Cornell
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Ezra, 1809–74, U.S. capitalist and philanthropist.
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Katharine, 1898–1974, U.S. actress.
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a male given name.
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David A. Duffield, the founder of PeopleSoft and Workday, is giving $371.5 million to Cornell University, largely to endow the Ivy League school’s engineering college, which will be named after him.
Raised near Modesto, Russell went to Cornell University and graduated in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in global and public health.
From Los Angeles Times
“It’s like a perfect storm,” said Cornell University economist John Cawley, who heads the American Economic Association’s job market committee.
In a study published last month by the scientific journal Nature, academics including Cornell University's David Rand reported that human-AI dialogues may have a substantive effect on voters' electoral decisions.
From Barron's
But Prof James Grimmelmann of Cornell University argues this law "only protects sites from liability for third-party content from users, not content the sites themselves produce".
From BBC
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