Stories

How New Yorker Cartoons Could Teach Computers to be Funny

The magazine is using crowdsourcing algorithms developed by WID researchers to find the funniest cartoon captions

Optimization of Energy Systems

Victor Zavala, WID Optimization Affiliate and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, spoke at the Discovery Seminar Series in February, 2016, about optimization of energy systems.

The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs

Professor Thomas Rutherford, WID Optimization, and colleagues used numerical models to examine whether the threat of carbon tariffs might lower the cost of reductions in world carbon emissions in a paper published in the February issue of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

Professor Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng: Advancing Microcellular Polymers

Thanks to the research of Professor Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng, plastics can have applications in products ranging from eyeglass lenses to engineered tissues.