Believe it or not, there are some problems computers just can't solve - at least not quickly enough to be of any use. Many of them are of the type computer scientists call "combinatorial" in which the computer has to try out a vast number of different combinations.
Barbara Hope Cooper, the first woman to be appointed a professor of physics at Cornell University, died Aug. 7 at Cayuga Medical Center here. She was 45.
John Andrew "Andy" Noel Jr., Cornell University's associate director of athletics, has been named by the university to succeed Charles Moore as director of athletics and physical education. (August 10, 1999)
Does Mars have shifting sands? Over the past few months the camera on board the Mars Global Surveyor has provided tantalizing evidence of surface changes on the planet as sand dunes that cover large areas show signs of being moved by the Martian wind.
Reservations are being accepted for the Fourth Biannual Beef Producers Tour, Sept. 29--Oct. 2. The tour, presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension, will explore the beef industry of Canada's province of Ontario.
Only hungry babies and grown-up biologists worry whether there are enough mammary glands to go around. Naked mole-rat mothers don't worry. Even when a female produces more than two dozen pups.
Saturday, Aug. 14, at 1:30 p.m., Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) staff will be on hand at Titus Towers in downtown Ithaca to demonstrate a wheelchair-lift-equipped bus.
Retirees who volunteer or participate in community organizations enjoy significantly higher levels of psychological and physical well-being than other retirees and older workers.
Fourteen high school students from Cesar Chavez Charter High School for Public Policy in Washington, D.C., and a few of their parents, will travel to Ithaca, N.Y., to meet with a group of urban planning students and their professors at Cornell.