Three early-career professors win NSF development awards

Cornell researchers studying microplastics, robotics and machine learning are recent recipients of National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.

Thorsten Joachims named vice provost for AI strategy

Joachims, professor of computer science and information science and director of the Cornell AI initiative, will coordinate AI across research, education and operations.

Readers just want good stories, regardless of character’s gender

In the first large-scale study of its kind, men were equally willing to continue reading a story that featured a woman as the main character as one with a man. Women, however, showed a slight preference for reading stories about other women. 

Designing the future: a Q&A with Harald Haraldsson

Through rapid prototyping and creative experimentation, Harald and his students explore how emerging technologies can reshape the way we interact with both digital and physical environments.

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MathGPT founders say site boosts students’ skills, confidence

The founders of MathGPT are featured on the January episode of the Startup Cornell podcast. 

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Digital humanities scholars chart lost art of maps in novels

Digital humanities scholars have developed a computational system to mine maps from nearly 100,000 digitized books from the 19th and early 20th centuries, discovering that just 1.7% of novels include maps, mostly at the beginning or end.

‘Rosetta stone’ for database inputs reveals serious security issue

The data inputs that enable modern search and recommendation systems were thought to be secure, but an algorithm developed by Cornell Tech researchers successfully teased out names, medical diagnoses and financial information from encoded datasets. 

New technique puts rendered fabric in the best light

Cornell researchers, in partnership with the technology company NVIDIA, have developed a method for creating digital images of cloth that more accurately captures the texture, sheen and translucence of textiles. 

Who should get paid when AI learns from creative work?

A new paper co-authored by Cornell law professor Frank Pasquale argues that the current copyright system is ill-equipped to handle a world in which machines learn from, and compete with, human creativity at unprecedented scale.