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Cornell scientists have identified the neural pathway mice use to direct the tongue to tactile targets: the superior colliculus, the same brain region that primates – including humans – use to direct their gaze to visual targets. It’s likely that humans use the same neural pathways for touch-guided tongue control.
A Cornell Tech-led research group is in the early stages of developing a portable, inexpensive device that uses radio frequency signals and machine learning for another important job: measuring lead contamination levels in soil.
Reinforcement Learning (RL), an artificial intelligence approach, has the potential to guide physicians in designing sequential treatment strategies for better patient outcomes but requires significant improvements before it can be applied in clinical settings, researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and Rockefeller University have found.
Rachee Singh, assistant professor of computer science, and Emaad Manzoor, assistant professor of marketing, will design light-based, optical network fabrics that enable faster communication between GPUs and bypass bottlenecks caused by slower electrical connections.
Xiaoying Gan ’25, a biometry and statistics and plant science double major, is using her Cornell Bowers education to improve agriculture and tackle food insecurity—advancing humanity and society through tech.
Nirbhay Narang ’25 has created smart glasses to help people manage this situation. The glasses use AI to provide transcriptions of conversations in real time, which can be viewed both on the glasses and on a phone.
The AI for Sustainability (AI4S) Visiting Professorship has launched at Cornell, designed to bring faculty scholars from across the world to the university to tackle pressing global challenges in sustainability through the power of artificial intelligence.
Polymath scholar Sendhil Mullainathan ’93, a behavioral economist who has combined computational and social sciences to produce pioneering work on health care, poverty and the criminal justice system, will deliver three public lectures at Cornell Nov. 11-13 for the Messenger Lectures series.
