On February 15, the global computing community celebrated the 75th anniversary of the launch of “Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer,” or ENIAC for short. The machine, unveiled here at Penn in 1946, was the world’s first all-electronic, programmable computer. This year, computer museum Compuseum hosted a site that allowed orgs Read more…
First-year CIS PhD student Alyssa Hwang was yearning for a bit of connection when she decided a Valentine’s Day celebration was in order. “I kind of wanted an excuse to have a party and get together with everyone,” said Hwang. “I like having these big get-togethers on Zoom because it’s fun and I also get to Read more…
Professor Sharath Guntuku has not only been deepening his photography skills while working from home this past year, he’s also been reading a whole lot. Of Malcolm Gladwell, specifically. “I’m really amazed by how he uses data to tell stories,” said Sharath. “That makes a lot of sense to me.” Although he’s worked with UPenn as early as Read more…
“What bar in the world has a bunch of nerds hanging out and doing stuff on whiteboards?” CIS Senior Lecturer and MCIT Director Arvind Bhusnurmath poses this as a rhetorical question. The short answer is, one co-created by Bhusnurmath himself, and MCIT Program Coordinator Redian Furxhiu. The MCIT Bar is a digital drink hole, of course, created within the CIS microcosm on the Gather.town platform. It features a snazzy Read more…
Please join the Makuu Black Cultural Center and the SEAS Office of Diversity and Inclusion for a discussion focused on Black students in STEM. The university community is welcome, with a particular emphasis on STEM faculty, Black students who are STEM majors, and Black students interested in STEM. Date: Friday, Read more…
Cheryl Hickey, the Administrative/Event Administrator for CIS, is an active member of the SEAS Green Team, and earnest about her efforts to help the environment. Below is a snippet of Cheryl’s nomination letter, written by Jackie Caliman, the Director of Administrative Operations for CIS: “Cheryl led the effort in CIS to Read more…
In early August of this year, before the number of new Coronavirus disease cases had yet to reach its peak, Kristian Lum was wrapping up a project with epidemiologists and collegiate academics that modeled the spread of COVID-19 in jails. The work was an effort to look at the many ways in which the rate of transmission could be reduced, and Read more…
“The keys for data science to succeed are interdisciplinarity and the desire to work together, and Penn is a great place for doing that.” In a recent article from Penn Today, CIS Professor and Faculty Director of the MSE program in Data Science Susan Davidson and several other experts in Read more…
Cecilia Fitler Moore Professor in Penn Engineering’s Departments of Computer and Information Science (CIS) and Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) Insup Lee leads a team of researchers who have just received a five-year, $6million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant. The grant is funding a proposal by the team titled Read more…
The international Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) has accepted the renowned work of CIS and GRASP Lab Assistant Professor Dinesh Jayaraman. According to their site, the “CoRL is a selective, single-track conference for robot learning research, covering a broad range of topics spanning robotics, ML and control, and including theory Read more…