October 31, 2023

Cheng Zhang, assistant professor of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, has received the 10-year Impact Award from  the ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) held earlier this month.

By Tom Fleischman for the Cornell Chronicle

Speech recognition technology allows us to ask Siri to check the weather for tomorrow, or to ask Alexa to play our favorite song.

But those technologies require audible speech. What if a person can’t speak, or if vocalized speech in a particular setting isn’t appropriate?

By Tom Fleischman for the Cornell Chronicle

Human facial movements convey emotions, and help us communicate nonverbally and perform physical activities, such as eating and drinking.