Congratulations to James Blythe on his recent sponsored research award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS UNLEASH POWER OF SOCIAL WEB DATA CS599: Data Science for Social Systems

As part of a new USC data science course taught by ISI's Emilio Ferrara and Fred Morstatter, more than 100 master’s and PhD students unveiled their final research project posters to professors and industry members on Nov. 30  https://www.isi.edu/news/story/357

2018 Computational Social Science Summer School

Out-of-the-box Universal Romanization Tool uroman

ISI paper by Ulf Hermjakob, Jon May, and Kevin Knight received Best Demo Award at ACL in Melbourne, Australia. The group also won Best Demo awards at ACL the previous year!

http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P18-4003.pdf

Recurrent Neural Networks as Weighted Language Recognizers

ISI paper by Jon May, Kevin Knight and interns receives Outstanding Paper Award at NAACL conference in New Orleans

http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N18-1205.pdf

New ISI project receives $13 million award to model and predict impact of human activities on water and food

Forecasting how natural processes and human activities affect one another can help address major societal and environmental challenges. In many areas of the globe, climate affects water resources and therefore food availability, with significant economic and social implications. 

ISI TEAM'S AI RESEARCH COULD SPEED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION — AND SAVE LIVES

Bloomberg: Big Data Shows Big Promise in Medicine

ISI's Greg Ver Steeg was highlighted for his algorithm CorEx which was used to help a friend and computational biologist Shirley Pepke find treatment options for her cancer diagnosis.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-28/big-data-shows-big-promise-in-medicine

ISI COMPUTER SCIENTIST WINS BEST PAPER AWARD FOR ENTITY RESOLUTION BREAKTHROUGH

ISI computer scientist Mayank Kejriwal has been awarded best paper at the 2017 Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) Distinguished Dissertation Awards.

WHAT'S GOING ON: ANSWERING QUESTIONS WITH WEB CORPORA

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.