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AAAI-24 AI for Social Impact Track Best Student Paper Award
AAAI — Feb 24, 2024
Marc Grimson et. al. "Scaling Up Pareto Optimization for Tree Structures with Affine Transformations: Evaluating Hybrid Floating Solar-Hydropower Systems in the Amazon"
Little by little, a bird builds its nest
Nature Computational Science — Jun 26, 2023
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[Video] Deep Reasoning Networks: Combining deep learning with reasoning for discovery
Cornell — Sep 16, 2021
35 Innovators Under 35: Priya Donti—Finding climate-change solutions via computer science and public policy
MIT Technology Review — Jun 30, 2021
[Video] Harnessing Math to Demystify Tipping Points
Quebec's 24 Hours of Science, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques — May 7, 2021
Rafael Almeida received the 2021 Hynes Award for New Investigators
Society for Freshwater Science — Mar 10, 2021
Cornell Researchers Collaborate to Investigate Environmental Consequences of Hydropower Dams
The Cornell Daily Sun — Oct 31, 2020
Stanford researchers harness satellite imagery and AI to help fight poverty in Africa
Stanford News — May 22, 2020
'AI for Good' talk pushes tech usage to mitigate humans' environmental impact
The Stanford Daily — Jan 28, 2020
[Video] Top 10 Coolest Army Science and Technology Advances of 2019!
U.S. Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory — Dec 18, 2019
Birds' seasonal migrations shift earlier as climate changes, new research shows
AAAS EurekAlert! — Dec 16, 2019
First look at thermostat wars suggests women may be losing these battles
Ohio State News — Nov 13, 2019
[Video] Datasets for African AI - Prof. Stefano Ermon and Rockefeller Foundation
Deep Learning Indaba — Oct 25, 2019
Reserve design to optimize functional connectivity and animal density
Conservation Corridor — Aug 27, 2019
10 out of 200: For a better tomorrow - Anmol Kabra applies machine learning to sustainability problems
SciLogs: Heidelberg Laureate Forum — Aug 26, 2019
[Video] Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS), Cornell University
ICIAM 2019 TV — Jul 12, 2019
Day 3: Machine Learning Lecture, Sustainable AI, Navigating STEM Fields, Science Presentation Tips, and Alexa Meade
Stanford AI4ALL — Jun 27, 2019
Deep Learning Model Cuts Time to Produce Hi-Res. Land Cover Maps
Georgia Tech College of Computing — Jun 19, 2019
Investing in leading minds—Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
Microsoft Research Blog — Apr 30, 2019
Stefano Ermon recognized
A new effort to save birds pinpoints in amazing detail where they fly
The Washington Post — Apr 29, 2019
[Video] CVPR 2019 Demo - Human-in-the-loop framework for land cover prediction
Georgia Tech — Mar 27, 2019
Study: Climate change is leading to unpredictable ecosystem disruption for migratory birds
Cornell University — Mar 5, 2019
Acclaimed science writer, Philip Ball discusses Computational Sustainability in a new article in Nature Materials
Cornell CS News — Feb 28, 2019
[Video] Keynote - David Shmoys - Algorithms for the Operation and Design of Bike-sharing Systems
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) — Feb 19, 2019
Giving algorithms a sense of uncertainty could make them more ethical
MIT Technology Review — Jan 18, 2019
With real-time decisions, Citi Bike breaks the cycle of empty stations
Cornell Chronicle — Aug 28, 2018
[Video] The Point of a Ride - Short Documentary
Peter Gerard, Bicycle Film Festival, New York — Jul 31, 2018
[Video] Towards Globally Beneficial AI
IJCAI — Jul 19, 2018
Stefano Ermon: 2018 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
[Video] Public Lecture: Counting on Conservation
International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) — Jul 2, 2018
Optimizing taxi fleet size the subject of multi-university research
Cornell Chronicle — May 23, 2018
New Research Unveils Bird Migration Strategies
Cornell Lab of Ornithology News Releases — May 8, 2018
Sheldon Awarded NSF CAREER Grant to Improve Citizen Science, Big Data Analysis
UMassAmherst CICS News — Apr 20, 2018
Phase Mapper: Accelerating Materials Discovery with AI
AI Magazine — Mar 23, 2018
Featured on the cover page
Interactive Map: See How Birds Migrate Throughout the Western Hemisphere
National Geographic — Feb 27, 2018
Indian American philanthropists Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani set up artificial intelligence center in Mumbai
The American Bazaar — Feb 19, 2018
A new way to fight the spread of infectious diseases
USC Viterbi School of Engineering — Feb 8, 2018
[Video] Oceanic plastic trash conveys disease to coral reefs
Cornell Chronicle (CornellCast) — Jan 25, 2018
New publication, just in time for the new year: A tale of two papers and two new friends
Connecting the Dots Blog — Dec 29, 2017
United Nations Awards CSE Team for Project Addressing Mobility During Flooding
Georgia Tech CSE News — Nov 27, 2017
[Video] Predicting and Alleviating Road Flooding for Climate Mitigation
Data Innovation: Generating Climate Solutions — Nov 12, 2017
[Video] Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World
Microsoft Research — Oct 16, 2017
Bart Selman @ Microsoft Research India Workshop on AI and Social Good
Cornell digital ag program integrates with John Deere Operations Center
Cornell Chronicle — Sep 14, 2017
AI is targeting some of the world's biggest problems: homelessness, terrorism, and extinction
VentureBeat — Aug 11, 2017
'Dark Ecology Project' Will Use Past Weather Radar Data to Trace Bird Migrations
UMass News — Jul 27, 2017
[Video] AI, People, and Society
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2017: The Edge of AI — Jul 18, 2017
[Video] CompSust-2017 Doctoral Consortium on Computational Sustainability
CompSustNet — Jul 14, 2017
Includes a YouTube playlist for each day
[Video] Apache Spark and Citizen Science: Using eBird Data to Predict Bird Abundance at Scale
Spark Summit 2017 — Jun 6, 2017
[Video] Dr. Mary Lou Zeeman - Math, Tipping Points, and Planet Earth
MSRI / National Math Festival — May 15, 2017
2017 Festival: Climate, Math, Ice Cores, and You: Hands-On Data from Planet Earth
2017 National Math Festival — Apr 27, 2017
Graduate Student Kaitlin Hill Helps Host Exhibitions at the National Math Festival in Washington D.C.
