by Joy Fang | Mar 24, 2010 | News
Colleagues hailed Paul Debevec’s Academy Award Tuesday evening at a reception hosted by ICT and the Viterbi School. Debevec, ICT’s associate director for graphics research and a research associate professor in the Computer Science Department of USC’s Viterbi School of...
by Joy Fang | Mar 22, 2010 | News
A story published in several Canadian daily newspapers explains the blog mining research being done by ICT research associate professor Andrew Gordon. The story reports that Gordon aims to archive every English-language personal story blog entry posted online in hopes...
by Joy Fang | Mar 19, 2010 | News
Papers by Jina Lee and Lixing Huang and ICT colleagues have been nominated for best virtual agent paper at the Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems conference (AAMAS ), the premier scientific conference for research on autonomous agents and multiagent systems. A...
by Joy Fang | Mar 17, 2010 | News
Wired’s Hugh Hart interviewed Paul Debevec about the future of virtual actors and the technology developments that are allowing them to be believable. “Benjamin Button and Avatar created digital characters that achieved the one thing that hadn’t happened before,” said...
by Joy Fang | Mar 11, 2010 | News
In a story appearing in print and online, the Economist magazine describes Andrew Gordon’s research identifying and analyzing personal stories told in blog entries. The idea, the article states, is that this will eventually lead to a system that can gather aggregated...