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When Ramiro Rodriguez came to the United States from Mexico as a child, he never envisioned he’d receive his undergraduate and master’s degrees in computer science from an Ivy League university. “When I found out Carl Sagan actually taught at Cornell and the university also had a great science and technology education, Cornell became my first choice!” he...

In Italy, computer science suffers from an image problem. The field is often equated with IT work, rather than seen as a dynamic scientific field capable of fundamentally shaping both culture and the economy. “Computer science is seen more like a vocational field," said Lorenzo Alvisi , Ph.D. '96, the Tisch University Professor in Computer Science and chair...