Events this week include a Lincoln exhibit, a bird count, a lecture on native artists, a concert by soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian in Bailey Hall, and Neil Simon's 'Biloxi Blues.' (Feb. 11, 2010)
Computer programs that can adapt to changing conditions — both in the virtual worlds they are creating and the hardware on which they are running — will be developed under a $5 million project funded as part of the $90 million Information Technology Research initiative of the National Science Foundation.
They got started way back in 1994, in the "pre-Netscape days," before the Internet took off as a commercial enterprise. It was then that Cornell students Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot, armed with only a modem and a Macintosh computer in Krizelman's dorm room.
When it comes to candy, it is out of sight, out of the mouth, a Cornell University researcher finds.
The study finds that women eat more than twice as many Hershey Kisses when they are in clear containers on their desks than…
On the 28th anniversary of Robert Mugabe's rise to power in Zimbabwe, Robert Rotberg, president of the World Peace Foundation, conceded that he once was enamored with the Zimbabwean despot. (April 25, 2008)
"Dead man walking." Ray Krone heard this phrase three days a week when he was let out of his death row cell for two hours of solitary time outside. This was his chance to see or hear signs of an airplane overhead or a bird flying…
Prompted by students from KyotoNOW!, Cornell University is in the process of studying the possibility of producing wind-generated electricity for its campus in Ithaca and has opened discussions with its neighbors. "Our investigation into using renewable wind energy is still in the study phase, and there still are a lot of issues to explore," said Harold Craft, Cornell vice president for administration and CFO, "but, so far, the possibility looks promising."
The WTO needs to revamp the way it resolves its disagreements, says Yasuhei Taniguchi, a 1964 Cornell Law graduate, in a speech at the Berger/Cornell International Law Journal symposium. (April 18, 2008)
Cornell chemists have garnered three of the American Chemical Society's 10 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards for 1997, and a fourth member of the chemistry faculty, Harold A. Scheraga, has earned the ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research.