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By Janet Temos · March 2, 2011
"Mapping Globalization" was the topic of today's Lunch 'n Learn featuring Professor Miguel Centeno and graduate student, Manish Nag, both of the Department of Sociology at Princeton.
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By Janet Temos · February 17, 2011
Will Howarth, Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton, spoke to a large Lunch 'n Learn audience on February 16 about how he uses his iPad as an essential companion to reading, writing, research and travel.
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By Janet Temos · December 21, 2010
Scrivener, an innovative software package for writers, was the topic of last week's Lunch 'n Learn, led jointly by Professor Will Howarth, Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton, and Jon Edwards . . .
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By Janet Temos · December 2, 2010
In this week's Lunch 'n Learn, Matthew Salganik, an Assistant Professor in Princeton's Department of Sociology, presented some recent research that has resulted in the creation of an open-source polling site called AllOurIdeas.org
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By Jon Edwards · October 6, 2010
All who listen to Jerry Ostriker, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, come to know that we live in profoundly exciting times. We have learned only recently the age and composition of the...
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By Jon Edwards · April 21, 2010
Wireless communications is among our most advanced, and rapidly advancing, technologies, he notes. New wireless applications and services emerge on an almost daily basis…
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By Jon Edwards · April 14, 2010
In the Fall term of 2009, Princeton conducted a pilot sponsored by the High Meadows Foundation, the University Library, and the Office of Information Technology, to assess the use of e-readers in the classroom. The...
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By Jon Edwards · April 7, 2010
Princeton University has created a cyberinfrastructure, says Curt Hillegas, the Director of Princeton's TIGRESS High Performance Computing and Visualization Center, itself a collaboration between the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE). Developed...
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By Jon Edwards · March 24, 2010
The Technology Manager for the History Department at Princeton University, Carla Zimowsk has provided technical support for the department for 10 years. Not trained as a historian or a GIS expert, she draws upon graduate...
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By Jon Edwards · March 10, 2010
Imagine harnessing the power of the sun within a magnetic bottle. Unlike hydrogen bombs, which are essentially uncontrolled fusion reactions, scientists for decades have been pursuing the peaceful challenge of safely harnessing fusion energy, a...
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By Jon Edwards · February 17, 2010
In the early 1980s, scientists began to wonder whether, with existing technology, we could determine the sequence of the human genome, that is, the sequences in the DNA that we pass on to our children....
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By Jon Edwards · February 3, 2010
Says Princeton Computer Science professor Brian Kernighan: “As calculators and computers have become steadily more powerful, they have buried us in an avalanche of numbers and graphs and charts, many of which claim to present...
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By Jon Edwards · December 9, 2009
Imagine a computer that made direct use of quantum mechanical phenomena. Such a machine would likely operate exponentially faster than our present computers. Zahid Hasan is leading an international scientific collaboration that has observed an...
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By Jon Edwards · December 2, 2009
In the Internet’s early years, some observers believed that the new technology would reduce social inequality in at least two ways. First, by reducing the price of information, it would make information more available,...
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By Jon Edwards · October 5, 2009
Imagine trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle without knowing the number of pieces or even what the final image might look like. The archaeological site of Akrotiri on the small, volcanic island of Thera...
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By Jon Edwards · May 6, 2009
For those who still assume that the Psychology faculty analyze subconscious thoughts and place rats in mazes, Matthew Botvinick represents an eye opening cup of java. Building on the foundations of cognitive psychology, Botvinick’s laboratory...
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By Jon Edwards · April 1, 2009
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...
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By Jon Edwards · March 25, 2009
How did three distinguished women in research computing overcome political and societal obstacles? How have they dealt with the different work/life expectations that our society places on women? Do they see progress toward equaling the...
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By Jon Edwards · March 9, 2009
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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By Jon Edwards · February 19, 2009
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...
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By Sam Wang · February 12, 2009
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...
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By Jon Edwards · December 10, 2008
While computers are exponentially more powerful and increasingly important in both society and in every area of scholastic inquiry, modern computers appear to be incapable of solving certain problems. In recent decades, computer scientists have...
