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USC Institute on Ethics and Trust in Computing Launched Inaugural Summit
Researchers and industry leaders across engineering, law, philosophy, business and more gathered to discuss key issues in ethical and trustworthy AI at IETC's first summit
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center (RASC) Seminar

Fri, May 01, 2026
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: OHE 100D
Speaker: Prof. Anirudha Majumdar, Princeton University Talk Title: Trustworthy World Models for Safe Generalist Robots Abstract: Action-conditioned video generation models have the potential to serve as general-purpose world models for...

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Huihan Li - Dissertation Defense

Mon, May 04, 2026
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Title: From Black-Box Generation to Traceable Reasoning Abstract: Large language models have become reasoning engines, deployed at scale and capable of producing hundreds of intermediate thoughts before committing to an answer. But...

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CS Distinguished Lecture feat. Hadas Kress-Gazit, Ph.D. (Cornell Univ.)

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Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science News and Media Coverage

IETC directors, panelists and school leaders at the summit. Left to right: Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Robin Jia, Evi Micha, John Hawthorne, Yan Liu, Shri Narayanan, Rebecca Lemon, Gaurav Sukhatme, Hyojin Song, Peter Salib and Ben Levinstein.

Researchers and industry leaders across engineering, law, philosophy, business and more gathered to discuss key issues in ethical and trustworthy AI at IETC’s first summit

Every student project from Valero-Cuevas’ course received an invitation to present their work at the 10th World Congress of Biomechanics in Vancouver, Canada this July. (Image // Midjourney)

BME students will present their work at the 10th World Congress of Biomechanics this summer.

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Emilio Ferrara was interviewed about the site Agent4Science


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Published on February 23rd, 2017Last updated on April 30th, 2026