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Join us for an AI seminar tomorrow! Vinayak Gupta is a researcher in the AI Research Group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In this talk, he'll discuss a first-of-its-kind benchmark that focuses on truly understanding time-series data and goes beyond the existing evaluations. Join here: bit.ly/40UsyB9

So proud of USC Information Sciences Institute researcher and USC Viterbi School of Engineering associate professor Luca Luceri !

We're excited to announce the launch of ISI/nsiders, a new podcast covering the research, stories, and perspectives of ISI researchers! ? Following the success of AI/nsiders, Adam Russell, AI/nthropologist and Director of the AI division at USC Information Sciences Institute, is expanding his quest to understand the humans behind groundbreaking research at ISI. From cybersecurity to quantum, he’ll now have guests on the show from across the institute, so don’t miss out! In this first episode, Jacob L., a Research Engineer at ISI shares how his background in dance has impacted his work. Listen now: bit.ly/40XoNLh

The Department of Defense (DoD) develops systems that can't fail. In order to ensure that new defense technology is reliable and secure, the DoD depends on something known as the acquisitions process, a meticulous methodology to manage the entire lifecycle of new products, systems, or capabilities. But this can slow down innovation for critical technology. ? ? For the past seven years, ISI has collaborated with the DoD to investigate alternative approaches to managing defense technology. Central to their research is a concept that has revolutionized Silicon Valley: agile development. This methodology, which emphasizes flexibility, collaboration, and rapid iteration, has become the gold standard in commercial software development. ? ? Read the story: https://bit.ly/3B1xMAm University of Southern California USC Viterbi School of Engineering

?? Bravo! ?? Luca Luceri, Research Assistant?Professor at USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science and Lead Scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute has received the prestigious 2024 ISSNAF (Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation) Young Investigator Embassy of Italy Award at the ISSNAF symposium! ???? His research on #AI-driven strategies to combat online harm exemplifies innovation and dedication. Congrats, Luca! #AwardWinningResearch #Innovation Read about it here --> https://bit.ly/3Z042fg University of Southern California USC Viterbi School of Engineering Embassy of Italy in the US

Come visit our NL seminar this Thursday! Da Yin is a final-year PhD student in Computer Science at UCLA. In this talk, he'll introduce Agent Lumos (ACL 2024), a foundational framework for training general-purpose, open-source LLM agents. Join here: bit.ly/48Z2gzu

Interdisciplinary work FTW! Congrats to the entire University of Southern California team behind another #EMNLP2024 Outstanding Paper: "OATH-Frames: Characterizing Online Attitudes Towards Homelessness with?LLM?Assistants." Rebecca Dorn & Brihi Joshi from USC Information Sciences Institute were part of the team with Jaspreet Ranjit & Swabha Swayamdipta from USC Viterbi School of Engineering and colleagues from USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. Incredible work blending AI and social science! ?? Learn more about the work ? bit.ly/3Z0rqKW & https://lnkd.in/gNi2hRBE

Congratulations to Tenghao Huang for the paper, “Are Large Language Models Capable of Generating Human-Level Narratives?” being honored at #EMNLP2024 as an Outstanding Paper! Way to go Tenghao and the rest of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering USC Information Sciences Institute team! ??? Learn more about the work ? bit.ly/3Z0rqKW & https://lnkd.in/gNi2hRBE

Huge congrats to the USC Viterbi School of Engineering USC Information Sciences Institute teams behind TWO of the Outstanding Papers at #EMNLP2024! Extra shout out to Alex Spangher for authoring both of them. From Alex: "Both were super fun to work on — both focus planning in creative NLP." ?? ? Read more ? bit.ly/3Z0rqKW & https://lnkd.in/gNi2hRBE University of Southern California, Tenghao Huang

Tune in today, Thursday Nov 14, to hear ISI’s Ewa Deelman talk about scientific workflow management systems. Live in 15 minutes!