Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS” reveals.
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'I used machine learning to analyze factors that impact voter turnout'
"As I have explored my interests through my courses, I have learned to appreciate learning for the sake of it, and working for the sake of producing knowledge. When I think about how I want to spend my time after I leave Cornell, I think about it through the lens of the meaning of my work, both to me and to the world."
'When my friends and I put on a show, it is everything to us.'
"I have learned the most about myself in these settings, when, in the midst of all of the big and significant business of the world at large, we are all fully invested in creating something with our imaginations, together."
… the compromised software. The attack – a supply-chain hack by a Russian intelligence agency – demonstrates the … such as the 2020 SolarWinds attack. “A supply-chain hack is one of the most difficult to detect because this …
We are one step closer to a world where TikTok will no longer be available on app stores, says Sarah Kreps, professor of government and law and director of the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell.
… throughout the years, but one of my favorites has been Hack4Impact. We are a project team that partners with … I first joined WICC and later encouraged me to apply for Hack4Impact, which would become one of the best decisions I …
… More than 120 students took part in the Digital Agriculture Hackathon, sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Digital … India’s pollution problem during the Digital Agriculture Hackathon Feb. 16-18. “The Freshmen,” as they cleverly named themselves, entered the hackathon knowing they wanted to find a solution to a …
… is it important to you? My main extracurricular has been Hack4Impact, a project team where I worked on developing … and Africa and pivoted the idea multiple times. Through Hack4Impact, I’ve also met with so many other passionate and …
… be reinstating former president Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks; Cornell government … be reinstating former president Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks with what the company …
… to write an extended thesis where I have studied Instagram verification and the intersection of gender and …
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An artist's conception of a precessing binary black hole. The black holes, which will ultimately spiral together into one larger black hole, are shown here orbiting one another in a plane. The black holes are spinning in a non-aligned fashion, which means they are tilted relative to the overall orbital motion of the pair. This causes the orbit to precess like a top spinning along a tilted axis.
… gear needed to treat them, the Cornell community banded together to donate crucial medical supplies to local health … of the year. • Just when you thought robots couldn’t get any cooler, Cornell researchers – led by Rob Shepherd , …
Juliana Bain ’20, Noe Abernathy ’20, and Devki Trivedi ’20 met during their first year at Cornell. Bain and Trivedi lived in the same dorm (floor 5 of High Rise 5), and Bain and Abernathy shared a house together for most of the next three years. Today, the trio are part of the core team behind Voteology, a startup focused on motivating college students to vote.
Zachary Prizant ’18, MPS ’19, and his identical twin brother, Maxwell, are crossing the continental United States on foot – running and hiking 3,000 miles – to support COVID-19 relief work.
The House of Representatives voted this week to ban TikTok from government-issued devices amid concerns that the Chinese-owned social media company’s access to U.S. data poses a national security threat.
Making art addresses “the emotions of the times,” said Helena Maria Viramontes, director of the Creative Writing Program. “We should ‘speak, so that we can heal.’”
… This semester, groups of students planned and launched Instagram accounts focused on Asian American athletes, … the crisis; a “Book of the Week” series on Facebook and on Instagram , designed by program manager Alexis Boyce to …
Jon McKenzie, professor of practice in the Department of English, is working with area school teachers and their students to address issues meaningful to them and their communities, using strategic storytelling, a variety of media-making and participatory research.
With big data, machine learning and digital surveillance pervasive in all facets of life, they have the potential to create racial and social inequalities – and make existing discrimination even worse.
Fake news is nothing new. Ben Franklin was notorious for fabricating stories, countries throughout the world have repeatedly engaged in propaganda campaigns, and the current president of the United States has used the term frequently to describe the media.
Students took creative approaches to thinking about the challenges of meeting energy needs in this year's Imagining Energy Futures Competition. Winners of the annual competition were announced on May 30.
More than 125 students spent last weekend in Sage and Olin Halls, brainstorming, coding and meeting with community nonprofits as they sought solutions to problems as part of the Random Hacks of Kindness event Nov. 13.Sponsored byEntrepreneurship at Cornell and Accenture, the event included 10 nonprofit partners who pitched problems to students, kicking off two days of hacking that ended in final presentations Nov. 15.
