News: CAM
CAM member David Bindel receives Most Influential Paper Award at ASPLOS 2018
Award presented for “OceanStore: An Architecture for Global-Scale Persistent Storage.” Read more
NASA Greenlights CAM member Dmitry Savranksy's satellite project
NASA has just greenlighted a project from Cornell University that is truly mind-blowing. Read more
CNET: CAM Alumna Isabel Kloumann helps Facebook's AI systems avoid ethical lapses
As Facebook's artificial intelligence technology gets smarter and more important to the social network's sprawling business, the company is working to keep its AI systems from ethical lapses. The company has built a system called Fairness Flow that can measure for potential biases for or against particular groups of people, research scientist Isabel Kloumann said at Facebook's F8 conference on Wednesday. Read more
WIRED: CAM Alumna Isabel Kloumann: Facebook's Fairness Flow to help expose potential biases in AI
At Facebook’s annual developer conference this month, data scientist Isabel Kloumann described a kind of automatic adviser for the company’s engineers called Fairness Flow. It measures how machine-learning software analyzing data performs on different categories—say men and women, or people in different countries—to help expose potential biases. Read more
CAM member Carla Gomes and Bart Selman awarded DURIP grant
CS Professors Carla Gomes and Bart Selman were awarded a 2017 DURIP (Defense University Research Instrumentation Program) to develop a platform for computational and data intensive methods for large-scale intelligent distributed systems. Read more
CAM member Éva Tardos Named AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) have selected Éva Tardos to deliver the Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting. Read more
Research paper by CAM member Steve Strogatz named to top-50 list
The American Physical Society is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Physical Review and has selected 50 “milestone” research papers spanning a wide range of important results. Fittingly, a few of those papers feature Cornell researchers. Read more
CAM members Jamol Pender and Karthik Sridharan win NSF early-career awards
Eleven assistant professors from Cornell’s Ithaca and New York City campuses have been recognized with National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program awards, given annually to support junior faculty members’ research projects and outreach efforts. Read more
A big day for ORIE's Pender
Talk about a big day for Jamol Pender. Just hours after his son Jamol Jr. was born, Pender was notified that he is a recipient of a Early CAREER award. Read more