Written by Ebonee Johnson As the academic community has had to adapt to experience learning in a mostly virtual realm, the position of Teaching Assistant has morphed a bit as well. This year’s Summer 2020 TA Award Winners have been recognized for their outstanding ability to help facilitate efficient and 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 In the upcoming Fall semester, interdisciplinary academic center GRASP (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception) Lab will present a series of seminars and events with speakers from all over the country. Speakers include Tichakorn (Nok) Wongpiromsarn, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa Read more…
Written by Ebonee Johnson Putting in the work to sort reliable info on the internet from the not so reliable requires an amount of time that most of us just don’t have available. With the subsequent pressures of COVID-19 weighing on society, that time is a more valuable resource than Read more…
Written by Ebonee Johnson Given the current racial tensions and incidents involving police brutality around the country, the Penn Alumni’s “Antiracist Education and Action” series is timely and important. Starting as soon as tomorrow, the events range from a Zoom chat with Rolling Stone Senior Writer Jamil Smith (Penn ’97) 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…
Written by Ebonee Johnson Alumni panelists: Luke Carlson (Apple), Jenny Chen (Airbnb), Qi Fang ( IQVIA), Marty Gindi (Signant Health), Alwyn Goodloe (NASA Langley Research Center), John Hewitt (Stanford University), Derek Jobst (RaiseMe), Kavya Lakshminarayanan (Microsoft), Spencer Lee (Epic Systems), Sudarshan Muralidhar (Igneous Systems), Sneha Rajana, Ishan Srivastava (Microsoft – Read more…
Written by Ebonee Johnson On Friday, April 24th, CIS students gathered to present their projects at the Spring 2020 Senior Design Alumni Presentations. Due to the current COVID-19 crisis and its subsequent effects, “gathered” took on a virtual connotation: Seniors were asked to attend using video call platform Zoom. CIS 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…