Tech/Law Colloquium features privacy, COVID and incarceration

The Technology and Law Colloquium – a hybrid Cornell University course and public lecture series – returns this semester with talks from 13 leading scholars who study the legal and ethical questions surrounding technology’s impact in areas like privacy, sex and gender, data collection, and policing.

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Cornell Bowers CIS welcomes 13 faculty members

The Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science is welcoming 13 new faculty members in the departments of Computer Science, Information Science and Statistics and Data Science. Collectively, their work ranges from developing robots that assist people with mobility limitations to using computational tools to study inequality and graphical models to solve real-world problems.   

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Students can explore resources at entrepreneurship kickoff event

A Sept. 9 event will introduce students to all of Cornell's vast resources related to entrepreneurship, business creation, venture capital, technology, startups and social enterprises.

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Four assistant professors win early-career awards

Cornell assistant professors researching artificial intelligence, sustainable energy, digitization in manufacturing and chemistry have recently received early-career awards from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.

Summer program preps new students for Cornell

Cornell’s seven-week Prefreshman Summer Program offers new students the opportunity to learn more about the university and its resources before they start their first year on East Hill.

Answer to thorny question could unlock internet security

Rafael Pass, professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and at the Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, and a collaborator offer a potential pathway to solving an age-old computer science and cryptography problem.

Smart necklace could track your detailed facial expressions

Tracking facial movements, and possibly their cause, is one of the proposed applications for NeckFace, a necklace-type wearable sensing technology developed in the lab of Cheng Zhang, assistant professor of information science.

Platform teaches nonexperts to use machine learning

New, award-winning research from the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science is helping inform and improve future design and development of interactive machine learning tools.

Summer CIS programs foster diversity, community

Diversity is a major priority of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, and three summer offerings – CSMore, SoNIC and the Designing Technology for Social Impact Workshop – demonstrate that commitment.