‘Connectivity’ to be hallmark of Cornell Tech campus design

A Dec. 19 panel discussion in New York City outlined the vision for Cornell Tech’s permanent home, slated for groundbreaking in early 2014.

Two years in making, Cornell Tech land deal is official

Two years to the day after Cornell won Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Applied Sciences NYC competition, President David Skorton signed the lease for the city land on which Cornell NYC Tech will be built.

Cornell Tech students show off their innovations

Cornell NYC Tech hosted an "open studio" Dec. 13 to showcase projects from its first graduating class and from new students in the program.

Fully functional loudspeaker is 3-D printed

Researchers have 3-D printed a working loudspeaker, complete with plastic, conductive and magnetic parts, seamlessly integrated, and ready for use almost as soon as it comes out of the printer.

Facebook supports open-source software course

Students in "Open-Source Software Engineering" work with industry mentors and worldwide teams on real-world projects.

Your phone can spy on you, new book warns

A book by Cornell engineering professor Stephen Wicker warns that surveillance is built into the cellular phone system.

Autodesk donates 3-D software to Cornell

Last month, international software design company Autodesk gave Cornell one of the largest gifts-in-kind it has ever received: 3-D design, engineering and entertainment software. The software is commercially valued at $51.4 million.

Eight on faculty named AAAS fellows

Eight Cornell scientists have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

The human touch makes robots defter

Cornell engineers are helping humans and robots work together to find the best way to do a job, an approach called “coactive learning.”