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Does ChatGPT Belong in Mensa?
ISI researchers investigate whether advanced AI can solve visual puzzles and perform abstract reasoning.

Reimagining Privacy Solutions for the Age of Self-Driving Cars
USC ISI researchers collaborate on a study to analyze and enhance design approaches that tackle privacy challenges in robotaxis

“AI is not smarter than us, but it will try harder than us, for better or worse”
EPISODE 31 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Karl Jacob

From Blood Tests to Brain Scans: How AI is Revolutionizing Alzheimer’s Research
How advanced technology offers new hope in the fight against a devastating disease.

USC Viterbi-led CA DREAMS Hub is awarded $31.9 million in funding under the Microelectronics Commons
Two projects led by Northrop Grumman will focus on maturing advanced gallium nitride (GaN) and on the development of 5G/6G-relevant prototypes.

How an innovative California DREAMS collaboration uses big data to reduce failures in the university nanofab
UCSB and PDF Solutions show that repeatability in lab processes is possible, potentially accelerating the lab-to-fab transition

Innovation and Ice Cream: ISI’s Back-to-School Kickoff
ISI started the school year with an afternoon of cutting-edge research, fun facts, and community building.

“I worry about AI researchers not knowing enough about social sciences”
EPISODE 30 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Michael Pazzani

AI Helps Scientists Predict the Future Climate by Studying the Distant Past
Researchers at USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute are bringing AI to the Earth sciences, starting with paleoclimatology.

USC ISI Takes Center Stage at LA Tech Week
From AI panels to exclusive lab tours and a rooftop mixer, USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) invites tech enthusiasts to join free events in the heart of Silicon Beach during LA Tech Week, October 14-18, 2024.