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Real or fake text? We can learn to spot the difference
Person with smartphone engaging with chatbot.

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Real or fake text? We can learn to spot the difference

Penn computer scientists prove that people can be trained to tell the difference between AI-generated and human-written text. Their new paper debuts the results of the largest-ever human study on AI detection.

From Penn Engineering Today

U.S. census data vulnerable to attack without enhanced privacy measures
Red, white and blue zeros and ones indicating computer data.

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U.S. census data vulnerable to attack without enhanced privacy measures

A new PNAS study shows that statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau can be reverse engineered to reveal protected information about individual respondents.

From Penn Engineering Today

Identifying a vulnerability in critical spacecraft networks
NASA spacecraft in orbit.

Identifying a vulnerability in critical spacecraft networks

Penn Engineering’s Linh Thi Xuan Phan and a team of researchers have identified a critical security flaw in the networking approach used in aerospace and other safety-critical systems.

Evan Lerner

The art and science of video game development
Students at a table with open laptops, one shows a draft of a video game.

(Homepage image) Students in the Digital Media Design program are interested in computer programming, mathematics, computer graphics, animation, virtual reality and interactive technologies.

The art and science of video game development

In the group UPGRADE, students take an interdisciplinary approach to game creation.

Izzy Lopez

Two from Penn named Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery
Jane Li and Li Shen.

Jing (Jane) Li of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Li Shen of Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. (Images: Courtesy of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Perelman School of Medicine)

Two from Penn named Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery

Jing (Jane) Li of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Li Shen of the Perelman School of Medicine have been named distinguished members of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Michele W. Berger , Michele W. Berger , Nathi Magubane

For ‘spirit of innovation,’ three from Penn named National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Penn faculty Vijay Kumar, Katalin Kariko, and Drew Weissman

Vijay Kumar of Penn Engineering and Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine have been named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, recognizing their contributions to inventions that have made a meaningful impact on society. (Images: Penn Engineering/Penn Medicine)

For ‘spirit of innovation,’ three from Penn named National Academy of Inventors Fellows

Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine were honored with the recognition.

Katherine Unger Baillie , Nathi Magubane , Alex Gardner