2018

USC Viterbi School of Engineering: USC Center for AI in Society Seeks to Reduce Military Suicides

May 1, 2018

by Marc Ballon

In a groundbreaking project, USC Viterbi School of Engineering and USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work to identify at-risk active military personnel and veterans.

As suicide rates among active-duty service members and veterans continue to outpace rates among the general population, researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work have joined forces to use...

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USC Viterbi School of Engineering, April 11 2018: You Are What Your Friends Eat

April 11, 2018

By CONNIE CHOY

The USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society is transforming public health by calibrating real-life, human intervention

Do you have that friend you go out with to indulge on all the scrumptious and unhealthy delicacies L.A. has to offer? Or how about that other friend that eats organic and always makes you feel like an unhealthy chicken nugget?

Chances are you have both – you’re also probably one of them.

Our peers, specifically our human social networks, have a lot of influence when it comes to our lifestyle...

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PC Magazine: How AI Can Outsmart Criminals and Improve Society

April 9, 2018

USC Professor Milind Tambe has been working on AI-based security solutions since 2007. Now he wants to apply that knowledge to help society, from climate change to gang violence.

By S.C. Stuart

If you're a fan of heist movies like The Italian Job, you're familiar with the scene where the bad guys gather around a map, and the kingpin says something like: "The guards do a security patrol at 05:30 hours. Synchronize your watches. We'll enter here at 05:47 hours. Fingers will disable the alarm before Maxi and her team enter the building via the roof."...

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VentureBeat: AI could help fight the spread infectious disease around the world

March 14, 2018

By Matthew Leonard, St Andrews Angels

Communicable diseases represent a critical challenge for resource-strapped public health infrastructures worldwide. As evidenced by the outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, influenza A H1N1 (or “swine flu”) in 2009, Ebola and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2014, and the Zika virus in 2016, infectious diseases can spread rapidly within countries and across national borders. In China alone, the ...

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HealthData Management: USC algorithm could reduce spread of infectious diseases

February 26, 2018
By Greg Slabodkin

An algorithm developed at the University of Southern California could help public health outreach campaigns better locate and treat people living with undiagnosed infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and gonorrhea.

Researchers from the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society used data—including behavioral, demographic and epidemic trends—to create a novel model of disease spread that both captures the underlying population dynamics and contact patterns between people.

“While there are many methods to identify patient populations for...

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India Times: This Is How AI Is Helping Save Endangered Wildlife Species, By Turning Poachers Into Prey

February 16, 2018

By Gwyn D'Mello

Poaching is a major problem for wildlife preserves. While these organisations are struggling to protect animals on the verge of extinction, poachers do whatever they can to sneak in and kill them for immediate gains, usually something as stupid as an animal’s coat, horn or other body parts.

Now, researchers from the University of Southern California Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society are using AI to spot these illegal hunters in near-real time and catch them before they can do harm.

The thing is, infrared cameras are great...

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