Professor Thomas Ristenpart wins Test of Time Award for privacy research

His award-winning paper was among the first to show how machine learning models can inadvertently leak sensitive information.

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Droids descend on Cornell for robotics conference

The Northeastern Robotics Conference (NERC), held Saturday, Oct. 11 at Cornell, featured more than 100 robots research projects from the region, including a shadowboxing droid and a backflipping robot dog.

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AI-generated content a triple threat for Reddit moderators

Researchers at Cornell Tech and Cornell Bowers engaged directly with 15 content moderators on Reddit to see exactly how they try to preserve the news sharing site's humanity in an increasingly AI-infused world.

Cornell Tech hosts first-ever summit on disability, access, and AI

The summit brought together researchers, technologists, and community advocates to explore how disability and accessibility intersect with innovation.

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AI models often fail to identify ableism across cultures

The artificial intelligence models underlying popular chatbots and content moderation systems struggle to identify offensive, ableist social media posts in English – and perform even worse in Hindi, new Cornell research finds.

Generative art enhances virtual shopping experience

Art infusion theory – the idea that displaying art in retail settings can positively impact consumer behavior – can be applied to the metaverse with similar results, a Cornell design researcher has shown.

New faculty Andrew Owens makes AI that sees, hears, and feels

Andrew Owens wants computers to learn like humans do — by watching, listening, and feeling the world around them.

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New Cornell Tech faculty Allison Koenecke is making AI work for everyone

Artificial intelligence is everywhere, from the apps people use to the systems that shape hiring decisions and healthcare. But what happens when these tools don’t work equally well for everyone? That question drives the research of Allison Koenecke, a new assistant professor of information science at Cornell Tech.

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New book mines gender, place across 200 years of British Lit

A new book uses computational tools and two centuries of British literature to mine insights into gender, culture and geography.

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