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The new tool gives users greater control over AI agents by allowing them to trace, steer and revise their decisions in real time, attracting new funding from Microsoft.
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”
A USC study of nearly 2,000 hours of Holocaust survivor testimony finds that smiling often signals distress, not happiness, and offers a simple clue for telling the two apart.
Joining from the University of Michigan and USC's Information Sciences Institute, the new faculty bring expertise in AI, quantum computing, advanced hardware and machine learning
USC Viterbi and USC Stevens researchers at ISI find that partial internet failures are as common as complete outages and may linger unnoticed for years
USC Engineering Insights - When a major earthquake hits Los Angeles, our best traffic models will be reading a map that no longer exists. USC Viterbi professor Cyrus Shahabi is building the system that can adapt in real time.
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The new tool gives users greater control over AI agents by allowing them to trace, steer and revise their decisions in real time, attracting new funding from Microsoft.
From AI-integrated coursework to oral quizzes and video-based assessments, USC Viterbi and USC Stevens ECE department leaders are rethinking engineering education to prepare students for the rapidly evolving tech industry.
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