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Any student, any major: ‘Everyday AI’ course to launch spring 2027
October 19, 2026
In spring 2027, Cornell Bowers will launch a new course that is open to all entitled, “Everyday AI: Learning to use AI effectively and responsibly.”
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Air Force award supports research into resilient spacecraft coordination
October 19, 2026
Gregory Falco, assistant professor, has received a Young Investigator Program award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to investigate autonomous spacecraft that can maintain coordination while an adversary is trying to disrupt them.
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Grant aims to improve AI models of human choices in complex systems
October 19, 2026
A National Science Foundation grant will support Cornell research aimed at developing AI models that can better represent human decision-making in cyber-physical systems while remaining interpretable and explicit about uncertainty.
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Who is Elias the lighthouse keeper? AI fiction tells the same old story
October 19, 2026
For AI agents instructed to write fiction, that tale usually involves lighthouses and a keeper named Elias, according to new Cornell research.
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Cornell Tech professor’s startup receives $1.75 million to improve AI efficiency
October 16, 2026
Makora, a startup founded by assistant professor Mohamed Abdelfattah, has received a $1.75 million award from the National Science Foundation-supported STRIDE Ventures AI Efficiency Challenge.
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$7.5M grant to establish foundations for visual computing with light
October 15, 2026
The work is paving the way for hybrid optical-electronic systems that could reduce the energy and computational resources required for AI-driven image analysis and other visual inference tasks.
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When A.I. Comes for Your Purpose in Life
October 14, 2026
Steven Strogatz, a Cornell University mathematics professor, discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on mathematicians' sense of purpose.
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From farm to kitchen, Ficio is teaching robots about food
October 13, 2026
Ficio, a startup founded by Youhanna Meleka, M.Eng. ’26, is developing an AI platform for the food supply chain that can run on different machines and tackle very different jobs – from sorting apples in an orchard to turning potatoes into french fries.
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AI tool makes culturally appropriate lessons for teachers in India
October 8, 2026
Overworked teachers in southern India have a new tool, developed by Cornell researchers, for educating their students: Shiksha Copilot, an AI system that generates culturally relevant lesson plans for schools with few resources.