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Indian Express: What makes Microsoft’s new quantum computing chip different?
Daniel Lidar was quoted in a story discussing Microsoft’s new quantum computing chip, Majorana 1.
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AI vs. Wildfire
Researchers have developed a new model that combines generative AI and satellite data to accurately forecast wildfire spread.
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Banana Trees to Fight Wildfires
According to a new study, fire buffers composed of banana trees could slow and calm wildfires and generate profit for residents of fire-prone regions
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IEEE Spectrum: IEEE Offers New Credential to Address Tech Skills Gap
USC and the CA DREAMS Microelectronics Hub were highlighted for providing a two-week course to help individuals “learn the fundamentals of working in a semiconductor fabrication clean room”
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National Defense Magazine: The Hollywood Connection
USC Institute for Creative Technologies was featured for its development of leading-edge simulations.
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Undark: The Search for Critical Minerals is Going High Tech
Craig Knoblock was interviewed about his team’s participation in a DARPA project that applies machine learning to to identify sources of rare earth minerals.
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CalMatters: California students want careers in AI. Here’s how colleges are meeting that demand
Neno Medvidović was interviewed about a new AI major that the School of Advanced Computing is developing.
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Quantum Insider: USC Professor Sees Quantum Computing As A Specialized Tool Rather Than Consumer Technology
Excerpts from Daniel Lidar’s recent interview with the The Circuit was condensed.
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Andrew Viterbi builds on a lifetime of innovation and giving
Viterbi’s $10 million gift boosts USC President Carol Folt’s Frontiers of Computing “moonshot” by funding the hiring of new faculty at the intersections of advanced computing and other academic disciplines.
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The New York Times: Twitter Barred Them. What Happened When Elon Musk Brought Them Back?
ISI’s Keith Burghardt was interviewed by The New York Times about his work on toxic content on social media.
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Spectrum News: How a USC student helped build an AI system that helps gage public sentiment towards homelessness
PhD Jaspreet Ranjit and advisor Swabha Swayamdipta were interviewed about their work and the potential for AI to help address societal challenges.
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Nature Magazine: Can AI have common sense? Finding out will be key to achieving machine intelligence
Mayank Kejriwal and co-authors explore how the rise of LLMs has reignited debates about the boundaries of machine intelligence.
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ICT 25th: Learning with AI, Moving Smart, Growing Things
USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) furthers research into Artificial Intelligence’s potential to advance education and tutoring opportunities.
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The Atlantic (subscription required): Shh, ChatGPT. That’s a Secret.
Jonathan Gratch was quoted about our interactions with virtual agents.
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Out Of Options: The Drugs Don’t Work. Therapy Doesn’t Work. What’s Left?
An NIH-backed collaboration between USC engineers and doctors provides hope for patients with severe depression and other mood disorders.
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USC celebrates opening of Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Human-Centered Computation Hall
The new building is home to the USC School of Advanced Computing and central to USC President Carol Folt’s historic Frontiers of Computing “moonshot.”
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Celebrating 25 years of USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies
Since its founding in 1999, the institute has produced cutting-edge computing research that has been used by Hollywood, academia, tech and the military.
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USC Institute for Creative Technologies: ICT 25th: UARC Technology Behind Successful Transition Of One World Terrain To Army Program Of Record
USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) assists in the creation of groundbreaking geospatial mapping for the US Army’s One World Terrain (OWT) program.
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KTLA: USC Researchers Tapping into Surfing to Relieve Chronic Pain
Heather Culbertson and Jason Kutch were interviewed about their project using simulated surfing to address chronic pain
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Bloomberg: USC Professor Lands $43 Million in Funding for AI Startup
Sahara, a start-up co-founded by Professor Ren, was featured.
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ABC News: Waymo takes to the streets in more cities
Rahul Jain was interviewed about autonomous vehicles and their mainstream adoption.
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Chronicle of Higher Education: The AI Hiring Spree
Article references USC’s Frontiers of Computing and effort to attract new faculty
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USC Institute for Creative Technologies: ICT 25th: Paramount Pictures to USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Cheryl Birch, CFO for the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), describes over twenty years of experience on the team.
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Wall Street Journal: Colleges Race to Ready Students for the AI Workplace
The joint Business of AI degree with USC Marshall was highlighted along with the ITP AI applications minor.
