USC Viterbi | School of Advanced Computing

New USC Institute on Ethics and Trust in Computing hosts inaugural AI summit

Event features leading AI experts from academia and industry.

About The USC School of Advanced Computing

Building on over 50 years of Trojan computing excellence — from the birth of the Internet to the first operational quantum computing system in academia — the USC School of Advanced Computing (SAC) is USC’s 23rd school.

The school, a unit within the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, is the epicenter of all computing-related activities across USC. Among the school’s many ambitious initiatives is to ensure that all USC students, regardless of major, are fluent in the ethical use of computing technology.

The SAC combines the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the new Division of Computing Education. It also includes USC Viterbi’s two powerhouse institutes: the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) in Marina del Rey and the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) in Playa Vista. Additionally, through the creation of Affinity Faculty groups, the SAC includes faculty whose primary appointments are in computing-focused areas across all of USC’s other schools.

USC Viterbi School of Engineering and its School of Advanced Computing Announce the Keynote Speakers for the 2026 Commencement Ceremonies

CEO of Google Public Sector, Ret. President and CEO of the Aerospace Corporation, President & CEO and Chairman of Rubriq Corporation to keynote

Understanding Humans, Changing Lives: 25 Years of USC SAIL Lab

25 years, 1,000+ papers, 20+ Patents and Beyond - Pioneering Human-centered Technologies and Building a Multigenerational Research Family

The Long Game: Bill Swartout’s 50-Year Journey from Homework Machines to Lasting Conversations

The ICT pioneer who built systems that made Holocaust survivors immortal and brought museum exhibits to life is stepping back—but not stepping away.

Multi-fingered Robots Could Transform Shipboard Operations and Autonomous Maintenance

USC Viterbi Researcher Received Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Program Award With Upcoming Study on Dexterous Robotics

USC Scientists Build a Memory Chip That Survives Temperatures Hotter Than Lava

A discovery using graphene has produced a record-breaking high-temperature memory device, with implications for space exploration, deep-earth drilling, and the future of AI hardware.