Tag Archives: New York Times

Lunch and Learn: William Howarth and Janet Temos — “Kindle on Fire”

Posted on February 9, 2012 by John LeMasney

Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 8, 12:00 noon Frist Mul­ti­pur­pose Room B Kin­dle on Fire: Big Changes in the Book World William Howarth, Janet Temos With the release of a new Kin­dle Fire in Novem­ber 2011, Amazon.com has won a four-year race to the top … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The Productive Scholar: Patents and Patent Searching from a Librarian’s Perspective

Posted on February 10, 2011 by John LeMasney

David Hol­lan­der, Law and Legal Stud­ies Librar­ian at Prince­ton, and Wil­low Dres­sel, Assis­tant Librar­ian at Princeton’s Engi­neer­ing and Furth Libraries, gave a talk on Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 9th about the his­tory of patents…
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Lunch & Learn: Blogs, lulz and tweets: Social media comes to Princeton with Shan Hilton and John Jameson

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Jon Edwards

Why has the use of Face­book and other social net­work­ing sites exploded? Per­haps, sug­gest John Jame­son and Shani Hilton of Princeton’s Office of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, because it is now pos­si­ble to inter­act socially with very large num­bers of peo­ple in ways … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: The Foundations and Future of Information Search with Andrea LaPaugh

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Jon Edwards

Today, every­one Googles – in the U.S, about 12 bil­lion times a month (includ­ing search engines that aren’t Google). Will our sat­is­fac­tion with these tools increase or decrease as the Web and our expec­ta­tions grow?
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The (Technical) Conscience of a Liberal with Paul Krugman

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Jon Edwards

What does Paul Krug­man have in com­mon with Eric Maskin, Daniel Kah­ne­man, John Nash, Sir W. Arthur Lewis, A Michael Spence, and Gary Becker? As of this Mon­day, they are all Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity fac­ulty who have one won the Nobel … Con­tinue read­ing →

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