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Your Friends are Cooler than You
Kristina Lerman explores the friendship paradox via social media data
Good Content Doesn’t Always Float to the Top
Kristina Lerman explains why lackluster content might get more recommendations than good on social media
Content Kingmaker – Quality or Webpage Position?
Webpage position reigns in peer recommendation of online content on sites like Reddit
Creating the Art Museum of the Future
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has partnered with Craig Knoblock and Pedro Szekely to create applications and educational tools that help engage the younger generation and bolster interest in the arts
A Better Search for Cures
In the past, genetics researchers had to find hundreds of people for every study they started. Now, the USC Information Sciences Institute has reduced that search to a few keystrokes.
On Twitter, More Friends Means Less (Effective) Information
Researchers find that, the more friends a user follows on Twitter, the less information they see and absorb
USC Tech Experts to Guide Smithsonian Museum to Next Generation of the Internet
USC Information Sciences Institute’s collaboration to provide more detailed, more easily accessible information about museum’s online collection than has previously been possible.
IARPA Director Visits ISI and Receives AI Update
Dr. Porter gave an overview of IARPA mission and needs, and met with ISI researchers.
ISI Experts Work on IBM Watson Jeopardy! Project
Viterbi School scientists are developing theories and computational techniques to help systems understand texts at a deeper level than is possible today.
Out of Africa, into Grammatical English
In addition to advancing machine translation technology, a major aim is creation of machine translation prototypes for African languages.