10 Teams Selected for the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge

Chris Callison-Burch and his team at Penn were selected to participate in the Amazon Science Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, the first conversational AI challenge to incorporate multimodal (voice and vision) customer experiences. The year-long competition will conclude in May 2022.

Computer and Information Science

Ubiquity of Data

Vijay Kumar reappointed dean of Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science

Vijay Kumar has been reappointed as the Nemirovsky Family Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science through June 30, 2027. Under Kumar’s leadership during the previous six years, the School has catalyzed growth in engineering health, data science and computation, and energy science and technology.

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

OHBM 2021 Keynote Interview Series: Heterogeneity Is the Key

In this OHBM interview, Ted Satterthwaite discusses his career path, the influence of machine learning on the future of psychiatry, and the tools he's currently working on developing.

Psychiatry

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

How Mathematicians Use Homology to Make Sense of Topology

Originally devised as a rigorous means of counting holes, homology provides a scaffolding for mathematical ideas, allowing for a new way to analyze the shapes within data. Robert Ghrist comments in this Quanta Magazine article.

Electrical and Systems Engineering
Mathematics

Ubiquity of Data

Learning Deep Learning Together

Konrad Kording discusses his work in educating the next generation in deep learning, and his views on the importance of causality in deep learning research on this episode of the SuperDataScience podcast.

Bioengineering
Neuroscience

Ubiquity of Data

Jason Moore elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics

The International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics announced the 2021 Class of Academy Fellows, which included Warren Center affiliate Jason Moore. Academy Fellowship is one of the highest honors in the international field of biomedical and health informatics.

Biomedical Informatics

Ubiquity of Data

Why Regulation Won’t Harm Cryptocurrencies

There have been recent worries that increased regulation of cryptocurrencies would hurt trading volumes and prices, however, tighter regulation could purge the industry of bad actors and engender trust, which in turn would help it grow, according to Kevin Werbach.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

3 questions with Michael Kearns: Designing socially aware algorithms and models

Amazon Science spoke to Michael Kearns about the upcoming Machine Learning Summit and exciting recent developments in socially aware algorithm design.

Computer and Information Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Michael Kearns and Diana Mutz elected to the National Academy of Sciences

As newly elected members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Michael Kearns and Diana Mutz join a class of honored scholars recognized for their unique and ongoing contributions to original research.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Political Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Prof. Coglianese contemplates a future of digitally automated government

In a new paper, Cary Coglianese considers a key question raised by government agencies’ increased use of digital automation powered by artificial intelligence: Can U.S. administrative law accommodate a future in which most government functions are automated?

Law
Political Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

News

10 Teams Selected for the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge

Vijay Kumar reappointed dean of Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science

OHBM 2021 Keynote Interview Series: Heterogeneity Is the Key

How Mathematicians Use Homology to Make Sense of Topology

Learning Deep Learning Together

Jason Moore elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics

Why Regulation Won’t Harm Cryptocurrencies

3 questions with Michael Kearns: Designing socially aware algorithms and models

Michael Kearns and Diana Mutz elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Prof. Coglianese contemplates a future of digitally automated government