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Three Decades of Thinking with Machines
By Dr. Randall W. Hill, Jr., Vice Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering, Omar B. Milligan Professor of Computer Science (Games and Interactive Media);...
USC PhD Student Bin Han Wins Best Paper Award at ACII 2025
Bin Han, a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and a researcher at the USC Institute for Creative...
ICT Achieves CMMC Level 2 Certification, Confirming Compliance with Defense Cybersecurity Standards
The USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) has achieved Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2 certification, following a...
ICT Researchers Visit Eyeline Studios, Part of Scanline VFX, Powered by Netflix
[L–R: Eyeline Studios: Xueming Yu; ICT VGL: Haolin Xiong, Tianwen Fu, Hanyuan Xiao, Pratusha Prasad, Bipin Kishore; ICT Geospatial Terrain Research...
ICT Research Featured in Monitor on Psychology
The American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology spotlights USC ICT’s pioneering research in virtual reality and training,...
Skip Rizzo Profiled in VFX Voice
Dr Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Director, Medical Virtual Reality Lab at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies, has been featured in VFX Voice, the...
GFY25: ICT Achievements
The Government Fiscal Year 2025 (October 1, 2024 - September 30, 2025) represents a productive year across ICT's 17 Labs. Our researchers published...
Thoughts on Five Years at ICT: Social Simulation, Theory of Mind and Human-AI Teams
By Dr. Nik Gurney, Research Lead, Social Simulation Lab Five years ago, I joined the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) as a postdoctoral...
New USC Article Spotlights Dr. Gale Lucas’s Role in Adaptive Workspaces
A new article, published on USC Viterbi’s site, casts light on an interdisciplinary project that seeks to turn buildings into intelligent,...








