Bowers student explores privacy, healthcare, satellite imagery

Vipin Gunda ’25 is excited about projects that apply his computer science knowledge to real-world challenges.

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Students can attend hackathons on AI, health, animals and digital ag

Students can apply to take part in one of four hackathons this semester — two on campus and two in New York City.

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Cornell team wins $50K in AI puzzle-solving challenge contest

A Cornell research team has developed a set of AI models that together, solve about 56% of the problems in a noted problem set developed in 2019.

Foster named 2024 ACM Fellow

Nate Foster, professor of computer science has been selected as a 2024 ACM Fellow for his "contributions to applications of programming languages to networking."

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Researchers put the shine on digitally rendered feathers

Computer animators and video game designers may soon have a better way to create the purple-green sheen of a grackle’s wing, or the pink flash on a hummingbird’s throat, thanks to a new method for rendering iridescent feathers.

National Tutoring Observatory to accelerate the science of teaching

A Cornell-led collaborative research team has received a nearly $5 million grant from the Gates Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to leverage artificial intelligence and transform data on effective teaching practices into insights that can accelerate the science of teaching and learning.

New device’s radio waves reveal lead contamination in soil

A Cornell Tech-led research group is in the early stages of developing a portable, inexpensive device that uses radio frequency signals and machine learning to measure lead contamination levels in soil.

December graduates charted their own course

The December Recognition Ceremony, held Dec. 22 in Barton Hall, celebrated 500 August and December graduates.

In American fiction, it’s a small world after all

Despite being unbound by space and time, fictional protagonists in American literature travel fewer miles than their nonfiction counterparts, according to a Cornell-led research team that used artificial intelligence to analyze nearly 13,500 books from the last 230 years.