Jonathan Taplin, director emeritus of USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab, argues the U.S. should follow Europe’s lead because we are being fooled into handing over details of our lives for the benefit of tech giants.
USC research suggests that people heed negative reviews more than positive ones — despite their questionable credibility.
USC’s Jeffrey Fields, a nuclear policy expert, notes that most nuclear armed states agree that the weapons are only for deterrence — but their devastating power will always provoke fierce debate on their usefulness.
With the USC Gould School of Law now accepting GRE scores from applicants, nearly half of the country’s top 20 law schools have embraced the alternative to the LSAT.
Putting artificial intelligence to work on real-world problems is the vision for the Intelligent Internet of Things Integration Consortium (I3), a new initiative launched by USC, the City of Los Angeles and a number of stakeholders including researchers and industry.
USC Dornsife’s Viet Thanh Nguyen, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer, reflects on refugee literature and how it plays in our “nation of immigrants.”
An op-ed by USC Dornsife’s Robert Dekle reflects on China’s economic growth since opening its markets up to other countries.
In “Blue Rose,” the USC Dornsife poet tells of a child who survives her journey into the world.
Computer analysis of satellite images for developing cities will often overlook urban communities and harm a city’s poorest residents by inadequately distributing public services, according to a study by Annette Kim of the USC Price School of Public Policy.
Many adults treated at U.S. emergency rooms for mild brain injuries fail to get follow-up care within three months even when they have moderate to severe concussion symptoms, a Keck School of Medicine of USC study suggests.
USC Dornsife Professor Bob Shrum weighs in on a Netflix documentary about Sen. Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1968. Shrum calls Kennedy’s victory speech after the Democratic presidential primary in California a shining moment of hope.
Wearable fitness trackers like Fitbit could help doctors predict how well cancer patients will tolerate chemotherapy. Doctors might also use them to intervene before patients end up in the hospital. That’s the finding of USC’s Jorge Nieva and other researchers.
USC Dornsife Dean Amber D. Miller writes that today’s way of life would not exist without breakthroughs made at American research universities.
During a visit to South Korea, USC Annenberg’s Diane Winston and students find many Korean Christians are wary of Kim Jong-un’s talk of reconciliation. Their preference is reunification: one democratic country where Christianity is openly practiced.
Inland Shift: Race, Space and Capital in Southern California by USC American Studies Professor Juan De Lara explores the economic and social upheaval brought on by the region’s booming ”logistics economy.”
USC Dornsife’s Antonio Damasio argues that feelings are the basis for consciousness and lead to the development of cultures. If this is the case, the consciousness pursued for artificial intelligence is not the same as human consciousness.
An op-ed by USC’s Dana Goldman and colleagues argues that a 30-year low in the birth rate could have devastating impacts on Social Security and Medicare, and is well below the level needed to maintain existing population levels.
USC eliminated student evaluations of teaching this spring. Students will still evaluate their professors, with some adjustments, including a new focus on students’ own engagement in a course. But those ratings will not be used in high-stakes personnel decisions.
Rumors of white America’s demise over lost status have been greatly exaggerated, according to an opinion piece by USC’s Dowell Myers and Morris Levy. That’s because the prevailing definition of whiteness is stubbornly stuck in the past.
A study by Ron Avi Astor of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and colleagues that found 1 in 5 teens surveyed said they had seriously considered suicide.
The true story by USC history Professor Steven J. Ross details how an amateur spy ring foiled Nazi plots in Hollywood, including one to assassinate Charlie Chaplin and other stars.
Quantum systems promise to upend just about everything, writes USC President C. L. Max Nikias — but, like in the days after the Soviets launched Sputnik, America has some catching up to do.
Apparently not: Research by Gale Lucas of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and colleagues found that photorealistic avatars — ones that look like the players — have little effect on players’ performance.