The work is a collaboration between Microsoft Research and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, the oldest university in Israel, founded in 1912.
FORBES: Israeli Nobel Prize Winner: Entrepreneurship is The Only Way to Maintain Peace.
The winner was Daniel Shechtman of Technion, a technology institute in Haifa, Israel.
He earned a BSc from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from INSEAD and has an impressive track record.
They've given before to both Cornell and Technion, based in Haifa, Israel.
It will fund the creation of The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute, including helping support faculty and graduate students, among other initiatives.
FORBES: Qualcomm's Irwin Jacobs Is Fourth Billionaire In April To Announce $100 Million Plus Gift
The success is a triumph for Intel's Israeli team, where Perlmutter got his start at Intel in 1980 out of Technion--Israel's answer to MIT.
Three days after Stanford withdrew, the city awarded the contract to Cornell University and its junior partner, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the oldest university in Israel.
Dr Nathan Karin, leading the research at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, said that the idea was to teach the immune system "how to correct its own mistakes".
The move comes just weeks after the university, in partnership with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, won a competition to create a new applied-sciences campus in New York City.
WSJ: New Dean Named at Cornell University's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology won a 2011 contest to create the program, where seven master's degree students started this winter in a computer science master's program.
In the next few years, half the island will become a vast construction site for Cornell Technion's new campus, clogging traffic and access even further for decades to come.
WSJ: Louis Kahn | Four Freedoms Park | Louis Kahn's Four Decades to Freedom | By Julie V. Iovine
The leadership of the Bloomberg administration in attracting university investment (Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) for the development of Roosevelt Island was a brilliant move for the city.
"Alerts about a downstream risk of cholera could have been issued nearly a year in advance, " wrote researchers Eric Horvitz, director of Microsoft Research, and Kira Radinsky, PhD student at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Another analysis performed by the security firm Imperva along with the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology found that antivirus managed to detect only 5% of new threats, and that it took an average of four weeks for antivirus firms to identify a new piece of malicious code.
应用推荐