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Designed to address the growing demand for AI fluency in business leadership, the new track is expected to shape the way future executives, including Chief Financial Officers, approach emerging technologies.
The report introduced AI as representing a "fundamentally different way of working" and explored questions how organizations adapt workflows, prepare workers, and create new approaches to organization design.
This year's hackathon was titled “Build Your AI for Education Tool & Solve the Prompt Hacking Challenge" and invited competitors to combine “innovation, technical skill, and a dash of creativity.”
The Penn AI launch event offered insight into the growing use of AI in research as well as the need for Penn to keep up with technological advancements.
Penn's Dental School and School of Engineering and Applied Science have worked together to create a new treatment option for apical periodontitis, a chronic dental infection that causes tooth loss and affects more than half of the world's population.
Dedicated to spotlighting global leaders, the Tarnopol lecture series serves as a platform for addressing critical societal issues, including AI’s potential and ethical implications.
Pincus's gift — the largest of its kind given to the Generative AI Labs at Wharton — will support GAIL's efforts to explore "innovative AI applications for business and education."
Discussions at the Center for Particle Cosmology are currently underway to select the next speaker for the Elon Musk Public Lecture series, which was last held in 2023.
The PASS initiative, which is being developed in partnership with Catalyst @ Penn GSE, aims to equip educators and administrators with the tools and knowledge necessary to integrate AI into schools.
The center will will aid computational and data-driven research through hardware, software, system support, and research consulting services, with the goal of advancing Penn’s research community, according to the announcement.
The consortium brings together hundreds of organizations, consumers, leading specialists in the industry, and researchers to make sure that AI can be used effectively and efficiently.
This funding, provided through the NIH’s Somatic Cell Genome Editing Program, will support gene-editing research aimed at developing treatments for rare metabolic diseases.
As the 2024-25 school year kicks off, The Daily Pennsylvanian compiled a list of perks that accompany being a Penn student to help ease the transition to campus.