"The Domestication of Computers" will be the topic for Joel S. Birnbaum, senior technical adviser at Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), in the Henri Sack Memorial Lecture Wednesday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall at Cornell.
A Cornell research group has discovered serious vulnerabilities in a widely-used peer-to-peer filesharing program. The weakness in LimeWire, a popular client for the Gnutella filesharing network.
According to the Global Information Technology Report 2016, co-authored by Dean Soumitra Dutta, seven countries are excelling at reaping economic benefits from investments in information and communications technologies.
Elaine Ayres '75, deputy chief of the Lab for Informatics Development at the National Institutes of Health, spoke to nutrition students about how technology has revolutionized dietetics. (April 30, 2010)
The exhibit "Signal to Code: 50 Years of Media Art in the Rose Goldsen Archive" opens March 17 in Kroch library. It traces the rise of new media art from the 1960s to the present.
Cornell University food science, engineering and computer science students have joined forces to develop a web-based software and a database to track and compare genetic footprints, or characteristics, of bacteria.
Although financial markets might seem to be ruled by emotion and speculation, there are ways to take a scientific approach to investing, particularly with the help of high-performance computers.
The wave-like behavior observed in electron cloud fluctuations challenges the widely held belief that van der Waals interactions, ubiquitous in the natural world, are particle-like in nature.
Scott Williamson, assistant professor of biological statistics and computational biology at Cornell, died March 14 from glioblastoma. Williamson, 32, was a rising star in the field of population genetics. (March 25, 2008)
A genetically engineered tobacco plant, developed with two genes from blue-green algae (cyanobacteria), holds promise for improving the yields of many food crops.