Dear Bowers CIS community,

Throughout the semester, there are a variety of exciting opportunities to learn, discover, and grow outside of the classroom or office. I encourage you to regularly take advantage of these unique opportunities to recharge your batteries, be inspired, and learn something new.

On Wednesday, April 26 at 5:30 p.m. we will welcome to campus Fei-Fei Li, the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, as part of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences Annual Lecture. Held in the Alice Statler Auditorium, Li will be discussing her research on cognitively inspired AI, deep learning, computer vision, and AI+healthcare. We are proud to co-sponsor this lecture, and I hope you will join me to learn more about this evolving area of research.

Best,

Kavita Bala



Dean

Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science 

dean@cis.cornell.edu

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