I am deeply grateful to our community, from its earliest supporters, to the people joining us now, thank you. I believe that our great work and its growing impact on our industry speaks for itself and so my primary focus has been on executing/building, more so than anything else.
Today's our 10th birthday!
10 years ago
@Cornell
&
@TechnionUSA
won the bid to create Cornell Tech. In that time we've:
-Graduated 1,200 students
-Launched 80+ startups
-Raised >$900M
-Helped make NYC 2nd most valuable startup ecosystem in the world
The professor who coined the term "proof of work" says that blockchain needs to move to "proof of stake" to reduce its environmental impact.
Follow along w/Ari Juels' Congressional hearing:
(image v/
@DZoneInc
)
@AriJuels
, professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, discusses blockchains and how smart contracts can facilitate trustworthy commerce between strangers.
arXiv launched 30 years ago today!
Roughly 2 million research papers in CS, physics and other topics are available to download for free on the site, which is hosted
@cornell_tech
.
Explore here:
Professor
@AriJuels
named the Jacob Technion-Cornell Institute's Weill Family Foundation and Joan and Sanford I. Weill Professor, the first endowed professorship at the institute.
We are proud to announce Cornell Tech Associate Dean and Professor of Computer Science Deborah Estrin was selected as a 2018 MacArthur Fellow:
#MacFellow
@MacFound
@deborahestrin
#WiTNY
, a partnership between Cornell Tech and
@CUNY
, believes
#EqualityCantWait
because women must be equal partners in building the technology of the future. WiTNY is proud to be supported by
@melindagates
’ Pivotal Ventures which shares our commitment to gender equality.
NFTs have boomed in the past year — and so has the # of bots that make this revenue model less valuable.
A new tool by Cornell Tech researchers aims to enforce a one-NFT-per-person policy.
Learn more:
@AriJuels
@zachlieberman
iNaturalist launches new Seek app using image recognition technology developed by Cornell Tech and Caltech researchers. The app allows users to identify plants and animals using their smartphone camera and computer vision technology.
@SergeBelongie
Announcing Break Through Tech, a Cornell Tech initiative funded by Pivotal Ventures, Cognizant U.S. Foundation, and Verizon to attract and retain women and other under-represented groups pursuing tech education and careers.
Our dean Greg Morrisett joined Senator Chuck Schumer this week to offer his support for a new act that would invest $110 billion in science & tech research.
Learn more about the US Innovation & Competition Act:
@SenSchumer
Many people have written off NFTs as a tale of "frivolity, bling and irrational exuberance." However, this doesn't have to be the case.
Professor Ari Juels explains the current purpose of NFTs and how they can be applied outside of just digital art:
Congrats to Deborah Estrin (
@deborahestrin
), Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Impact, who was recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine!
#NAMmtg
@theNAMedicine
Congrats to Cornell Tech alumni startup
@GitLinks
on their acquisition by enterprise software company
@Infor
!
GitLinks was founded by Ian Folau, Johnson Cornell Tech MBA '16, and Nwamaka Imasogie, Computer Science '16.
@CornellMBA
@CornellCIS
DYK that
@NASA
's first software engineer was a woman?
#otd
in 1969, Margaret Hamilton's software helped launch the Apollo 11 first manned mission to the moon. Here she is standing next to the code that made it happen.
#WomenInSTEM
More: (v/
@MAKERSwomen
)
Happy birthday to Dr. Anthony Fauci M.D. '66.
#otd
To date, Dr. Fauci has advised seven U.S. presidents — starting with Ronald Reagan — on domestic and global health issues.
"Dr Anthony Fauci: Our antibody." by Charis Tsevis, 2020 ()
How 2018
#MacFellow
@deborahestrin
is using "small data" to personalize health management.
Estrin is
#CornellTech
's Associate Dean and founder of the Health Tech hub at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute.
In honor of International Open Access Week, here's a shout-out to
@arxiv
's 30th anniversary!
Maintained and operated by Cornell Tech, arXiv is currently home to 1,959,183 open access scholarly articles and counting.
#OpenScience
#OA
#OAweek
#arXiv30
The Tata Innovation Center, a partnership between TCS and Cornell Tech, will bring academia and industry together under one roof.
@tcs_na
@cornell
@tcs
We’re thrilled to share with you a new section on our website that showcases some of the companies and technologies built by Cornell Tech alumni, postdocs and faculty.
Dean Huttenlocher, Henry Kissinger, and Eric Schmidt author an article in The Atlantic about how the artificial intelligence revolution will impact human reasoning and decision-making.
Do you have a PhD and dream of launching your own business? Applications for our Jacobs Technion-Cornell Runway Startup Postdoc Program are due February 15th, 2018!
In season 2 of
#MyNextGuest
on
@netflix
,
@Letterman
and
@MelindaGates
visit the Cornell Tech campus to talk with one of our CUNY
#WiTNY
Winterns about being a young woman in tech and how we can close the gender equity gap in the industry.
Today is the day! Season two of
@Letterman
's wonderful show is now available for streaming on
@netflix
. I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did—so excited to catch the rest of the interviews.
#MyNextGuest
The K-12 Initiative at Cornell Tech builds the capacity of new-to-CS teachers in five NYC public schools to teach computing through content coaching and professional development.
Cornell Tech launches the Computer Security Clinic for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence, an initiative helping survivors of intimate partner violence determine if abusers are using technology to harm them.
For 8 weeks, PhD student Vibhore Vardhan has been teaching a web literacy class at the Roosevelt Island Senior Center. Seniors in the course have learned skills such as advanced search techniques, creating web pages, privacy and online safety.
Cornell Tech is teaming up with Facebook, Microsoft, and other top universities to develop tools identifying deepfakes - an image or video of a real person saying or doing fictional things.
A new hotel is coming to the Cornell Tech campus, which will include a
@HEBRUBRANTLEY
sculpture and a rooftop bar with a stunning view of Manhattan's east side skyline.
@nytimes
Congratulations to 2019 Startup Award winner Otari on their recent acquisition by
@onepeloton
— the 3rd
#CornellTech
acquisition of 2021! Otari is a smart exercise mat born out of Startup Studio by co-founders Chris Kruger and Skyler Erickson, both CS ‘19.
Cornell Tech startup Full Plate serves low-income communities by combining affordability and convenience to create access to fully-prepared, nutritious meals.
If you've visited our campus on Roosevelt Island, you probably noticed the eye-catching design of the Bloomberg Center facade and had a few questions. Here are the answers:
Biotia, a Runway Startup at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, is leveraging genomics and AI to provide hospitals with diagnostic insights to fight infectious disease.
@BiotiaNYC
Interested in what our PhDs are doing?
Meet Emily Tseng. She researches
#HCI
and social computing, has been awarded a
@Microsoft
Research PhD Fellowship, and received a best paper award at
@acm_chi
'22.
Learn about her work:
@Cornell
#EngineeredToMatter
Two Connective Media grad students at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute have developed software to auto-caption conversations in augmented reality.