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Can AI manage an entire medical decision process?

A new Wharton study tests whether AI can handle realistic clinical decision-making, a dynamic process that requires managing a patient’s condition under time pressure.

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People in hallway surrounded by computing equipment.

Penn’s newest supercomputer is transforming research

Penn’s first campus-wide HPC and AI cluster, “Betty,” is expanding access to powerful computing, enabling groundbreaking projects, and fostering new collaborations across disciplines.

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People walking and seated near the entrance to Van Pelt Library.

Penn’s third annual AI Month spotlights the evolving frontier of human-centered AI

A monthlong series of talks, workshops, symposia, and more highlights how recent advances in artificial intelligence are reshaping robotics, health, education, and public life, all the while keeping human values at the center.

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Will LLMs replace coders? Not entirely

After ChatGPT’s launch, the percentage of routine coding questions on an online forum fell sharply, while novel questions rose, according to new research by Wharton’s Neha Sharma.

Zitong Lan, Haowen Lai and Mingmin Zhao with a robot in a lab.

Robots that can see around corners using radio signals and AI

Doctoral students at Penn Engineering have built a new system, powered by AI and radio signals, that allows robots to view around corners, with implications for vehicle safety and industrial efficiency.

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Engineering researchers at a whiteboard in the Gao lab.

Engineers sharpen gene-editing tools to target cystic fibrosis

Researchers at Penn Engineering have developed a modified base-pair editor that offers improved accuracy and could help treat diseases like cystic fibrosis.

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Two workers in a lab working on cooling structures.

Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion

Dorit Aviv, director of Weitzman’s Thermal Architecture Lab, studies how humans, technology, and design intersect, paving the way for the development of novel approaches to cooling people efficiently.

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Shreya Parchure, an M.D.-Ph.D. candidate at Penn, conducts much of her AI-driven research in the Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation, focusing on ways to personalize speech therapy for patients with post-stroke aphasia.

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Shreya Parchure: Leveraging AI to help stroke survivors recover speech abilities

Doctoral student Shreya Parchure and her team evaluated the usefulness of an AI tool for personalizing speech therapy for patients with post-stroke aphasia.

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Jean Bartik (left) and Frances Spence operating the ENIAC’s main control panel in 1946.

Penn’s ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, turns 80

Housed in the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School Building, ENIAC—the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose computer—launched in 1946. ENIAC’s ability to be reprogrammed to solve a wide range of complex numerical problems was revolutionary and laid the foundation for modern digital systems.

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The small, high-tech beanie protecting premature babies

The Sonura Beanie, designed by Penn Engineering alums, is calming babies in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s intensive care nursery.

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Can AI manage an entire medical decision process?

Penn’s newest supercomputer is transforming research

Penn’s third annual AI Month spotlights the evolving frontier of human-centered AI

Will LLMs replace coders? Not entirely

Robots that can see around corners using radio signals and AI

Engineers sharpen gene-editing tools to target cystic fibrosis

Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion

Shreya Parchure: Leveraging AI to help stroke survivors recover speech abilities

Penn’s ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, turns 80

The small, high-tech beanie protecting premature babies