Ashesh Jain's work on learning trajectory preferences from corrective zero-G feedback from users featured on NBC News, Kurzweil AI, Techcrunch, Popular Science, and tons of others. Tonight, it will also be on Discovery Channel Canada's primetime science program, Daily Planet.
Ashesh Jain's work with Shikhar Sharma (IIT summer intern), Thorsten Joachims and Ashutosh Saxena on robot checkout clerk was on FOX News , NBC, French Tribune, Daily Mail (UK), Kurweil AI and several other venues. His algorithm teaches robots to learn how to plan trajectories through incremental online feedback. His YouTube video already has more than 100k views in the last few days.
Hakim Weatherspoon was invited to give a special keynote talk in the ACM SIGOPS Workshop on Diversity in Systems Research Click Here. His keynote was identified as "Award Talk: Rising Star in Systems Research (Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell)" and was called "Plug into the Supercloud" Click Here
David Gries was appointed as Consulting Professor at Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
Kenneth P. Birman and Thomas A. Joseph's paper Exploiting Virtual Synchrony in Distributed Systems, Dec 1987, received a 2013 Hall of Fame award last week at the 11th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. Robbert VanRenesse was also chair of the Dennis Ritchie PhD award committee. Photos from the event are below:
Ken with his frist PhD student, Tommy Joseph
Robbert van Renesse explaining how the Dennis Ritchie PhD award was created and the problem that arose when it turned out that Dennis himself (co-inventor of Unix, inventor of C) never got his PhD
Robbert awarding the first PhD award to Roxana Geambasu, a new faculty member at Columbia University
Emin Gun Sirer and Ittay Eyal Cornell delve into the world of Bitcoin and tell CNN about a flaw that could jeopardize the $2.6 billion currency market. Click Here
For even more on this, countless other articles can be found here
Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer's research paper on Bitcoin Mentioned in CNN Article Click Here
Ashutosh Saxena was quoted in MarketWatch article on role of robots in education in the US and Europe.
Nate Foster and Ashutosh Saxena were featured in the Cornell Chronicle for having recently won NSF Career Awards.
Claire Cardie and Jiwei Li (formerly a PhD student at Cornell) have been written up in MIT Technology Review and other venues about their work that reconstructs timelines from twitter feeds, distinguishing meaningful events from trivial ones.
Link to MIT Technology Review article: Click Here
Link to paper: Click Here
