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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Need Motivation to Exercise? Try a Little Healthy Competition
Damon Centola of the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted about studying how competition via online social networks motivates people to exercise.
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Video: Penn Makes Smallest Self-powered Flying Robot
Matt Piccoli, a graduate student in Mark Yim’s ModLab in the School of Engineering and Applied Science is featured for creating the world’s smallest controllable flying vehicle.
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Penn Engineers Use Big Data to Show Shakespeare Had Coauthor on ‘Henry VI’ Plays
Alejandro Ribeiro, Santiago Segarra and Mark Eisen of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are highlighted for using a computational approach to solve a mystery about Shakespeare’s uncredited co-authors.
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AI Can Learn From Data Without Ever Having Access to It
Aaron Roth of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is mentioned.
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NTSB: Train in Hoboken Crash Was Going Double the Speed Limit
Vukan Vuchic of the School of Engineering and Applied Science shares his thoughts on the National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation of a commuter train accident in New Jersey.
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Video: Hoping to Get Lucky
Michael Kearns of the School of Engineering and Applied Science talks about controlling luck.
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Video: Exhilarating, and a Little Frightening: A Ride in a Self-driving Car
Daniel Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted about Uber’s services for passengers.
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Welcome to Philly’s Robot Revolution
Katherine Kuchenbecker and doctoral candidate Naomi Fitter of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Michelle Johnson of the Perelman School of Medicine are featured about human-robot interactions.
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Video: Why Data Citation Is a Computational Problem
Susan Davidson of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is featured about how researchers can cite a particular search of a given database so others can duplicate that search.
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Why 10 District Teachers Spent Their Summer Doing Grad-level STEM Research
Dan Ueda of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is highlighted for helping tailor the Research Experience for Teachers program to middle school STEM teachers.