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USC ISI - December 12
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Valentin Hofmann is a postdoc at Ai2 and the University of Washington. In this seminar, he'll present recent research showing that language models embody covert racism in the form of dialect prejudice.

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USC ISI - December 11
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Rebecca Dorn is a PhD candidate at USC ISI. In this seminar, they'll explore the tendency for LLMs to inaccurately flag texts authored by gender-queer individuals as harmful based on evaluations with a novel dataset.

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USC ISI RetweetedCA DREAMS - December 11
Exciting news! The @DeptofDefense has awarded CA DREAMS an additional $27 million through the CHIPS & Science Act. This continued investment supports the hub’s infrastructure, operations, and workforce development.

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USC ISI - December 10
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Christina Chance is a 3rd year Phd student at UCLA. In this talk, she'll explore how reclaimed words from marginalized communities are disparately perceived between individuals from the communities and algorithmic systems.

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Pursue transformational applied research while helping to invent a better and more secure future. Help research and develop new hardware solutions for problems of national importance.

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Work with some of the best minds in the field to develop advanced computer architectures and implement designs on applied research programs from top research sponsors such as DARPA, IARPA, and the CHIPS Act.

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Perform front-end digital design of advanced ASIC or FPGA-based prototypes addressing problems of national importance while developing novel computer architectures, RTL models, and systems-on-chip.

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In 1988, ISI AI researcher William Mann invented Rhetorical Structure Theory, the theory that explains what makes written texts coherent. His work became the basis for a large body of natural language processing (NLP) research.
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