Cornell AI News

Cornell is spearheading the development and refinement of AI through extensive interdisciplinary collaborations.

Developing artificial intelligence tools for health care

Developing artificial intelligence tools for health care

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.

Dean Kavita Bala shares Cornell’s approach to GenAI in  2024 AI Index Report

Dean Kavita Bala shares Cornell’s approach to GenAI in 2024 AI Index Report

“When GenAI first came out a lot of discussion was around how students would use it to cheat and circumvent learning. This is a real concern. However, there is such a huge opportunity in using GenAI to improve and change what and how we teach. Recognizing that our students are going to live in an AI-enabled world, at Cornell we realized that we must change our curriculum to include GenAI in it.” – Kavita Bala, Ph.D., Cornell University, Dean Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and Lead Dean, Cornell AI Initiative

Carla Gomes named Schmidt AI2050 Senior Fellow

Carla Gomes named Schmidt AI2050 Senior Fellow

Schmidt Sciences has named Carla P. Gomes, the Ronald and Antonia Nielsen Professor in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, an AI2050 Senior Fellow for her work on innovative artificial intelligence approaches to advance scientific discovery, focusing on significant sustainability challenges facing humanity.

Meet our faculty: danah boyd

Meet our faculty: danah boyd

danah boyd will be joining Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to pursue her passion for teaching, working with students and conducting research at the intersection of technology and society. Drawn by Cornell’s high density of collaborators and welcoming academic community, she looks forward to becoming a member of the Department of Communication faculty. Learn more about her research interests and projects.