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10-Mar-2025

$100 million investment to expand Cornell's Engineering college

Cornell University
Grant and Award Announcement

A $100 million philanthropic commitment, the largest in Cornell Engineering’s history, from David A. Duffield ’62, MBA ’64, will significantly expand the college’s existing Duffield Hall, creating a new state-of-the-art home for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and critical new lab space for strategic research priorities.

10-Mar-2025

Promoting sustainable agriculture for pollinators: presenting the newly launched AGRI4POL project

Pensoft Publishers
Business Announcement

The new Horizon Europe project, AGRI4POL, aims to assist the transition of agriculture from being a pressure on pollinators to becoming a positive force for biodiversity, crop pollination services, ecosystems and people.

Funder: Horizon Europe

10-Mar-2025

FLIpping the Switch: Boosting stem cell numbers for therapies

Weill Cornell Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A single molecular switch is essential for blood stem cells to enter an activated, regenerative state in which they produce new blood cells, according to a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The discovery could lead to more effective bone marrow transplants and gene therapies.

Journal: Nature Immunology

10-Mar-2025

Future data systems: Unveiling the logic and architecture for AI advancement

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a recent Engineering article, researchers Jinghai Li and Li Guo discuss the future of data science and its significance for AI. They point out the challenges in scientific data systems, suggest principles for data collection and processing, and stress the importance of data system logic and architecture for the development of AI and data science.

Journal: Engineering

10-Mar-2025

Robotic helper making mistakes? Just nudge it in the right direction

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

MIT researchers developed a framework that lets a user correct a robot’s behavior during deployment using simple interactions, such as by pointing to an item, tracing a trajectory, or nudging the robot’s arm.

10-Mar-2025

New technique overcomes spurious correlations problem in AI

North Carolina State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

AI models often rely on “spurious correlations,” making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can be traced to a very small subset of the training data and have demonstrated a technique that overcomes the problem.

Meeting: International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

10-Mar-2025

Deep reinforcement learning optimizes distributed manufacturing scheduling

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study published in Engineering, researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and the Technical University of Munich have developed an improved proximal policy optimization (IPPO) method. This method is designed to solve the distributed heterogeneous hybrid blocking flow-shop scheduling problem (DHHBFSP), aiming to minimize total tardiness and total energy consumption. The research offers a practical approach for manufacturing scheduling, and its experimental results show better performance compared with other methods.

Journal: Engineering