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News
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Insurance program developed at CU aids drought-stricken livestock farmers The innovative Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) program, initially developed at Cornell University, has made its first payments to 650 inusred herders in drought-stricken northern Kenya. |
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New Computational Sustainability seminar at MIT
MIT professors Brian Williams and Youssef Marzouk and postoc J. Zico Kolter have organized a new Seminar on Computational Methods for Sustainability at MIT. Taught during the Fall 2011 semester, the seminar will explore the role of computation in solving problems of sustainability. |
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State of the Birds 2011 report released
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Agriculture Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Harris Sherman have released the 2011 State of the Birds Report, the nation's first assessment of birds on lands and waters owned by the American people. ICS members Ken Rosenberg, Daniel Fink, and Theodoros Damoulas assisted in preparation of the report and worked with a team at Cornell to contribute year-round species distribution estimates requiring high-performance computing techniques. |
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ICS and Cornell researchers receive new TeraGrid Allocation Award
ICS researchers have been awarded a new TeraGrid Allocation Award in order to develop "Statistical Modeling of Avian Distributional Dynamics on the TeraGrid: Support for the Phenological Atlas of North American Birds." The team will receive over 3 million service units, which is TeraGrid's largest allocation for an ecological application. |
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Antonio Bento Serves as Cornell Delegate at U.N. Climate Conference in Cancun
ICS team member Antonio Bento served as a member of Cornell University's delegation to the 16th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 16) in Cancun, Mexico, and presented a theoretical and computational model of a cap-and-trade model in the U.S. |
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Cornell President announces $80 million sustainability gift
Cornell President David Skorton announced a historic gift by David and Patricia Atkinson to formally establish the David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) at Cornell University, citing the ICS as an example of the research and scholarly collaboration advancing sustainability. |
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Mahowald tapped as lead author for intergovernmental climate report
ICS member Natalie Mahowald has been tapped to be a lead author on the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report. |
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FET Flagship on Computational Sustainability proposed in Europe
Barry O'Sullivan is working with European colleagues to create and foster a computational sustainability research program and scientific community in Europe. |
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ICS Director Carla Gomes to deliver invited talk at AAAI-10.
Carla Gomes will present an invited talk at the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10) in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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Communications of the ACM: Computer Science Meets Environmental Science
CACM reports on the first Computational Sustainability conference. |
Spotlight
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| Computational Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence (CompSustAI): AAAI-12 to feature new CompSustAI special track |
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| Science 360 from the NSF: Computational Sustainability video featured |
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| New Applied Math and Computational Sustainability Video: from ICIAM |
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| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Traps Special Feature |
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| The Bridge: Computational Sustainability article appears in NAE publication |
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| Machine Learning in Ecological Science and Environmental Policy: ICML 2011 tutorial |
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| AAAI 2011 Outstanding paper award goes to a paper from the “Computational Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence” track. |
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| AI for an Intelligent Planet: IJCAI-11 workshop July 18, 2011 |
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Events
CompSust'12: 3rd Comp. Sustainability Conference
Dates TBA
Machine Learning for. Sustainability Workshop at NIPS 2011
December 16-17, 2011
CompSust09: 1st Comp. Sustainability Conference
June 8-11, 2009
Vision: Computer scientists can — and should — play a key role in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the way we manage and allocate our natural resources, while enriching and transforming Computer Science.