USC’s Information Sciences Institute Celebrates its Golden Anniversary
ISIers past and present gathered for champagne, speeches and science fiction.
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A Prescription for the Future of Healthcare: AI, Databases and Video Games
As we celebrate USC’s Information Systems Institute’s 50th anniversary, we look back at the collaborations they’ve done in the medical field that have led to smarter, more efficient medical care.
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From Cell Phones to Siri – Most of Your Favorite Tech Can Be Traced Back to ISI
USC’s Information Sciences Institute, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, has played a pivotal role in the development of most of the tech you use every day.
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USC’s Information Sciences Institute Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation
From a three-man shop in 1972 to a 400+ person Institute, ISI continues to lead the way in computing research.
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ISI Ph.D. Students Land Coveted Summer Internships at Major Tech Companies
ISI students spent their summer sharpening their skills and solving real-world problems.
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ISI: Internet Innovator for the Past 50 Years
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of USC’s Information Sciences Institute, we take a look back at its role in the development of the defining technology of our age: the internet.
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Cracking the Code to Help Planet Earth
50 Years of ISI: How ISI has used computer science to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change and aid paleoclimatologists in natural disaster detection and management
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Lost in Translation at the Border
A USC computer science student is developing natural language processing tools to tackle the translator shortage for Indigenous asylum seekers.
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Symposium on the Future of Computing Research
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of USC’s Information Sciences Institute, the symposium will look at how computing research must evolve in the decades to come.
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“The new generation of computer scientist wants to benefit society”
Professor Jim Kurose discusses the type of science computing researchers are focusing on and the future of the field based on the newest generation’s interests.
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“The computing research community should think about its social responsibility”
VMWare’s Chris Ramming discusses how to plan collaborative research between universities and companies, how researchers should tackle twenty-first century problems
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8 Things You Didn’t Know Computer Scientists Did
At USC’s Information Sciences Institute, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, research is more than just zeros and ones for its researchers, students and alumni.
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“We are more demanding of AI than we are of ourselves”
USC Provost toured the Information Sciences Institute and met with inspired Ph.D students
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Comparing Data While Keeping It Private
Tanmay Ghai’s work in maintaining privacy in entity resolution has garnered attention at the University of Southern California and beyond.
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Busting Anti-Queer Bias in Text Prediction
New research at USC demonstrates how to train a popular language model to remove homophobic, anti-queer bias
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Finding Bugs Faster Than Hackers
USC Information Sciences Institute researchers have developed a novel approach to quickly identify security vulnerabilities.
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“Where Can I Buy Such a Laser?” USC, Amazon Program Excites Underrepresented Students to STEM
The “Stimulating STEM” program offers a free, four week residential program, career mentorship
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Machines can learn from fables
USC’s Information Sciences Institute uses short stories with moral implications to test human-like reasoning in AI
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Visual Misinformation Expert Wael AbdAlmageed Presents at Renaissance Weekend
Democracy, truth, and Artificial Intelligence collide at the prestigious event
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USC at the NAACL ’22 Conference: Gender Bias in AI, a Tool to Study News Revisions, and Methods to Avoid Toxic Content
Notable research also includes work on mitigating anti-queer bias and improvements for e-commerce stores.
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USC ISI researchers track crypto pump-and-dump operations on social media
They monitored social media and showed attempts to inflate coins’ value are coordinated via conversations on various platforms.
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Creating Power Without Power: New USC Viterbi Technology Improves the Speed of Data Processing
Jonathan Habif and Alan Willner’s team uses light, first of its kind optical technology to make sharing data on our devices less energy intensive
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ISI researchers train artificial intelligence models to consider common-sense when generating responses
The goal: help those algorithms accurately predict a human’s next thought.
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USC ISI and Amazon Launching New STEM Summer Program for Underrepresented High School Students
The four-week residential summer program, hosted by USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute, aims to expose students to topics like AI, coding, and robotics.
