Premature Autopsy
How radiology shows the limits and potential of AI.
Chatbot Realtor
Maybe don’t depend on chatbots for real estate advice.
From Penn Engineering to Running Apple
John Ternus EAS’97 was named Apple’s next CEO.
Hyper Text
Synthetic text extrusion. Virtual teaching assistants. Illusions of mastery. Silicon Socrates. Four years after the debut of ChatGPT, higher education is starting to look different.
From All Angles
The Penn Museum is giving virtual visitors a closer view.
The Newcomer Dividend
Wharton’s Zeke Hernandez hopes to bend the immigration debate toward a question rooted in his own research on capital investment and business formation: What do natives stand to gain?
Making Things Happen
Over the decade since it was launched as a “one-stop shop” for Penn faculty and programs seeking to translate research into products—and with a big help from two blockbuster discoveries—the Penn Center for Innovation has achieved record revenues and made the University a leader in forging partnerships “to move ideas from the inside to the outside.”
Alien Minds, Immaculate Bullshit, Outstanding Questions
College in the age of ChatGPT.
Maintaining Focus
Neal Kassell C’68 M’72 GM’79 chairs the Focused Ultrasound Foundation.
Digital Player
Amy Jo Smith C’88 is “the Madeleine Albright of digital entertainment.”
Voice Control
Joseph Turow on what your voice tells marketers.
‘Coding Is Something Everyone Can Do’
FemmeHacks, Penn’s all-women hackathon, opens new doors in a welcoming environment.
Blockchain Fever
Cryptographic sorcery, entrepreneurial zeal, and utopian dreams have gripped a striking number of Penn students and alumni this year. Why are people so excited?
Penn v. UPenn
The evolution of the University’s colloquial shorthand term.
Parrot Gets a Pegleg
Penn Vet gave a parrot a (3D-printed) pegleg.
Y-Prize Gets Beery
Y-Prize winners get $10,000 in beer money.
The Entrepreneurs Who Are Retooling Healthcare
Penn entrepreneurs promote new technologies for better health.
Hacking The Great Distractor
“We can learn to use technologies more wisely.”
Invasion of the Hackers
Home team takes honors in PennApps hackathon.
Click—the Doctor Will See You Now
Cyrus Massoumi W’98’s ZocDoc can find a doctor when you need one.
Zen and the Art of DIY Electric Scooter Manufacture
Penn Electric’s DIY-ers put theory into practice—on wheels
Not Your Father’s Fixie
Reinventing the (two)wheel(er)
For the Sake of Better Class-Management, Putting College on Hold
Student-developed Coursekit challenges BlackBoard
Shaping Sound and Software
Michael Tiemann EAS’87