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How Stimulating STEM Cultivates Diverse Futures in Science and Technology
Hosted by USC ISI, a four-week education program gives underrepresented high schoolers the tools they need to pursue their next steps in STEM
Not Feeling It: AI’s Emotional Disconnect
ISI researchers explore the importance of affective alignment in AI.
California DREAMS Welcomes First Cohort Training for the Semiconductor Industry
The two-week program prepares fellows to enter the workforce.
The 2024 Election Integrity Initiative: Safeguarding Online Political Discourse
In the lead up to the US presidential election, USC ISI researchers will combat malicious online interference in real-time.
Deception, Persuasion, and AI
AI players dominate the game Diplomacy, but negotiation and communication are not their strength, a USC ISI study finds.
ISI at ACL ‘24
Notable research includes work on newsworthiness prediction, AI diplomacy, creating better conversational datasets and more.
“Today you have to do AI combined with some other field to be relevant”
EPISODE 29 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Jose-Luis Ambite
USC at the International Conferences on Machine Learning (ICML)
Topics include trustworthiness in large language models, application-driven machine learning, adaptive brain stimulation, fair ranking functions and molecule synthesis
USC ISI Researchers Detect Massive Internet Outage in Bangladesh Amid Civil Unrest
USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute’s advanced monitoring technology estimates 170 million people are without an internet connection this week.
California DREAMS Takes a Community-first Approach to Making Math Meaningful
The Superhub is working with middle school math students and instructors to evolve instruction.