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Read More ISI Guides Burgeoning On-Orbit Satellite Servicing Market The Space Engineering Research Center at ISI is part of a new space industry consortium aimed at determining the "rules of the road" for commercial on-orbit activities. Read More Ph.D. Research Opportunities at ISI World-class research. Real-world projects. Read More ISI News It's Not Magic, It's Science: Predicting the Future It could be argued that scientists create superpowers in their labs. If Aram Galstyan, director of the Artificial Intelligence Division at the USC Viterbi (ISI) had to pick just one superpower, it would be the ability to predict the future. What will be the daily closing price of Japan's Nikkei 225 index at the end of next week? How many 6.0 or stronger earthquakes will occur worldwide next month? Galstyan and a team of researchers at USC ISI are building a system to answer such questions. Read More In Memoriam: Bill Manning, Distinguished Computer Scientist at ISI and Internet Visionary Renowned computer scientist Dr. Bill Manning, whose work was fundamental to developing the internet as we know it today, passed away January 25, 2020. Read More How To Reduce Bias in AI? Selective Amnesia. Imagine if the next time you apply for a loan, a computer algorithm determines you need to pay a higher rate based primarily on your race, gender or zip code. Now, imagine it was possible to train an AI deep learning model to analyze that underlying data by inducing amnesia: it forgets certain data and only focuses on others. Read More See More Stories » Feature Story ISI Researcher's Machine Learning Method Unearths Early Signs of Alzheimer’s January 28, 2019 Nearly 50 million people worldwide have Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia. While age is the greatest risk factor for developing the disease, researchers believe most Alzheimer’s cases occur as a result of complex interactions among genes and other factors. But those factors and the role they play are not known—yet. In a new study, USC researchers used machine learning to identify potential blood-based markers of Alzheimer’s disease that could help with earlier diagnosis and lead to non-invasive ways of tracking the progress of the disease in patients. The method was developed by USC computer science research assistant professor Greg Ver Steeg , a senior research lead at the USC (ISI). Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. “This type of analysis is a novel way of discovering patterns of data to identify key diagnostic markers of disease,” said team member Paul Thompson , the associate director of the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute and professor in the Keck School of Medicine at USC. “In a very large database of health measures, it helped us discover predictive features of Alzheimer’s disease that nobody suspected were there.” The study, “Uncovering Biologically Coherent Peripheral Signatures of Health and Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease in the Aging Brain,” appeared in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Nov. 28. The study authors are from the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute and the USC . Read More Events Unless otherwise noted, seminars are open to the public. 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Feb 28 Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA AI Seminar Graphical Models in Machine Learning, Networks, and Uncertainty Quantification 11:00am - 12:00pm PST Mar 02 Loic Pottier Scientific Computing Seminar Scheduling and memory management for large-scale applications: from caches to burst buffers 11:00am - 12:00pm PST See More Events » ISI Seminar Series Keep up-to-date with the ISI seminars by subscribing below. You will have the option of subscribing to individual seminar topics. Subscribe to seminar notifications Feature Story ISI Researcher's Machine Learning Method Unearths Early Signs of Alzheimer’s January 28, 2019 Nearly 50 million people worldwide have Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia. While age is the greatest risk factor for developing the disease, researchers believe most Alzheimer’s cases occur as a result of complex interactions among genes and other factors. But those factors and the role they play are not known—yet. In a new study, USC researchers used machine learning to identify potential blood-based markers of Alzheimer’s disease that could help with earlier diagnosis and lead to non-invasive ways of tracking the progress of the disease in patients. The method was developed by USC computer science research assistant professor Greg Ver Steeg , a senior research lead at the USC (ISI). Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. “This type of analysis is a novel way of discovering patterns of data to identify key diagnostic markers of disease,” said team member Paul Thompson , the associate director of the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute and professor in the Keck School of Medicine at USC. “In a very large database of health measures, it helped us discover predictive features of Alzheimer’s disease that nobody suspected were there.” The study, “Uncovering Biologically Coherent Peripheral Signatures of Health and Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease in the Aging Brain,” appeared in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Nov. 28. The study authors are from the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute and the USC . Read More © 2020 The University of Southern California Legal | Privacy Policy...