Suppose the computer from the starship Enterprise or the HAL 9000 from "2001, A Space Odyssey" had been scanning intelligence data four years ago. Perhaps it would have made the connection humans missed between terrorists and flight schools.
Passengers around the country submitted comments through Regulation Room, a Cornell-run site that gives members of the public a simple way to weigh in on proposed rules that affect them. (May 3, 2011)
Using synchrotron spectroscopy and computational modeling, Cornell scientists have pulled back the curtain on a once-elusive atom in the middle of the enzyme nitrogenase. (Nov. 17, 2011)
ST. LOUIS -- When a virus infects a computer or a hacker steals credit card numbers from an online retailer's Web site, programmers aren't the only ones at fault. Existing laws and public policy are also significant impediments…
Professor of physics Peter Lepage has won the$10,000 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics for his inventive applications of quantum field theory to particle physics.
Help inept Munchkins avoid disaster. Play cooperatively with friends, then eat their brains. Throw squirrels at annoying students on Ho Plaza. All that and more in the upcoming Game Design Showcase.
Cornell Library is asking other research institutions to contribute to the support of the online arXiv repository of science and mathematics preprints. (Jan. 25, 2010)
Cornell will host the Conference in Laboratory Phonology, an international meeting for researchers taking experimental approaches to the study of human speech sounds, July 13-17. It will addresses sounds in human language as part of a linguistic, cognitive and communicative system.