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In between classes and extracurriculars, students showcasing their tech-based projects in the 2025 annual Bits On Our Minds could have been seeing friends or catching up on sleep. Instead they were using their free time to brainstorm, experiment, code and create.

Johan Michalove is nearly 3,000 miles from the Los Angeles wildfires, but that didn’t stop him from pitching in. A doctoral student in the field of information science currently based in New York City, Michalove developed an interactive map at fireaid.info that has become an online hub for thousands of people in the greater Los Angeles area who need...

The message arrived to Kathy Wang on a notecard. She was at a sorority event as an undergraduate student, and beforehand, her fellow sisters had been encouraged to write positive messages to one another. Senders could identify themselves or not. Kathy’s card arrived anonymously. “Thank you for always finding a reason to smile.” Those nine words made her day...

July 31, 2024 By Patricia Waldron Eighteen students from across the country got a crash course in computer vision, machine learning, and how to secure a research career in tech during the 2024 SoNIC Summer Research Workshop, held June 24-28 on Cornell’s Ithaca campus. SoNIC participants developed models to help people with impaired vision to identify objects...

On Feb. 17, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science whisked away Bowers CIS students, faculty, and staff on a day trip to the Greek Peak Mountain Resort. Upon arrival, participants put on their gear and hit the slopes to go skiing, snowboarding, and tubing. From beginners to...

May 13, 2024 By Louis DiPietro If the use of drones becomes as prevalent as Mehrnaz Sabet believes, our skies are about to get much more congested, and machine learning could be the answer for safe and autonomous aerial traffic flow. To help on this front, NASA has awarded a multidisciplinary team led by Sabet, a doctoral student in the field of information...