by dhairya.parmar.adm | Oct 6, 2026 | News
We size up a stranger in seconds. A USC study finds we do the same with AI, and that what we notice says less about the machine than it does about ourselves. Within moments of meeting someone, you’ve already decided things about them: whether they’re warm,...
by dhairya.parmar.adm | Sep 8, 2026 | News
USC ICT’s platform for building conversational virtual humans is now available on GitHub, running on the web, on iPhone and Android, and on Quest 3. The Virtual Human Toolkit (VHToolkit) is now available at https://github.com/USC-ICT/vhtoolkit The VHToolkit is a...
by dhairya.parmar.adm | Aug 31, 2026 | News
We’re proud to see ICT recognized in the Defense Research Enterprise Review conducted by the US Under Secretary of War for Research & Engineering. As a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), our mission is to combine engineering research and military...
by dhairya.parmar.adm | Aug 20, 2026 | News
An award-winning study from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and the US Army Research Laboratory applies natural language dialogue to help humans and intelligent systems coordinate knowledge and achieve shared goals. Imagine directing a robot through a...
by dhairya.parmar.adm | May 5, 2026 | News
The university will name the USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence to honor their investment in research and innovation at the intersections of AI and health sciences, business, security and the arts. USC Trustee Mark Stevens is...