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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 23, 2011
Today's Lunch 'n Learn, presented by Angel Brady of Princeton's Humanities Resource Center considered the topic of "Collaboration Tools for Scholars."
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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 13, 2010
"These are exhilarating times to be arts librarians," said Darwin Scott, librarian of the Mendel Music Library at Princeton. Today's Lunch 'n Learn session explored just how exhilarating - and challenging it is . . .
Posted in Copyright and Fair Use, Library, New Media, Research Computing
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 · November 12, 2010
Few people know that Princeton University’s association with computers and computing predates the ENIAC. Jon goes back to the days of John von Neumann, Oswald Veblen, Alan Turing, John Tukey, and winds his way...
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By Jon Edwards · November 5, 2010
The last decade has witnessed a rapid emergence of larger and faster computing systems in the US. Massively parallel machines have gone mainstream and are now the tool of choice for large scientific simulations....
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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 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 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 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 Cass Cliatt · October 2, 2006
Princeton NJ — Maintaining its place at the forefront of scientific research, Princeton has brought together three high-performance supercomputers to establish one of the nation’s leading university-based research computing facilities. The move comes as...
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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 · March 23, 2006
In the last two decades advances in computing technology, from processing speed to network capacity and the internet, have revolutionized the way scientists work. From sequencing genomes to monitoring the Earth’s climate, many recent scientific...
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By Jon Edwards · March 8, 2006
OIT has once again partnered with PICSciE (Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering) and Princeton faculty members to acquire an additional, significant new high-performance supercomputer for the University. The new system, dubbed Della, is...
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By Cass Cliatt · November 14, 2005
Princeton NJ — A unique partnership between Princeton scientists and information technology administrators has brought one of the world’s fastest supercomputers to the University to spur advancements in research. Working with IBM, the University’s Office...
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By Howard Strauss · May 15, 2005
The three great battles against monsters by Beowulf, heroic king of the Geats, are described in a circa 1000 AD English poem named for the king. A Beowulf computer cluster, such as OIT’s adrOIT cluster,...
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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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