The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has partnered with Craig Knoblock and Pedro Szekely to create applications and educational tools that help engage the younger generation and bolster interest in the arts

In the past, genetics researchers had to find hundreds of people for every study they started. Now, the USC Information Sciences Institute has reduced that search to a few keystrokes.

Researchers find that, the more friends a user follows on Twitter, the less information they see and absorb

USC Information Sciences Institute’s collaboration to provide more detailed, more easily accessible information about museum’s online collection than has previously been possible.

Dr. Porter gave an overview of IARPA mission and needs, and met with ISI researchers.

Viterbi School scientists are developing theories and computational techniques to help systems understand texts at a deeper level than is possible today.

In addition to advancing machine translation technology, a major aim is creation of machine translation prototypes for African languages.

Shortipedia is a wiki site where users can contribute facts that the system can reason about to answer questions.

ISI project leader Kristina Lerman will work with Aram Galstyan, Yu-Han Chang, and Alex Tartakovsky (USC Mathematics) on the project.

The researchers found that not all users on Digg are equally influential in promoting a story.