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USC ISI - 3 hours ago
ISI celebrates “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion” with Women’s History Month!

Learn about Kristina Lerman’s experience as a woman researcher, and her current research on how to improve gender equality in this field.

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USC ISI - March 15
Quantum computing, though in its infancy, is a field that shows promise. ISI research teams are devising tests to see what quantum computers can achieve, which can inform the US Department of Defense’s investments.

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USC ISI - March 13
AI/nsiders, ISI's podcast, is hosted by AI Division Director Adam Russell.

In this week's episode, @sharakelyan, a research assistant at ISI, discusses a type of human behavior she finds fascinating, unexpected and unexplainable.

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USC ISI - March 8
The prevalence of eating disorders is surging at an alarming rate. New research from a team at ISI analyzes how social media group dynamics amplify this harmful mental health issue.?
 
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Part of the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering, ISI is a pioneer in research and development across an exceptionally wide range of advanced information processing, computer, and communications technologies.

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In 1981, a request from DARPA led to USC establishing The MOSIS Service at ISI — a silicon prototyping and low volume production service for custom and semicustom integrated circuits.

Over the past 40 years, The MOSIS Service has collaborated with over 50 US government laboratories and agencies, 800 domestic and foreign colleges and Universities, and more than 100 commercial companies, and continues to support the advancement of microelectronics.

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ISI's Carl Kesselman partnered with Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago colleagues in 1997 to create grid computing, the prototype for the now-standard Globus open-source software. Grid computing became fundamental to genetics and other data-intensive research.

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