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Medical Express: An AI-powered wearable system tracks the 3D movement of smart pills in the gut
New research by the Khan Lab was featured
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Association for Computing Machinery: Maja Matarić Receives ACM Athena Lecturer Award
Maja Matarić receives ACM Athena Lecturer Award for groundbreaking contributions in distributed robotics, multi-robot coordination, and socially assistive robotics
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New Indian Express: Study confirms water ice possibility in Moon’s polar craters
A study led by India’s space agency that included USC researchers was highlighted
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LA Business Journal: USC, Capital One to Launch Research Center
Petros Ioannou the Center’s inaugural director, was interviewed.
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NPR: A robot dog is training on Earth to be able to go to space one day
Weekend Edition featured research led by Feifei Qian’s lab.
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Andrea Hodge and Gaurav Sukhatme Elected 2023 AAAS Fellows
Hodge and Sukhatme join more than 40 USC peers previously inducted to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a distinguished lifetime honor
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Venturebeat: USC Games Expo returns to campus on May 7 with over 60 games
The annual Games expo showcasing student games was highlighted
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BBC: Engineers train dog to walk on the moon
Research by Feifei Qian and colleagues was featured.
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CBS News: Fung Finds a New Life from “Swim with Mike”
USC Viterbi data science master’s student Natalie Fung was interviewed about how she persevered after an accident and how the Swim with Mike scholarship allowed her to attend graduate school.
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CNET: Hallucinations: Why AI Makes Stuff Up, and What’s Being Done About It
Professor Swayamdipta explained AI hallucinations and suggested the implementation of standards to address them.
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CBS News: NASA, USC robotics team for space exploration program
Feifei Qian and undergraduate student Ethan Fulcher were interviewed about developing robots that can work on various surfaces
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ABC News: What’s after AI? The next watershed technology could be quantum computing
Daniel Lidar was interviewed about the growth and potential impact of quantum computing
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WIRED: 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI
Alumni Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar were highlighted in an article that highlighted the authors of “Attention Is All You Need”
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USC Institute for Creative Technologies: The Email Which Changed My Life
An essay from Jacki Morie, one of the founding research scientists of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies from 1999 to 2013.
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NPR: Just because your favorite singer is dead doesn’t mean you can’t see them ‘live’
Paul Debevec corrects the record on what constitutes a hologram
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Space News: Space loves AI, AI doesn’t love Space
David Barnhart was interviewed about the role of AI for long-distance missions.
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USC News: USC opens first IBM Quantum Innovation Center on the West Coast
The new center will be directed by Daniel Lidar, and boosts USC Viterbi and USC Dornsife researchers’ opportunities for conducting quantum research.
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USC names 7 faculty members University – and Distinguished Professors, 3 with USC Viterbi appointments
Petros Ioannou, Peter Kuhn, and Surya Prakash are among the faculty selected for their research leadership.
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USC News: USC collaborates with startup supporter Techstars to encourage intellectual property development
The collaboration is promising for the local economy as ideas generated at USC are converted into products and businesses that will enhance the university’s economic footprint at “Silicon Beach” where USC Information Sciences Institute is located.
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Scientific American: Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies
Jesse Thomason of USC Viterbi and PhD student, Ishika Singh, were highlighted for their work to help robots complete real-world tasks.
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Sustainability Next: AI Can Reduce Poaching, Help Conservation
Bistra Dilkina was interviewed about her use of AI to predict sea-level rise, protect biodiversity and prevent poaching
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USC Viterbi’s Shri Narayanan Named USC Vice President for Presidential Initiatives
Professor Narayanan will focus on bringing together President Folt’s “moonshots” and expanding their reach.
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How We Built the Holodeck – Minus the Parts that Break the Laws of Physics
ICT Origin Story
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Department of Commmerce: Biden-Harris Administration Announces First-Ever Consortium Dedicated to AI Safety
USC was announced as an inaugural member of a new DOC consortium dedicated to AI safety; Yolanda Gil will lead the effort from USC
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Economic Times: Using AI tools, we are exploring if linguistic ability can mediate cognitive decline
Shri Narayanan spoke with ET Healthworld about USC health research collaborations in India involving AI tools as well as other opportunities for AI in health
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‘A powerhouse director for a powerhouse school’: USC celebrates inauguration of School of Advanced Computing director
Professor Gaurav Sukhatme, “a thoughtful and responsible innovator,” was installed as the inaugural director of the university’s 23rd school during a Wednesday ceremony on the University Park Campus.
