Researchers at Cornell Bowers CIS trained a large language model to identify the monologic voice – used to affirm one’s legitimacy, monologue style – including its collective and individualistic tones, in eight decades’ worth of U.S. Supreme Court opinions.
A plaza dedicated and named in honor of Cornell’s 14th president, Martha E. Pollack, will be part of the new Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science building and complex, connecting it with Gates Hall.
Researchers at Cornell Bowers CIS found that repair and maintenance should be central in the design of social robots, as reuse keeps robots working longer and brings robot owners together and fosters social bonds among them.
Fellows will spend the year developing a community-engaged course, project or publication, while also joining a network of scholars committed to advancing the university’s public engagement mission.
A year of hackathons kicks off Oct. 25-27 with the Food Hackathon in Stocking Hall, which focuses on finding solutions that address hunger, poor nutrition, food waste and other food-related challenges.
Researchers at Cornell, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania found that AI-generated college admissions essays are most similar to essays authored by students who are males, with higher socioeconomic status.
Nicola Dell, associate professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, and novelist Ling Ma, MFA ’16, have been awarded 2024 MacArthur Foundation fellowships — more commonly known as “genius grants.”
