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Kids Cook Up STEM Skills At Randi Zuckerberg’s Sue’s Tech Kitchen, Coming To NYC November 25
November 13, 2017 | CampusZuckerberg Media CEO Randi Zuckerberg is bring Sue’s Tech Kitchen to New York. The “Holiday SpecTECHular” launches November 25 at The Bridge at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island.
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Roosevelt Island: Part of Manhattan, but Apart from It
October 4, 2017 | UncategorizedRoosevelt Island is easily accessible and technically a part of Manhattan, but it is also its own island.
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Citi is going after one Ivy League school to win rare talent
July 27, 2017 | CampusOne of the biggest hurdles banks face in their quest for successful innovation is finding and hiring talent with skills in new areas like blockchain technology, analytics, and cybersecurity. As a way to overcome this hurdle, Citi has announced a collaboration with Cornell Tech, the prestigious university’s graduate campus that focuses on business and computer science.
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Citi takes office at Cornell Tech campus
July 24, 2017 | CampusCitigroup has signed on to take an office at the new Cornell Tech campus being built on Roosevelt Island.
The bank has leased 10,900 square feet in a new 6-story, 230,000-square-foot office property called The Bridge that developer Forest City New York is planning to complete next month. The building is one of three properties—along with an academic facility and a residential tower—that make up the first phase of the tech campus’ development and are set to open by September.
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Citi Announces Collaboration with Cornell Tech
July 24, 2017 | CampusCitigroup Inc. (“Citi”) today announced a collaboration with Cornell Tech, the revolutionary graduate institution, to engage with Cornell University students, faculty, researchers, startups and other companies, and create closer ties between academia and industry.
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Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus readies for its September debut
June 5, 2017 | CampusThe first three buildings at Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus are nearing completion, just in time for their official opening in September. New photos by Field Condition have captured the three buildings in the finishing stages.
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Construction Update: Cornell Tech
June 5, 2017 | CampusConstruction is wrapping up at the first phase of the new campus for Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island. The full master plan calls for a campus of 2 million square feet of space and 12 acres of open space for approximately 2,500 occupants.
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Robots’ next victims: white-collar workers
May 15, 2017 | InnovationDan Huttenlocher, Dean of Cornell Tech, speaking about the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of jobs.
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How Encrypted Weather Data Could Help Corporate Blockchain Dreams Come True
May 11, 2017 | CybersecurityCornell Tech professor and cryptographer Ari Juels is launching Town Crier, an online service that provides coders building smart contracts with carefully encrypted and secure data pulled from the internet.
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Announcing The United States of Innovation 2017
April 17, 2017 | Innovation50 projects that are really making America great again including the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island.
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Where Halls of Ivy Meet Silicon Dreams, a New City Rises
March 22, 2017 | CampusTo see higher education in New York City being transformed, you have only to pick your vantage point. From the tram to Roosevelt Island, you can take in the geometric glass structures serving as the backbone of Cornell’s new technology campus.
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Cornell Tech unveils details about its Roosevelt Island campus hotel
March 14, 2017 | CampusLate last year, Cornell Tech presented plans for the hotel at its Roosevelt Island campus, and now, the school, along with developer AJ Capital Partners, has revealed a few more details about the project.
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3 Science-Backed Ways to Get Airbnb Users to Choose Your Listing
March 9, 2017 | Connective MediaResearchers from Cornell and Stanford discovered exactly how Airbnb hosts can tailor the language in their profiles to convey that they’re trustworthy.
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Quant Hiring and Friendly Tippers
March 7, 2017 | CampusThe new model of machine-learning-based finance makes finance into a set of problems in data science. Firms like Two Sigma, the first tenant coming to The Bridge at Cornell Tech, can run a hedge fund without ever abandoning data science, or the university setting.
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How a $26 Billion Hedge Fund Lures the Beautiful Minds
March 6, 2017 | CampusOnce Two Sigma moves into The Bridge at Cornell Tech, the hedge fund staff will be able to collaborate with Cornell students and professors on machine learning and data science projects, creating a pipeline of academic talent for the firm.
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The professor leading New York City’s answer to MIT
February 25, 2017 | InnovationDan Huttenlocher talks about his life, research, and role as the founding dean of Cornell Tech.
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Hospitable language inspires trust in Airbnb customers
February 24, 2017 | Connective MediaMor Namaan, associate professor of information science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, has presented a paper on how users judge trustworthiness in Airbnb profiles.
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New York City expands program linking students to tech jobs
February 22, 2017 | InnovationIf you ask New York City, the Tech Talent Pipeline is a shining star in its technology education efforts, a program to help students get the training and internships they need for careers in tech. Part of this vision includes an alliance between Cornell Tech, CUNY and New York City companies that will expand internship opportunities for women in computer science by 60 percent.