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USC Launches School of Advanced Computing
Gaurav Sukhatme has been appointed the school’s inaugural director for the “school within a school”
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VentureBeat: Why LLMs are vulnerable to the ‘butterfly effect’
Research by Fred Morstatter and Abel Salinas regarding how prompts can change how data is labeled, was featured
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The Conversation: ChatGPT and its AI chatbot cousins ruled 2023: 4 essential reads that puncture the hype
Mayank Kejriwal was referenced for his analysis of the performance of large language models
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NPR: AI has become a tool in climate in search for climate solutions
Yolanda Gil was interviewed about her work with using AI for controlled burns and preventing wildfire.
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Hindustan Times: USC Viterbi School of Engineering Unveiled: A conversation with Professor Gaurav Sukhatme
Executive Vice Dean Gaurav Sukhatme was interviewed about the opportunities at USC Viterbi for international students including in AI, robotics and space.
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Google: Using AI to study demographic representation in Indian TV
Shri Narayanan’s SAIL lab partnered with Google and The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and the India Chapter of the International Advertising Association on multi-media intelligence research related to representation in Indian media
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The Conversation: What is Quantum Advantage?
Daniel Lidar contributed a piece explaining the technology and its potential impact. The column appeared in multiple outlets.
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IEEE Spectrum : A Bold New Plan for Preserving Online Privacy and Security
Barath Raghavan, an associate professor in computer science, proposes a plan to take cloud security into our own hands by decoupling our identities from our data.
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Issues in Science and Technology: ISI AI director: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Intelligible Failure”
USC Information Sciences Institute AI division director Adam Russell shares his thoughts on the importance of “intelligible failure” for enabling organizations to do incredible things.
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U.S. News: High-Tech ‘Home Simulations’ Could Help Fight Hoarding
Skip Rizzo from ICT was interviewed about a virtual reality program aimed at helping hoarders clear their clutter that also helps with exposure therapy.
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The Atlantic: America Is About to See Way More Driverless Cars
Rahul Jain was interviewed about the difficulty of autonomous vehicles driving in SF compared to other cities.
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USC News: USC Viterbi and USC Price Host Solutions for a Sustainable Future Conference
Co-hosted by the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Sol Price School of Public Policy, the event brought together leading experts to address three aspects of climate change: energy and technology, food and water, and human behavior.
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NPR: New proteins, better batteries: Scientists are using AI to speed up discoveries
Yolanda Gil was interviewed about AI’s potential to advance scientific research
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USC News: USC selected by Department of Defense for Microelectronics Commons hub
The university will lead one of eight regional innovation hubs funded by the CHIPS and Science Act.
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Intel: Swabha Swayamdipta Receives Intel 2023 Rising Star Award
Swabha Swayamdipta, an assistant professor of computer science, is among 15 early-career academic researchers selected by Intel this year.
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Business World: Innovation & Ingenuity: From Start-ups to Academia
Shri Narayanan, Yasser Khan and their students and alumni talked about impactful research taking place at USC Viterbi.
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The Economist: Could AI transform science itself?
Yolanda Gil tells The Economist that cross-disciplinary research will become more common due to AI
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USC News: What can Native American knowledge, and now AI, teach us about fire?
As demand for prescribed fire increases across California, ISI expert explores traditional and modern methods for building wildfire resilience in a burning world.
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INSIDER: The internet just went on a wild quest that could result in floating trains and cheap EV
Masoud Pedram was quoted about the potential impact that room-temp superconductors could have on medical imaging.
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LA Times: These family robots can play trivia and act as security. Can they cure loneliness?
Maja Matarić was interviewed about the potential for socially assistive robotics
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WIRED Middle East: Robots are teaching other robots to learn more stuff
New research by Laurent Itti and Ph.D. student Yunhao Ge was featured.
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The Conversation: Emilia Ferrara Explains How To Tame Bias in AI
Computer Science Professor Emilio Ferrara explains why blindly eliminating biases in AI can have unintended consequences. Instead, he says, bias in AI can be controlled to achieve a higher goal: fairness.
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Politico: Artificial Intelligence Can’t Work Without Our Data
Barath Raghavan and co-author Bill Schneier suggest an “AI Dividend”
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Al Jazeera: What threat does AI pose to the future of humanity
Wael Abd Almageed was interviewed about the dangers of AI including misinformation and hate speech.
