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It’s been said that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” Writing, or talking, about dancing can be similarly futile. A Cornell doctoral student has helped develop a tool that lets dancers use video and extended reality (XR) headsets to create an immersive environment for analyzing and refining their movements. In other words, dancers can...

In 2020, Yian Yin teamed up with economists at Northwestern University to look at the impact of researchers who had shifted their focus to study the COVID pandemic. He saw that these researchers faced a "pivot penalty" – their COVID-related work received less attention than previous contributions in their old field – and the greater the pivot, the worse the...

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has selected David Bindel, professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, as one of its 2024 SIAM Fellows. SIAM is an international community numbering more than 14,000 members that seeks to advance the development of applied mathematical and...