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New smartphone-based study to build on famous ‘Marshmallow Test’
February 14, 2017 | Health techA group of researchers from The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Cornell Tech, and Sage Bionetworks — supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — are launching a “Digital Marshmallow Test”, a smartphone-based study of impulsivity in adults.
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Keymochi app aims to put more human touch on text messages
January 30, 2017 | InnovationA team of Cornell Tech students is working on a keyboard system for smartphones that could cut out some of the miscommunication in texting.
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Can Politics Be Debugged?
January 18, 2017 | InnovationArnaud Sahuguet, the Director of the Foundry at Cornell Tech, worked with a team at a Debug Politics hackathon to build Influenza, a nonpartisan tool to help identify problematic relationships in the US political system.
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Trigger tells you when Trump tweets about your stocks
January 6, 2017 | InnovationOriginally a class project at Cornell Tech, Trigger makes it easy for users to set up real-time alerts when news drops about their stocks.
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Uru finds the best places to introduce ads in online videos
December 30, 2016 | Health techNew York City-based startup Uru, from the Cornell Tech Startup Studio, is working on a new way for video publishers to make money.
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Cornell University Taps Michigan Provost Martha E. Pollack as Next President
November 14, 2016 | InnovationMartha Pollack will be the Cornell University President on the eve of the formal opening of its New York City tech campus. Cornell Tech, a $2 billion satellite site on Roosevelt Island, is set to open in less than a year.
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Amazon names Cornell Tech founding dean and Xerox veteran Daniel Huttenlocher to board
September 8, 2016 | InnovationAmazon announced that Dan Huttenlocher, the founding Dean of Cornell Tech, has joined its board of directors.
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Chain partners with US universities for ambitious industry-academia blockchain project
August 12, 2016 | CybersecurityChain Inc announced a new partnership with the Initiative for Cryptocurrency and Contracts (IC3), an initiative coming from Cornell Tech, Cornell University, UC Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the Technion.
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Trigger Is Like The IFTTT Of Investing
June 16, 2016 | InnovationA new app called Trigger, launched by Cornell Tech graduates, makes investing more accessible by helping users purchase or sell stock based on various changes in the market.
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Nanit uses computer vision to monitor your baby’s sleep patterns
June 15, 2016 | Health techBaby monitors have been around for a while. But Nanit, a company coming out of the Runway Startup Postdoc program at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, wants to take them up a notch, using computer vision to track your baby’s sleep patterns.
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Big Law Alums Join Cornell Tech LLM Inaugural Class
June 15, 2016 | InnovationA new Master of Laws program at Cornell Tech emphasizing enterprise and technology is taking shape, and some former Am Law 100 lawyers are already enrolled.
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Israel’s Start-Up Island Taking Shape
June 1, 2016 | InnovationThe Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech, a partnerhip between Cornell University and The Technion, will increase Israel’s footprint in the U.S.
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Why Autocorrect for Passwords Is a Great Idea
June 1, 2016 | CybersecurityResearch from Cornell Tech Professor Ari Juels, through a partnership between Cornell Tech, MIT and Dropbox, shows that letting people into their online accounts even when they mistype their password won’t compromise internet security.
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Cornell Tech takes on former Yahoo chief scientist
May 25, 2016 | InnovationRon Brachman, computer scientist and internationally recognized authority on artificial intelligence, will be the new Director of the Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech.
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How Motorcyclists Navigate Lesotho’s Mountains to Deliver Health Care
May 20, 2016 | Health techCornell Tech Professor Nicki Dell and a team of Connective Media Masters students developed a digital tracking system for Lesotho’s Ministry of Health.
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First class of Technion-Cornell program set to graduate
May 20, 2016 | InnovationThe inaugeral graduating class of the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute marks the first time an international university has ever granted an accredited degree for studies on US soil.
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2016 Best MBAs: Ian Folau, Cornell
May 15, 2016 | InnovationCornell Tech 2016 graduate, Ian Folau, has been named one of Poets & Quants best MBAs of 2016.
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It’s coming! The Internet of Eyes will allow objects to see
May 13, 2016 | Health techProfessor Serge Belongie discusses the increasing acceptence of cameras and visual sensors in the technology we use everday.
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Image Recognition Market Seen Doubling by 2020
May 5, 2016 | Health techProfessor Serge Belongie explains the limitless potential of computer vision.
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Can A New Worker-Owned Platform Create A More Equitable Sharing Economy?
April 18, 2016 | InnovationCornell Tech students worked with the Robin Hood Foundation to bring the benefits of the sharing economy to domestic workers.
