Powering AI Research Across USC
In one of the largest gifts in the university’s history, Mark and Mary Stevens have donated $200 million to drive AI research across USC. The university will name the USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence to honor their investment in research and innovation at the intersections of AI and health sciences, business, security and the arts.
(Photo illustration/Stevens photo by Steve Cohn, Ginsburg Hall rendering by HOK)
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