February 2009

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Creative Commons: Guilt-Free Reuse of Others' Work

Modern copyright law guarantees authors full rights over their work even without the inclusion of the © copyright notice. “All rights reserved” gives authors (for the length of their lives plus 70 years) the...

Infrared Optical Sensing for Health and the Environment

The National Science Foundation has funded a multimillion-dollar Engineering Research Center based at Princeton University that is expected to revolutionize sensor technology, yielding devices that have a unique ability to detect minute amounts of chemicals...

Sam Wang: Election Predictions and More

Having highlighted his work in a previous post, we invited Professor Sam Wang to speak at Lunch ‘n Learn on February 11. He graciously forwarded the following thoughts: It was great fun to be...