October 2008

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Faculty Use of High Performance Computing

Faculty are taking full advantage of Princeton’s TIGRESS High-Performance Computing Center. Professor Jeroen Tromp, the Blair Professor of Geology and Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics came to Princeton in July from Caltech. Among...

Princeton team issues report on voting machine security

With the presidential election less than a month away, and with market volatility at levels that are unprecedented for generations, we can all hope that November 4 generates an unambiguous result, at least for...

Is Your Computer Secure?

You’ve just gotten a new computer. You connect it to your high-speed Internet connection and within seconds … the computer has been attacked thousands of times. Most of the attacks will fail but a...

The (Technical) Conscience of a Liberal

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...

From Neuroscience to Electoral History

Sam Wang, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, maintains an interesting range of research interests. Within his academic specialties, biophysics and neuroscience, he uses probability and statistics to analyze complex...

A Tour of the Peter B. Lewis Library

On October 1, Patty Gaspari-Bridges, Assistant University Librarian for Special Libraries and Head of the Science and Technology Libraries and four other science librarians (Jane Holmquist, Steven Adams, Julie Arnheim, and Louise Deis) led a...

EndNote v Zotero: The latest Skirmish in the Open Source War

Thomson Reuters, the provider of EndNote, a bibliographic manager used by researchers, scholarly writers, and librarians to create bibliographies, manage footnotes, and generally organize references and related files, has filed suit against George Mason...