In July 1958, the U.S. Office of Naval Research unveiled a remarkable invention.An IBM 704 – a 5-ton computer the size of a room – was fed a series of punch cards. After 50 trials, the computer taught itself to distinguish cards marked on the left from cards marked on the right.It was a demonstration of the “perceptron” – “the first machine which is capable of having an original idea,” according to its creator, Frank Rosenblatt ’50, Ph.D. ’56.
Are elite institutions ready for an increasingly diverse student body? Anthony Jack, assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will address this question in a lecture Oct. 3 at 3:30 p.m. in the Biotechnology Building, Room G10.
Animate grocery store items, a haunted 500-dollar bill, and the provocative case of actor Jussie Smollett are among the varied topics explored in this year’s 10-Minute Play Festival from the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) and the Graduate Researchers in Media and Performing Arts (GRMPA). The annual festival, now in its seventh year, serves as a laboratory for the development of student-written plays and presents students with a range of opportunities in theater.
Assistant professor of mathematics Kathryn P. Mann studies basic mathematical objects through the field of geometric topology. She investigates their symmetries and looks at how the objects change under transformations.
Students in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity are entering the second year of the program, welcoming a new group of first-year students this fall, as well as getting to know students who were admitted last spring.
How do you trick a disciplined opponent with state-of-the-art equipment into entering a killing field? How do you turn an enemy’s strengths into his weaknesses? How do you get inside an enemy’s head?
Renowned neuroscientist David J. Anderson of the California Institute of Technology will discuss the relationship between brain circuitry and behaviors in the 2019 Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Lecture.The talk will be held Sept. 26 at 4 p.m. in the Biotechnology Building, with a reception to follow. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Professor of musicology and ethnomusicology Alejandro L Madrid recently received the American Musicological Society’s 2018 Philip Brett Award for his article, “Secreto a Voces: Excess, Performance, and Jotería in Juan Gabriel’s Vocality.”
Constitution Day, Sept. 17, is a chance for all Americans to celebrate this nation’s founding document. And Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections has a letter – handwritten by the “Father of our Country” himself – that offers some insight into the convention that produced that document.
… Physics … Of course, grocers have long known how to pack equal-sized … Simon Guggenheim fellow and received the 2018 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize from the American Physical …
History of Science professor Margaret Rossiter was recently featured in Smithsonian Magazine discussing her 2012 book, "Women Scientists in America: Forging a New World Since 1972."
