Artist and activist Melanie Cervantes will give a public talk March 14 at 4:40 p.m. on the fourth floor of Rockefeller Hall as part of her weeklong campus visit.
Bart Selman, professor of computer science, opened the lecture series "The Emergence of Intelligent Machines: Challenges and Opportunities"
by highlighting the potential real-world impacts of artificial intelligence.
A Cornell senior and researchers have narrowed theories on why the hydrocarbon dunes – think plastic – on Titan are oriented in an unexpected direction, a solar system eccentricity that has puzzled space scientists.
Cornell’s Malacology Collection will get new life online when it is donated to the Paleontological Research Institution, which plans to digitize it and make it available to researchers around the world.
Speakers at the “Creating CIS: Fireside Chat,” which launched Computing and Information Science’s 20th anniversary celebration on Oct. 2, discussed the societal changes they foresaw at the time – as well as those they didn’t see coming.
Six panels of Arts and Sciences faculty will share their latest research on topics as diverse as technology and humanitarianism in a series of "Big Ideas" panel discussions this semester.
Events on campus in July include free concerts, lectures and performances; the annual Summer Party at the Johnson Museum of Art, and Staff Development Day for employees.
Events this week include films for Valentine's Day; Messenger Lectures on the food industry with investigative journalist Michael Moss; photography in Hartell Gallery and a United Way giving day.
Students at the Food and Finance High School in New York City grew the fish and vegetables served at a May 20 fundraiser using hydroponic technology. (May 25, 2011)