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Full speed ahead: The physical art of sailing

“Exploring Unsteady Sail Propulsion in Olympic Class Sailboats,” will occur during the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics this week in San Francisco, CA. Read more

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden

Charles Bolden was at Cornell Engineering on Wednesday, October 22 to deliver the 2014 William R. Sears Lecture at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Bolden, who is a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and a former NASA astronaut, was nominated by President Barack Obama to lead NASA in May 2009. Read more

'Data smashing' could unshackle automated discovery

Cornell computing researchers have come up with a new principle they call "data smashing" for estimating the similarities between streams of arbitrary data without human intervention, and without access to the data sources. Read more