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2 weeks ago | 
tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley
To mark the end of this academic year, Cornell Tech will host a series of events in May to celebrate its campus culture. The campus, based in New York City, inspires successful startups and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration by bringing together scholars and experts in engineering, law, business, design, health, urban tech, media, and art.
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3 weeks ago | 
tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley
By Grace StanleyArtificial intelligence is increasingly being used in home health care – but home health care workers are generally unaware of that. Nor do they understand how AI works, why it may retain their information and that it could replicate bias and discrimination in their workplace.
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1 month ago | 
tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley
By Jennifer WholeyFor 24 hours, donors rallied together to help Cornell “reach for the stars” on the 11th Giving Day, held March 13. This year’s space-themed event raised $11,206,717 from 17,591 donors, for a total of 25,929 gifts making a tangible show of support for causes across the university.
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2 months ago | 
tech.cornell.edu | David Nutt |Grace Stanley
By David NuttThere is more to photovoltaic panels than the materials that comprise them: The design itself can also drive – or potentially diminish – the widespread adoption of solar technology. Put bluntly: Most solar panels are not much to look at. And their flat, nonflexible composition means they can only be affixed to similarly flat structures.
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2 months ago | 
tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley
Backslash at Cornell Tech, dedicated to advancing new works of art and technology that escape convention, has announced Nigerian-American artist Mimi Ọnụọha as its first Backslash Fellow. Ọnụọha is an artist-in-residence at Cornell Tech, embedding her creative practice in the new Backslash Studio at the Tata Innovation Center and allowing her to foster collaboration between researchers and students on the Roosevelt Island campus.
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2 months 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.
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2 months ago | 
tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley
By Grace StanleyIn the fall of 2024, Cornell Tech welcomed a counselor dedicated to students on its campus in New York City, expanding efforts to enhance mental health support. The new clinician, Sarah Rubenstein-Gillis, now provides mental health services for Cornell Tech students and others in select New York City-based programs.
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2 months ago | 
tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley
By Grace StanleyWendy Ju, associate professor at Cornell Tech, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, and the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, has been awarded a place in the Class of 2025 of the prestigious ACM SIGCHI Academy. The award honors her leadership and innovations in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI).
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Feb. 12, 2025 – Cornell Tech, the groundbreaking campus of Cornell University dedicated to developing leaders and technologies for the AI era, has announced the opening of The Bridge, a new state-of-the-art flexible workspace for entrepreneurs, early and mid-stage ventures, and more established companies. Located in the Tata Innovation Center on Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus, The Bridge is now open and applications for its workspaces are currently being accepted.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
tech.cornell.edu | Sarah Marquart
By: Sarah MarquartAssociate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech Alexander “Sasha” Rush and his colleagues from Hugging Face earned an Outstanding Main Tack Runner-Up award at the December 2023 NeurIPS Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Their winning paper, Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models, was among six recognized by the awards committee out of a record 13,321 submissions.