CSL: Breaking Silos to Build Community
The founding idea of the Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) was the sense that community will lead to more creative thinking. The faculty and students of CSL see it as more than a way to share... Read more
Spotlights: ECE
Cornell ECE is erasing the boundaries between signals, systems, physics and hardware, and merging core concepts from biology, computer science, mechanical engineering and materials. We see things differently, with visionary science oriented to novel applications.
Cornell Solar District Cup Team takes third place in national competition
A team from Cornell Engineering was among the winners of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar District Cup, a design competition aimed at modelling optimized, distributed solar energy systems... Read more
Welcome Nils Napp ( 2020 )
Nils Napp has joined the faculty of Cornell’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) as an assistant professor. His research focuses on design and control strategies for systems that... Read more
ECE undergrad propelled into the world of sustainable transportation
Alec Wyatt ’21 came to Cornell with an interest in building a more sustainable transportation infrastructure. “What brought me to engineering in the first place was based in sustainability,” he said,... Read more
Zach Boynton: Expanding the Ubiquity and Capacity of Communications Technology
Even when Zach Boynton was in high school at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Massachusetts, he knew he would probably end up following a technical path. “I was in the Rindge School of... Read more
Welcome Ziv Goldfeld ( 2019 )
When we use artificial intelligence (AI) to classify animal pictures as either cats or dogs, the consequences of a misidentification are negligible. But when AI is used to differentiate between benign... Read more
Welcome Amal El-Ghazaly ( 2019 )
Growing up in Arizona, Amal El-Ghazaly used to take things apart. And her parents used to get a little upset with her because the things she took apart wouldn’t always work properly once she... Read more
Keeping Computer Hardware Fast and Furious
by Jackie Swift Around 50 years ago, Gordon Moore, chief executive officer of Intel, predicted that every two years the number of transistors a microchip could contain would double. Known as Moore’s... Read more
A review of collective robotic construction
The increasing need for safe, inexpensive, and sustainable construction, combined with novel technological enablers, has made large-scale construction by robot teams an active research area... Read more