Northwestern Engineering News — Apr 22, 2017
And the Winners of the Big Data Innovation Challenge Are...
The World Bank News — Mar 27, 2017
Stanford Sustain team won the Food Security award
Awards for Computational Sustainability Papers at AAAI-17 and IAAI-17
Computational Sustainability Blog — Mar 22, 2017
CompSustNet members Xiaojian Wu, Daniel Sheldon, and Stefano Ermon won best paper awards in the CompSust track; Douglas Fisher gave a senior member summary talk.
[Video] Using Phase Mapper to discover a new light absorber material at JCAP
Caltech/Cornell — Mar 3, 2017
[Video] Science paper: Seagrass Ecosystems Reduce Exposure to Bacterial Pathogens of Humans, Fishes and Invertebrates
AAAS Press Briefing — Feb 16, 2017
[Video] HEALER: Using AI to Raise HIV Awareness among Homeless Youth
AAAI Video Competition — Feb 12, 2017
Winner: Best Video and Best Student Video
New Weiss fellows and teaching award recipients honored
Cornell Chronicle — Feb 9, 2017
Steven Strogatz recognized
Combining Artificial Intelligence with Combinatorial X-ray Diffraction Enables Rapid Phase Mapping of New Materials
Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis — Jan 23, 2017
[Video] Japanese Company Replacing 34 Employees with Artificial Intelligence
CNN Newsroom — Jan 6, 2017
Prof. Milind Tambe talks about Artificial Intelligence, jobs and social good.
[Video] Taking a Big Data Approach to Estimating Species Abundance
TDWG 2016 Annual Conference — Dec 7, 2016
To Help The Poorest Of The Poor, First You Have To Find Them
Oregon Public Broadcasting — Dec 6, 2016
Machine-Learning Software Scans Satellite Images to Find Hidden Poverty
Scientific American — Dec 1, 2016
Wildlife migration routes for multiple species can link conservation reserves at lower cost
Phys.org — Oct 21, 2016
Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests
Science — Oct 14, 2016
[Video] AI for Poverty Mapping
The White House Frontiers Conference (National Track) — Oct 13, 2016
Prof. Ermon speaks at 2:14:45
Optimization Technique Identifies Cost-Effective Biodiversity Corridors
Science Daily — Sep 27, 2016
Pastoral mobility and policy recommendations for livestock herding in the Borana pastoral system in southern Ethiopia
CGIAR Dryland Systems — Sep 25, 2016
UC Berkeley launches Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence
Berkeley News — Aug 29, 2016
[Video] Mathematician Shares 'Secret Universe' of Patterns, Beauty, Interconnectedness
Cornell University — Aug 23, 2016
[Video] Combining satellite imagery and machine learning to predict poverty
Stanford Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence Lab — Aug 15, 2016
Research Team: We Need a National Habitat Conservation System
University of Idaho News — Aug 10, 2016
Data Science Fellowship Delivers Results for Refugees Resettling in Atlanta
Georgia Tech College of Computing News — Aug 2, 2016
Bistra Dilkina (Georgia Tech) is a co-director of Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) - Atlanta
[Video] Harnessing artificial intelligence to target conservation efforts
World Economic Forum — Jun 26, 2016
[Video] 4th International Conference on Computational Sustainability (CompSust-2016)
CompSustNet — Jul 8, 2016
Includes a YouTube playlist for each session
An Ivy League professor explains chaos theory, the prisoner's dilemma, and why math isn't really boring
Business Insider — Jun 8, 2016
More than boots and bullets: This app could help turn the tide on poaching
Los Angeles Times — Jun 8, 2016
[Video] Green Security: How AI can help protect endangered wildlife, fish, forests
CCC Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good — Jun 7, 2016
Milind Tambe's talk in the Environmental Sustainability Panel
[Video] Understanding and Managing Ecosystems through Artificial Intelligence
CCC Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good — Jun 7, 2016
Tom Dietterich's talk in the Environmental Sustainability Panel
State of North America's Birds 2016: More Than One-Third in Need of Conservation Action
All About Birds — May 20, 2016
[Video] Computational Sustainability @ GT
CCC Computing Research Symposium — May 9, 2016
Bistra Dilkina's poster presentation, CCC Symposium on Computing Research to Address Societal Needs.
[Video] Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for Sustainable Development
CCC Computing Research Symposium — May 9, 2016
Carla Gomes' Keynote address, Computing in the Physical World session, CCC Symposium on Computing Research to Address Societal Needs.
Stanford researchers use dark of night and machine learning to shed light on global poverty
Stanford News — Feb 24, 2016
[Video] Save the Wildlife, Save the Planet: Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security (PAWS)
Feb 1, 2016
AAAI'2016 best application video
