Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State was founded as a land-grant university in 1855 in State College, Pennsylvania Penn State has 24 campuses throughout Pennsylvania and a Virtual World Campus. Penn State is ranked in the top 15 nationally for American universities. Penn States offers more than 160 majors in the undergraduate and graduate programs. The total study body exceeds 84,000 students. The Penn State endowment exceeds $1.6 billion dollars. The School of Engineering, College of Medicine and Law School are noted for their excellence in research and education. Penn State derives a significant amount of funds from federal agencies of government, including the Department of Defense and Department of Energy.
Electronics & Semiconductors
A new supercapacitor based on manganese oxide could combine the storage capacity of batteries with the high power and fast charging of other supercapacitors, according to researchers at Penn State and two universities in ...
May 5, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Individuals who fear talking in front of a crowd could soon have a new tool to ease public speaking anxiety: their smart speaker.
Apr 25, 2020
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Engineering
When it comes to increasing electric storage efficiency and electric breakdown strength—the ability of an electrical system to operate at higher voltage and temperatures with great efficiency—increasing one traditionally ...
Apr 21, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
Advice from artificial intelligence (AI) experts may be just as influential as from human experts, according to a team of Penn State researchers. However, both human and robotic bearers of bad news may find that they lose ...
Apr 13, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
The electricity that lights our homes and powers our appliances also creates small magnetic fields that are present all around us. Scientists have developed a new mechanism capable of harvesting this wasted magnetic field ...
Mar 31, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Learning how people interact with artificial intelligence-enabled machines—and using that knowledge to improve people's trust in AI—may help us live in harmony with the ever-increasing number of robots, chatbots and other ...
Mar 31, 2020
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Engineering
Bulky, buzzing and beeping hospital rooms demonstrate that monitoring a patient's health status is an invasive and uncomfortable process, at best, and a dangerous process, at worst. Penn State researchers want to change that ...
Mar 20, 2020
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Security
A multi-pronged data analysis approach that can strengthen the security of Internet of Things (IoT) devices—such as smart TVs, home video cameras and baby monitors—against current risks and threats has created by a team ...
Oct 11, 2019
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Telecom
Every year, motor vehicle crashes caused by distracted driving kill thousands of people, injure hundreds of thousands, and cost billions of dollars; and yet many drivers continue to text and drive, even though they know it's ...
Sep 5, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Humans and machines worked together to help train an artificial intelligence—AI—model that outperformed other clickbait detectors, according to researchers at Penn State and Arizona State University. In addition, the ...
Aug 28, 2019
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