[5] The college is located in Bill & Melinda Gates Hall near the Engineering Quad on the Cornell Central Campus in Ithaca, New York.

[6] A new 135,000 square-foot building is scheduled to open in 2025 [7] to help accommodate the rapidly increasing enrollments in computing and information science subjects.

[12] The initiative, done under the university presidency of Hunter R. Rawlings III, overcame early opposition from many professors in both the Engineering and Arts schools.

[12] When he stepped down from the post, Provost Biddy Martin said that Constable had succeeded in giving computing reach into areas as different as architecture, history, plant science, and psychology.

[17] According to Cornell professors and administrators, the Faculty of Computing and Information Science was a "pioneer" in devising this structure, and other universities have since emulated aspects of it.

[15] Bowers, a liberal arts alumnus of Cornell, had been the head of personnel at Intel during a period of rapid growth in the early 1970s; subsequently married Robert Noyce, the cofounder of Intel; was vice president for human resources at Apple Computer in the early 1980s; and later became a philanthropist who chaired the Noyce Foundation following her husband's death.

[4] The new structure is designed by Leers Weinzapfel Associates and would be built adjacent to Gates Hall, with green space located in between to form a mini-quad.

[8] Construction would be on the site of Hoy Field, the longtime varsity baseball team diamond (which will be relocated further out from the central campus, at some loss of convenience and tradition).

[24] That increase has led to situations where faculty and other staff are spread across campus and non-majors are not permitted to take upper-level computer science courses, both of which the new building could ameliorate.