Showing Robots How to Drive a Car…In Just A Few Easy Lessons
USC researchers have developed a method that could allow robots to learn new tasks, like setting a table or driving a car, from observing a small number of demonstrations.
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AI Tool May Predict Movies’ Future Ratings
USC Viterbi researchers are using AI as a tool identify violent, substance-abuse and sexual content in movie scripts before a single scene is shot
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New Test Reveals AI Still Lacks Common Sense
Despite advances in natural language processing, AI still doesn’t have the common sense to understand human language, finds a new USC study.
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Toward A More Equitable USC Viterbi
In a recent memo, Dean Yannis C. Yortsos and Brandi P. Jones, vice dean for diversity and strategic initiatives, summarize how USC Viterbi plans to empower Black, Latinx and Indigenous students, faculty and staff.
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics” Lecture 9: Digital Contact Tracing
Cyrus Shahabi’s digital contact tracing goes beyond mobile phones, reducing false positives.
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Cheers to a WiSE 20 Years
The USC Women in Science and Engineering program celebrates 20 years of women empowerment in academia.
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Researchers Isolate and Decode Brain Signal Patterns for Specific Behaviors
New machine learning algorithm could discover novel neural patterns and enhance brain-machine interfaces
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AI News Bias Tool Created By USC Computer Scientists
Employs Artificial Intelligence to Develop News “Nutrition Label”
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Brain Development and Disorder Research Receives $1.5 Million NSF Boost
Megan McCain, Giorgia Quadrato and Leonardo Morsut have been awarded a four year National Science Foundation grant to develop better organoids, to help us understand human brain development and disease.
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics” Lecture 8: Misinformation Detection
Yan Liu shares how machine learning and AI could help combat COVID-19 by identifying and mitigating misinformation on social media.
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How To Prevent A 3-Ton Laundry Robot That Runs Up Your Energy Bill
Professor Joshua Yang creates novel devices for brain-like computers using the least amount of energy and physical space possible
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” Lecture 7: Vaccine Development
Zohrab A. Kaprielian fellow in Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering Pin Wang discussed immunology behind the COVID-19 vaccine.
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“Our Candidate is Democracy”
USC leads national effort to safeguard national elections from cyber attacks
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Teaching Robots Self-Awareness of their Own Bodies
Jasmine Berry is grappling with the big questions: What does it mean to be self-aware and what would it take for a robot to satisfy those criteria?
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Building Trust between Construction Workers and Construction Robots
How virtual reality can help robots change the face of the construction industry.
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A 10-Day Forecast for COVID-19
USC Viterbi’s Roger Ghanem and Xiaoshu Zeng have created models which predict daily, new COVID-19 cases.
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics” Lecture 6: Predictions on COVID-19 to the C.D.C.
USC Viterbi data scientists helping decision-makers see beyond the fog of data to provide better pandemic forecasts and save lives
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Can the Movement of Tiny Hairlike Structures Tell Us How Healthy We Are?
Researchers determine triggers for transitions between coordinated movement of organelles called cilia, identifying a potential diagnostic tool for cancer and other illnesses.
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Imagine If Your Personal Device Worked All Day
Professor Ananya Renuka Balakrishna attempts to create batteries with longer lifespans.
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Graphs: The Hidden Ingredient to More Realistic Simulations
New PhD graduate Alana Shine researches graph theory, which can help create more accurate models of disease spread.
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“Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” Lecture 3: Biology and Disinfection for COVID-19
Professor Andrea Armani, the Ray Irani Chair in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, discusses new approaches to sterilizing medical equipment to meet urgent needs during the pandemic.
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Unlocking the Secrets of the Smallest Dwarf Planet
JPL Engineer and Adjunct USC Viterbi Professor Ryan Park confirms that dwarf planet Ceres is water-rich and geologically active.
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Urgent Times Call for Urgent Measures
USC ISI scientists research urgency detection in short crisis situations through social media
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Maryam Shanechi Receives Prestigious New Innovator NIH Grant
One of Only 53 in the U.S. to receive such an award, she will use the $2.4M grant for a better understanding of the brain
