ISI Researchers Fight Biometric Spoofing
A bad guy cases the supposedly secure Southern California headquarters of a major aerospace corporation with close governmental ties. He notes that everyone from the janitor to the CEO gains entrance...
View ArticleUSC Earth Scientists and AI Researchers Join Forces on New Semantic Web...
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...
View ArticleIt's Not Magic, It's Science: Predicting the Future
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...
View ArticleThat Chatbot May Be Chatty, But Is It Engaging?
Researchers at the USC Information Sciences Institute Evaluate the Chatbots That, Increasingly, Answer the World's Questions.
View ArticleUSC ISI Senior Director Honored with AAAI Senior Member Status
Dr. Yigal Arens, Senior Director for Administrative Affairs at USCs Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and research professor in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems...
View ArticleYour Social Media Feed is Biased
Kristina Lerman, a principal scientist at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Information Sciences Institute (ISI), and her team have found that for most social media users, their feeds expose them...
View ArticleSensors and Sensibility: USC Researchers Develop State-of-the-Art Biometric...
Biometrics systems like iris scanning or fingerprint recognition are no longer fantastical concepts of a distant sci-fi future.
View ArticleUSC ISI Researchers Develop Improv-Based Chatbots
What would conversations with Alexa be like if she was a regular at The Second City?
View ArticleWant to Teach An AI Novelty? First, Teach It Monopoly. Then Throw Out the Rules.
Researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) have partnered with Purdue University to take part in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
View ArticleUSC Viterbi Sustainability Projects Receive $150,000 Funding Boost
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...
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