Using AI to Decode Cultures
Imagine a Siri for culture — a personal cultural assistant capable of translating norms, customs, and values. ISI's Kristina Lerman and Fred Morstatter explore this through their research to create a novel machine learning solution for decoding cultures and informing decision-making.
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Do Humans Trust AI Coworkers?
ISI researchers Andres Abeliuk, Daniel M. Benjamin, Fred Morstatter, and Aram Galstyan show that human-AI collaborators may be best at predicting the future. But can humans and AI get along?
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USC ISI Researchers Craft Common Sense into AI Models Through Gameplay
ISI's Jonathan May and his team teach AI how to make decisions when encountering new environments through using text-based video games.
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The Block Busters: USC Researchers Find New Methods to Quantify IP Blocklisting
Internet users can suddenly be locked out of a website because their IP address gets flagged. How does this happen? ISIers Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan and Jelena Mirkovic worked with their team to find ways to quantify the impacts that blocklisting has on regular users who are sharing their IP address with an attacker.
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Behind the "Screens" with Scientists Stephen Casner and Eve Schooler
Former ISIers Stephen Casner and Eve Schooler, both pioneers in the technical development of the Internet, were recognized as co-recipients of the prestigious IEEE Internet Award in 2020 for their distinguished leadership in standards and formative contributions to Internet multimedia protocols.
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High School Student Interns with ISI's SciTech Group
From face recognition to Harry Potter, high school student Kelsie Lam works on multiple exciting projects through her internship at ISI. Check out this article to learn about her work with the SciTech group!
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The 2021 ISI Awards
The annual ISI Awards took place in January over Zoom, honoring the people of ISI who have made notable contributions to the Institute.
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— Featured Event—
USC Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Symposium
Profound innovations at the intersection of artificial intelligence and data science are changing our lives. These innovations are transforming how we improve our health, connect with others, sustain our environment, understand complex systems, and enrich our lives. This symposium will present an overview of interdisciplinary research at USC in these critical areas.
This event is part of the USC AI Futures Symposium Series. A prior event was held in January 2021 with the theme: Will AIs Ever Be One of Us?.
The sessions will run from 8:45 am PST—12:15 PST on May 3-5, 2021.
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TALKING POINTS
“It is clear cybersecurity R&D must be grounded in the same systematic approach to discovery and validation that is routine in other scientific and technological disciplines. To approach these challenging research problems, we must create a paradigm shift in experimental cybersecurity.”
— ISI’s Terry Benzel discusses the importance and future direction of cybersecurity research in Communications of the ACM |
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Article Highlight
Featured in The Intercept, ISI's John Heidemann and his team found evidence that Facebook's job listings algorithm is biased, disproportionately showing certain types of job ads to men and women.
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Kudos
Congrats to us! 😊 ISI was named as one of the Top 20 Artificial Intelligence Labs in the World in 2021 in Analytics Insight, listed alongside the Oxford Machine Learning Research Group, MIT Computer Science and AI Lab, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Alan Turing Institute, and other prestigious institutions.
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In Case You Missed It...
Weren't able to attend the USC AI Futures Symposium in January? We've got you covered with a detailed recap of all about the sessions and a playlist of video recordings!
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The New ISI Website is Coming! 🎉🥳
The ISI Website Project Team has been hard at work on redesigning and updating the ISI website, which will officially launch in early May! Keep an eye out for announcements and more information related to the rollout.
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