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Date Time Women in tech program expanding to DC Gender Equality in Tech (GET) Cities, led by Cornell Tech-based Break Through Tech and SecondMuse, in partnership with Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, on March 2 launched GET DC as its next city hub. GET DC will work collaboratively with the Washington metro region’s tech ecosystem to propel more women and marginalized groups into tech education, careers and leadership. Break Through Tech is a national initiative that began as Women in Techno...

Gender Equality in Tech (GET) Cities, led by Cornell Tech-based Break Through Tech and SecondMuse, in partnership with Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, has launched GET DC as its next city hub.

February 26, 2021 The Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity is hosting two events this semester open to the public. “A Life Making Your Software Secure and Your Data Private… or Trying To,” an “In Focus” talk with Ulfar Erlingsson PhD ’04, is scheduled for March 2, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Erlingsson is the former head of security research at Google Brain and Machine Learning Privacy Technologies at Apple, now chief architect at a cloud security company called Lacework. He is also a Milst...

Posted on Yuhang Zhao joins the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department from Cornell University, where she completed her PhD in Information Science. Zhao studies Human-Computer Interaction, and more specifically is interested in understanding “the diverse abilities that people have, and to design and build intelligent interactive systems to enhance human abilities and promote equity.” At UW-Madison she plans to continue exploring how to create novel technologies to address the challen...

Suffolk Construction Suffolk Construction is one of the top industry players in Boston, where it’s headquartered, but it has also been steadily expanding its presence in New York, where Charlie Avolio has been leading the charge. Avolio, who previously worked at Turner, joined Suffolk Construction in 2016 as the company opened a new office in New York City and launched its bid to gain a share of the local market. He works closely with Will Whitesell, New York’s chief operating officer.  22...

Following the onset of the pandemic, Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management waived the GMAT and GRE exams. The school has recently added the waiver policy in its website, thus joining the top 25 MBA programs in the U. S.  The new admission norms are applicable to all the three full-time residential programs hosted at Johnson; two-year MBA program and one-year accelerated MBA program at Ithaca, New York and the Cornell Tech MBA at New York City.  However, the school has c...

February 16, 2021 Rachit Agarwal, Sasha Rush, Katherine A. Tschida and Madeleine Udell have won 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships support early-career faculty members’ original research and education related to science, technology, mathematics and economics. Agarwal is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science; Rush is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, at Cornell Tech; Tschida is an assistant pr...

Jefferson: Rackspace co-founder Graham Weston wants progress, and he wants it now FacebookTwitterEmail Graham Weston talks about his Community Lab Covid-19 testing program on Sept. 23, 2020.Tom Reel, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographer It’s hard to tell how serious Graham Weston was three years ago when he proposed that the University of Texas at San Antonio sell its downtown campus to another higher ed institution, one that had gumption. Maybe he was just spit-balling. “I think I...

Seed Health Announces Acquisition of Digital Health Company Auggi LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Seed Health, a microbial sciences company, announced today the acquisition of Auggi, a digital health company with a suite of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to track and analyze digestive health. Seed Health will acquire Auggis technology assets, including its AI algorithm for real-time Bristol stool typing, the worlds largest stool image database, and a mobi...

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