Tag Archives: Faculty Spotlights

Lunch & Learn: Wireless: Revolution and Evolution with H. Vincent Poor

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Jon Edwards

Wire­less com­mu­ni­ca­tions is among our most advanced, and rapidly advanc­ing, tech­nolo­gies, he notes. New wire­less appli­ca­tions and ser­vices emerge on an almost daily basis…
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Lunch & Learn: “e-Readers in the Classroom?” with Janet Temos, Stan Katz, Dan Kurtzer, and Trevor Dawes

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Jon Edwards

In the Fall term of 2009, Prince­ton con­ducted a pilot spon­sored by the High Mead­ows Foun­da­tion, the Uni­ver­sity Library, and the Office of Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy, to assess the use of e-readers in the class­room. The reader used was the Ama­zon … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: High Performance Computing at Princeton — Spring 2010

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Jon Edwards

Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity has cre­ated a cyber­in­fra­struc­ture, says Curt Hil­le­gas, the Direc­tor of Princeton’s TIGRESS High Per­for­mance Com­put­ing and Visu­al­iza­tion Cen­ter, itself a col­lab­o­ra­tion between the Prince­ton Insti­tute for Com­pu­ta­tional Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing (PIC­SciE). Devel­oped within the past decade, this cyber­in­fra­struc­ture … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: The Technology of History with Carla Zimowsk

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Jon Edwards

The Tech­nol­ogy Man­ager for the His­tory Depart­ment at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity, Carla Zimowsk has pro­vided tech­ni­cal sup­port for the depart­ment for 10 years. Not trained as a his­to­rian or a GIS expert, she draws upon grad­u­ate work in orga­ni­za­tional com­mu­ni­ca­tions and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: Simulations at the petascale and beyond for fusion energy sciences with William Tang

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Jon Edwards

Imag­ine har­ness­ing the power of the sun within a mag­netic bot­tle. Unlike hydro­gen bombs, which are essen­tially uncon­trolled fusion reac­tions, sci­en­tists for decades have been pur­su­ing the peace­ful chal­lenge of safely har­ness­ing fusion energy, a poten­tially effi­cient and envi­ron­men­tally attrac­tive … Con­tinue read­ing →

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