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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Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science News Back to News Archive
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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.
