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Faculty-led startup is using AI to reimagine software reliability

6 days ago | news.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

Cornell Tech Assistant Professor Raaz Dwivedi has co-founded Traversal, a startup emerging from stealth this week with a mission: to transform how modern software systems detect and resolve outages using artificial intelligence. The company has raised a $48 million seed and Series A round led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, with participation from NFDG and Hanabi.
Where the gender bias grows: Coming-of-age novels rife with stereotypes

1 week ago | news.cornell.edu | David Nutt

Coming-of-age novels can give readers young and old insight into their own evolving identity and how to navigate a confusing, messy world. But there is another feature of the genre that isn’t so positive. Cornell researchers used computational text analysis to sift through every word of more than 300 American coming-of-age novels published over the last 100 years.
Better basketball through theoretical physics?

1 week ago | news.cornell.edu | Tom Fleischman

A Cornell research team has employed a variation of a theory first used to predict the collective actions of electrons in quantum mechanical systems to a much taller, human system – the National Basketball Association. A group led by Tomás Arias, professor of physics and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences, has adapted density-functional fluctuation theory (DFFT) to predict player positions and rank players based on their defensive contributions.
Research at risk: Records of enslaved people seeking freedom

1 week ago | news.cornell.edu | Laura Reiley

Credit: Devin Flores/Cornell University A research project collecting records of freedom-seeking enslaved people in the pre-Civil War U.S. came to a halt when researchers received a stop-work order from the National Endowment for the Humanities in early May. In many cases, they are the only written records of these people. Enslavers posted as many as a quarter million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves, in slaveholding states and northern states as well.
SPROUT Awards cultivate early-stage engineering research

1 week ago | news.cornell.edu | Patrick Gillespie

From designing a reversible male contraceptive to detecting life on distant ocean worlds, the latest Cornell Engineering SPROUT Awards are cultivating breakthroughs across medicine, space exploration, robotics and environmental sensing. SPROUT – which stands for Support for Promising Research Opportunities and Unconventional Teams – launched in 2022.
Biodegradable ‘heat bombs’ safely target specific cells

3 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | David Nutt

Cornell researchers have developed a new way to safely heat up specific areas inside the body by using biodegradable polymers that contain tiny water pockets, which are then activated by near-infrared laser. The technology could lead to precise and noninvasive diagnostics and therapeutics, perhaps to fight cancer. The findings were reported May 23 in ACS Nano, a publication of the American Chemical Society. The lead author is postdoctoral researcher Jinha Kwon.
Wolf advises US Senate on aging population of American farmers

3 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | Krishna Ramanujan

Conventional wisdom is that U.S. farmers are aging. One-third are over the age of 65, they have a median age of 58 years old, and they constitute the nation’s oldest workforce, which threatens long-term viability of food and fiber in the country. However, a number of nuances explain why active farmers are older, said Chris Wolf, the E.V. Baker Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, part of Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
Sorin Lerner named new dean of Cornell Bowers

3 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | Tom Fleischman

Sorin Lerner, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, has been named dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, Provost Kavita Bala announced June 5. Lerner’s five-year appointment, approved June 2 by the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees, begins Nov. 1.
Research at risk: Better testing for tick-borne diseases

3 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | Krishna Ramanujan

Laura Goodman was close to finalizing a prototype of a new test that can detect any tick-borne disease. Unlike some current tests, it could provide results even before symptoms occur – and even for unknown diseases.
Biodiversity allows for sustainable fisheries, better nutrition

3 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | Krishna Ramanujan

To satisfy the seafood needs of billions of people, offering them access to a more biodiverse array of fish creates opportunities to mix-and-match species to obtain better nutrition from smaller portions of fish. The right combination of certain species can provide up to 60% more nutrients than if someone ate the same quantity of even a highly nutritious species, according to a global analysis of fisheries published May 27 in Nature Sustainability.