EQN  is a blog from Prince­ton University’s School of Engi­neer­ing and Applied Sci­ence that high­lights fac­ulty, stu­dents and alumni who, through inno­va­tion and lead­er­ship, are chang­ing the world.

Why is this blog called EQN? For starters, the School of Engi­neer­ing and Applied Sci­ence at Prince­ton has long pro­duced an alumni mag­a­zine called EQuad News, so EQN seems a nat­ural jump.

But the let­ters EQN have fur­ther sig­nif­i­cance to us. EQN, or rather eqn, is a com­puter pro­gram co-created by Brian Kernighan, a leg­endary com­puter sci­en­tist and revered Prince­ton pro­fes­sor. The eqn pro­gram allows one to express math­e­mat­ics in print in the same way that one might speak it. EQN, the blog, is try­ing to do some­thing sim­i­lar: express com­pli­cated but impor­tant ideas in an acces­si­ble way.

The EQuad at Prince­ton refers not just to a beau­ti­ful court­yard, but also to the labyrinthine Qshaped col­lec­tion of build­ings that is home to Princeton’s engi­neer­ing school. The EQuad’s cir­cuitous hall­ways are noto­ri­ously hard to nav­i­gate. But they have served to incu­bate gen­er­a­tions of tal­ented inno­va­tors, entre­pre­neurs, researchers, and lead­ers. Please come back often to explore EQN’s vir­tual cor­ri­dors. I think you will find that they are as filled with sur­pris­ing dis­cov­er­ies and unique visions as the EQuad itself.

All the best,

Vince Poor

H. Vin­cent Poor
Dean
School of Engi­neer­ing and Applied Sci­ence
Prince­ton University