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Gaming the Battlefield: Bridging Mainstream Play and Real World Military Preparedness
By Bayley Camp, Operations Officer, Defense and Intelligence Initiatives, USC Institute for Creative Technologies A few weeks ago, I came across some old college papers. One of them looked at how narratives and stereotypes are represented in modern day video games. Reading it, I couldn’t help thinking about my own path, how I ended up […]
Advancing Virtual Training: David Cobbins’ Work on ELITE at ICT
A new feature by Ava Izadi for USC Viterbi spotlights ICT creative producer David Cobbins, a U.S. Army veteran and USC School of Cinematic Arts alumnus whose work bridges military experience, storytelling craft, and advanced virtual training research. Cobbins leads the Emerging Leader Immersive Training Environment (ELITE) in the MxR Lab—ICT’s digital platfo
ICT Research Featured on Circuit News
ICT’s work in next-generation simulation research is highlighted on Circuit News, the National Academy of Engineering and USC Viterbi’s joint engineering news program. Watch the segment here: The feature spotlights two major ICT initiatives
ICT Research Featured in Military.com on the Future of AI-Enabled Training
Military.com’s recent feature Artificial Intelligence Comes to the Ranks: The Next Wave of Military Training Tech highlights how AI is reshaping training and readiness across the U.S. armed forces. The article includes ICT’s work developing AI-enabled training materials that generate new scenarios in near real time—turning traditional, slide-based instructio
ICT Research Presentation at EMNLP 2025
By Yunzhe Wang, second-year Computer Science PhD student, Viterbi School of Engineering; Researcher Human-inspired Adaptive Teaming Systems (HATS) Lab, USC ICT Yunzhe Wang is a second-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at USC in the Human-Inspired Adaptive Teaming Systems (HATS) Lab, advised by Volkan Ustun and William Swartout, focusing on human-AI collabo
ICT Interns 2025 Video
Celebrating 15 Years at ICT: A Conversation with Kevin Watley
Kevin Watley has been an integral part of the Institute for Creative Technologies for fifteen years, contributing to the organization’s evolution through both his creative vision and his facilities expertise. Watley has just wrapped directing and editing the 2025 ICT Interns video, the latest in a series he’s been producing since 2011. In the following […]
How ICT Built a Human-AI Team That Amplified Research Communications Output
By Dr. Randall W. Hill, Jr. & S.C. Stuart The AI Paradox McKinsey recently reported that half of consumers now use AI-powered search, with the technology poised to impact $750 billion in revenue by 2028. The question for research institutions became urgent: what is your strategy for generative AI engine optimization? At the USC Institute […]