Panel to Spotlight Data Science and Environmental Activism

A public panel on climate justice and data – ranging from communities using inexpensive sensors for environmental monitoring, to collaborative analysis of obscure government records – will take place at 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 18, in G01 Gates Hall.

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Enrollment now open for Summer Session 2022

Students are invited to enroll now for Cornell’s Summer Session where they can earn up to 15 credits. Courses are offered online, on campus and around the world in three-, six- and eight-week sessions between May 31 and August 2, 2022.

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Creating Our Robotic Allies

When we think of having our own handy multi-purpose robots, we tend to picture something out of Star Wars or The Jetsons — but the useful technology of the ‘future’ may not be as far off as we think. Maria Bauza Villalonga, PhD student at MIT, hosted a Seminar @ Cornell Tech to show how robots can become our best allies.

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Cornell Bowers CIS hits milestone 2,000 majors

For the first time in its 23-year history, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science has more than 2,000 undergraduate majors within its three departments – the latest milestone amid a sixfold growth in enrollment over the last decade.

Eleven professors win NSF early-career awards

Eleven assistant or associate professors representing four colleges have recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards to support their research objectives.

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Robot photographer has eye for aesthetics

A team from Cornell Bowers CIS has developed AutoPhoto, a robotic system that can roam an interior space and capture aesthetically pleasing photographs through a machine learning process.

Grant from Meta to spark Cornell research into AR, VR

Powering augmented and virtual reality technologies to tackle real-world problems is the focus of a two-year, $1.8 million grant from Meta and Spark AR to Cornell Bowers CIS and Cornell Tech’s XR Collaboratory.

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Cornell to lead Air Force regional research hub

Cornell has been awarded an $8.9 million cooperative agreement from the Air Force Research Laboratory for a regional research hub to spark collaborations in academia, government and industry.

Virtual reality farm tour expands access to urban agriculture

Cornell researchers have created the most advanced virtual reality urban farm tour ever made, an online learning experience that promises to transport urban and rural farmers to New York City’s Red Hook Farms without ever leaving home.