2023
Sixteen UChicago faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships
July 5, 2023
Sixteen UChicago faculty members, including PSD professors Michael Franklin and Dan Nicolae, have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.
What’s AGI, and why are AI experts skeptical?
June 30, 2023
Computational linguist Allyson Ettinger explains language processing for ChatGPT in Wired
Gig drivers for Walmart say they’re forced to compete against bots for deliveries
June 30, 2023
Computer scientist Marshini Chetty weighs in on bots taking jobs from gig workers.
In new paradox, black holes appear to evade heat death
June 30, 2023
Computer scientist Bill Fefferman talks quantum gravity and black holes in Quanta Magazine.
Streaming with Brad: The future of lab-grown meat
June 29, 2023
Chemist Bryan Dickinson discusses lab-grown meat following the USDA’s approval for consumer purchase.
Glaze 1.0 modifies art to block AI-generated imitations
June 29, 2023
Article discusses an open source tool Glaze 1.0 developed by UChicago computer scientists that protects artwork by shifting pixels around on images, making them more difficult for AIs to ingest.
How easy is it to fool A.I.-detection tools?
June 28, 2023
Assistant professor of computer science Chenhao Tan comments on AI detection technologies, saying that “in general I don’t think they’re great, and I’m not optimistic that they will be.”
Argonne finishes building its most powerful supercomputer yet
June 23, 2023
Computer science professor Rick Stevens discusses the capabilities of Argonne's supercomputer, Aurora.
Infrastructure woes could slow South Pole telescope plans
June 23, 2023
Astrophysicist John Carlstrom discusses the launch of CMB-S4.
Photography by Keith Vanderlinde
Eleven books to read over summer 2023
June 20, 2023
UChicago teaching award winners, including chemist Bozhi Tian, share their selections.
Photo by Jean Lachat
Designing a less toxic method for MXene synthesis
June 20, 2023
Prof. Dmitri Talapin, Doctoral Candidate Di Wang, and Postdoctoral Researcher Chenkun Zhou discuss a new method to synthesize MXenes.
Image by Di Wang
Flow proof helps mathematicians find stability in chaos
June 16, 2023
Prof. Amie Wilkinson discusses a series of new papers that describe how to reconstruct key dynamical systems with relatively little data.
‘Breakthrough’ could explain why life molecules are left- or right-handed
June 14, 2023
Prof. Jack Szostak comments on several new papers that suggest a path for key biomolecules to have accumulated on Earth's surface in just one mirror image form, saying “it’s a real breakthrough...homochirality is essential to get biology started, and this is a possible—and I would say very likely—solution.”
Streaming with Brad: Canadian wildfire impact
June 14, 2023
Will the wildfires get worse? Prof. Elizabeth Moyer joins CBS 2’s Brad Edwards to talk more about the impacts of the Canadian wildfires.
Climate change warning signs started in the 1800s. Here’s what humanity knew and when.
June 12, 2023
Article notes that in 1896, Prof. Thomas Chamberlin wrote about carbon dioxide's role in regulating the earth's temperature.
University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf6-00222, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.