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“You have to make your security useful for people without it being a burden”
EP. 11 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: Erik Kline

Investigating State-Backed Information Operations
USC ISI researchers assess a previous claim that countries collaborate on efforts to manipulate public opinion across social media

Bridging Borders: The IUSSTF – USC Viterbi Program’s Path to Global Innovation
How USC’s prestigious summer internship is transforming lives and advancing engineering excellence.

“Quantum could be able to explain features of nature that change the world”
EP. 10 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: Federico Spedalieri

Workshop Gathers Experts at Crossroads of Space, Cybersecurity and AI
A two-day event brought together researchers, defense officials, investors and technologists to confront an urgent question: how do we secure the final frontier in the age of AI?

Detecting wildfires with AI
USC ISI researchers are developing a novel wildfire surveillance method using computer vision algorithms

“You want to build resilient systems because bad things can happen fundamentally”
EP. 9 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: Alefiya Hussain

Mapping Volcanic Hazards with Pegasus
Researchers at ISI help tackle the computational challenges of volcanology.

“We over rely on technology but lack the resilience we need to depend on it”
EP. 8 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: David Balenson

Bridging Divides: Computer Science Sophomore Takes on Polarization at SXSW EDU 2025
Student-led research and discourse-based curriculum challenge the status quo of civics education