Tech
Penn to purchase electricity from two new solar facilities toward goal of 100% carbon neutrality
The Great Cove I and II facilities are part of the largest solar power project in Pennsylvania, comprising 485,000 solar panels with a capacity of 220 megawatts.
LilyLoop wins annual Y-Prize competition for menstrual products with biodegradable moisture sensors
This year, the winning team developed a product that uses biodegradable moisture sensors to record menstrual flow data and alert users to change their period products.
New AI literacy interest group holds teach-in sessions on nuance of large language models
Penn’s new AI Literacy Interest Group hosted a panel and showcase on Feb. 13 in Van Pelt Library to spread awareness about AI language models and machine learning systems.
New student initiative at Penn partners with startup specializing in AI healthcare applications
College first year Akash Verma established the Startup Initiative Foundation this year to provide Penn students with the opportunity to engage with start-ups in Philadelphia.
Penn to become first Ivy League school to offer undergraduate degree in artificial intelligence
Students and faculty expressed excitement for the new engineering degree in AI, which will be available to students next school year.
Penn Med resident to launch AI dictation software to ease administrative tasks for physicians
Nikhil Illa's app aims to make transcription, note-taking, and billing easier for physicians.
Carl June wins Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for development of CAR-T cell immunotherapy
Carl June was awarded the prize for his work in creating and pioneering chimeric antigen receptor T Cell immunotherapy.
New ‘AI at Wharton’ initiative aims to explore and research AI applications, educate students on AI
The initiative will give students the opportunity to take advantage of Wharton’s resources to further their understanding of how to use AI and apply it in the business world.
Researchers from Penn, Max Planck Institute release AI-based image editing tool
The tool, called DragGAN, is one of many AI tools that have become widely available for public use.
Ron DeSantis launches presidential campaign in Twitter event with Elon Musk
The event follows Musk's announcement that he will be resigning as CEO of Twitter early this summer.
Wharton graduate founds education startup to support student passion projects
On April 27, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., Be All You will have a festival in the Hall of Flags in Houston Hall.
Two Engineering sophomores create AI tools to streamline studying, course searching
Penn Course Search is a search engine for the Penn course catalog powered by artificial intelligence and CramGPT is a chatbot which is trained on course notes and recordings.
Penn graduate Elon Musk merges Twitter with X Corp. to form a private company
Twitter, Inc. will cease to exist after the merger, according to court documents.
New Penn club creates community for Black students to explore AI and cognitive science
Through the creation of Nexus, three cognitive science majors hope to provide cognitive science majors and those with interests in cognition with a new space for building community.
80% of U.S. workforce will be affected by GPTs, Penn research finds
The researchers identified data processing services, information services, publishing, and insurance carriers as industries in which GPTs will have the greatest effect.
Annenberg launches Center for Information Networks and Democracy
CIND aims to explore questions surrounding the emerging political usages of artificial intelligence chat boxes and social media disinformation.
In absence of University-wide guidance, Penn professors vary approaches to AI in academics
Six Penn professors and administrators spoke with The Daily Pennsylvanian about how they are tackling the use of ChatGPT, from banning to mandating its use.
Wharton Customer Analytics and AI for Business combine, citing 'fast-moving' changes in tech
The combined program unites the AI courses and academic research provided by AI for Business with the global datasets and the student programming in corporate analytics provided by Wharton Customer Analytics.
Sophomores start DiversaTech, Penn’s first tech consulting club
DiversaTech consultants focus on utilizing technology in a wide variety of fields.