December 15, 2020
At its November 2020 meeting, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) elevated USC's Information Sciences Institute researchers
Yolanda Gil and
Craig Knoblock to the ranking of IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2021.
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December 15, 2020
At the Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference, which took place from July 26-30, ISI graduate assistant George Papadimitriou won the Best Student Paper Award for his research on Pegasus workflow submission nodes.
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December 3, 2020
As most of us learned in elementary school, whether it's from the sun or a light bulb, light is made up of particles called photons. While photons have energy and momentum, they have no mass.
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November 24, 2020
Very much like the muscles that move around the bones in your hand, soft robot technology is composed of malleable structures which automatically and intelligently create movement.
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November 20, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to disrupt normal life, Mayank Kejriwal, research lead at the
Information Science Institute (ISI) and research assistant professor at USC Viterbi's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, aims to use AI in fighting the pandemic.
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November 6, 2020
USC computer scientists have developed a tool to automatically detect bias in news.
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October 7, 2020
During the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, millennials continue to utilize social media as real-time news digest, using their platforms to draw attention to informative outlets. From calling out racial injustice to enforcing voting rights, users continue to do their part in advocating for attainable solutions.
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October 6, 2020
In 2016, the world's largest ever data leak dubbed The Panama Papers exposed a scandal, uncovering a vast global network of people—including celebrities and world leaders, who used offshore tax havens, anonymous transactions through intermediaries and shell corporations to hide their wealth, grow their fortunes and avoid taxes.
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September 23, 2020
It has been more than a decade since the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) launched
FaceBase, a central repository for craniofacial datasets and tools meant to advance craniofacial science by fostering cooperation and collaboration around the globe.
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August 28, 2020
Since the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, we've been counting the birthday celebrations spent indoors, the amount of Netflix shows we've binge watched, and the number of days left until school is back in session.
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August 27, 2020
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Paul Mockapetris recipient of the 2019 ACM Software System Award for the development of the Domain Name System (DNS). DNS provides the worldwide distributed directory service thatâ&euro&trades an essential component of the functionality of the global internet.
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August 18, 2020
USC Viterbi researchers will lead three new projects to create innovative solutions to our most urgent environmental problems, thanks to $150,000 in funding from the USC Center for Sustainability Solutions.
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August 13, 2020
According to a 2018 United Nations report, more than 25,000 individuals are officially reported to be victims of trafficking each year.
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July 15, 2020
NASA will be heading back to the Moon by 2024 through the
Artemis program, and USC Viterbi School of Engineering students and faculty are helping plan the party.
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July 1, 2020
What would conversations with Alexa be like if she was a regular at The Second City?
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June 25, 2020
The USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center (QCC), hosted at USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, renewed its long-term relationship with D-Wave and Lockheed Martin, leading to important upgrades at the facility.
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June 16, 2020
Dr. Craig Knoblock's appointment as the Michael Keston Executive Director of USC's
Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and concurrently as Vice Dean of Engineering, was extended for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2020. Dr. Knoblock has been serving as the interim ISI director since 2018.
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June 15, 2020
Biometrics systems like iris scanning or fingerprint recognition are no longer fantastical concepts of a distant sci-fi future. From iPhone fingerprint locking to facial authentication systems in airports, it's safe to say that the future is very much right now.
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June 3, 2020
Stacey Schepens Niemiec has long been passionate about using technology to improve the health and wellness of older adults. She became concerned with the widening of a "digital divide" among older adults that was limiting their access to technology-based health resources and services that are typically more widespread with younger populations.
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March 24, 2020
With more companies encouraging their employees to work from home to mitigate the spread and effects of COVID-19, cyber hygiene is as important as ever.
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March 12, 2020
The beginning of 2020 was the hottest January in recorded history,
according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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March 12, 2020
From purchases to therapy to friendship, it seems as though there's a chatbot for just about everything.
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March 3, 2020
Dean's Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and
Information Sciences Institute Fellow has been awarded the Harry
H. Goode Memorial Award.
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February 25, 2020
Summer internships are a great way for students to gain skills
and experience in their field of study. And for students
interested in the impacts of digitization, AI, cybersecurity, and
other topics at the forefront of science and society, USC's
Information Sciences Institute (ISI) has got you covered.
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February 21, 2020
It could be argued that scientists create superpowers in their labs. If Aram Galstyan, director of the Artificial Intelligence Division at the
USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute (ISI) had to pick just one superpower, it would be the ability to predict the future. What will be the daily closing price of Japan's Nikkei 225 index at the end of next week? How many 6.0 or stronger earthquakes will occur worldwide next month? Galstyan and a team of researchers at USC ISI are building a system to answer such questions.
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February 14, 2020
Renowned computer scientist Dr. Bill Manning, whose work was
fundamental to developing the internet as we know it today,
passed away January 25, 2020.
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February 12, 2020
Imagine if the next time you apply for a loan, a
computer algorithm determines you need to pay a higher rate based primarily on your race, gender or zip code.
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January 15, 2020
At the PEARC19 conference this past summer, researchers at
the USC Viterbi School of Engineering won a
transformative
research award in addition to the best technical paper.
The work focused on providing scientists extra assurances that
their data is not inadvertently corrupted when executing their
analysis on multiple computers in a distributed computing
environment.
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January 6, 2020
Sometimes the most unrelated things can produce the most innovative results. Take, for instance, aikido—a Japanese martial art that can be translated as the "way of unifying energy"—and paleoclimatology, a scientific field examining climate evolution.
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