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By Jon Edwards · December 5, 2008
Professor Lee Silver gets around. He’s discussed cloning with Charlie Rose, stem cells with Ted Koppel, and designer babies on the BBC. You can even watch him tangle with Stephen Colbert. A professor at...
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By Jon Edwards · November 24, 2008
Two technology-driven projects at Princeton are improving teaching and learning in beginning German. Jamie Rankin, coordinator of language teaching and pedagogy and a senior lecturer in the department since 1991, introduced both approaches at...
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By Jon Edwards · November 12, 2008
Google Earth and Maps are used extensively for instruction at Princeton because the products support a variety of media and can be used collaboratively. In their November 12 Lunch 'n Learn presentation, Bill Guthe and Ben Johnston demonstrated some of these applications.
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By Jon Edwards · October 23, 2008
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...
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By Jon Edwards · October 14, 2008
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...
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By Jon Edwards · October 10, 2008
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...
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By Jon Edwards · March 26, 2008
Emmanuel Kreike, Associate Professor of History at Princeton, combines models and methodologies from the humanities and social sciences with approaches from environmental science and forestry to analyze how ecological, political, social, cultural, and economic processes...
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By Jon Edwards · March 5, 2008
Princeton Professor John Haldon, the director of the Euchaita/Avkat Project, an archaeological and historical survey based around the village of Avkat in north-central Anatolia, introduced the Avkat Archaeological Survey at the March 5 Lunch ‘n...
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By Jon Edwards · February 27, 2008
Says Robert Vanderbei, chair of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton, the modern digital world is making it possible, and almost easy, for amateurs to take astrophotos in their own backyards that are as...
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By Jon Edwards · February 13, 2008
For the past eight years, Dr. Kernighan has taught a Computer Science course on advanced programming techniques that is meant to reflect how programming is used in the real world. Over time, the course...
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By Jon Edwards · December 12, 2007
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...
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By Jon Edwards · December 5, 2007
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...
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By Jon Edwards · November 7, 2007
At the November 7 Lunch ‘n Learn seminar, three Princeton faculty members described their use of the University’s TIGRESS High Performance Computing Center, a collaborative collection of four major HPC resources, storage, and the...
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By Jon Edwards · November 2, 2007
In the wake of the 2000 Florida recount debacle, many states turned to computer voting machines to increase election accuracy and security. Many computer scientists have long been skeptical of such machines, but only...
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By Jon Edwards · October 17, 2007
Ken Steiglitz, Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and an avid collector of ancient coins, has combined his interests in a new book Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: eBay and Human Behavior. “Why is...
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By Jon Edwards · September 26, 2007
Princeton University Computer Science Professor Andrew Appel summarized the inherent difficulties of voting technologies and pressed for a solution, the need for Voter-Verified Paper Ballots and computer counting with random by-hand audits of selected precincts....
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By Jon Edwards · April 25, 2007
For the past six years, OIT’s Language Resource Center has offered a Video on Demand service that permits faculty to integrate film into their teaching. The service permits faculty to submit requests for full...
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By Jon Edwards · March 28, 2007
“There is a natural and, to my mind, extremely beautiful mapping between concepts that have been around for hundred of years among musicians and concepts that are natural to mathematicians,” explains Dmitri Tymoczko, Assistant Professor...
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By Jon Edwards · March 15, 2007
Wole Soboyejo’s work and perspectives perhaps reflect his unique set of life experiences. Born in Palo Alto, named after Winston Churchill, raised in Nigeria and with a PhD in Materials Science from Cambridge at 23,...
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By Jon Edwards · March 1, 2007
At the February 28 Lunch ‘n Learn seminar, Bill Guthe, David Potere, Bethany Bradley, Wangyal Shawa presented GIS at Princeton: Gathering Knowledge from Satellite Images. Bill Guthe began the session by describing GIS and Remote...
