A Better Search for Cures
In the past, genetics researchers had to find hundreds of people for every study they started. Now, the USC Information Sciences Institute has reduced that search to a few keystrokes.
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Sure, You Liked Mad Men, But Did it Change Your Life?
USC Viterbi and Annenberg schools measure media impact
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USC ISI Advances to Next Round for Federal Manufacturing Initiative Proposal
USC Viterbi’s ISI leads CA effort in Pres. Obama’s NNMI Initiative
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Moving ISI to New Levels of Excellence
Former Raytheon Executive Prem Natarajan Takes the Helm of ISI
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USC Viterbi Joins Northrop Grumman Cybersecurity Research Consortium
Northrop Grumman and USC Viterbi join forces to combat cyber security threats
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On Twitter, More Friends Means Less (Effective) Information
Researchers find that, the more friends a user follows on Twitter, the less information they see and absorb
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The Engineer, The Economist and Six Billion Medicare Records
A mountain of data: analyzing every Medicare record since 1965, Professors Kesselman and Goldman may provide new insights on health care.
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Terry Benzel Testifies Before Congress About Cybersecurity Research
Cybersecurity expert Terry Benzel addressed members of Congress about cyber security research and development
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Viterbi School Leads DOE-Funded Effort to Make Supercomputing More User-Friendly
Ten other elite universities and labs will join the five-year $15M SUPER project
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Professors Lidar, Madni, and Molisch are Elected to the Rank of AAAS Fellow
Daniel Lidar, Azad Madni, and Andreas Molisch have been elected to the rank of Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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USC Tech Experts to Guide Smithsonian Museum to Next Generation of the Internet
USC Information Sciences Institute’s collaboration to provide more detailed, more easily accessible information about museum’s online collection than has previously been possible.
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USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute Turns 40
USC’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) marked its 40th anniversary on April 26 with an afternoon seminar on its groundbreaking technological achievements and an evening of celebration.
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USC Viterbi’s ISI Executive Director Herbert Schorr Announces Plans to Step Down
“The period since 1988 will certainly be characterized at USC by the brilliant career of a man who brought a huge positive change by being at the helm of the Information Sciences Institute.”
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ISI Grad Students Show Off Their Stuff
The Graduate Student Symposium brings together students working in the Networks and Intelligent Systems divisions of ISI.
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Experts Come to ISI to Ponder Problems of Exascale Computing
Discussions included systemic problems in ultrahigh performance computing.
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NSA and DHS Recognize USC/ISI for Academic Excellence in Data Protection Research and Education
The goal of CAE-R programs is to reduce vulnerability in the U.S. national information infrastructure.
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Good Chip, Bad Chip, Evil Chip: ISI Experts Developing Tests to Tell Which is Which
The Viterbi School Information Sciences Institute researchers are participating in the IRIS program of the DARPA Microelectronics Technology Office.
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ISI Researchers Will Plot Possibilities for New DARPA Orbiters
ISI has partnered with the Lockheed Martin Corporation on $5 million effort to develop software that guides directions for designs, missions, and components.
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IARPA Director Visits ISI and Receives AI Update
Dr. Porter gave an overview of IARPA mission and needs, and met with ISI researchers.
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John O’Brien to Work with ISI on Strategic Issues
Viterbi School Senior Associate Dean John O’Brien will be working closely with ISI.
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USC President Delivers ISI Thank You Folder to California Lawmakers
Nikias presented U.S. Representative Jerry Lewis and Senator Diane Feinstein information documenting the work by ISI and SERC to build “nanosatellites” that they have supported.
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ISI Experts Work on IBM Watson Jeopardy! Project
Viterbi School scientists are developing theories and computational techniques to help systems understand texts at a deeper level than is possible today.
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Internet Addresses: An Uneven Shortage but an Inevitable One
The ISI video offers a thorough background in the hows and whys of the current IPv4 Internet address system.
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Out of Africa, into Grammatical English
In addition to advancing machine translation technology, a major aim is creation of machine translation prototypes for African languages.
