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Leveling Up Research and Publishing in Geoscience’s Open-Source Era
A new workshop held at USC’s Information Sciences Institute hopes to have a ripple effect throughout the geoscience community.

“If you study AI you need to be curious and not pay attention to the noise”
EPISODE 28 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Pei Zhou

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? To Evaluate Your LLM
A USC ISI researcher and his collaborators propose separating the AI makers from the AI testers to create more robust systems.

Cleanroom Course Offers a Gateway to Microelectronics Careers
California DREAMS pilots a path to a robust semiconductor industry pipeline.

“AI could be an advisor to someone who does not have a support system”
EPISODE 27 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Ulf Hermjakob

Force Multiplier: California DREAMS Combines Capabilities from University Nanofabs
The superhub is working to standardize equipment and best practices across its partners.

USC at the NAACL ’24 Conference
Notable research includes work on legal AI, LLM manipulation by bad actors, and assessing argument quality.

No GPS, No Problem
USC ISI researchers are trying to make quantum sensing tools, like atomic accelerometers, more compact and accurate so they can replace GPS.

“There is no end goal for AI ethics, there will always be something new to mitigate”
EPISODE 26 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Rebecca Dorn

Engineering a better way to find doctors
USC ISI researchers team up with Kaiser Permanente to improve healthcare search by 20%.