Hwa Chung “H.C.” Torng, M.S. ’58, Ph.D. ’60, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering, who invented a mechanism that helped advance high-speed computer processing, died March 31 at the John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California. He was 90.
NPR’s David Folkenflik ’91, the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College of Arts and Sciences, will moderate a panel of noted journalists and faculty to discuss how the news media is navigating an era of political polarization amid shrinking newsrooms.
A hardware accelerator initially developed for artificial intelligence operations successfully speeds up the alignment of protein and DNA molecules, making the process up to 10 times faster than state-of-the-art methods.
The College of Human Ecology has received a $10 million commitment from Joan Klein Jacobs ’54 and Irwin M. Jacobs ’54, BEE ’56 to support the college’s new Center for Precision Nutrition and Health.
A new business, Crossroads, funds a health clinic and primary school in rural Nigeria, offers economic opportunities to Nigerian artisans and trains Cornell student-entrepreneurs.
James J. John, professor emeritus of history, died on Oct. 23. A specialist in the study of Latin manuscripts and the history of universities, John was a part of the Cornell community for more than 50 years. He was 95.
Digitization can boost sales of physical books by up to 8% by stimulating demand through online discovery, a research group including Imke Reimers, associate professor at Dyson, has found.
