Researchers are developing a system to enable teams of robots to share information as they move around and if necessary get help in interpreting what they see, enabling them to conduct surveillance as a single entity with many eyes.
About 5,287 miles from Ithaca, near the banks of Ghana’s Volta River, a primary and junior high school for girls is rising from the collective imagination and brain power of the Cornell University Sustainable Design team.
Suggesting that science is not immune to political partisanship, new research by computational social scientist Michael Macy shows liberals and conservatives have stark differences in the types of scientific books they read.
The Merlin Bird Photo ID mobile app has been launched and, thanks to machine-learning technology, can identify hundreds of North American species it “sees” in photos.
Cornell research has improved bike sharing in New York City, where a crowdsourcing system that makes real-time decisions helps make sure bikes are available when people need them.
The promise and peril of 3-D printing, and particularly, the printing of electronics and other active, integrated systems, was the topic of a Feb. 14 American Association for the Advancement of Science talk by Hod Lipson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and of computer science.
Daniel Huttenlocher, the John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science and Business and a Stephen H. Weiss fellow, has been named one of 38 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery. (Dec. 10, 2007)
Cornell’s newest MOOC will give thousands of students worldwide an opportunity to learn skills that are regularly taught to the university's undergraduate engineering students on campus.