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Researchers Crack Microsoft and Google’s Shortened URLs to Spy on People
April 14, 2016 | CybersecurityProfessor Vitaly Shmatikov uncovers a privacy threat to using URL shorteners.
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For New York Pets, A Slew of New Services
April 8, 2016 | InnovationCornell Tech Startup Awards winners are helping us better understand our pets.
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CUNY, Cornell Tech launch women-in-tech initiative
March 21, 2016 | InnovationCornell Tech launched a partnership with CUNY to get more women in the tech talent pipeline.
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Coveted Job Title for M.B.A.s: Product Manager
March 2, 2016 | InnovationCornell Tech is unique preparing its students for project management careers.
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Bringing iPhone-style Medical Research to the Android World
November 12, 2015 | Health techProfessor Deborah Estrin launched ResearchStack, which will expand the number of people who can participate in medical research studies.
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Cornell Researchers Have New Vision For Oculus Rift Technology
October 19, 2015 | Human-Computer InteractionAssistant Professor Shiri Azenkot is using Oculus Rift technology to aid the visually impaired.
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The future of cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin and beyond
September 30, 2015 | CybersecurityEntrepreneurs and academics, including Professor Ari Juels, are looking into how to build a better cryptocurrency.
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Are datasets truly anonymized? Two well-suited researchers are going to find out
September 29, 2015 | CybersecurityProfessor Vitaly Shmatikov to develop privacy safeguards for very large data sets used in research.
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New Crypto Tool Makes Anonymous Surveys Truly Anonymous
September 17, 2015 | CybersecurityAre anonymous online surveys actually anonymous? Cornell Tech Professor Rafael Pass says no, but has launched a solution with his new tool Anonize.
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Bitcoin’s Dark Side Could Get Darker
August 13, 2015 | CybersecurityProfessor Ari Juels talks about how digital currencies could be used for ilelgal activity.
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Securing Today’s Data Against Tomorrow’s Quantum Computers
August 3, 2015 | CybersecurityProfessor Ari Juels discusses the importance of preparing and security data for the computers of the future.
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This new program identifies birds with just a photo
June 6, 2015 | Health techThe Washington Post highlights Professor Serge Belongie’s Visipedia research that was applied in a new app for identifying birds.
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With Its First Startup Awards, Cornell Tech Turns Class Projects Into Companies
May 20, 2015 | InnovationTechCrunch visits Cornell Tech’s studio to see the innovative student teams that won the inaugural Startup Awards.
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How Safe is Your Data?
February 11, 2015 | CybersecurityProfessor Ari Juels talks about data breaches with SciTechNow.
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MBA Programs Start to Follow Silicon Valley Into the Digital Age
December 25, 2014 | InnovationCornell Tech brings together computer science and MBA students to create better, more impactful companies and products.
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Keep Warm and Carry On – Two Apps Focus on Public Need in New York
November 7, 2014 | Connective MediaA team of Cornell Tech students created Tug, an app that alerts pedestrians before they walk into intersections.
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CityBeat is the Minority Report-Style Map We’ve All Been Dreading
September 23, 2014 | Connective MediaProfessor Mor Naaman’s CityBeat shows social media bursts around the city in real time.
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IBM Unveils Chip Simulating Brain Functions
August 7, 2014 | InnovationCornell Tech Professor Rajit Manohar pioneered the design behind IBM’s new hyper-efficient TrueNorth chip.
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A Reverse Search Engine For Images That Could Tell You What You’re Looking At
June 6, 2014 | Health techIn a leap forward for computer vision, Professor Serge Belongie’s Visipedia research lets you search with images, rather than text.
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Women to Watch in NY tech
May 19, 2014 | Health techCrain’s highlights the work of Professor Deborah Estrin, a pioneer in health tech.
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Women Are More Lonely On Twitter, But Men Get More Sympathy
May 14, 2014 | Connective MediaLoneliness on Twitter: Professor Mor Naaman’s research about men and women’s social media emotions.
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Should Universities Profit From Student Research?
February 21, 2014 | InnovationThe Jacobs Institute’s Runway program has a unique approach to IP not seen on any other campus.
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Sick Of High Health Care Prices? This Site Could Let You Compare Out Of Pocket Costs
January 7, 2014 | Health techFast Company looks at a Cornell Tech student startup project to bring transparency to heatlhcare costs.
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Cornell tech professor pries open medicine
November 6, 2013 | Health techA profile of Professor Deborah Estrin and her work at Cornell Tech with small data.
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Building a Better Tech School
April 12, 2013 | InnovationAn early look at Cornell Tech’s first students on campus.