The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/computer-science/page/3/)
Kicking off in the Physical Sciences Building Friday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. and finishing Sunday, Sept. 22 at 8 a.m., participants will spend 37 hours creating, developing and testing original coding projects — individually or on teams determined at the event.
Students, seated on the floor with laptops on their knees, lined the hallways of Rhodes and Hollister Halls last week during office hours for computer science classes. Some said that they waited between one and three hours for help on their late-semester assignments.
Slated for April 12, the Cornell Blockchain Conference will bring together businessmen, entrepreneurs and academics to speak on the evolution of the industry, future of blockchain and its potential revolutionary impacts on other fields.
Although there is still work to be done to achieve full representation across the science and engineering fields, Cornell is already ahead of the curve in achieving a 1:1 ratio of women to men in engineering disciplines
The initiative is one of Provost Michael Kotlikoff’s eight “radical collaborations” — task forces that promote interdepartmental cooperation on modern issues.
According to their paper, user behavior was modeled by a type of mathematical network known as an invocation graph.
Here’s a frightening proposition for this recruiting season: Cornell’s computer science undergraduates are woefully underprepared for careers in tech. Cornell’s CS undergrads are bright and technically apt. They learn from some of the best minds in the field, and they score some of the most coveted positions in the industry. It’s not that these future developers can’t solve the problems put forth before before them. It’s that they often have no idea what the problems are in the first place.
Cornell is among several other higher education institutions in actively meeting the rising academic interest in this field by offering a total of 28 relevant courses — the largest amount among the world’s top 50 universities as ranked by U.S. News and World Report, beating other Ivy League universities.
Anduril Industries, whose founder Palmer Luckey will speak at Cornell on Wednesday, is pitching its systems as a compliment, or perhaps even an outright substitute, to current border technology.
“We definitely owe a lot to the engineering admissions office and generally the engineering leadership,” Prof. Eva Tardos, computer science, said on the success. “They worked hard to recognize talent and recruit them.”