Cornell team wins ALFRED Challenge at 2021 EAI@CVPR

A Cornell team won first place in the ALFRED Challenge  (Action Learning From Realistic Environments and Directives) at the 2021 EAI@CVPR (Embodied Artificial Intelligence workshop at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition). 

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Decades in making, public policy school now a reality

The newly launched Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy will help shape a better world, university leaders and the school’s inaugural dean said at a Sept. 15 reception in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.

Project aims to prevent abuse in encrypted communication

Mitigating abuses of encrypted social media communication, on outlets such as WhatsApp and Signal, while ensuring user privacy is the focus of a five-year, $3 million NSF grant to a multidisciplinary Cornell research team.

‘Dislike’ button would improve Spotify’s recommendations

Researchers developed an algorithm that shows just how much more effective Spotify would be if it incorporated both likes and dislikes, in the style of platforms like Pandora.

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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Hackers can ‘poison’ open-source code on the internet

New Cornell Tech research shows how new blind attacks could compromise everything from email accounts to algorithmic trading.

NYC summer shapes Milstein students’ thoughts about future

Sophomore students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity spent their first summer in person at Cornell Tech, taking part in a series of mentored workshops, guest seminars, group projects, innovation challenges and other activities.

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.

Do robots need clothes? Yes, for form and function

Besides a stray feline Roomba, very few people are investing energy into putting clothes on robots. Researchers from Cornell Tech and NYU say that now’s the time to think more actively about when, how and why we would dress them