A New Way to Store Sustainable Energy: ‘Information Batteries’
Researchers propose a new way to deal with the intermittency of wind and solar energy sources – and store green energy cheaply and efficiently.
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Researchers develop highly accurate modeling tool to predict Covid-19 risk
Researchers at USC have combined location density with real-world mobility data to predict the risk of infection from Covid-19 at specific locations with unprecedented accuracy.
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Top Five in the Nation for 10 Consecutive Years: USC Viterbi’s Online Programs in Engineering, Computer Science
The U.S News & World Report ranks DEN@Viterbi as consistently among the best online graduate degree programs in the nation
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USC Team Shows How Memories Are Stored in The Brain, With Potential Impact on Conditions Like PTSD
Fish that glow; a tailor-made microscope; a new way to catalog science. After six years, researchers produce the first snapshots of memory in a living animal.
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Kicking Off the 2021-2022 MEPC
The latest edition of the 12-year-old Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition promises to guide aspiring student entrepreneurs through the process of transforming an innovative idea into a viable business.
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Machine Communicates Emotion with Nearly 80% Accuracy of Human Touch
New Haptic Device Can Communicate Attention, Gratitude, Happiness, Calming, Sadness, or Love
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Esports: The Future of Gaming
Computer science major, Youngju Shin, a member of the executive board for SC Esports, believes video games can bring people together.
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USC’s Cyrus Shahabi, Andrea Armani, and Shri Narayan Elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
The trio joins a distinguished class of 175 new inductees who “demonstrate a prolific spirit of innovation”
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USC Researchers Present 30 Papers at NeurIPS 2021
Paper topics include machine learning, deep learning, neural networks and optimization.
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“Deepfaking the Mind” Could Improve Brain-Computer Interfaces for People with Disabilities
Synthetic neurological data created using generative adversarial networks could speed up training of brain-computer interfaces, new study finds.
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AI Can Tell You If a Therapy Session Will Be Effective
New tool automates evaluations of cognitive behavioral therapy
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USC Researchers Present 30 Papers at EMNLP 2021
Goals include building fairer commonsense models by reducing bias, detecting polarizing topics to mitigate conflict, and achieving smooth human-AI communication.
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USC and UCLA Students Compete in Philanthropic Video Game Tournament
Proceeds will go to the Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund for Black and Indigenous Students and UCLA Bruin’s Black Bruin Resource Center.
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USC Viterbi Students Develop AI-based Alzheimer’s Diagnosis Tool
A student team developed machine learning algorithms that help predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease using speech.
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Randy Hill’s Army Service Ended in 1984. He Still Serves Veterans — With AI, Graphics and VR
Professor Hill reflects on service, storytelling and his favorite virtual human to fight PTSD
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How AI Could Help Screen for Autism in Children
An interdisciplinary team led by USC computer science researchers is creating a faster, more reliable and more accessible system to help clinicians screen children for developmental disorders such as autism and ADHD.
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From the USC Viterbi Magazine: More Than Words
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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If You Can’t See Inside a Cell, Let the Math Look For You!
Researchers at USC and beyond develop a new structure for modeling the inner functions of a cell
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AI To Fight Wildfires
USC to Co-Lead an NSF-Funded Project for Controlled Burns and Fire Mitigation
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Bringing Reinforcement Learning to a Dynamic World: USC Computer Scientists Win Best Paper Award
The paper outlines a simple approach that solves a complex problem in reinforcement learning (RL): applying RL algorithms to non-stationary environments.
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Single Cell Intelligence: Alumni Startup Seeks To ID Cells That Could Transform Medicine
Co-founded by USC Viterbi alumnus Mahyar Salek, ’11, Deepcell uses AI and imaging to isolate unique cells in areas ranging from cancer to prenatal testing.
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Is it A Horror Film or a Rom-Com? AI Can Predict Based Solely on Music.
USC Viterbi Professor Shrikanth Narayanan and his research group examined the role of music in film through a computational lens to determine how it affects the audience’s perception of genre
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SHINE 2021: 58 High School Students Actively Contribute To USC Viterbi Research
“A sense of confidence, exposure and knowledge:” Students, family, and faculty celebrate the conclusion of this summer’s session of SHINE with annual poster session
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Is Your Mobile Provider Tracking Your Location? This New Technology Could Stop It.
For the first time, researchers have found a way to protect phone users’ identity and location, without compromising connectivity.
