News & Announcements
Paul Debevec Featuredin New Zealand’s Dominion Post
An article highlighted technologies developed by ICT’s Paul Debevec, who is one of several speakers at the New Zealand animation, games and visual effects conference AnimfxNZ. The article focused on the work of the ICT…
The New York Times Features ICT’s Coming Home Project
The New York Times featured Coming Home, an ICT project led by Jacquelyn Morie. Coming Home is a destination within the virtual world Second Life that provides camaraderie, support and resources for…
ICT’s Jonathan Gratch Named Editor of New Journal on Computing and Emotion
Jon Gratch, ICT’s associate director for virtual humans research, has been named the inagural editor of the new journal, The IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. The IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing…
Paul Debevec’s TED Talk Posted at TED.com
Paul Debevec’s presentation from TEDx USC has been posted on the main TED conference site.
Debevec’s presentation covered the Digital Emily project, a collaboration between the…
Jacquelyn Ford Morie Presents on New Uses for Emerging Technologies at Web 2.0 Summit
ICT’s Jacki Morie was selected to present her work on ICT’s Coming Home project, an effort that is building an online community for returning veterans to find support, resources and healing in…
3-D Teleconferencing Featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education highlighted work by Paul Debevec and colleagues at ICT in a story on increase uses of and advances in videoconferencing technology. Debevec has built a…
Skip Rizzo Named Associate Director for Medical Virtual Reality at ICT
In a newly created position, Dr. Albert “Skip” Rizzo will be responsible for advancing and overseeing the use of virtual reality and game technology in a wide range of medical domains for training, therapy,…
Variety Covers ICT
ICT was featured in a Variety article about ways the military transitions Hollywood technologies for training. The story highlights ICT’s Mobile Counter-IED Interactive Trainer (MCIT) as an example of a project that uses not just…
LabTV Posts New Segments about ICT Work
Stories about the work of the ICT Graphics Lab are now up on the LabTV website. Click on the link below to be directed to new segments about Light Stage technology and…
ICT Researchers Win Best Paper Award
Research by Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella, Ning Wang and Brooke Stankovic received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE 2009 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction in Amsterdam. Their paper, Assessing the Validity…
USC Coach Pete Carroll, Provost C. L. Max Nikias and Athletic Director Mike Garrett Visit ICT
Pete Carroll, coach of the USC football team, took a break from football practice to experience a different kind of training here at ICT. Coach Carroll was accompanied by USC’s executive vice president and provost,…
ICT Training Games in Training and Simulation Journal
The August issue of Training and Simulation Journal features two stories about ICT work. One covers the BiLAT negotiation trainer that recently won an Army Modeling and Simulation award and…
3D Teleconferencing Makes Heads Spin at SIGGRAPH - Forbes and Technology Review Cover
ICT’s 3D Teleconferencing Display is being showcased at the SIGGRAPH-09 Emerging Technologies Exhibit. The system, also known as HeadSPIN, is profiled in the August issue of Forbes Magazine and in MIT’s…
Recent Coverage for ICT’s “Coming Home” Project
ICT’s project to create a space within Second Life to provide camaraderie, support and resources for returning troops to help them re-assimilate into civilian life was featured in CNET and United Press International articles and…
ICT Games Featured in PC World Magazine Story
A PC World story about the Army’s increasing use of video games discussed ICT’s Virtual Iraq, UrbanSim and BiLAT applications. Noting that the characters in ICT games feel…
ICT’s Virtual Worlds and Characters Featured in Armed with Science Interview with Jacquelyn Morie
ICT’s Jacquelyn Morie discussed how research on immersive games, virtual worlds and human intelligence is being used to provide support to military veterans on Armed with Science, a weekly webcast that discusses the importance of…
USC Researcher Honored for Virtual Reality Innovations
ICT research scientist Albert “Skip” Rizzo was selected as the first ever winner of the Intellectual Leadership Award established by the Los Angeles Chapter of Mensa to recognize, honor and celebrate the region’s leaders in…
