A House Built with Ideas
Weiss Tech House is home for student-inventors
Creating The Sims—and a New Reality
Sims stylist Charles London
Building a Better Homepage
Spinning a new Web site
Kick-Starting the Internet in Ghana
Making “digital dreams” reality in Ghana
Flagging Down a Runaway Technology
Who’s minding the machines?
An Internet “Grandfather” on its Past, Present, Future
David Farber on what’s next for the Internet
James Thomson and the Holy Grail
In 1998, graduate alumnus Dr. James Thomson won the race to isolate and culture human stem-cells for a sustained period—one of the holy grails of medical science—but he can’t outrun the controversy generated by his work. Increasingly, he isn’t trying.
One Small Step for Fuel Cells …
In latest advance, new fuel cell runs on diesel
Drop the Laptop and Put Your Hands Up
Ravi Hariprasad M’01
Adventures in Tele-Immersion
“You open a hole in the wall and see the other room”
Mapping Human Geography
Computer maps create powerful tool for data-gathering
P2B Hopes to Help Hatch Businesses
With P2B, Penn launches high-tech incubator.
Paper Tickets? How Passé
Marc Steren L’96
Family Secrets for Sale? Ask Your Kids (and Offer a Gift)
“The Internet and the Family 2000: The View from Parents/The View from Kids”
Give Them a Place to Boot Up and They’ll Wire the World
Wiring the world, in Mali and India
Roman Corinth: They Came, They Saw, They Digitized
Roman Corinth online
New Fuel Cell Offers Flameless Energy—Without Hydrogen
Flameless fuel-cell promises cleaner energy source
Cheesesteaks, Tastykakes and … Information Technology?
Paul Morin W’91 WG’98
From Zip to X
How would-be experimental physicist became a cyber-mogul instead.
The Future of Computing
From College Hall | Wiring the University for the next century.
Wired for Speed
Elie Seidman EAS'97 and John Possumato W'82 L'85
Internet Tour-Guide
Andrew Gold, C'94
Constitutionalist in Cyberspace
In the decade and a half since he graduated from Penn, legal scholar and internet enthusiast Lawrence Lessig has emerged as a leading thinker in the application of Constitutional concepts to the realm of cyberspace—and gotten Bill Gates (among others) mad at him.
2002: A Cyberspace Odyssey
Physically they arrive on campus this month, but for 32 incoming freshmen their "Penn experience" started last January -- via the Internet.