Exploring the future of #Robotics in space...right from @USC_ISI! We kicked off #LATechWeek with a look at @NASA’s Astrobee, the ISS’s free-flying robot, and the teams building the next wave of in-orbit tech: @ArkisysSpace, Mit, Obruta, Kall Morris Inc, and more.

🚀 Curious about the future of tech? Come tour USC’s Information Sciences Institute during #LATechWeek! 🗓️ Oct 14 • 10:30 AM | Marina del Rey, CA RSVP 👉 techweek.isi.edu @Techweek_ @USCViterbi

hi! we just launched SF LA Tech Week and it’s crazy to say (I know I say this every time) but it really is true - it’s the biggest one yet. we’ve broken more records and now have 1,500 events, over 2x last year’s launch! SF Tech Week: Oct 6-12 LA Tech Week: Oct 13-19 Register for events here: tech-week.com/calendar SF is on fire, on track to be home to the biggest Tech Week. When we first started @Techweek_, it was right after COVID, and we saw so many founders relocating outside the Bay Area to cities all over the US. That first year, SF Tech Week was actually the smallest. This year, it’s set to be the largest. We’ve doubled the number of SF events at launch year over year, a clear signal showing just how much the AI wave is fueling the city’s growth. And this is shaping up to be *the* week for tech in the city. LA was home to the very first Tech Week, and it’s special for me to see how much it’s grown. What makes LA unique is the mix of industries here. We’re seeing two in particular take off - AI in entertainment and deep tech. The best part is how the ecosystem really comes together around Tech Week to champion the city, with so many LA investors and GPs hosting. One of the biggest pieces of feedback we’ve heard from attendees is that now that Tech Week has gotten so big, we need more ways to discover events most relevant to you. So, this year we’ve put together curated tracks: future of work in SF, entertainment in LA, investor-focused events, hard tech, fintech, hackathons, and more.

From detecting information operations on social media to enhancing smart city development, this week ISI researchers return to the 2025 ACM Web Conference to present a number of innovative papers. ⁠ Check out the research spotlights: bit.ly/435bQzE

ISI's Haley Weinstein is on @iamwill's The FYI show! Listen tonight at 6PM PT on @siriusxm @the10sSpot @focusyourideas #teleportation #quantum #quantumphysics #lasers #AI @USC @USCViterbi

New research from ISI, the University of Iowa, and Claremont Graduate University sheds light on how the presence of this growing emotional divide—known as “affective polarization”—shapes individual decision-making across society. Read the story: bit.ly/3RuLj8t

Do countries work together to manipulate public opinion across social media platforms? A new study from ISI investigates whether inter-state coordination exists using state-of-the-art detection methodologies and control datasets. Read the story: bit.ly/3EpXy30

ISI/nsiders, ISI's podcast, is hosted by AI Division Director Adam Russell. In this episode, Alefiya Hussain, a supervising computer scientist and principal scientist at ISI, explains how she approaches security for the projects she works on. Listen: bit.ly/4iftJ44

Join us tomorrow for a new seminar! Malkiewicz is employed at CSC - IT Center for Science in Finland. In this seminar, he will present the architecture of the LUMI infrastructure and its status, together with plans and ambitions for the near future. Join: bit.ly/4hn5KP3

Following this week's Cloudwalkers premiere, an extraordinary group of internet pioneers came together to discuss the future of technology. Thank you Vint Cerf, Paul Mockapetris, Eve Schooler, Kevin Knight, and Steve Crago! ⁠ Read the panel takeaways: bit.ly/41xsXZ1

🎬 Cloudwalkers: ISI and the Inventors of the Future is NOW STREAMING on Amazon Prime Video! Discover how USC's ISI shaped the digital age, feat. internet pioneers like Vint Cerf & Paul Mockapetris. amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B… #InternetHistory #AmazonPrimeVideo @USCViterbi @USC

Join our NL seminar on Thursday! Arjun Subramonian is a CS PhD candidate at UCLA. They'll explore issues with the discussion of "democratizing" language technologies and the association of personal names with sociodemographic characteristics. Join here: bit.ly/41TWE7M

🌋 Predicting volcanic disasters just got an upgrade! Using Pegasus, a workflow system from @USCViterbi's @USC_ISI, researchers at @UBengineering can now simulate thousands of volcanic hazard scenarios with Titan2D. 🔗 bit.ly/43Bb1PE #Volcanology #Pegasus #NSF @USC

They came from all around the U.S. and as far away as Beijing and Macedonia. March 7th, 2025 marked ISI Ph.D. Day, the annual visit of doctoral candidates to ISI's stunning Marina del Rey campus.⁠ ⁠ Read the story: bit.ly/43H1dDI

While working at ISI in the 1980s, Paul Mockapetris invented a technology that remains fundamental to the Internet: the Domain Name System. Mockapetris recounts how the DNS was born: bit.ly/4iuDR8y

ISI/nsiders, ISI's podcast, is hosted by AI Division Director Adam Russell. In this episode, David Balenson, Interim Director of the Networking and Cybersecurity Division at ISI, shares how a passion for cryptography drew him to cybersecurity. Listen here:bit.ly/41Jmco8

Julie Jiang received her Ph.D. in Computer Science in May 2024, and she was supervised by Emilio Ferrara. "I'm well equipped both technically and scientifically to pursue the career in computer science that I want," she said.⁠ ⁠ Read Julie's interview: bit.ly/43FxwDp

Big congrats to Isabel Epistelomogi for taking her research to #SXSWEDU! 🎉 She studies online polarization at @USC_ISI & is now bringing data-driven solutions to civics education. bit.ly/4bnMVtK @CSatUSC @USCViterbi @USC

🚀 USC ISI took center stage, giving a tutorial and serving as featured speakers, at the Ground System Architectures Workshop (#GSAW) 2025: "Amplifying User Effectiveness: Automation, Augmentation, & AI/ML"! #Aerospace #AI #SpaceTech #Innovation @USCViterbi @USC

The ANT Lab (Analysis of Network Traffic), based at USC ISI, has detected a significant internet outage in Chile following a massive power failure that plunged much of the country into darkness on Tuesday, February 25, 2025.⁠ Read the full story: bit.ly/43gkrjs