CAROW Announces AI and Work Grant Recipients

The ILR School’s Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW) recently awarded three seed grants for new research that addresses questions around the intersection of AI and organizations, employment and work.

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AI tools show promise for diagnosing advanced heart failure

The study offers the prospect of better care for many thousands of patients who may be overlooked due to the difficulty of diagnosing their condition.

Students pitch AI-inspired solutions at Cornell Health Hackathon

More than 100 students from across Cornell campuses and 17 other universities gathered March 6-8 in New York City for an AI hackathon.

AI on deck: assessing impact of MLB’s new ball-strike system

Major League Baseball is instituting a major change this season, and it has inspired Cornell researchers to study how stakeholders are integrating the Automated Ball-Strike System, or ABS, into baseball’s sacred gameplay.

Testing large language models on scientific literature

Cornell physicists and Google researchers engaged a panel of 12 human experts to test the ability of six LLM systems to understand scientific literature at the level of a specialist.

Winning digital ag idea targets killer ants

The Digital Ag hackathon, sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture and powered by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, brought 116 students to Atkinson Hall for the weekend of Feb. 27-March 1.

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Are mental health apps like doctors, yogis, drugs or supplements?

Cornell researchers are recommending new guidelines for developing safe and responsible large language model-based mental well-being apps by consulting relevant experts and reviewing existing state and federal regulations.

Experts to examine the use of generative AI in science

The Assessing and Imagining the Impact of Generative AI on Science Symposium, March 3-5, will feature experts from across academia and industry engaging in discussions on the use and implications of generative AI.

Hackathon winners combat ear infections, parasites and animal overpopulation

Products to fight ear infections in dogs, a parasite in cattle and animal population control challenges won top honors at the Feb. 20-22 Animal Health Hackathon at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

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