Facebook plans to change its name to focus on the metaverse, reports suggest.

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Computing & Information Sciences

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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp experienced an extended outage yesterday. Nate Foster is a professor of computer science who works to develop languages and tools that make it easy for programmers to build secure and reliable systems. 

Computing & Information Sciences

Engineering

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Cornell University computing and information science experts are available to weigh in on technology obstacles and opportunities, offering perspectives on ethics, machine learning, computational sustainability, cybersecurity and more.

Computing & Information Sciences

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David Shmoys, professor in computer science, says advances in data science can make the algorithms used to parse U.S. Census Bureau data more equitable. 

Law and Policy

Computing & Information Sciences

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Sarah Kreps, surveillance systems and cybersecurity expert, comments on the newly released Apple operating system that supports digital contact tracing.

Arts and Sciences

Cornell Tech

Computing & Information Sciences

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Ken Birman, an expert in cloud computing who researches trustworthy, secure and scalable mobile applications, comments on a delay in Iowa caucus results that party officials have blamed on a "coding issue."

Computing & Information Sciences

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Thomas Jungbauer, professor of strategy and business economics, and Joseph Halpern, professor of computer science, comment on European Union plans to compete with the growth of tech conglomerates in the United States and Asia, and address ethical concerns in artificial intelligence.

Computing & Information Sciences

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

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Google announced Wednesday an experimental quantum processor completed a calculation in just a few minutes, a process that would take a traditional supercomputer thousands of years.

Computing & Information Sciences

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Bart Selman, professor of computer science at Cornell University and an expert on artificial intelligence safety issues, comments on Tesla's efforts to develop fully-autonomous vehicles.

Computing & Information Sciences

Engineering

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Cornell University engineering professor Stephen Wicker is an expert in internet and wireless communication, and says that proposed net neutrality legislation is important for fostering innovation and protecting small companies.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Law and Policy

Computing & Information Sciences

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