Nader Engheta was puzzled when he got a call from the psychology department about a fish. In the early 1990s, Engheta, a newly minted associate professor … Read More ›
Author: Devorah Fischler
“A time and a place for everything.” As true for human experiences as it is for cellular survival, this maxim speaks to the most hopeful … Read More ›
Today Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is providing a $700,000 gift to the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science to support … Read More ›
Photonic chips have revolutionized data-heavy technologies. On their own or in concert with traditional electronic circuits, these laser-powered devices send and process information at the … Read More ›
On April 26, scholars from all over the world gathered at Villanova University to celebrate extraordinary innovation in the physics and technology of light. The … Read More ›
Penn Engineering Today spoke with Michael Posa about robotics in the age of artificial intelligence, the ambulatory genius of toddlers, navigating the unfamiliar and the … Read More ›
The mesosphere — the middle of Earth’s five atmospheric layers — is almost unexplorable. The air is ill-disposed for tools of observation: not dense enough … Read More ›
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, AMOLF, and the City University of New York (CUNY) have created a surface with a nanostructure capable of … Read More ›
Michael Kearns, National Center Professor of Management & Technology in the Department of Computer and Information Science, draws on decades of leadership in the field … Read More ›
The most recent generation of chatbots has surfaced longstanding concerns about the growing sophistication and accessibility of artificial intelligence. Fears about the integrity of the … Read More ›