Tag: CIS

Beyond Algorithms: Engineering Judgment in the Age of AI

News / March 6, 2026

When Justin “Gus” Hurwitz walks into a classroom, he’s not there to teach rules. He’s there to teach engineers to see the fracture points between technical judgment, legal obligation, and moral responsibility. In his Technology, Ethics & the Legal Landscape course, offered within Penn Engineering’s MSE-AI and MCIT programs, a conversation...

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CarboWells Wins the 2026 Y-Prize Competition

News / February 18, 2026

CarboWells is the recipient of the top award in the 2026 Y-Prize, Penn’s annual innovation competition that challenges students to imagine powerful real-world applications for emerging technologies invented at the University of Pennsylvania. The Y-Prize invites interdisciplinary teams from across Penn to compete by developing compelling business plans built around...

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Surbhi Goel Named 2026 Sloan Research Fellow

News / February 18, 2026

Surbhi Goel, Magerman Term Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science (CIS), has been named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow, one of 126 early-career scholars across the United States and Canada selected for this prestigious honor.

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Penn’s ENIAC, the World’s First Electronic Computer, Turns 80

News / February 16, 2026

Housed in the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School Building, ENIAC — the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose computer — launched in 1946. ENIAC’s ability to be reprogrammed to solve a wide range of complex numerical problems was revolutionary and laid the foundation for modern digital systems.

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