SEATTLE -- "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" Meteorologist Edward Lorenz once asked in postulating the "butterfly effect," the idea that the flapping of fragile wings could start a chain reaction in the atmosphere. In today's world of the Internet the question might be rephrased: Can a single e-mail from Brazil set off a torrent of action in Texas? Sociologists postulate that what a few influential leaders think and say can spread and grow and bring about big changes in the thinking of large numbers of people. The Internet offers a compelling new place to look for this phenomenon by studying very large groups and especially, seeing how groups change over time. (February 11, 2004)
For the fourth time in five years, Cornell University's Big Red team has won the international robot soccer competition, known as RoboCup. In finals of the latest competition, held July 2-11 in Padua, Italy, a team of pint-sized robot players built and programmed by Cornell engineering students narrowly beat the RoboRoos from the University of Queensland, Australia, 1-0.
A gift from Mong Family Foundation, through Stephen Mong '92, MEN '93, MBA '02, will create Cornell Neurotech, a cross-campus effort to understand how individual brain cells function.
Workers who used computer software to remind occasionally them to assume good posture, take short breaks and occasionally stretch do more accurate work and as a result are more productive, according to a new Cornell study.
Cornell graduate students and local teens affiliated with the outreach program Xraise Cornell showcased their JunkGenie projects and the Ithaca Physics Bus at the World Maker Faire in New York City.
Sara Furguson '10, who suffered a high-level spinal cord injury at age 3, says Cornell has done a 'fantastic job' in accommodating her needs. (April 7, 2010)
To provide a corporate leg up to technology opportunities and startup companies emerging from research here, the new Cornell Technology Acceleration and Maturation program is designed to propel promising ideas toward commercial viability.
Cornell physicists have shrunk the technology of an optical trap, which uses light to suspend and manipulate molecules like DNA and proteins, onto a single chip.
Students in CS 502 were issued Dell laptops equipped with wireless networking cards, and Kennedy/Roberts is one of eight buildings on campus equipped with wireless transceivers linked to the campus network.