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By Jon Edwards · February 15, 2007
At the Lunch ‘n Learn seminar on February 14, Computer Science Professor Adam Finkelstein presented “Modeling by Drawing.” Computer graphics has progressed marked from its foundations in 1963 when Ivan Sutherland created the first...
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By Teresa Riordan · November 20, 2006
Princeton NJ — It was 7:30 on a recent Wednesday evening and nine freshmen were taking their seats in Room 121 of Forbes College while Szymon Rusinkiewicz, assistant professor of computer science, displayed their...
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By Jon Edwards · November 15, 2006
At the Wednesday, November 15 Lunch ‘n Learn seminar, Computer Science Professor and Chair Larry Peterson discussed PlanetLab, an open platform for developing, deploying, and accessing planetary scale internet services. A prototype of the...
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By Jon Edwards · October 12, 2006
At OIT’s Lunch ‘n Learn presentation on October 11, three of the faculty who were instrumental in architecting the new high performance facility - Bill Tang (Chief Scientist at PPPL and Associate Director of PICSciE),...
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By Teresa Riordan · September 13, 2006
In a paper published on the Web today, a group of Princeton computer scientists said they created demonstration vote-stealing software that can be installed within a minute on a common electronic voting machine. The...
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By Teresa Riordan · June 16, 2006
Princeton NJ — Emily Carter wrestles with a world so tiny that if you were to hold it in your hand you could not feel it or see it. Yet the type of work she...
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By Jon Edwards · May 10, 2006
Should broadband companies treat all Internet sites and surfers equally? Providers have proposed charging users different rates based on bandwidth usage. But a diverse coalition of activists and companies have cried foul, rallying around the...
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By Jon Edwards · April 19, 2006
When approached by their teaching assistants with the dilemma of overly large precepts, two co-instructors decided to be creative with the technology tools available to them. Rather than scheduling office hours to advise students one-on-one,...
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By Jon Edwards · April 12, 2006
GIS, just another three letter acronym, or an integral part of research and teaching? Today, when students need spatial information, they no longer turn first to paper maps. Rather, they use web browsers to search...
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By outside author · April 6, 2006
By David Patrick Stearns - Inquirer Music Critic PRINCETON - Having long taken pop music hostage, electronically generated sounds often threaten to revolutionize more serious music - why not? - with an infinite variety of...
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By Jon Edwards · April 3, 2006
Imagine getting an alert on your Blackberry because a two-tied sloth had just died in Panama. The March 29 Lunch ‘n Learn featured Martin Wikelski and Axel Haenssen discussing an Automated Radio-Tracking of Rainforest Animals....
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By Jon Edwards · March 3, 2006
In a special March 1 Lunch ‘n Learn presentation, Dr. Maria Klawe, dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, presented Gender, Lies and Video Games: The Truth about Females and Computing. The event...
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By Jon Edwards · February 23, 2006
At OIT’s Lunch ‘n Learn seminar on Wednesday February 22, Computer Science Professor Brian Kernighan presented Millions, Billions, Zillions - Why (In)numeracy Matters. In 2004, Newsweek magazine stated: “Perhaps the Bush administration could use the...
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By Jon Edwards · February 14, 2006
Many of you are well aware that the Blackboard Course Management System provides easy access to a syllabus, a facebook, a gradebook, a sectioning tool, e-mail lists, links to reserve reading, and other course...
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By Teresa Riordan · November 7, 2005
Princeton NJ — Pass by the basement rehearsal space in Woolworth on a Thursday afternoon and you may hear electronic raindrops, a fast-forward reading of Dr. Seuss or a deep moaning that seems to...
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By Howard Strauss · May 15, 2005
An interview with Dr. Olga Troyanskaya, Assistant Professor of Computer Science,Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Most people who use common bread yeast use it to bake crusty loaves of bread. Olga Troyanskaya is using bread...
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By Howard Strauss · October 15, 2004
A web enthusiast finds the newest version of Blackboard has caught up with his needs. Dr. Lee Silver is a professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. As a scientist, Professor Silver...
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