After a 53-year long career at Cornell spent shaping the field of computer science and its disciples, Prof. John Hopcroft delivered his final lecture to an empty lecture hall on April 29.It was not how he envisioned his last hurrah.“It’s fundamentally different to teach a hundred … | Continue reading
Cornell’s longest-serving professor, Prof. Anil Nerode, mathematics, first journeyed to Ithaca in 1959. Sixty years later, he shared his story of what drew him to Cornell and what inspired him to stay. | Continue reading
“As people have commented, Chinese students have become the long arm of authoritarianism,” he said. “I would like to rephrase that and say that they’ve become the long arm of Chinese totalitarianism.” | Continue reading