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December 4, 2025

Scientists Create Ultra Fast Memory Using Light

Novel “photonic latch” technology paves the way for ultra-fast, light-based computing for AI and data centers.

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December 1, 2025

Bridging the Valley of Death: ISI’s Computational Systems Division and the DREAMS Evolution

A team at USC is democratizing advanced semiconductor development by providing researchers with rapid design generators, validated IP libraries, and FPGA-based prototyping platforms that compress the journey from concept to working silicon from years to months.

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November 19, 2025

USC Researcher Wins Prestigious Computing Award for Scientific Workflow Innovations

USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute computer scientist Ewa Deelman, whose software has helped detect gravitational waves and map earthquake risks, has been honored with one of the field’s most prestigious awards.

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November 18, 2025

AI’s Promise and Peril: USC Experts Navigate the Breakneck Pace of Artificial Intelligence

As artificial intelligence advances at breakneck speed, even the scientists building it admit they’re navigating uncharted territory where the line between revolutionary breakthrough and existential risk remains alarmingly unclear.

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November 17, 2025

MOSIS 2.0 Revives a Legacy: Rehan Kapadia Outlines a Bold Future for Rapid Microelectronics Prototyping

Rehan Kapadia, director of MOSIS 2.0, shared how the service is building on its pioneering legacy to create a national network that lowers barriers, accelerates prototyping, and drives U.S. innovation in microelectronics.

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November 17, 2025

What Would It Take to Eat Breakfast on the Moon?

At LA Tech Week, a USC Information Sciences Institute panel explores the infrastructure, policies, and partnerships shaping the new space race.

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November 10, 2025

California Semiconductor Workforce Data Reveals Major Gap Between Industry Projections and Reality

USC-led study challenges assumptions about technician demand as chip manufacturing expands, and demonstrates a shortage in engineers. This new job posting screening system could be used to monitor workforce needs in real time for any industry.

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November 6, 2025

Beyond the Hype: Quantum Computers Start Solving Real Problems

At ISI’s LA Tech Week panel, researchers explored how the principles of quantum mechanics are becoming real-world technologies, with high hopes for drug discovery

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November 5, 2025

Charting the Future of Chip Prototyping

A MOSIS 2.0 panel explores how to bridge lab-to-fab, support defense programs, and build a sustainable national network

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November 3, 2025

AI Is Powering the Search for America’s Critical Minerals

At USC ISI, researchers are using machine learning to unlock data from thousands of maps and build one of the world’s largest knowledge bases of global mineral resources.

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