ASSET Seminar: Thinking fast with Transformers – Algorithmic Reasoning via Shortcuts (Surbhi Goel, University of Pennsylvania)

PRESENTATION ABSTRACT: In this new era of deep learning, the emergent algorithmic reasoning capabilities of Transformer models have led to significant advancements in natural language processing, program synthesis, and theorem […]

Abstraction in Language and Systems: A Symposium in Honor of Barbara Liskov

ABSTRACTION IN LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS   Laureate symposium honoring Barbara Liskov, recipient of the 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science       Featuring: Barbara Liskov, Ph.D., Laureate […]

CIS Presents: “A Celebration of Norman Badler’s Legacy at Penn”

Penn Engineering Commencement 2023: Undergraduate Ceremony

Celebrate the Penn Engineering Undergraduate Class of 2023. Additional information is available on the Penn Engineering Commencement website.

Penn Engineering Commencement 2023: Master’s Ceremony

Celebrate the Penn Engineering 2023 Master’s Graduates. Additional information is available on the Penn Engineering Commencement website.

Penn Engineering Commencement 2023: Doctoral Ceremony

Celebrate Penn Engineering’s 2023 Doctoral Graduates. Additional information is available on the Penn Engineering Commencement website.

CIS Seminar: “Collaborative, Communal, & Continual Machine Learning”

Pre-trained models have become a cornerstone of machine learning thanks to the fact that they can provide improved performance with less labeled data on downstream tasks. However, these models are […]

Reflections by 50 Years of Women CIS Faculty

Please join Ruzena Bajcsy, Susan Davidson, Stephanie Weirich and Linh Phan for a panel discussion. Reception to Follow ABSTRACT: Women have always been part of computing at Penn, from the […]

CIS Seminar: “Designing Provably Performant Networked Systems”

 As networked systems become critical infrastructure, their design must reflect their new societal role. Today, we build systems with hundreds of heuristics but often do not understand their inherent and […]

CIS Seminar: ” Foundations of Responsible Machine Learning”

Algorithms make predictions about people constantly.  The spread of such prediction systems has raised concerns that machine learning algorithms may exhibit problematic behavior, especially against individuals from marginalized groups.  This […]