Alumni, faculty, students and friends of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering celebrated Jack Muckstadt's retirement Oct. 25-26 with a poster session and symposium. (Oct. 30, 2012)
Craig R. Barrett's will be given the Durland Memorial Lecture April 26 at Cornell. Barrett is president and CEO of Intel, one of the largest manufacturers of computer chips in the world.
Cornell University is sponsoring a regional conference to foster new farm-to-school links and to strengthen networks among farmers, school dining-service buyers, processors, distributors, educators and policy-makers.
A lawsuit that would have prevented university libraries from scanning and digitizing their books has been dismissed by a federal district court. (Oct. 22, 2012)
Brimming with confidence and armed with improved versions of last year's winning robots, eight Cornell University students left today for Australia, where the Big Red team will defend its title in the fourth annual World Cup of robotic soccer, known as RoboCup.
This profile of Cornell physicist David Mermin looks at his teaching and writing about science for nonscientists, playing the piano and his introduction of Lewis Caroll's nonsense word 'boojum' into the technical vocabulary of superfluids.
Cornell Information Technologies' Net-Print increasingly finds ways to turn white paper into green by charging for printing, doubling-up and watermarking. (March 21, 2007)
Douglas R. Hofstadter, professor of cognitive science and computer science at Indiana University and recipient of a 1980 Pulitzer Prize for his book Gšdel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, will speak at Cornell on Thursday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium.
With support from major industrial partners, Cornell University has opened a state-of-the-art laboratory for the design and testing of radio-frequency integrated circuits, such as the transceivers in cellular phones and other wireless devices.
Glenn Murcutt, an architect from Down Under who has a one-person practice, is billed as an "ecological functionalist" and doesn't use a computer, took the architectural community by surprise last spring when he was named the winner of the Pritzker Prize, a lifetime achievement award that is architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Now Murcutt has another surprise: The designer of houses on Australia's rugged promontories and bluffs, who runs his Sydney practice alone and works mainly on private commissions, is coming to Ithaca to deliver a public lecture at the State Theater Thursday, Oct. 24, at 6:30 p.m. The event, which is free and open to all, is part of the Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture series sponsored by Cornell University's Department of Architecture in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. (October 18, 2002)