Top ag schools joining forces at Cornell digital ag hackathon

Students and faculty from the world’s five leading agricultural universities, including Cornell, will spend three days learning and brainstorming at the Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture’s second annual hackathon, Feb. 28-March 1.

Consider workplace AI’s impact before it’s too late, study says

If we want to have a say in what the future looks like, scholars and policymakers need to start thinking about workplace automation far more broadly, according to a new paper co-authored by a Cornell researcher.

Davis, Delimitrou, DiStasio win Sloan fellowships

Assistant professors Damek Davis, Christina Delimitrou and Robert A. DiStasio Jr. have won 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Cornell co-leads effort to use big data to combat catastrophes

An NSF-funded initiative, co-led by professor David S. Matteson, aims to harness data across disciplines in order to identify risk factors for catastrophic events.

Cornell Tech women in tech program goes national

Cornell Tech’s Women in Technology & Entrepreneurship in New York program – now to be known as Break Through Tech – will expand nationally, starting in Chicago.

Summer program aims to boost underrepresented CS majors

An all-expenses-paid four-week course for rising Cornell sophomores aims to increase the number of underrepresented minorities majoring in computer science.

Nine assistant professors win NSF early career awards

Seven Cornell faculty members have received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.

Ginsparg, Ph.D. ’81, arXiv founder, receives physics award

Paul Ginsparg, Ph.D. ’81, professor of physics and information science, is the recipient of the American Institute of Physics 2020 Karl Taylor Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics.

Smart intersections could reduce autonomous car congestion

Cornell researchers developed a first-of-its-kind model to control traffic and intersections in order to increase autonomous car capacity on urban streets, reduce congestion and minimize accidents.