Alumnus uncovers how cuckoo's feathers shimmer

From movies to science, an alumnus uncovers how cuckoo’s feathers shimmer.

Kleinberg receives ACM data mining award

Computer science professor Jon Kleinberg will receive the 2013 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, considered the highest for technical excellence in knowledge discovery and data mining, from the Association for Computing Machinery.

Computer can infer rules of the forest

Researchers have new insight into automated stochastic inference that could help unravel hidden laws in fields as diverse as molecular biology and chemistry.

Smartphone app for bipolar patients wins $100K prize

A team led by Tanzeem Choudhury, assistant professor of computing and information science, has won the $100,000 first prize in the Heritage Open mHealth Challenge with a mobile app designed to assist patients with bipolar disorder.

Industry, academia to share Cornell Tech building

Cornell NYC Tech has announced it will develop its first "corporate co-location" building, a major advancement in its effort to bring industry and academia together on its Roosevelt Island campus.

White House honors Ginsparg for arXiv

Paul Ginsparg, professor of physics, will be named a Champion of Change by the White House June 19 for his work on arXiv.

Cornell to offer MOOCs through edX partnership

A number of "CornellX" courses will soon be available for anyone and everyone to take online, now that Cornell has joined edX, a nonprofit online learning enterprise.

Makers of 'Splat' to attend startup summer camp

A device that plugs into a smartphone to transform it into a video game console has caught the attention of a global venture capital firm.

'Beta' Cornell Tech students open up for industry leaders

At a May 10 open studio, Cornell Tech's seven-member beta class offered a glimpse of graduate high-tech education reinvented.