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Cornell Tech Launches Security, Trust, and Safety Initiative
May 7, 2024
The new initiative will be led by director Alexios Mantzarlis and aims to become a global hub for researchers, students, and practitioners focusing on online systems security and user safety.
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Students revive classic microchip fabrication with open-source tools
May 6, 2024
A unique project team enables Cornell undergraduates to use emerging open-source hardware to design, test and fabricate their own microchips – a complex, expensive process that is rarely available to students.
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OpenAI funds Choudhury’s work to keep superhuman AI in check
May 3, 2024
Sanjiban Choudhury, assistant professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, will receive a $150,000 grant from OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company that has developed ChatGPT and other generative AI models, for work that may one day help ensure that superhuman AI systems stay under human control.
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AI, collaboration a potent force in AI for Science showcase
May 3, 2024
20 Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows presented their ongoing research projects during an end-of-year showcase for the AI for Science course (CS 6703) held April 19 in Gates Hall.
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CVM hosts inaugural conference on AI in veterinary medicine
May 2, 2024
For the first time ever, experts in veterinary medicine, AI researchers, industry pioneers, and thought leaders from around the world gathered at to the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) for the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Veterinary Medicine.
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Satellite images of plants’ fluorescence can predict crop yields
May 1, 2024
Cornell researchers and collaborators have developed a new framework that allows scientists to predict crop yield without the need for enormous amounts of high-quality data – which is often scarce in developing countries, especially those facing heightened food insecurity and climate risk.
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AI apps and robots take home awards at BOOM
April 25, 2024
Apps that use artificial intelligence to help with tutoring, labeling medical images and perfecting your form while exercising, websites that address social issues with technology, and a robot that may one day colonize Mars all won awards at the annual Bits On Our Minds student technology showcase.
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People, not design features, make a robot social
April 22, 2024
Researchers who develop social robots – ones that people interact with – focus too much on design features and not enough on sociological factors, like human-to-human interactions, the contexts where they happen and cultural norms involving robots.
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Brooks School Tech Policy Institute focuses on intersection of national security and tech policy
April 22, 2024
We live in an era in which rapid technological change shifts the global security balance in real time. No one knows that better than Sarah Kreps, director of the Brooks School Tech Policy Institute (BTPI), and John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts & Sciences.