Artificial Intelligence News Feed

Tal Hassner Joins ISI
Hassner’s research involves applications of machine learning techniques to pattern recognition and computer vision.

Your Friends are Cooler than You
Kristina Lerman explores the friendship paradox via social media data

Content Kingmaker – Quality or Webpage Position?
Webpage position reigns in peer recommendation of online content on sites like Reddit

Creating the Art Museum of the Future
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

A Better Search for Cures
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.

IARPA Director Visits ISI and Receives AI Update
Dr. Porter gave an overview of IARPA mission and needs, and met with ISI researchers.

ISI Experts Work on IBM Watson Jeopardy! Project
Viterbi School scientists are developing theories and computational techniques to help systems understand texts at a deeper level than is possible today.

Out of Africa, into Grammatical English
In addition to advancing machine translation technology, a major aim is creation of machine translation prototypes for African languages.

ISI’s Shortipedia Wins Prize at 2010 Semantic Web Challenge
Shortipedia is a wiki site where users can contribute facts that the system can reason about to answer questions.

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