ITHACA, N.Y. -- New technology being developed at Cornell University could bring multimedia communications to your desktop computer a lot sooner -- and at a much lower cost -- than anyone expected. Cornell is testing an idea called "Cells in Frames," which allows computer data to be transmitted over existing computer networks via a system called Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), without expensive new hardware at each workstation. ATM is a way of sending data faster and more smoothly, designed to carry audio and video as well as text. Cornell will use the new system at first to replace its existing campus telephone system with computer telephony.
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Entrepreneur and business turnaround specialist Peter Cuneo, speaking at Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s Celebration April 16, said poor leadership is a problem facing family businesses.
The President's Council of Cornell Women, an alumnae group that serves as an advisory council to Cornell University's president, has awarded its 2005 research grants to three women faculty members.
Cornell's first Future Professors Institute guided 77 participants, many of whom identify as underrepresented minorities, on the path to a career in the academy, and advanced Cornell's efforts to broaden diversity in higher ed.
The Cornell Theory Center announced today plans for a major upgrade to its supercomputing resources that will triple the computational capability that it makes available to the national research community.
The 204 students from Tulane, Xavier and the University of New Orleans have begun to blend into the campus, and Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has issued a new leave policy for faculty and staff involved in Katrina relief efforts.
Three Cornell undergraduates, all juniors in the College of Arts and Sciences, are winners of the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for science and mathematics.
The Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) has announced the recipients of its biannual small-grant awards for interdisciplinary research and conference support.