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The USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence pairs more than 50 years of computing history with connections across the university.
During his career at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies within USC Viterbi and USC Stevens, Professor Jonathan Gratch has helped define the science of affective computing and its role in shaping our increasingly complex relationships with intelligent machines.
A pioneer of socially assistive robotics, Matarić has spent more than 2 decades developing robots that “help people help themselves”
Citizens' assemblies are one of democracy's most exciting experiments. But new research by USC Viterbi and USC Stevens shows the way we build them may be missing the point entirely.
Neeraj Narang (M.S. '14) once dreamed of being an athlete. Today he is a tech lead at WhatsApp.
New USC project funded by NSF will develop an agentic AI framework to give Los Angeles a real-time evacuation system connecting fire, traffic and human mobility
The USC Viterbi professor who built systems for nuclear missiles and ambulance networks explains why today's AI engines are structurally unfit for the infrastructure that keeps society running.
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New USC project funded by NSF will develop an agentic AI framework to give Los Angeles a real-time evacuation system connecting fire, traffic and human mobility
The USC Viterbi professor who built systems for nuclear missiles and ambulance networks explains why today's AI engines are structurally unfit for the infrastructure that keeps society running.
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