August 7, 2017
ISI computer scientist Mayank Kejriwal has been awarded best
paper at the 2017 Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA)
Distinguished Dissertation Awards.
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August 2, 2017
An ISI research team, led by Advanced Electronics division
director John Damoulakis, is developing techniques to clearly
image the smallest features in silicon integrated circuit chips
at a resolution of sub-10 nanometers (10 billionths of a
meter).
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August 2, 2017
An ISI research team, led by Advanced Electronics division
director John Damoulakis, is developing techniques to clearly
image the smallest features in silicon integrated circuit chips
at a resolution of sub-10 nanometers (10 billionths of a
meter).
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July 25, 2017
Cyberwar knows no geographic boundaries, but neither does
ISI's
award-winning Cyber Defense Technology Experimental
Research
(DETER) group.
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July 25, 2017
Cyberwar knows no geographic boundaries, but neither does
ISI's
award-winning Cyber Defense Technology Experimental
Research
(DETER) group.
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July 24, 2017
ISI today attracts more federal research funding than at any
comparable time in its 45-year history. And the growing institute
recently opened a new office in Greater Boston.
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July 13, 2017
A team headed by Matthew French, a senior supervising
computer scientist at the
USC Information Sciences Institute, is garnering attention for
a novel approach to
coding field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips.
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July 7, 2017
California is known both for a cheery, idealized car culture and
the grinding reality of traffic and sometimes dangerously
polluted air. Undergirding those opposing images: 50,000
miles of aging roads, highways and freeways that continually
must be maintained and repaired with gas-tax funding.
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June 28, 2017
Pedro Szekely understands dark matter in an all-too-
human, not cosmological, universe. Beginning in 2015,
his work with Craig Knoblock on sophisticated,
cloud-based analytics has generated substantial media
attention for its ability to expose human trafficking hidden
deeply online.
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June 12, 2017
The USC Information Sciences Institute launched a second
physical site of
the Internet root server it manages on May 2, greatly
boosting the
service's ability to fulfill an unusual, dual mandate.
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May 12, 2017
Yonatan Bisk, a postdoctoral scholar and research associate
in ISI's
intelligent systems
division, has been named to a novel program being
offered by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
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May 12, 2017
Yonatan Bisk, a postdoctoral scholar and research associate
in ISI's
intelligent systems
division, has been named to a novel program being
offered by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
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May 8, 2017
A 2013 journal paper co-authored by Information Sciences
Institute Director of Knowledge Technologies Yolanda Gil and
postdoctoral
student Daniel Garijo is among a handful of articles chosen
to represent the best of open-access publishing.
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May 2, 2017
ISI research professor John Heidemann, together with post-doctoral scholar Ricardo de Oliveria Schmidt and masters student Jan Harm
Kuipers, both at the University of Twente (Netherlands), were awarded Best Paper at the 2017 Passive and Active Measurements (PAM)
conference in late March.
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April 27, 2017
ISI Intelligent Systems Division Director Yigal Arens has been honored for distinguished service by the Digital
Government Society (DGS), which fosters innovative deployment of technology and information to support public
policy, upgrade government operations and engage citizens worldwide.
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April 27, 2017
Emilio Ferrara's research on social bots was compelling even
before the current Congressional investigations into likely
Russian
hacks surrounding the 2016 US presidential election.
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April 18, 2017
Craig Knoblock is best known for research on a large scale: semantic alignment of
data in the widely used open-source tool called Karma, geospatial mapping
techniques used by the Army in Iraq, collaboration on a commercial web data
extraction platform, and recent, groundbreaking progress on international human
trafficking with Pedro Szekely.
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March 28, 2017
Call it (data science)
2. In a February, 2017 seminar, Jose
Luis Ambite
described a project that uses data science—a concept unifying
statistics, data analysis,
related methods and their results—to teach biomedical researchers
about
data science.
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March 16, 2017
An analysis of Twitter bots led by ISI's Emilio Ferrara is
garnering high-profile
media coverage around the globe.
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March 9, 2017
Andrew Schmidt is in favor of lowering entry barriers in
computing-intensive fields, where fewer
obstacles translate into faster innovation.
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March 7, 2017
Bradley Fidler, an Internet researcher and historian at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has been
appointed a visiting scholar at ISI's Postel Center for
Experimental Networking.
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February 15, 2017
Emilio Ferrara's
work on fake
Twitter bots was reported in the February 11, 2017
edition
of
El Periódico de Catalunya, a major
Spanish newspaper based in Barcelona.
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February 14, 2017
MIT Technology Review covered work by Adam Badawy and
Emilio Ferrara
that used data mining to analyze Twitter messages by 25,000 ISIS supporters. In the February 10, 2017 issue,
MIT
TR describes Badawy and Ferrara's exploration of 1.9 million tweets from now-closed accounts.
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January 24, 2017
ISI has presented Pedro Szekey, Ewa Deelman, and
John Heidemann with an
Institute Achievement Award in recognition of innovative
and exemplary
contributions to research at ISI. Awards were presented
at ISI's annual holiday
celebration on 16 December 2016.
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January 24, 2017
ISI has presented Pedro Szekey, Ewa Deelman, and
John Heidemann with an
Institute Achievement Award in recognition of innovative
and exemplary
contributions to research at ISI. Awards were presented
at ISI's annual holiday
celebration on 16 December 2016.
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January 24, 2017
ISI has presented Pedro Szekey, Ewa Deelman, and
John Heidemann with an
Institute Achievement Award in recognition of innovative
and exemplary
contributions to research at ISI. Awards were presented
at ISI's annual holiday
celebration on 16 December 2016.
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January 23, 2017
Clifford Neuman was interviewed in January for a
ransomware
story by KABC about the ransomware attack at LA Valley
College,
in which the college paid $28,000 in bitcoins to unlock its
systems.
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January 23, 2017
Clifford Neuman was interviewed in January for a
ransomware
story by KABC about the ransomware attack at LA Valley
College,
in which the college paid $28,000 in bitcoins to unlock its
systems.
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January 23, 2017
The Space Engineering Research Center, a joint effort between
the USC Viterbi Astronautics Department and ISI, has just
launched a novel class on satellite-to-ground communication.
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January 23, 2017
The Space Engineering Research Center, a joint effort between
the USC Viterbi Astronautics Department and ISI, has just
launched a novel class on satellite-to-ground communication.
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January 23, 2017
The Space Engineering Research Center, a joint effort between
the USC Viterbi Astronautics Department and ISI, has just
launched a novel class on satellite-to-ground communication.
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