Patricia Waldron

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Science Writer at Freelance

Science writer @CornellCIS. Hiker, baker and dehydrated food maker. UCSC slug. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈 Bad puns are my own.

Articles

Nice flex: AI-powered smart clothing logs posture and exercises

2 weeks ago | techxplore.com | Patricia Waldron

Researchers at Cornell have developed a new type of smart clothing that can track a person's posture and exercise routine but looks, wears—and washes—just like a regular shirt. The new technology, called SeamFit, uses flexible conductive threads sewn into the neck, arm and side seams of a standard short-sleeved T-shirt. The user does not need to manually log their workout, because an artificial intelligence pipeline detects movements, identifies the exercise and counts reps.
AI Models Makes Precise Copies of Cuneiform Characters

1 month ago | tech.cornell.edu | Patricia Waldron |Grace Stanley

By Patricia WaldronDeciphering some people’s writing can be a major challenge – especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted into 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and copy over cuneiform characters from photos of tablets, letting them read complicated scripts with ease. Along with Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform is one of the oldest known forms of writing, and consists of more than 1,000 unique characters.
AI models make precise copies of cuneiform characters

1 month ago | phys.org | Patricia Waldron

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets.
Visualizing nanoparticle dynamics using AI-based method - ΑΙhub

1 month ago | aihub.org | Patricia Waldron |Lucy Smith

Static image taken from video (shown below). Left: a platinum nanoparticle imaged via electron microscopy. Right: using AI-based method to remove the noise. By Patricia WaldronA team of scientists has developed a method to illuminate the dynamic behavior of nanoparticles.
Researchers use AI to better understand nanoparticles

1 month ago | nanowerk.com | Patricia Waldron

A team of scientists has developed a method to illuminate the dynamic behavior of nanoparticles, which are foundational components in the creation of pharmaceuticals, electronics, and industrial and energy-conversion materials. (Nanowerk News) A team of scientists has developed a method to illuminate the dynamic behavior of nanoparticles, which are foundational components in the creation of pharmaceuticals, electronics, and industrial and energy-conversion materials.
Matteson and colleagues use AI to better understand nanoparticles

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | Patricia Waldron

Credit: Peter Crozier, Joshua Vincent, Fernandez-Granda and Sreyas Mohan A team of scientists has developed a method to illuminate the dynamic behavior of nanoparticles, which are foundational components in the creation of pharmaceuticals, electronics, and industrial and energy-conversion materials.
Foster named 2024 ACM Fellow

Jan 22, 2025 | news.cornell.edu | Patricia Waldron

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Nate Foster, professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, a 2024 Fellow for his "contributions to applications of programming languages to networking."Foster is among 55 fellows who ACM selected from its membership this year. His research focuses on developing languages and tools that enable programmers to build secure and reliable systems.
Computer scientists digitally render iridescent bird feathers

Jan 21, 2025 | techxplore.com | Patricia Waldron

Computer animators and video game designers may soon have a better way to create the purple-green sheen of a grackle's wing, or the pink flash on a hummingbird's throat, thanks to a new method for rendering iridescent feathers. Researchers in the lab of Steve Marschner, professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, in partnership with technology company NVIDIA, modeled how light reflects off different types of iridescent bird feathers.
Race-blind college admissions harm diversity without improving quality, study finds

Nov 21, 2024 | phys.org | Patricia Waldron

Critics of affirmative action in higher education have argued that the policy deprives more qualified students of a spot at a university or college. A new study by Cornell researchers finds that ignoring race leads to an admitted class that is much less diverse, but with similar academic credentials.
New algorithm picks fairer shortlist when applicants abound

Oct 30, 2024 | techxplore.com | Patricia Waldron

Cornell researchers developed a more equitable method for choosing top candidates from a large applicant pool in cases where insufficient information makes it hard to choose. While humans still make many high-stakes decisionsālike who should get a job, admission to college or a spot in a clinical trialāartificial intelligence (AI) models are increasingly used to narrow down the applicants into a manageable shortlist. In a new study, researchers in the Cornell Ann S.