April 2009

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The Cairo Geniza: Ancient Papers in the Digital Age

The Cairo Geniza is a collection of an estimated 750,000 manuscript pages found discarded for “burial” in the Geniza chamber of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo in the late 19th century. In addition...

Flash Forward: The Rise of Small Tech Gadgets

A compelling technology, flash memory continues its march through the consumer electronics industry, yet again doubling quickly in capacity and dropping in price. In its wake, the wreckage of other, once proud, technologies and products...

All Aboard! Teaching Engineering with Computerized Toys

Imagine being paid, or getting Princeton credit, for playing with trains and Legos™. For more than 25 years, Professor Michael G. Littman, of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton, has taught MAE 412 Microprocessors for...