By Kelly Faircloth 4/23 10:38am

Teach Me How to Startup

Someday! (Photo: CornellNYC Tech)

Qualcomm Cofounder Showers Cornell Tech With $133M., Gets His Name on a Building

Cornell Tech’s coffers are a little fatter this morning. Yesterday, Qualcomm cofounder Irwin Mark Jacobs and his wife Joan announced they’re donating $133 million to the project. And so the joint program designed by Cornell and the Technion (a project within the Roosevelt Island campus, it’ll allow students to earn dual masters degrees) will now be known as the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute.

That’s a useful data point if you’re trying to get your name on a major NYC landmark. Read More

By Kelly Faircloth 1/23 8:30am

Teach Me How to Startup

Someday! (Photo: CornellNYC Tech)

Cornell Tech Students Start Class in Their Temporary, Google-Owned Home

Earlier this week, classes commenced for the inaugural batch of Cornell Tech masters students, of which there are eight. To get a sense of how the first week is going, we checked in late yesterday afternoon with vice president Cathy Dove, who sounded like a satisfied high school principal ready to prop her pumps on her desk: ”I have to say, by far, this is the most rewarding and exciting milestone that we’ve hit,” she said. Read More

By Kelly Faircloth 11/14/12 11:30am

Insurgents

Professor Estrin.

Tech Insurgents 2012: Deborah Estrin

The Entrepreneurial Egghead

Of all Mike Bloomberg’s many initiatives to turn New York into the Silicon Valley of the 21st century, one stands out as the centerpiece of his master plan: the applied sciences campus. After a battle royale with other schools including Stanford, Cornell emerged the winner with its proposal to build a Roosevelt Island satellite. Now, with classes scheduled to start in January, the city’s techies are left watching and waiting for graduates to fill all their open jobs.

Cornell insists its campus is designed to boost New York’s tech sector, and the school’s choice of open-source advocate Deborah Estrin as its first academic faculty member shows that’s more than mere talk. Read More