This paper investigates how well people can tell if text they’re reading was written by a machine instead of a human, especially when part of the text is human-written and later transitions to machine-generated. The study reveals that while many people find it hard to detect this switch, some perform Read more…
The CIS Highlights site is one of the department’s many digital platforms that centers prominent research from students and faculty, as well as other interdisciplinary programs and centers affiliated with CIS. Featured research areas include projects in the fields of Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, Natural Language Processing, and Formal Read more…
Written by Ebonee Johnson What research/ projects are you currently working on? I’m currently working on research in the field of privacy-preserving data analytics with my advisor Andreas Haeberlen and a group of other great collaborators at Penn CIS. We’re working mostly on how to design systems for massive-scale distributed Read more…
The USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) is one of the top annual venues for publishing innovative research in computer systems. This year, Penn CIS students, faculty, and alumni have three exciting papers slated to appear at OSDI 2020, which will take place during November 4-6, 2020. Read more…
Written by Ebonee Johnson After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering back home at India’s University of Pune, Tejas Srivastava chose to join the UPenn CIS family as a graduate student (c/o 2021). And we’re so lucky to have him! When Tejas is not listening to his favorite Read more…
Written by Ebonee Johnson This year’s Spring 2020 DATS Presentation featured a wide variety of insightful and relevant topics. Below, you’ll find a list of the presenters, in addition to some project goals and key takeaways. “A hierarchical bayesian approach for tagged playlist generation” Presenter: Anish JainAdvised by: Eric BradlowConclusion: Read more…
The past decade has brought a sea change in the availability of data. Instead of a world in which we have small number of carefully curated data sources — instead we have a plethora of datasets, data versions, and data representations . Devices and data acquisition tools make it easy Read more…
Data is being termed “the new gold,” and the most sought-after job in technology today is the data scientist / data engineer. Penn is proud to provide many options to our students interested in this burgeoning field — including Penn Engineering’s MSE in Data Science, the Wharton School’s Concentration in Read more…
Blockchain technologies have captured great excitement in the tech world, not only for their applications to cryptocurrency, but also for their broader ability to support decentralized tracking and coordination. They can be useful for tracking products through the retail supply chain, or for allowing one to own digital goods while Read more…
The ACM Federated Computing Research Conference — which brings together 13 academic conferences in computer science, and which will feature a lecture by Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun (joint winners of the Turing Award, along with Yoshua Bengio) — will have strong representation from Penn this year! Starting with the Read more…