Content (46)
Anyone using the Zoom desktop or mobile application should update to the latest version to receive recently released security fixes.Who is impacted? If you join Zoom meetings by clicking a meeting link in Outlook, Teams, email, or a calendar invitation, or if you launch meetings from the Zoom…
The Emerging Tech Dialogues for Fall 2026 have been postponed.
The Emerging Tech Dialogues for Fall 2026 have been postponed. Watch your email for details about the next event.How will universities adapt to rapid technological, demographic, and societal change?
The Emerging Tech Dialogues for Fall 2026 have been postponed. Watch your email for details about the next event.Ready to dive into valuable conversations at the Emerging Tech Dialogues? Breakout sessions create opportunities for colleagues across Cornell to share ideas, lessons learned, and…
The Emerging Tech Dialogues for Fall
The best response to a service disruption is often preventing it in the first place.Effective monitoring and event management help service teams identify issues early, understand the health and performance of the services they provide, and respond before customers or operations are significantly…
When members of Cornell's Service Management Special Interest Group (SIG) gathered recently to discuss knowledge management, they weren't just talking about documentation. They were tackling a challenge familiar to nearly every IT organization: how to make information easier to find, share, and…
For some employees, a term appointment can be a stepping stone to new skills, broader experience, and unexpected career opportunities. After observing 10 new term appointments posted under the CEMI program, technical communicator Carlyn Chatfield reflected on two career decisions she faced in a…
What should the Information Technology community at Cornell be talking about this fall? The Emerging Tech Dialogues planning team is seeking breakout session ideas and facilitators for the October 13 event.
Thirty participants from 23 units across eight colleges, including travelers from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and Cornell Cooperative Extension in Suffolk County, gathered in early August to explore what an AI-enabled future of software development might look like at Cornell.
The Emerging Tech Dialogues for Fall 2026 have been postponed. Watch your email for details about the next event.Prepare for fresh ideas and unexpected connections as creative thinking, emerging technologies, and the expertise of Information Technology professionals come together at Emerging Tech…
In late July, a toggle became available in Zoom settings that allows enablement of the new Zoom web portal interface. Starting August 13, 2026, the new interface will become the only option as the legacy interface is retired.The new user interface makes the Zoom web portal experience more closely…
Do you use Surveys Lite (Microsoft Forms) to collect survey responses, registrations, feedback, or other information for your department or project team?
Box has announced that Box Sync will no longer be supported beginning in December 2026. Once unsupported, continuing to use it could expose Cornell to security vulnerabilities and unresolved bugs. Therefore, Box Sync will be retired in December 2026. While files will still be available on…
When Robert “Bob” Talda talks about making a career pivot, he often points to a path he spent years preparing for but ultimately chose not to pursue. While his plans changed, the experience left him with skills that would shape both his IT career and decades of service to the Cornell community…
This summer, Microsoft Teams is rolling out a collection of enhancements designed to make collaboration smoother, meetings more productive, and account management less cumbersome. Among the nine updates introduced in July 2026, one of the most notable for Cornell's IT community is the new cross…
The SC Johnson College of Business faced a challenge familiar to many evolving organizations: processes that worked well in smaller, independent schools no longer scaled easily after the transition to a combined organization. Informal coordination, hallway conversations, and institutional memory…
Behind the scenes in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Ido Efrati is helping shape how AI gets adopted. He does so by starting not with the technology, but with the people and problems it might serve.In practice, that means sitting down with a person or team and asking them to…
On May 4, 2026, Cornell’s direction for AI innovation was emphasized early and often: don’t start with the technology, start with the problem. That framing set the tone for the university’s latest AI Demo Day, where students, faculty, and staff presented projects rooted in real campus needs.Rather…
Considering a career shift? Learn to support the CEMI modernization efforts or backfill an open role through new limited-term assignments across the insitution.Designed around evolving project needs, the backfill opportunities allow participants to build new skills, gain exposure to different teams…