The technology news blog GigaOM has named computer scientist Jennifer Rexford, the Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering at Princeton, one of the top ten ‘cloud trailblazers’ for 2013.
Rexford is working to develop modular programming language called “Frenetic.” It works, GigaOM reports, by “breaking up monolithic network services, from routing and monitoring to [...]
Dan Boneh *96, now a professor at Stanford, has racked up another award: the ACM Gödel Prize for advances in cryptography. Read all about it here.
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Szymon Rusinkiewicz, professor of computer science, and collaborators at Industrial Light & Magic and USC have devised a new technique for making digital hair look more natural (see video above). They will present their new paper in July at SIGGRAPH, the premier computer graphics conference. Great coverage here from ExtremeTech.
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Technology Review recently highlighted research by Margaret Martonosi and colleagues from AT&T, Rutgers University, and Loyola University who have devised a way to mine cellphone data without revealing callers’ identity.
The researchers are working with billions of location data points from AT&T mobile phone calls and text messages made in Los Angeles [...]
Fei-Fei Li ’99, along with Princeton colleagues, has built the world’s largest visual database in an effort to mimic the human vision system, according to a report by John Markoff in The New York Times.
“With more than 14 million labeled objects, from obsidian to orangutans to ocelots, the database has become a [...]
Akamai, the leading company in the field of cloud computing, announced this week it has acquired Verivue, a company that relies on a private content delivery network invented at Princeton.
Verivue’s infrastructure is largely built around a system designed by CoBlitz, a company that grew out of a Princeton research project for [...]
Former Princeton computer science grad student Timothy Lee interviewed Ed Felten of the Center for Information Technology Policy about his time as the Federal Trade Commission‘s first Chief Technologist. The piece has the provocative title of “Geeks are from Mars Wonks are from Venus.” Read the full ars technica piece
Anne-Marie Slaughter‘s cover story in the Atlantic magazine debunking the idea that women can “have it all” was on the mind of two high-profile academics who recently spoke about women in science and engineering at the 2012 Women in Theory conference at Princeton in late June.
Joan Girgus, professor of psychology Princeton, largely concurred with [...]
An interview with Ed Felten, director of the Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, on a “Do Not Track” system for web browsers aired recently on NPR.
Felten, who is currently on leave as chief technologist for the Federal Trade Commission and a member of the Do [...]
Wired profiles Arvind Narayanan
Kim Zetter has written a fascinating, in-depth profile of computer scientist and data privacy expert Arvind Narayanan. As the article notes, Narayanan is “heading to Princeton University next year to join the well-regarded Center for Information Technology Policy, led by computer scientist Ed Felten.”
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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.
Recent Entries
- Jennifer Rexford ’91 one of top 10 ‘cloud trailblazers’
- Dan Boneh *96 wins prize for advances in cryptography
- Computer science researchers untangle a hairy problem
- Technology Review: mining cellphone data without violating privacy
- Dean H. Vincent Poor elected fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Bob Kahn wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
- Saving lives, gathering data: Laura Ray’s ‘cool robot’
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