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Github ReadMe Project: Coding Accessibility: Disability as Catalyst for Creativity
Computer science student Paul Chiou’s research focuses on automatically finding and fixing keyboard accessibility issues in both web and Android apps.
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Brainchip: Podcast With USC Professor Gaurav Sukhatme On Innovation In AI, Robotics & Autonomy
Executive Vice Dean Gaurav Sukhatme was interviewed about his career trajectory and the state of the robotics field
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Space.com: World’s 1st ‘hacking sandbox’ satellite and more to ride on SpaceX’s next NASA cargo launch
The article mentions CLINGERS, the first experiment from USC, to go to the Space Station.
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Spectrum News : USC invests $1 billion into advancing computing research
Dean Yortsos and PhD student Emily Nguyen were featured about the FOC Initiative, Nguyen discussed her work applying AI towards treatments for ovarian cancer.
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Nature: Rewriting the quantum-computer blueprint
Itay Hen was quoted on the benefits of quantum computing
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New York Times: How Sexist is Hollywood?
The SAIL Lab was mentioned as a collaborator with the Geena Davis Institute to address bias through media intelligence
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LA Business Journal: Cyber Crusaders
Cliff Neuman was quoted on network security.
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Spectrum News : Robots Deployed to Fight Toxic Alage
Isabel Rayas and Christopher Denniston were interviewed about their work in the Robotics Embedded Systems Lab
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Dot.LA: USC Invests $1 Billion in New Computing School to Teach Ethical AI Use
Dean Yortsos was interviewed about “Frontiers of Computing” and how “Computer science, data sciences and AI have become essentially an extension of the original fundamentals.”
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Wall Street Journal: How AI will change the workplace
Jon Gratch shared his research on how interacting with an AI changes human behavior
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KABC: USC Wants to Prepare Students for the Future of AI
Cyrus Shahabi was interviewed about how AI can address LA’s problems and the Frontiers of Computing Initiative
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Forbes: University of Southern California Launches $1 Billion Advanced Computing Initiative
Forbes highlighted FOC and quoted Dean Yortsos saying “The world needs engineers and computer scientists to solve the grand challenges we face.”
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USC News: USC launches $1B-plus initiative in advanced computing
Viterbi to create a School of Advanced Computing and rename the Computer Science Department for benefactor Thomas Lord
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WIRED.COM: Twitter Really Is Worse Than Ever
Under Elon Musk, hate speech has surged and propaganda accounts have thrived.
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Los Angeles Times: One billionaire owner, twice the hate: Twitter hate speech surged with Musk, study says
According to data collected by researchers from USC, UCLA, UC Merced and Oregon State University, daily use of hate speech by those who previously posted hateful tweets nearly doubled after Musk finalized the sale.
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NPR: For Earth Day, Faculty Talk Sustainability Research on “Academic Minute”
Research by Bistra Dilkina, Thomas Petersen and Essam Heggy was featured.
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American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Maja Matarić Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Expert in socially assistive robotics joins leaders selected from academia, the arts, industry, policy, research, and science
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New York Times: The R.T.O Whisperers Have a Plan
This article highlights the efforts at ISI to get colleagues to return to the office. Craig Knoblock and colleagues were interviewed.
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WIRED: ChatGPT Email Scams
Wired published a piece by Barath Raghavan and a colleague
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Gizmodo : Don’t Play Poker With ChatGPT
Gizmodo featured an article by Mayank Kejriwal on ChatGPT’s decision-making process.
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The Wall Street Journal: Confronting Your Fears in Virtual Reality Therapy
Albert “Skip” Rizzo of the USC Institute of Creative Technologies was interviewed about using virtual reality for therapy.
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The Conversation: Room-temperature superconductors could revolutionize electronics
Massoud Pedram discusses the promise of superconducting
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Scientific American: How to Tell If a Photo Is an AI-Generated Fake
Wael Abd Almageed spoke to SA about the state of detection for AI generated images
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Los Angeles Business Journal: USC Launches AI Research Center
This article mentions that Bill Swartout will co-lead the new Center on Generative AI.
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NSF: AI May Predict Alzheimer’s Through Brain Age
The NSF featured recent research by Paul Bogdan and colleagues at the School of Gerontology