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Author: Ian Scheffler

From left: Jamie Moffa, Konrad Kording, Kaela Singleton and Arjun Raj
In the News, Research + Innovation

From Chance to Certainty: Solving Science’s Reproducibility Crisis

One of the pillars of science is the idea that experimental results can be replicated. If they cannot be reproduced, what if the findings of … Read More ›

Posted on July 10, 2024July 17, 2024
Fact versus opinion road sign.
In the News, Research + Innovation

Mapping Media Bias: How AI Powers the Computational Social Science Lab’s Media Bias Detector

Every day, American news outlets collectively publish thousands of articles. In 2016, according to The Atlantic, The Washington Post published 500 pieces of content per … Read More ›

Posted on June 25, 2024June 25, 2024
Henry Coshburn poses in front of a vase of flowers, wearing a button down shirt and blue jacket
Alumni

Catalyzing Change: Henry Coshburn and the Power of Mentorship

In the early 20th century, as Isabel Wilkerson recounts in The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, millions of Black … Read More ›

Posted on June 24, 2024June 26, 2024
Matt Fallon high-fives Leon Marchand after the 200-yard breaststroke at the 2024 NCAA Championships
In the News, Students

Engineering an Olympian: Matt Fallon’s Journey from Penn to Paris

This week, more than 1,000 of the country’s best swimmers have gathered in Indianapolis, the site of the U.S. Olympic Trials. Only 56 of them … Read More ›

Posted on June 17, 2024
Six robots gather around an oversized typewriter using their own laptops, tablets, and phones, illustrating the concept of writing or journalism work being performed by artificial intelligence. Illustration uses a unified palette of neutral and turquoise colors, comprised of vector shapes over a dark gray background on a 16x9 artboard, and presented in isometric view.
Research + Innovation

Censoring Creativity: The Limits of ChatGPT for Scriptwriting

Last year, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) labor union, which represents film and TV writers, went on strike for nearly five months, in part … Read More ›

Posted on June 10, 2024July 17, 2024
A cartoon of a Facebook newsfeed with an image of a vaccine syringe, a COVID-19 viral particle, and the phrase "FAKE NEWS" stamped across the image.
Research + Innovation

Reexamining Misinformation: How Unflagged, Factual Content Drives Vaccine Hesitancy

What threatens public health more, a deliberately false Facebook post about tracking microchips in the COVID-19 vaccine that is flagged as misinformation, or an unflagged, … Read More ›

Posted on May 30, 2024July 17, 2024
Nader Engheta and Firooz Aflatouni chat animatedly over cups of tea in the latter's office.
In the News, Research + Innovation

Brewing Brilliance: Nader Engheta and Firooz Aflatouni of Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science turn tea time into new ideas.

According to Chinese legend, the first cup of tea was an accident. Shennong, a mythical emperor, boiled a pot of water, only for the wind … Read More ›

Posted on May 28, 2024May 28, 2024
A pair of gloves hands holds a small filter device next to a quarter. The Penn logo is in the background, slightly out of focus.
Research + Innovation

To 6G and Beyond: Penn Engineers Unlock the Next Generation of Wireless Communications

In the early 2010s, LightSquared, a multibillion-dollar startup promising to revolutionize cellular communications, declared bankruptcy. The company couldn’t figure out how to prevent its signals … Read More ›

Posted on May 24, 2024July 17, 2024
From left: Vijay Kumar, Nemirosvky Family Dean of Penn Engineering, and Board members Rajendra Singh, Harlan Stone (C'80, P'13) and Fred Warren (ME’60, WG’61)
Alumni, In the News

Investing in Innovation: Philanthropy Powers AI Education at Penn Engineering

In 1943, Warren McCullough, a psychiatrist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Walter Pitts, a runaway prodigy, co-authored a paper in the Bulletin … Read More ›

Posted on May 22, 2024May 22, 2024
Michael Kearns wearing a button down shirt while teaching.
In the News, Research + Innovation

Model Disgorgement: The Key to Fixing AI Bias and Copyright Infringement?

By now, the challenges posed by generative AI are no secret. Models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and Meta’s Llama have been known to “hallucinate,” … Read More ›

Posted on May 17, 2024July 17, 2024

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