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News & Events

Given the interactive and immersive nature of the work of the ICT, often words aren’t sufficient. Along with new articles and press releases related to our research, we have tours that showcase our work. See below for details on requesting a visit. Please note that we have a limited capacity so not all requests can be fulfilled.

Latest News

May 7, 2008

ICT’s Jacquelyn Ford Morie to Chair ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Committee

Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie was named Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Committee. She will lead SIGGRAPH’s new efforts to address the creative spirit and needs of all artists in the digital arts community. The mission of this group is to foster the evolution of a strong digital arts community within the international ACM SIGGRAPH organization, and to promote a dialogue between visual…

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May 1, 2008

Researchers Nominated for Best Paper Award

The paper on ICT’s Smartbody research project is one of three papers nominated for best paper at the upcoming AAMAS conference (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems), the premiere Agent conference in Portugal, May 12 - 16. The paper, “SmartBody: Behavior Realization for Embodied Conversational Agents”, was authored by Marcus Thiebaux, Andrew Marshall, Stacy Marsella of USC’s Information Sciences Institute, Marcelo Kallmann of UC Merced, and…

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