ICT’s Bill Swartout Wins Major AI Award
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence recognizes achievements and service of William Swartout, a USC expert who has redefined personal computing
William Swartout, director of technology at the USC Institute for Creative…
PTSD Virtual Exposure Therapy Featured in Military Training and Simulation Magazine
The latest issue of Military Training and Simulation magazine covers ICT’s Virtual Iraq application for treating PTSD in a story about therapeutic uses of simulation and virtual worlds. …
ICT’s Paul Debevec Named Director-at-Large of ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee
Paul Debevec, ICT’s associate director for graphics research, has been elected a director-at-large of of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics. He will serve a three-year term on this executive…
Bill Swartout to Give Honorary Award Lecture at IAAI-09
Bill Swartout, director of technology at ICT, will give the Robert Engelmore Memorial Award Lecture at the 2009 Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence conference 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, July 14, in Pasadena, Calif.. Swartout, is this…
Paul Debevec Named One of CGI’s Most Important Pioneers by 3D World Magazine
3D World Magazine has named Paul Debevec, ICT’s associate director for graphics research, as one of the seven most important pioneers in the history of computer graphics imagery. The article credits Debevec for developing many…
Game Innovation Conference to Feature ICT Training Aid
ICT’s Distribution Management Cognitive Trainer (DMCT) prototype will be presented in a special session at the First International IEEE Consumer Electronics Society’s Games Innovation Conference, Aug 25 – 28,…
ICT Research Featured in Films Promoting Science and Math to Middle Schoolers
Many ICT projects are highlighted on the web in segments on LabTV, a project of the National Defense Education Fund. LabTV’s aim is to bring science, math, engineering and technology to life for…
Randall Hill Discusses ICT Innovations
The USC Chronicle’s “Capital Connections” section featured a recent trip to Washington, D.C. by ICT Executive Director Randall W. Hill, Jr. Hill met with congressional staff in the offices of Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Dianne…
PBS Frontline Hosts Online Discussion of Military and Technology with ICT’s Skip Rizzo
As part of it’s continuing coverage of the ways technology shapes how we live today, the team from PBS Frontline’s Digital Nation today hosted a live online discussion about the U.S. military’s applications of modern…
PBS FRONTLINE’s Digital Nation Website Posts Interviews and Video from ICT
Digital Nation, a new internet and documentary project from PBS FRONTLINE is featuring many ICT researchers and technologies on its website. The project aims to capture life on the digital frontier and explore how the…
Congresswoman Roybal-Allard Christens New Military Social Work Program
The USC School of Social Work and the USC Institute of Creative Technologies held a reception to celebrate the school’s new military social work and veteran services program, the first of its kind at a…
ICT Featured in Wall Street Journal Story about Creating Realistic Digital Characters
An article describing advances in and efforts to create convincing computer-animated characters featured the face scanning work of Paul Debevec and the ICT Graphics Lab. The article noted…
ICT’s Abhijeet Ghosh Named Research Assistant Professor
The department of computer science of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering appointed Abhijeet Ghosh a research assistant professor. Ghosh is a member of the ICT Graphics Lab team where he specializes in realistic modeling…
Executive Director Randall W. Hill Jr. Interviewed on DoD’s BlogTalk Radio
Dr. Randall Hill, participated in a blogger’s roundtable where he spoke about the mission and accomplishments of ICT, with a particular focus on how ICT works with the entertainment and game industries to create cutting-edge…
USC to Award Honorary Degree to Early ICT Champion
Anita K. Jones a professor, computer scientist, and former federal director of defense research and engineering is being recognized for her insightful leadership that paved the way for the founding of USC’s Institute for Creative…
ICT’s Paul Debevec Honored with Elan Visionary Award
The ELAN awards honor achievement in the visual effects, animation and video game industry. Paul Debevec, ICT’s associate director for graphics research, is this year’s recipient of the peer-selected “VISIONARY AWARD” for VFX, Paul is…
