Cornell University engineering professor Stephen Wicker has briefed the U.S. government on cyber security, information technology and privacy concerns and is the author of “Cellular Convergence and the Death of Privacy”. Wicker says the NSA and the CIA are engaging in very dangerous and unethical gamesmanship.
Rebecca Slayton, assistant professor at Cornell University’s Science & Technology Studies Department and an expert on international security and cooperation, comments on the WannaCry cyber-attacks that have spread across 150 countries since Friday. Slayton says the attack shows both the vulnerabilities and resilience of our computer systems.
At the fourth annual Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives’ Honors Awards Ceremony May 5, Cornellians received awards awards named after Cornell trailblazers.
Events this week include a Science Cabaret on synthetic biology; networking at the Johnson Museum; "Anarchy in the Archives" ending in Kroch Library; and a reading by MFA student writers.
Volunteers are needed for Cornell's Commencement Weekend, particularly the Ph.D. hooding ceremony on Saturday, May 27, and Commencement on Sunday, May 28.
Denise Morrison, president and CEO of Campbell Soup Co., visited Cornell May 4 with a message for female food scientists: You too can be leaders in the food systems industry.
The Bench to Bedside Initiative program, part of Weill Cornell Medicine's entrepreneurship lab, helps medical and doctoral students, clinicians and researchers launch technologies into startups.
Cornell scientists and engineers are seeing wind in high resolution, creating the world's largest, most-detailed wind maps ever from the picturesque hills of Perdigão, Portugal.
The inauguration of Martha E. Pollack as the 14th president of Cornell will include a Festival of Scholarship, an academic symposium on communication and a street fair.
