October 4, 2023
By Pat Leonard, Cornell Lab of Orinthology
For the first time, big data and artificial intelligence are being used to model hidden patterns in nature – not just for one bird species, but for entire ecological communities across continents.
The models follow the full annual life cycle of each species, from breeding to fall migration to nonbreeding grounds, and back north again during spring migration.
By Tom Fleischman for the Cornell Chronicle
June 15, 2022
A combination of ecological field methods and cutting-edge artificial intelligence has helped an interdisciplinary research group detect eelgrass wasting disease at nearly three dozen sites along a 1,700-mile stretch of the West Coast, from San Diego to southern Alaska.
June 10, 2022
By Patricia Waldron
Carla P. Gomes, the Ronald and Antonia Nielsen Professor of Computing and Information Science, is the 2022 recipient of the ACM – AAAI Allen Newell Award, given in recognition of her foundational contributions to artificial intelligence (AI) and for founding and developing the field of computational sustainability.
By Tom Fleischman for the Cornell Chronicle
Biologist Alexander Flecker approached computer scientist Carla Gomes a few years ago with an ambitious proposal: Harness AI and other tools, in collaboration with a diverse group of Amazon river basin experts, to understand how to meet hydropower needs with the least amount of environmental damage.
By Tom Fleischman for the Cornell Chronicle
When a master chef develops a new cake recipe, she doesn’t try every conceivable combination of ingredients to see which one works best. The chef uses prior baking knowledge and basic principles to more efficiently search for that winning formula.
By Blaine Friedlander for the Cornell Chronicle
In an oceanic omen for climate change’s intensifying effects, Cornell-led research (including Carla P. Gomes, professor in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science) shows that seagrass – through large swaths of intertidal meadows in the Pacific Northwest – suffers from a lesion-filled wasting disease. The grasses’ once-vibrant plant root systems are deteriorating, too.
By Tom Fleischman for the Cornell Chronicle
Say you’re driving with a friend in a familiar neighborhood, and the friend asks you to turn at the next intersection. The friend doesn’t say which way to turn, but since you both know it’s a one-way street, it’s understood.
Carla Gomes, the Ronald C. and Antonia V. Nielsen Professor of Computing and Information Science, is part of a Cornell team who received a Cornell Atkinson Academic Venture Fund (AVF) seed grant to study environmental and nutritional tradeoffs of expanding Amazonian aquaculture.
Carla P. Gomes, the Ronald and Antonia Nielsen Professor of Computing and Information Science, is the recipient of the 2021 Feigenbaum Prize, given by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
The prize is awarded biennially to recognize and encourage outstanding AI research advances made by using experimental methods of computer science. The “laboratories” for the experimental work are real-world domains, where the power of the research results are demonstrated.
