Foundational Gift Focuses on Law and Technology

A leadership gift from the Perry and Donna Golkin Family Foundation will advance legal education and scholarship at the intersection of law and technology at Penn Carey Law. “This gift allows CTIC to deepen its work at exactly the moment when it matters most," says Christopher Yoo.

Law

Ubiquity of Data

An Evolving Penn Engineering Degree

To reflect the expanding landscape of digital media design, Penn Engineering has introduced the BS in Engineering in Visual and Interactive Computing beginning this fall. This program ensures "that our students will continue to be leaders in one of technology’s most dynamic and rapidly changing fields,” says Vijay Kumar.

Bioengineering
Computer and Information Science
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Ubiquity of Data

Empowering Better AI Users

Helmed by Bhuvnesh Jain, new AI offerings—from a broad crash course to specialized department trainings—aim to help Penn faculty become more comfortable with evolving technologies.

Physics and Astronomy

Ubiquity of Data

Goodthink: The New Science of Collective Intelligence

In his new book, Goodthink: The New Science of Collective Intelligence, Damon Centola debunks the myth of groupthink and reveals that social influence can actually make us smarter, if we're connected in the right ways.

Communication
Sociology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

The Value of Self-Ranking Research

Authors self-ranking their own submissions could be a stronger predictor of future citations than peer-reviewed scores, according to a new study from Weijie Su and Bingxin Zhao.

Statistics

Ubiquity of Data

Why Don’t Machine Learning Research Agents Overfit?

"Machine learning, at its core, is about generalization, not memorization," write Martin Bertran Lopez and Aaron Roth for Amazon Science. New research indicates that AI agents learn compressible models of data, which don’t have enough space to enable memorization.

Computer and Information Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Why Do People Code Switch?

Across two surveys of Black Americans, researchers studied how social relationships and self-identity relate to code switching. “We saw that people’s perceptions of their Black identity were related to their perception of how much they tend to switch,” says Emily Falk, the paper’s senior author.

Communication
Marketing
Operations Information and Decisions
Psychology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Once a Spy Satellite, Now a Telescope With an Eye on the Cosmos

Over the weekend, NASA launched its long-awaited Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, carrying one of the most advanced wide-field cameras ever sent to space. Cosmologists and astronomers including Bhuvnesh Jain helped build the software to analyze Roman’s data.

Physics and Astronomy

Ubiquity of Data

When Do Teams Outperform Individuals?

Do groups outperform individuals? New research from Duncan Watts's Computational Social Science Lab suggests that decades of conflicting evidence about the effectiveness of collaboration can be explained by one overlooked factor: the task itself.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Consensus and Contagion in Society

The Hardest Part Is Always People

Technological innovation has a dual nature: it is propelled by visionary inventors but its ultimate trajectory is shaped by human behavior, which is messy, unpredictable, and resistant to neat explanations, writes Sandra González-Bailón for a special edition of Dædalus.

Communication
Sociology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

News

Foundational Gift Focuses on Law and Technology

An Evolving Penn Engineering Degree

Empowering Better AI Users

Goodthink: The New Science of Collective Intelligence

The Value of Self-Ranking Research

Why Don’t Machine Learning Research Agents Overfit?

Why Do People Code Switch?

Once a Spy Satellite, Now a Telescope With an Eye on the Cosmos

When Do Teams Outperform Individuals?

The Hardest Part Is Always People