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Tom Bruce and Peter Martin of the Legal Information Institute have released a short video that describes the importance of open access to legal information and some of the contributions made by the institute.

Gilly Leshed was cited in an article in the Canadian magazine The Walrus about her work with Theresa Velden, Oya Rieger, and Phoebe Sengers on how in-car GPS users interact with the environment Global Impositioning Systems: Is GPS technology actually harming our sense of direction. Gilly was also cited in the New Scientist magazine on the same work: Robot driving companion brings emotion to navigation. (November 2009)

NIH has funded a major two-year $12M grant to Cornell, the University of Florida, Indiana University Bloomington, and four other partners (including Weill Cornell Medical College) to extend Cornell's VIVO system to create a national network of biomedical researchers. Dean Krafft is the Cornell PI on the project and the chair of its technical advisory board. Carl Lagoze is on the technical advisory board. (October 2009)

Congratulations to Geri Gay, who has been honored with the 2009 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Research and Extension Award for Outstanding Service to the CALS Community. "This award recognizes the importance of [Geri's] myriad contributions to CALS as Chair of the Department of Communication, Co-Director of the Institute for the Social Sciences, and Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Group. . . . The Awards Committee noted that [Geri] is credited with building the Department of Communication into one of the best communication research departments in the country and . . . [has] forged innovative linkages with Weill-Cornell Medical College and the Johnson Museum, thereby enhancing the stature of the College throughout the University." (October 2009)

Thorsten Joachims and Chun-Nam Yu won the Best Paper Award at ECML 2009 for their paper "Sparse Kernel SVMs via Cutting-Plane Training". (October 2009)

The recent NSF grant to Eva Tardos, Larry Blume, David Easley, Bobby Kleinberg, Jon Kleinberg, and Maureen O'Hara ("Networks, Learning and Markets with Strategic Agents") is discussed in an article in the New York Times Business section on Sunday Sept. 13.  The article, part of a set of pieces written on the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, discuss academic research into how networks of trust can break down in financial markets. (October 2009)

Graduate students Nicholas Chen and Hyunyoung Song were selected for the Doctoral Symposium at UIST 2009 to present their work. (August 2009)

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