computer science
Faculty Encourage Minority Students to Pursue PhDs in Computer Science
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The SOftware defined Network InterfaCe workshop was created eight years ago in collaboration with Howard University’s computer science department.
Cornell Student Helps Strangers Find Cheap Flights on Reddit for Free
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To help people traveling with a limited budget, a Cornell student has been volunteering to find cheap flights for random strangers on Reddit.
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Two Cornell Doctoral Students Receive Prestigious Microsoft Fellowships
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Two Cornell Computing and Information Science doctoral students, Manish Raghavan and Justine Zhang, were chosen for Microsoft’s Ph.D. Fellowship Program.
computer science
Pollack Addresses Increasing Enrollment in Computer Science Classes
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President Martha Pollack answered questions from members of Cornell’s computer science community on her academic interests and vision for the computing and information sciences department on Monday. With the number of students enrolled in computer science classes increasing every year, members in the audience raised the issue of the lack of small CS classes that encourage greater interaction between professors and students. Assuaging some of these concerns, Pollack said the CIS department has been given the authority to hire more faculty. However, she also acknowledged that this problem is faced by most institutions across the country. “The problem is everyone wants to do that and I don’t have an easy solution,” Pollack said.
computer science
Summer Workshop Pushes Minority Students to Pursue Computer Science Degrees
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The workshop, Software Defined Network Interface, aims to increase the number of underrepresented minority Ph.D. students in computer science.
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Cornell Data Science Launches Student-Led Training Course in Statistical Methods, Programming Languages
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“We saw an opportunity to promote data science in the undergraduate community, and we saw it as our responsibility as the data science project team to help make it happen,” said Chase Thomas ’19, CDS’s operations lead.
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Computer Science Growth a ‘Phenomenon’ at Cornell
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The undergraduate demand for computer science is by no means a movement restricted to Cornell. “It’s a national phenomenon,” Schneider said. “Different universities have dealt with it in different ways.”
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SCHULMAN | “When a Wave Comes, Go Deep”
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The future of journalism is murkier than Beebe lake this time of year. As a writer for the college paper, I’ve been thinking about this a lot (along with the rest of the folks here). I’ve also been considering this because journalism’s future hinges on two subjects I think about often: economics and computer science. My thoughts on the issue encapsulate two ideas I’ve been writing about all semester. First, scarcity motivates so many of our daily decisions.
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SCHULMAN | Sexism in Computer Science is Never Okay
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What I have to say isn’t novel or unique, but it is incredibly important: we need need to stop tolerating sexism in computer science and technology related fields. Like I said before, other people have written this (and have done a better job), but it’s time I stepped off the sidelines about something I see everyday that I find unequivocally wrong. Computer science is unapologetically misogynistic. Some 70 to 80 percent of the field is men. That number has gone up over time, not down.
Cornell Close-ups
CORNELL CLOSE-UPS | Passionate About Machines, Professor Explains Online Currency Bitcoin
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“There are things that if you know how they work, they’re fairly straightforward,” said Associate Prof. Emin Gun Sirer. “But most people don’t know how they work, and when we actually discuss these things, people go ‘ah, so that’s how it works.’”