Choudhury, Kleinberg and Marschner named ACM Fellows

The Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest and most prestigious society of computing professionals, has named Tanzeem Choudhury, Robert D. Kleinberg, and Steve Marschner 2021 ACM Fellows. 

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Winter Session celebrates 25 years of digital learning

Victoria Jones, PhD ’01, talks about what it was like to teach one of Cornell's first digital credit-bearing courses in 1997 for Winter Session.

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Media Studies Initiative launches new graduate minor

Beginning in spring 2022, a graduate minor in media studies will be available to students in fields across the Graduate School at Cornell University.

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Artificial echoes and insect synthesizers

Two recent papers by Owen Marshall uncover the technological practices that brought human speech and insect feeding behavior under electro-acoustic control in the mid-20th century.

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Robot-assisted feeding the focus of $1.5M NSF grant

Tapo Bhattacharjee, assistant professor of computer science at Cornell Bowers CIS, will use a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop assistive robotics for people with physical disabilities and their caregivers.

arXiv hits 2M submissions

The research-sharing platform is a free resource for scholars around the world in fields including physics, math and computer science, who use the service to share their own cutting-edge research and read work submitted by others.

Alternative statistical method could improve clinical trials

An alternative statistical method honed and advanced by Cornell researchers can make clinical trials more reliable and trustworthy while also helping to remedy what has been called a “replicability crisis” in the scientific community.

Pioneering professor Trevor Pinch dies at 69

Trevor Pinch, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Science & Technology Studies, who helped found multiple areas of study related to science, technology and sound, died Dec. 16 after living with cancer for more than four years. He was 69.

Cornell Tech celebrates 10th anniversary of winning NYC competition

Campus built for the digital age has already helped make NYC 2nd most valuable startup ecosystem in the world, graduated 1,200 tech leaders, launched 82 startups and raised $920 million.

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