New research from Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University that advances assistive feeding by predicting when someone is ready for their next bite has received the Best Paper Award at the American Computer Machinery (ACM)/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Conference on Human Robot Interaction, held March 16-19 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Alum Gilles Brassard receives Turing Award, highest CS honor
Gilles Brassard, Ph.D. ’79, has received the 2025 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), jointly with Charles Bennett, for founding the field of quantum information science and for new encryption technology for secure communication and computing.
‘Rosetta stone’ for database inputs reveals serious security issue
The data inputs that enable modern search and recommendation systems were thought to be secure, but an algorithm developed by Cornell Tech researchers successfully teased out names, medical diagnoses and financial information from encoded datasets.
