Ever wonder what Rosie the Robot might have thought about the Jetsons? Or how the Roomba vacuum cleaner avoids sweeping away the house cat?
Manuel DeLanda, a professor of architecture at Columbia University, spoke on the history of artificial intelligence and the place it holds in modern society at a lecture last night at the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's Rainey Auditorium at Penn Museum.
As College junior Lindsay Docto handed out flyers for a United Minorities Council forum on diversity, most students said Penn was already diverse enough - after all, look at all the people of different ethnicities walking down Locust Walk.
"Yes, but are they walking together?" Docto asked to start the student-led "Divided Diversity" discussion last night at Greenfield Intercultural Center.
Apple's Mac OS X Leopard operating system is the newest toy for early technology adopters, but users will have to do some extra tinkering in order to use it on Penn's wireless network.
While Leopard, officially released on Oct. 26, lacks the "must-have" cachet of some Apple products like the iPhone, certain tech-savvy students have been quick to upgrade.
Student Murder Trial | Jury gives note, but still no verdict
After ten days of deliberations without a word, still no indication of final decision
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WILMINGTON, Del. - Jurors debating the fate of accused murderer and Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya communicated for the first time in 10 days yesterday, when they released a note seeking clarification on case evidence.
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College senior Artina Sheikh, a Muslim who wears a head scarf, sat in the LGBT center Tuesday night fielding questions from students about Islam and homosexuality.
Sheikh, along with other members of the Muslim Student Association, were invited by Queer People of Color, a branch of the LAMBDA Alliance, to discuss the interplay of religion and
sexuality.
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A mistrial was declared today in the murder trial of Wharton undergraduate Irina
Malinovskaya.
The ruling marks the third hung jury in Deleware's prosecution of Malinovskaya.
Judge James Vaughn discharged the jury after the foreman informed him that
further deliberations would not yield a verdict.
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Election 2007 | With the win behind him, real challenges set to begin
A host of difficult issues face Mayor-elect Nutter, though popularity may give him wiggle room
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Winning the election may have been the easy part.
Michael Nutter was victorious in the mayor's race Tuesday by a record-setting 4-1 margin, but experts say that within months of his January inauguration, Nutter will have to face a looming pension crisis, rising crime rates and union-contract negotiations, among other problems.
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Three schools in the Ivy League have set their sights on bold campus-expansion plans.
But while Penn is sitting pretty with a blueprint to expand into the Postal Lands directly east of campus, plans at Columbia and Harvard Universities to extend into non-adjacent neighborhoods have created a host of issues.
