Founded on an ecosystem of innovation

See Warren Center affiliates Vijay Kumar and Konrad Kording featured in Penn's recent video on innovation at the University. “If it's new, if it's novel, then it holds promise to change the world. You'll find it at Penn,” says President Amy Gutmann.

Communication Neuroscience Scholar Emily Falk Promoted to Full Professor

Emily Falk, Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Marketing, recently received promotion to full professor. By looking at how people’s brains respond to, for example, news headlines or public health messaging, Falk’s work unlocks the unconscious and hidden dynamics in the brain that shapes our thinking.

• Communication
• Marketing
• Psychology

How the Mind Emerges from the Brain’s Complex Networks

How does the brain give rise to who we are? Dani Bassett explains how this question has led to the new field of network neuroscience, which uses a branch of mathematics, graph theory, to model the brain connections that let us read, calculate, or simply sit and tap our fingers.

• Bioengineering

What this Wharton Professor Wants Students to Know About Customer Centricity

Through two elective courses, an elaborate simulation, two books, and a Global Business Week in Finland and Sweden, Peter Fader offers students many opportunities to learn how customer centricity can drive profits. Read more about Fader's teaching and ventures.

• Marketing

The Real Reason for Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency

Facebook says its new cryptocurrency, Libra, is a tool for financial inclusion and disrupting the world’s cumbersome payment systems. In reality, there is a deeper motivation behind it, although not the one its critics imagine: Libra is the last, best hope to re-establish trust between Facebook and the world, writes Kevin Werbach.

• Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Game-changer to Digital Dustbin: Why iTunes Is Shutting Down

18 years after Apple launched the music download store, the company announced that iTunes is shutting down. Peter Fader sat down with Knowledge@Wharton to discuss the demise of iTunes and the takeaways from the Worldwide Developers Conference.

• Marketing

Damon Centola Receives Research Grant from Facebook

How do social media companies decide what is and isn’t allowed on their platforms? And, once they’ve established standards, how to do they go about enforcing them? Facebook is funding research that examines online content and focuses on hate speech and/or preventing offline harm, including a study from Damon Centola.

• Communication

Penn Researchers Detect Brain Differences between Fast and Slow Learners

Why do some people naturally excel at learning instruments, languages or technology while others take longer to pick up new knowledge? A new study led by Dani Bassett and Evelyn Tang looked at how brain activation patterns might affect how long it takes for new information to really stick in the brain.

• Bioengineering

Should Pandora’s Brain Be Regulated?

The existence of even a single AI with general intelligence would be a challenge to the ways human beings have seen their place in creation. "What, then, is to be done from a regulatory standpoint about the prospects of an “emergent” AI with general intelligence?" asks Jonathan Moreno.

• Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Penn Medicine Releases Free, ‘Self-Service’ AI Tool for Data Analytics

The Penn Medicine Institute for Biomedical Informatics has launched a free, open-source automated machine learning system for data analysis called Penn AI. Jason Moore's team has taken three years to develop this system so that it can be approachable by anyone, regardless of their training or experience.

• Biomedical Informatics