Computer scientist Rafael Pass is seeking new approaches to cryptographic security with a $600,000, five-year grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. (Dec. 14, 2009)
The Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell, launched with a $10 million NSF grant, will apply computer science to problems in managing and allocating natural resources. (Sept. 3, 2008)
Stimulus funding will enhance Cornell's e-print arXiv of scientific papers to help users identify a work's main concepts, see research reports in context and easily find related work. (Nov. 17, 2009)
As it becomes easier to use, 'The computer will become much more of a helper for people and not just a tool,' said Microsoft exec Craig Mundie in a talk on campus Nov. 2. (Nov. 3, 2009)
Computer scientists have developed a method to synthesize the sounds of cymbals, falling garbage cans and lids, and plastic water-cooler bottles and recycling bins. (Oct. 27, 2009)
Cornell's self-driving car - and Segways - will soon to become safer and more talented, as a test bed for new research in robotics and artificial intelligence. (Oct. 5, 2009)
DreamWorks Animation 3-D guru Phil 'Captain 3D' McNally gave Cornell students a quick survey of some new kinds of visual thinking during a recent visit. (March 23, 2010)
Assistant professor of computer science Ashutosh Saxena leads Cornell's Personal Robotics Lab, which develops software for complex, high-level robotics that could one day aid humans with daily tasks. (Sept. 21, 2010)
An ambitious project that deploys big data and uses machine learning to understand the ecological impacts of hydropower dams in the Amazon Basin started in a mundane enough setting: on the sidelines at youth baseball games.
New research aims to create search-engine software that can learn from users by noticing which links they click and how they reformulate their queries when the first results don't pay off. (Jan. 7, 2010)