DEI-B at ICT

DEI-B at ICT

By Lyneisha Brooks, Chairperson, DEI-B Taskforce, USC Institute for Creative Technologies Lyneisha Brooks is a Financial Analyst at ICT, and the Chairperson for the institute’s DEI-B Taskforce, working closely with the Office of Diversity and Strategic...
Learning with AI: Move Smart, Grow Things

Learning with AI: Move Smart, Grow Things

By Dr. Benjamin Nye, Director of Learning Sciences, USC Institute for Creative Technologies As Director of Learning Sciences at ICT, our group studies how Artificial Intelligence can help people learn better and accomplish their goals. To understand our mission in the...
When the Center for Body Computing Joined ICT

When the Center for Body Computing Joined ICT

By Leslie Saxon, M.D. Executive Director, USC Center for Body Computing; Professor of Medicine, Clinical Scholar, Keck School of Medicine of USC  There have been few things more gratifying to me in my long career as an interventional cardiologist and digital...
When Hollywood Met the Department of Defense

When Hollywood Met the Department of Defense

Richard Lindheim was ICT’s first Executive Director (1999 – 2006). Previously, he was an entertainment executive, responsible for shows such as Frasier, Star Trek Voyager, Deep Space 9 and Miami Vice. As EVP of the Paramount Television Group, he established...
The Email Which Changed My Life

The Email Which Changed My Life

Written by Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie, Founder & Chief Scientist, All These Worlds, LLC; formerly Senior Research Scientist, ICT (1999 – 2013) In 1996, I was in my office at Walt Disney Feature Animation in Burbank, CA when an interesting email came across my...