The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cornell-tech/page/3/)
Tech giant Amazon will soon become neighbors with Cornell Tech in New York City. Politicians, faculty, alumni and school officials all have a different take on how this is going to turn out.
In 2012, when Cornell Tech first opened its doors at a temporary location housed in Google’s Chelsea office, they could not have thought it, not in their wildest dreams. In 2017, when Tech’s state-of-the-art campus on Roosevelt Island went online, they could not have imagined it. After all, Cornell Tech was then, and remains today a project largely in its infancy — the campus itself is not slated for completion until 2043. It’s still a work in progress. And yet, in the largest windfall for Tech since it was greenlit by Hizzoner Mayor Bloomberg seven years ago, Amazon has elected to construct its much-heralded HQ2 within a stone’s throw of the Roosevelt Island campus. This move opens the door to exciting new academic and commercial possibilities for students and faculty at Tech, and will no doubt launch the nascent graduate school to the top of any potential applicant’s list (and more than a few rankings lists as well, we’d imagine).
Data surveillance companies could abuse the lack of distinction between data collection and usage to profit and misuse the information if the regulations are not handled correctly, Nissenbaum said.
The researchers’ report claims that “subtle acoustic noises emanating from within computer screens can be used to detect the content displayed on the screens.”
Cornell Tech teamed up with five other New York City universities this past academic year to “defend independent media and journalism” in a new project.
In a statement on Monday, President Pollack endorsed a compromise consensual relationships policy.
A $50 million investment by Tata Consultancy Services has led to the inauguration of the Tata Innovation Center on Roosevelt Island, a space on the Cornell Tech campus for academics and industry leaders to come together to conduct research and solve real world challenges.
Community members proposed ideas of how to facilitate contact between Cornell’s Ithaca and New York campuses, including building an Amtrak station in Ithaca.
Chances are you know someone who’s mined bitcoin. However, cryptocurrencies are not everything they appear to be. Drawing the ire of governments and financial institutions alike, questions about its reliability are on the rise. Prof. Ari Juels, computer science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, discussed the impact, technology and regulatory environment of cryptocurrencies. Co-director of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts — a collaboration between Cornell, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, based at Cornell Tech — Juels helps lead research on blockchain technology and its applications.
Last semester Cornell was witness to a potential hate crime in Collegetown, continued overzealous behavior by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a display of rank anti-Semitism and the abrupt end to the once-promising political career of a graduate of Cornell in a precursor to the #MeToo movement.