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Conference Rm #689 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via Zoom.
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Texera: An Open-Source System for Cloud-Based Collaborative Data Science and AI/ML Using Workflows
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https://usc.zoom.us/j/95166882238?pwd=id334Bxxz7ZULMFpYWuHEppmFKlfUd.1
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Steve Zamek, PDF Solutions and Brian Thibeault, UCSB
https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addon
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Hao Zhu is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. In this seminar, he'll outline three foundational approaches developed to address challenges in training language agents.
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Dr. Regli is a computer scientist who has focused on interdisciplinary and use-inspired problems. He'll summarize his personal views regarding AI he has developed during his decade away from academia in various forms of public service.
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Tolúlọpẹ́ Ògúnrẹ̀mí is a Computer Science PhD candidate at Stanford University. In this seminar, she'll discuss investigating the output of the modality adapter of spoken language models.
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Nathan Lambert is a Senior Research Scientist and post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI. He'll present historical context on language modeling and new research with RL to forecast how the industry of language models may change in the future.
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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.
Our broad expertise spans artificial intelligence, computational systems and technology, space engineering, informatics systems research, and networking and cybersecurity. Bridging multiple technology disciplines through both academic and industry expertise, ISI continues to shape the technologies of tomorrow.
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ISI Centers are internationally renowned for pioneering research in a multitude of areas and disciplines, with collaborations with Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and numerous other organizations. From quantum computing to global space applications, ISI Centers push forward the boundaries of innovation.
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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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To build upon its successes and global reach, ISI actively recruits exceptional talent. We are dedicated to investing in tomorrow’s leaders, providing numerous internship, job, and program opportunities for students, as well as unique opportunities for exceptional researchers in information sciences and related fields.
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To build upon its successes and global reach, ISI actively recruits exceptional talent. We are dedicated to investing in tomorrow’s leaders, providing numerous internship, job, and program opportunities for students, as well as unique opportunities for exceptional researchers in information sciences and related fields.
ASIC/FPGA Research Engineer - Digital Design
Arlington, VA
Hybrid Eligible
Perform front-end digital design of advanced ASIC or FPGA-based prototypes addressing problems of national importance while developing novel computer architectures, RTL models, and systems-on-chip.
Transformational Computer Engineer
Arlington, VA
Hybrid Eligible
Information processing capabilities are more important than ever, including hardware architectures and systems-on-chip that can reach new heights of efficiency, security and more. Such problems of national importance are being tackled by ISI.
Computer Scientist - EDA Researcher
Arlington, VA
Hybrid Eligible
The Reconfigurable Computing Group (RCG) at ISI is a leader in disrupting and advancing the fields of front-end ASIC and FPGA design, reconfigurable architectures, and EDA tools. We are currently recruiting for an EDA Researcher to join the team.
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