News
Cracking the Code: Women in Computing at Cornell Bridges Gender Gaps, Fosters Mentorship
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Women in Computing at Cornell continues builds a supportive community for gender minorities in technology through professional and social opportunities.
Columns
OBASEKI | A Case for Academic Luddism
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It may seem wild to think that the Luddites might have had a good point, at least academically, but hear me out here. Give academic Luddism a try and let me know how it goes for you.
News
Student-Developed Smart Glove Boosts Braille Accessibility and Literacy
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BrailleWear — a wearable smart glove developed by two Cornell students — reads braille to assist visually impaired individuals.
business
The TikTok Ban: Eliminating a National Security Threat or Limiting Free Speech?
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“I think [China] uses its censorship to nefarious ends, but the American version is also not all that appealing,” said Friedman. “It’s not to say that there should be no controls, but the political content of our speech should at least be protected on the Internet.”
Money & Business
Big Tech Curbs Police Use of Facial Recognition Systems Due to Racial Biases
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“A lot of these algorithms that have been developed, whether they are in healthcare or policing or visual recognition, are basically including the biases of the people who develop them,” Okolo said.
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‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Hackers are Coming to Town’ Cornell Hackathon Kicks Off Friday
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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.
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Alumnus-Run Company Awarded $1 Million Grand Prize in GENIUS NY Competition
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Five teams pitched projects to a panel of judges in Syracuse last month, and Italian firm Sentient Blue — founded by Saïf-Deen Akanni ’90 — emerged with the top bid in the GENIUS NY competition. The state-sponsored award goes to initiatives to up the development of unmanned systems technology within New York in hopes of boosting the economy as well.
Science
App Designed by Cornell Project Team Estimates Crowd Density of Campus Facilities
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After more than a semester of development, a team of 10 undergraduates and one graduate student within the Cornell Design and Tech Initiative released an app that allows the user to preview the crowd density of Cornell campus facilities without having to physically visit. Using current and historical ID swipe data provided by Cornell IT, Flux’s algorithm makes estimations of how many people are in a certain facility at a given time and presents crowd density information in a way that users can understand. At the time of writing, Flux provides data from all ten of the All You Care To Eat dining rooms as well as Cafe Jennie and Libe Cafe. An older version of the app was released last December under the name Density, which was intended to gain feedback from the general student population outside of DTI. However, because of legal issues, they were forced to temporarily halt distribution and revise their brand.
Alumni
Innovative Cornell Women Startups Are “Crushing Tech,” Forbes Says
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What do a plant-based egg and dairy alternative food company, an artificial intelligence healthcare platform and a modern bidet attachment manufacturer have in common?
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Engineering Alum David Duffield ’64, MBA ’64 To Return to Cornell to Receive Award
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Duffield founded and led PeopleSoft, a successful global enterprise software company, until it was acquired by Oracle for $10.3 billion in 2005.