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AI Headlines from Around the University

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$10M gift to Cornell Bowers supports AI advancement
November 13, 2025
The gift from Josh Kulkin ’01 will bolster the university’s position as a world leader in foundational artificial intelligence research.

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Professor Vitaly Shmatikov Wins Test of Time Award for Deep Learning Research
November 13, 2025
Vitaly Shmatikov, professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, has received the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS) Test of Time Award for his influential 2015 paper, “Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning.”

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Why companies don’t share AV crash data – and how they could
November 11, 2025
A team of researchers from across campus has created a roadmap outlining the barriers and opportunities to making autonomous vehicles safer.

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‘Roadmap’ shows the environmental impact of AI data center boom
November 10, 2025
Researchers used advanced data analytics to create a state-by-state look at that environmental impact of the AI boom and how to make the computing infrastructure that supports it more sustainable.

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Combining humanities and tech for research gains
November 7, 2025
An interdisciplinary project involving faculty, staff and graduate students is sparking collaborations among those interested in computational, digital and data-driven approaches to the study of history, languages and culture.

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Three new Thought Summits to explore AI and data science frontiers
November 7, 2025
Cornell University has selected three new Thought Summits for 2026, advancing collaboration in artificial intelligence and data science across disciplines ranging from veterinary medicine and environmental justice to humanitarian response.

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Panel presents promise, peril of AI use in education at Cornell
November 6, 2025
The panel, “AI + Education: Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI,” held during the 75th Trustee-Council Annual Meeting, painted a complete picture of the state of AI in education at Cornell.

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Student draws on experience to transform assistive communication
November 4, 2025
At 15, Tobias Weinberg lost the ability to speak – now as a Ph.D. student at Cornell Tech, he’s using AI to improve the technologies he and others with speech disabilities rely on to communicate.

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Academic integrity and generative AI focus of PWGIA event
October 31, 2025
A keynote and faculty panel on Nov. 12 will focus on how faculty can communicate their generative AI-related expectations to students, how students can take accountability for their work, and what this looks like in practice.
