But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.

Above all, you go to a great school for self-knowledge.

-William Johnson Cory, Eton Reform, 1861

• As of 2008, at least 4 of the 20Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellows have a Cornell connection: three were Cornell undergrads, and one was a Cornell CS postdoc.
• Cornell alums include: the head of the search group at Google, the Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the inventor of the Palm Pilot, the co-founder of Blackboard.
• Graduates of CUCS classes '94-'06 include faculty at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Penn, and Toronto.
• Graduates of the Cornell CS class of 1993 include three Sloan fellows and two MacArthur fellows.
• As of 2009: Given the results of this year's competition, Cornell University is now tied for #1, with CMU and MIT, in number of winners of the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Awards. One male undergraduate and one female undergraduate receive this award among all undergraduates in North America studying any area of computing research.

  Cornell's three winners since 1995, the inception of the award, are: Allegra Angus, 2002; Omar Khan, 2003; and Tal Rusak, 2009.

  Schools with two winners are Berkeley, Dartmouth, North Carolina State, Princeton, and U Washington.