ICT Research Highlighted at Inaugural TEDx USC Conference
Paul Debevec, ICT’s associate director for graphics research, was one of the featured presenters at the first-ever TEDx event. The TED conference began 25 years ago a to bring together some of the world’s greatest…
The Sweet Smell of Success
ICT Scent Collar Wins Patent
Full sensory immersive worlds are the holy grail of games and simulations. The newly-patented Scent Collar is a personal scent release device for use by an individual in…
Virtual Reality Therapy Featured on the Huffington Post
A post by blogger Sam Spear features ICT’s Skip Rizzo and the virtual reality treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The story notes, that in this project the clinician will have control…
ICT’s Stacy Marsella Predicts a Future with Virtual Humans Indistinguishable from Real People
LiveScience highlighted research by Stacy Marsella, a research associate professor at ICT. “I think eventually we’ll be able to convince people that they’re interacting with a human,” Marsella told LiveScience, but he added that he…
ICT Director of Technology Honored by AI Community
Bill Swartout, ICT’s director of technology, has been selected as the seventh recipient of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, sponsored by IAAI and AI Magazine. The…
PBS Frontline Films at ICT
A crew from Ark Media recently visited ICT and filmed many of our researchers for an upcoming PBS Frontline documentary currently titled, “Digital Nation”. The program, set to air in the fall, is a far-reaching…
ICT Receives $10 Million Contract for Portable Training System
Interactive technology will help soldiers recognize and react to improvised explosive devices, the leading cause of casualties in Iraq.
The USC Institute for Creative Technologies plans to create virtual environments inside shipping containers…
ICT Scientist Earns Appointment in USC’s Computer Science Department
ICT’s Louis-Philippe Morency has been appointed as a research assistant professor in the computer science department of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. The goal of Morency’s research is to recognize, model and predict human…
Army News Service Covers ICT
A story about ICT in the Army News Service discussed how ICT programs are being used to develop better, more immersive training experiences. ICT Executive Director Randall W. HIll, Jr. was interviewed for the story.…
Science Springs to Life for Students
Researchers at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies show how they use science to create special effects, virtual humans and much more.
Don’t ignore your artistic side. That was the message delivered to…
PBS’s SoCal Connected Covers Virtual Therapy and Patients at ICT
A crew from PBS-affiliate KCET came to ICT and interviewed Skip Rizzo about his virtual reality exposure therapy for treating PTSD. In the segment, he discusses the growing issue…
Investor’s Business Daily Features ICT’s 3-D Videoconferencing Technology
A story about the promise and progress of 3-D videoconferencing featured the recently unveiled 3-D videoconferencing system developed by Paul Debevec and the ICT Graphics Lab. “We’re…
NPR Features ICT’s Paul Debevec and Light Stage Technology
NPR’s Laura Sydell interviewed Paul Debevec of the ICT Graphics Lab in a story about the technologies behind creating a convincing digital Brad Pitt for the movie “The Curious Case of…
ICT’s PTSD Virtual Therapy Featured on NBC News Chicago
Chicago NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV featured the virtual reality technology used to treat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, developed by ICT. The technology is now being used in a Chicago area hospital,…
ICT 3D Teleconferencing Mention in the Wall Street Journal
Sarah McBride of the Wall Street Journal talks about new media including ICT’s 3D teleconferencing technology that creates a hologram effect.
ICT Graphics Lab team unveils 3D “holographic-like” display at the 26th Army Science Conference
Paul Debevec, a research associate professor at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies, has helped develop a holographic videoconferencing system just like the fictional one depicted in recent Star…
Healing Psychological Trauma
Highlighted as the cover story in National Defense Magazine, soldiers relive sights and sounds of war in “Virtual Iraq” as a way to heal their mental scars. Researchers at the University of Southern California Institute…