Music streaming platforms such as Spotify hold tremendous power over whether fans listen to a musical artist, while social media boycotts have less impact, according to a new Cornell study.
High-growth food, beverage and ag tech startups can now apply for the eighth round of the Grow-NY business competition, in which up to 20 finalists compete for $3 million in total prize funding, including a $1 million top prize.
Master’s student Avery Sheppard won $25,000 to put toward her fish and chips eatery by winning the Nolan School’s hospitality business plan competition, held April 18 in Statler Auditorium.
William L. Maxwell ’57, Ph.D. ’61, the Andrew Schultz Jr. Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering and a pioneer in the field of simulation and scheduling, died March 31 in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He was 91.
Research from Cornell Tech shows that before big tech engineers can improve the fairness of recommendation systems they need to define what “fairness” even means.
Exostellar, a startup born from Cornell research, has achieved an outcome many entrepreneurs dream of – acquisition by a Fortune 500 company. Qualcomm acquired the eight-year-old company in March.
Can serendipity be “harnessed?” Researchers think that reflecting on unintended outcomes, both positive and negative, can lead to more and better ideation.