Information Sciences Institute

Dr. Porter gave an overview of IARPA mission and needs, and met with ISI researchers.

Nikias presented U.S. Representative Jerry Lewis and Senator Diane Feinstein information documenting the work by ISI and SERC to build “nanosatellites” that they have supported.

Viterbi School scientists are developing theories and computational techniques to help systems understand texts at a deeper level than is possible today.

The ISI video offers a thorough background in the hows and whys of the current IPv4 Internet address system.

In addition to advancing machine translation technology, a major aim is creation of machine translation prototypes for African languages.

The US Department of Homeland Security has now signed a 5- year $16 million contract with USC to expand and improve ISI’s DETERlab testbed, called DETECT.

By demonstrating the ability to carry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), the launch was truly a breakthrough for the private space industry in the US.

Shortipedia is a wiki site where users can contribute facts that the system can reason about to answer questions.

ISI project leader Kristina Lerman will work with Aram Galstyan, Yu-Han Chang, and Alex Tartakovsky (USC Mathematics) on the project.

The award provides the opportunity to apply the new technologies on smaller scale systems.