Celebrating the 50th Startup Cornell podcast at Eclectic Convergence

This episode features speakers and attendees recorded live during the Oct. 31 conference at Cornell Tech in New York City.

Around Cornell

Why companies don’t share AV crash data – and how they could

A team of researchers from across campus has created a roadmap outlining the barriers and opportunities to making autonomous vehicles safer.

Entrepreneurs share insights at Eclectic Convergence 2025

The event, hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City, also included a pitch contest among businesses with connections to Weill Cornell Medicine or Cornell Tech.

Student draws on experience to transform assistive communication

At 15, Tobias Weinberg lost the ability to speak - now as a Ph.D. student at Cornell Tech, he's using AI to improve the technologies he and others with speech disabilities rely on to communicate. 

Knitting machine makes solid 3D objects

A multicollege team has developed a prototype of a knitting machine that creates solid, knitted shapes, adding stitches in any direction so users can construct a wide variety of shapes and add stiffness to different parts of the object.

First WCM-Q AI Hackathon drives health care tech innovation

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar hosted its first AI Hackathon – a collaborative, interdisciplinary event that brought together medical and computer science students to develop AI-driven solutions for pressing clinical challenges.

Doctoral student’s system eases patient-discharge process

A doctoral student has developed a text message-based system that regularly updates both long-term hospital patients’ and care facilities’ availability statuses, smoothing a normally time-consuming placement process.

Professor Thomas Ristenpart wins Test of Time Award for privacy research

His award-winning paper was among the first to show how machine learning models can inadvertently leak sensitive information.

Around Cornell

Droids descend on Cornell for robotics conference

The Northeastern Robotics Conference (NERC), held Saturday, Oct. 11 at Cornell, featured more than 100 robots research projects from the region, including a shadowboxing droid and a backflipping robot dog.

Around Cornell