-expenses paid master’s program in China
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Conference on Robotic Learning: Teaching Robots to Cook, Navigate and Learn From Mistakes
From robots that help with everyday tasks, move objects in complex environments, and learn “on the job,” USC computer scientists presented their research at 4th Conference on Robotic Learning.