The Ithaca High School’s Code Red Robotics team also attended the event with their 4-foot-tall robot, which lifts traffic cones and other objects and maneuvers around to deposit them on shelves. The projects included Ithaca Hunt, an app to help new students explore off-campus activities with friends Tree Folio, a city planning tool that converts remote sensing data collected by airplanes into a digital map of each tree and the shade it provides and The Bookkeeper, which looks like a stack of books, but locks away mobile devices for a set time to help users focus. “They have a chance to really hone their elevator pitches and get input from corporate sponsors.” “BOOM is a unique opportunity for students to demonstrate their technology projects to everyone from school kids to industry experts,” said Danica Rickards, program coordinator in Undergraduate Student Services, and BOOM committee chair.

Selected teams received a trophy, certificate, and $750 prize Kavita Bala, dean of Cornell Bowers CIS, announced the awards. Nearly 100 students presented 32 projects in an atrium packed with visitors from Cornell and the broader Ithaca community.įaculty from each department within Cornell Bowers CIS and representatives from seven corporate sponsors judged the projects. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and features cutting-edge technology projects from across the university. The event started in 1998 as a small showcase for computer science students, but is now hosted by the Cornell Ann S. He admits that the music isn't quite good enough for studying – he's still tweaking the AI – but the project was impressive enough to earn him an award at the Bits On Our Minds (BOOM) technology showcase, held April 27 in the Duffield Hall atrium.Īfter a three-year pause due to COVID-19, BOOM returned to campus for its 25th anniversary. So, the computer science major made his own endless stream of AI-generated lofi hip-hop music by turning songs into an array of numbers, and taking a similar approach to Stable Diffusion, a AI text-to-image generator. “My thought process was, if I create an infinite radio of lofi music, it would help me study better.” Darren Key ’25 was tired of listening to the same lofi hip-hop songs over and over again while studying.

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