$20M gift to boost innovation in health and technology

A $20 million gift from Andrew H. ’71 and Ann R. Tisch will foster engagement and collaboration between Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine, catalyzing new discoveries at the intersection of health and technology.

Monitoring invades truckers’ privacy without boosting safety

Karen Levy, associate professor of information science, examines how truckers’ work is being affected by a proliferation of electronic logging technology in a new book, “Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance.”

New testing paradigms offer better code with fewer bugs

Owolabi Legunsen, assistant professor of computer science, is developing new methods for testing and validating code, with the goal of finding and removing costly bugs.

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Caregiving simulator advances research in assistive robotics

A new robotic simulation platform developed by Cornell researchers may encourage more people to research caregiving robots.

Programming tool turns handwriting into computer code

A Cornell team has created an interface that allows users to handwrite and sketch within computer code, so they don’t have to rely on typing.

Cornell Bowers CIS welcomes new majors to the college

In a welcome event held Oct. 27, Cornell Bowers CIS introduced newly declared students to the range of services and opportunities now available to them, and held a faculty panel to give advice to the new majors.

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Hockey, foraging animals help inform digital communications theory

Professor Aaron Wagner and his former students were recognized with the 2022 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award for their research employing feedback to improve coding performance.

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Afghan Dreamers, Cornell Cup Robotics launch World Cup Dreams

The FIFA World Cup begins Nov. 20 in Qatar, and Cornell Engineering is partnering with the Afghan Dreamers all-girls robotics team in an effort to harness this energy – and inspire young people to dream big, in both soccer and STEM learning.

App creates time-lapse videos with a smartphone

The app developed by Cornell researchers uses augmented reality to help users repeatedly capture images from the same location with a phone or tablet to make time-lapse videos – without leaving a camera on site.