Shattering a cornerstone concept in linguistics, an analysis of more than two-thirds of the world’s languages shows humans tend to make the same sounds for common objects and ideas, no matter what language they’re speaking.
Some researchers think all problems can be resolved, given a sufficiently large and fast computer. Other researchers believe that computers are inherently inexact, and the results produced by machines cannot be trusted. Somewhere in the middle is a narrow band of academics who fit snugly between these two schools of thought. To explain, Warwick Tucker, the H.C. Wang Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Cornell, will talk on "Using a Computer to do Rigorous Mathematics," at the third annual Mathematics Awareness Month public lecture on Saturday, April 6, at 1:30 p.m. in 251 Malott Hall on campus. The public is invited to attend the talk without charge, and no calculus or advanced mathematics are required for understanding the subject. (March 29, 2002)
Kwame Amponsah is one of several alumni entrepreneurs to establish businesses in Ithaca. He founded Xallent, a semiconductor device and test equipment manufacturing startup, while doing postdoctoral research at Cornell in 2013.
Lara Estroff, Daniel Cosley and Maxim Perelstein have received 2009 Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation. (March 16, 2009)
Cornell is the focal point of Northeast LambdaRail, an organization that will enable educational institutions in New York and New England to connect to National LambdaRail, a high-bandwidth fiber-optic network dedicated to scientific research.
Graduate programs in computer science, chemistry, engineering and physics are among the nation's top 10, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2011 rankings. (April 15, 2010)