Nicholas Kiefer, an economist whose deep curiosity and sharp insights into statistics and economic theory enabled him to parse a range of financial and banking systems, died March 12.
Cybersecurity expert Jeff Kosseff said in a talk at Cornell Bowers CIS that the constitutional right to lie extends to every American, so long as the high judicial bar for fraud, defamation or another narrow category of speech isn’t met.
Ghana’s fledgling tech sector has a chicken-and-egg problem: To grow, it needs trained, local workers, but without existing job opportunities, students don’t pursue degrees in computer science.
Emma Pierson, assistant professor of computer science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, has been awarded an AI2050 Early Career Fellowship from Schmidt Sciences for her work seeking to use AI to promote equity.
Debra Lee, former CEO of Black Entertainment Television, spoke to the Cornell community Feb. 20 about her journey from growing up in the segregated South to shattering glass ceilings while becoming one of the most powerful businesspeople in America.
During three events March 13-15, Lenka Zdeborová will explore how principles from statistical physics provide insights into challenging computational problems.
Thorsten Joachims and Andrew Myers, two faculty members in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and leading researchers in the field of computer science have each received named professorships.
More than 120 students took part in the Digital Agriculture Hackathon, sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture and Entrepreneurship at Cornell.
