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Jamey Edwards ’96 MBA ’03 is on a mission to fix healthcare
July 15, 2024
The newest episode of the Startup Cornell podcast features Jamey Edwards ’96 MBA ’03, president & chief strategy officer at Koko Home, a company providing radar driven, AI-enabled solutions for healthcare and an Entrepreneur in Residence of StartUp Health, which was founded in 2011 to invest in global health entrepreneurs.
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Redesigning videoconferencing for, and by, people who stutter
July 9, 2024
New research and an app aim to make Zoom and other video conferencing platforms less stressful for people with speech diversities, while improving the experience for everyone.
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Cornell startup offers AI-powered math help
July 8, 2024
Nour Gajial ’26, left, and Yanni Kouloumbis ’26, founded MathGPT to help high school and college students struggling with math understand how to approach their problems step by step.
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Rising Star Ben Laufer: Improving Accountability and Trustworthiness in AI
July 3, 2024
With artificial intelligence increasingly integrated into our daily lives, one of the most pressing concerns about this emerging technology is ensuring that the new innovations being developed consider their impact on individuals from different backgrounds and communities. The work of researchers like Cornell Tech PhD student Ben Laufer is critical for understanding the social and ethical implications of algorithmic decision-making.
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Employees prefer human oversight to AI surveillance – unless the technology can be framed as supporting their development, new Cornell research finds.
July 2, 2024
Employees prefer human oversight to AI surveillance – unless the technology can be framed as supporting their development, new Cornell research finds.
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Help or hindrance? ER robots have potential to aid health care workers
June 24, 2024
Amid the unpredictability and occasional chaos of emergency rooms, a robot has the potential to assist health care workers and support clinical teamwork, Cornell and Michigan State University researchers found. The research team’s robotic crash cart prototype highlights the potential for robots to assist health care workers in bedside patient care and offers designers a framework to develop and test robots in other unconventional areas.
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Yang Harnesses Generative AI for Teaching Across Disciplines
June 22, 2024
Dana Yang discusses Teaching Practical Statistical Skills
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Virtual, mixed realities converge in new driving simulator
June 20, 2024
Portobello, a new driving simulator developed by researchers at Cornell Tech, blends virtual and mixed realities, enabling both drivers and passengers to see virtual objects overlaid in the real world.
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Joneja Family Fellows boost data science research in medicine
June 19, 2024
Data science research in medicine is getting a boost at Cornell through the Joneja Family Fellows, which will financially support assistant research professors, graduate students and postdoctoral students affiliated with the Engineering Innovations in Medicine initiative.