Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania | technology, science & society | past, present & future
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The Citation Diversity Statement: A Practice of Transparency, A Way of Life, bit.ly/3itb5pW
By Perry Zum, @DaniSBassett, @VisualMemoryLab
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Attack a social civil injustice with a tech solution. Thanks @GeorgetownLaw for giving us at @pennlaw the chance to code for the greater good. #IronTech #PhilaForm – at Philadelphia, PA
Today,@pennlaw & @PennEngineers students, under leadership of Prof. Cindy Dahl @PennIPClinic, competed in @GtownTechLaw Iron Tech Invitational & presented their web-based app designed to empower low-income PH residents to apply to real estate tax abatement programs
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Have connections to these companies or suppliers? @DFMeaneyLab & @PennHealthTech are looking to review approved #ventilator designs ASAP. Reach out and let us know if you can help!
#pennbioengineering #pennhealthtech #COVID19 @generalelectric @RollsRoyce @Dyson
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Have you, or anyone you know, survived COVID-19? This clinical study is looking for folks like you.
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I spent half a year digging into @OpenAI, the SF-based AI research lab, originally founded by @elonmusk. I started with a few simple questions: Who are they? What are their goals? How do they work? After nearly three dozen interviews, I found so much more. technologyreview.com/s/61518…
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The Penn Network Visualization 2020 program invites high school students for a 1-week internship offering hands-on experience merging the worlds of art and science.
"It is up to human beings to decipher the significance of what AI systems are doing and to develop interpretations." -Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlcoher theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reason - via @techreview technologyreview.com/s/61395…
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Now some of the biggest names in AI, incl. @AndrewYNg, @jenniferchayes & @demishassabis, have released a nearly 100-page-long equivalent guide for their field: "Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning." Here are just 10 of their recommendations. technologyreview.com/s/61383…
“Who or what deserves the blame when an algorithm causes harm? Who or what actually gets the blame is a different yet equally important question.” @techreview technologyreview.com/s/61357…
Great op-ed by Mike Godwin. "The bigger question is what all the big tech companies’ relationships with users should look like." latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la…
Great discussion of data and society by @hspter and @rdpeng! I was also inspired by @k_johnsn and her work at the @nytimes. Thanks to @nellwyn and @jenniromanek for organizing such an amazing conference! #wiac2019
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“The field of science, technology, and society have what’s known as the ‘actor-network theory,’ a framework for describing everything in the social and natural worlds—both humans and algorithms—as actors that somehow relate to one another.”
These researchers want to study artificial intelligence systems in the same way we’ve always studied animals and humans. trib.al/qsTdxxn
"According to Perrow, a humbling cautionary tale lurks in complicated systems." Interesting discussion of normal accident theory by Erik Larson.
"The increasing complexity of modern human-machine systems means that, depressingly, unforeseen failures are typically large-scale and catastrophic," argues @exlarson: on.theatln.tc/2oD0Szr
Thanks to Penn alumni Brandon Kao and Rui Jing Jiang for their inspirational guest lecture about #VisiPlate @PennEngineers @Wharton
Two May graduates are the winners of the 2018 President’s Innovation Prize. Working at @PennovationWork Center, the pair is hoping to gain FDA approval for their glaucoma-treating, nanotechnology-based device, VisiPlate, & bring it to market by 2022. bit.ly/2B8hzI6
Thanks so much Stephanie. It was an honor to be a part of such an amazing conference!
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Had my engineering ethics students read the @UNEnvironment’s #GEO6 interactive unenvironment.org/interactiv… which led to a great class discussion