Class in Session: CornellNYC Tech Campus Gets First Professor

CornellNYC Tech, the high-tech campus opening in New York City this fall, has announced its first academic hire: Dr. Deborah Estrin, a renowned professor of computer science whose speciality is networked sensing, which uses mobile phones and wireless Internet to collect and examine data from users' surroundings.

Estrin, who previously taught at University of California, Los Angeles and has been called one of the "10 Most Powerful Women in Tech," told Mashable she was drawn to the soon-to-be-open campus because of the "incredible opportunity to work in such a vibrant context."

"I don't know of any other place that's done or is trying to do what CornellNYC Tech is trying to do. It's very…
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