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
Problems involving learning from ranking and choice data arise in several domains, ranging from sports rankings to elections and from recommender systems to marketing. Indeed, algorithms for these problems have been developed in many different fields, ranging from statistics to computer science and from social choice to marketing. Unfortunately, however, Read more
Text carries meaning much richer than its propositional content. What people often remember best about a text are their subjective impressions of how well-written the text was, or how the text was stylistically marked conveying formality, depth of detail and importance of its content. We have developed computational models to Read more
The Neural Information Processing Conference, NeurIPS, formerly known as NIPS, is one of the leading venues for machine learning researchers. Penn faculty, students (indicated by an * below), and alumni (indicated by a + below) were very well represented! Aaron Roth and Shivani Agarwal served as Area Chairs, and we had Read more
The overarching goal of the DELPHI project is to simplify the development of correct and reliable software. Existing methodologies require significant human expertise, such as in the design of appropriate abstract domains and environment models, or suffer from significant barriers to adoption, such as limited scalability and flexibility. This project Read more
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to change the way we acquire and handle data — as Internet-connected devices (wearable or implantable medical sensors, environmental sensors, devices) “stream” data back to the cloud for processing, analysis, and real-time decision-making. Consider the example of heart arrhythmia detection below. A key component Read more
Cryptography is a cornerstone of modern computer security and is ubiquitous on the computer systems we depend on daily. As an academic discipline, after several decades of scientific development, we have a good understanding of how to formalize security models, design cryptographic systems that are secure, and prove the security Read more