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Students who spend a semester or a year abroad expect things to be different when they arrive in their new country. They know there will be a different language, different food, and a different... Read more

When Shiva Rajagopal went to high school in Fallon, Nevada there were no computer science classes offered. “But that was okay,” he says. “We did have a Tech Club where we would refurbish old computers... Read more

When a visitor walks into Joe Skovira’s office on the second floor of Cornell Engineering’s Phillips Hall, it is obvious right away that this guy is a tinkerer. If it were 1960, the parts strewn about... Read more

According to José Martínez, all successful research must cycle through two phases: There’s a disruption phase, where researchers suddenly crack a problem open by thinking differently about it. Then... Read more

For years Johnson, who is the Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell, did research into topics at the leading edges of fields created by other people... Read more

The people who write the algorithms that process the massive amounts of information passing through wireless communications systems are not usually the same people who develop the digital integrated... Read more

If Guy Hoffman is successful in his research, he just might redefine the word “robotic.” Hoffman, who is an assistant professor and a Mills Family Faculty Fellow at Cornell’s Sibley School of... Read more

Samitha Samaranayake believes that we’re at the dawn of a revolution in urban transportation systems. “This is a great time to study urban transportation problems and solutions,” says Samaranayake.... Read more