December 2007

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Why Your Humble iPod May Be Holding the Biggest Mystery in All of Science

In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors placed on an integrated circuit would double approximately every two years. That prediction, notes Bernard Chazelle, Computer Science Professor at Princeton, if anything...

Computers Driving Down Nassau Street

A student-led research group at Princeton University, PAVE [Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering] has for the past three years pursued the goal of a car that can drive by itself. The team, which consists primarily of...

10 Tips for Academic Users of Word 2007

Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 will begin to be installed on campus desktop computers in January 2008. The new Word 2007 offers powerful new functionality but the interface is a marked departure from the...