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Choudhury wins Navy Young Investigator award to train robots
November 26, 2024
Sanjiban Choudhury, assistant professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, just received a three-year, $750,000 Young Investigator Program award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop new ways to train robots to perform complex, multistep tasks, such as inspecting and repairing ship engines.
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Race-blind college admissions harm diversity without improving quality
November 22, 2024
Critics of affirmative action in higher education have argued that the policy deprives more qualified students of a spot at a university or college. A new study by Cornell researchers finds that ignoring race leads to an admitted class that is much less diverse, but with similar academic credentials.
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Cornell Tech alumni close $3.2 million seed round for Avina
November 15, 2024
Ron Fisher ’16, founded Avina with partners Michael Wang ’16 and Vivek Sudarsan ’16, all three of whom are graduates of Cornell Tech.
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Cornell Tech’s economic impact on NYC to double by 2030
November 13, 2024
A new analysis finds that Cornell Tech, its alumni and its 115 startups achieved $768 million in total economic impact and supported 2,800 jobs in New York City in the 2023-24 fiscal year.
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New statistical method powers research on health, climate, financial data
November 12, 2024
Machine learning and artificial intelligence wouldn’t be possible without the statistical models that underpin their analytic capabilities. A Cornell statistician and his colleague have developed a revolutionary new method to analyze complex datasets that’s more flexible, accurate and easy to use.
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Student creates smart glasses for people with hearing loss
November 8, 2024
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.
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Researchers in climate science, nanoparticles among 12 newest Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows
November 7, 2024
Nanoparticles that could change material science. Better models to predict the potential for global carbon offsets. More efficient and cheaper solar panels. These are some of the research projects from 12 of the newest Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows from Cornell.
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AI for Sustainability Visiting Professorship launches at Cornell
November 7, 2024
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.
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Disclose invisible disabilities in social VR? It depends
November 6, 2024
Social virtual reality games and apps such as VRChat, AltspaceVR and Rec Room are immersive 3D experiences that let people with disabilities – both visible and invisible – try activities that might not be available to them in the non-virtual world.
In those settings, Cornell researchers have found, the decision to disclose an invisible disability – a physical, mental or neurological condition that is not visible from the outside but can limit or challenge a person’s movements, senses or activities – is personal.