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Symposium on the Future of AI: Will AIs Ever Be One of Us?
The USC AI Futures Symposium featured a prolific group of researchers and covered a wide range of AI topics

Crafting Common Sense into AI Models Through Gameplay
Jon May and his team teach AI how to make decisions when encountering new environments through text-based video games.

USC Researchers Named 2021 IEEE Fellows
USC ISI’s Yolanda Gil and Craig Knoblock elevated to IEEE Fellows for prolific research contributions

STARFISH: Space Exploration’s Newest Star
USC’s Space and Engineering Research Center looks to the star-shaped sea creature for their groundbreaking soft robotics project.

USC ISI Researcher Uses AI to Combat COVID-19 Under the Microsoft AI for Health Program
The Microsoft grant will help develop knowledge graphs for a COVID-19 data infrastructure.

Computer Vision Predicts Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
New Tool Offers Means to Phenotype Patients

AI News Bias Tool Created By USC Computer Scientists
Employs Artificial Intelligence to Develop News “Nutrition Label”

Urgent Times Call for Urgent Measures
USC ISI scientists research urgency detection in short crisis situations through social media

Yolanda Gil To Oversee Strategic Initiatives at Famed USC Information Sciences Institute
After 35 years of AI research, Gil’s is promoted to a new role where she will lead AI and data science initiatives at the USC Information Sciences Institute.

New Research May Help Identify Trafficking Networks
Characterizing traits of online activity may help to rescue victims