Delivering a USENIX conference keynote address in Boston this week, FTC chief technologist Ed Felten urged fellow computer scientists to do as he has done and serve in government.
Felten said that “technologists should seek out government posts because it gives them the opportunity to affect public policy, which often affects their jobs,” […]
David Brooks *01 wins ACM award
Princeton is on a bit of a winning streak when it comes to ACM’s annual Maurice Wilkes Award for contributions to computer architecture in the first 20 years of someone’s career.
This year it went to David M. Brooks, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, who earned […]
Congratulations to Princeton University’s 2012 Anita Borg winners: Willa Chen, Angela Dai, Amy Ousterhout, and Kanika Pasricha. They will visit Google in Mountain View, California, this summer for a networking retreat. Read more on the Google Anita Borg Memorial site.
Take note: the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, a k a PLOrk, is performing at Richardson Auditorium this Saturday.
How exactly does one go about making an orchestra out of laptops? “That’s a question we try to answer with every piece of ours,” Rebecca Fiebrink, the current co-director of PLOrk and an assistant professor […]
Last week J. Alex Halderman co-presented a paper explaining how he and a team of graduate students tested the Washington D.C. school board’s electronic absentee ballot system by hacking into it, flooding it with votes for the hard-drinking cartoon character known as Bender from the TV show Futurama and embedding the system with an […]
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics awarded Robert Stengel its 2012 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award at an awards ceremony during the 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting this month in Nashville.
John Valasek, director of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, said in his nomination of Stengel […]
Times Higher Education has just published its world university rankings, with Princeton ranked third among engineering schools. The top five engineering schools are Caltech, MIT, Princeton, UC-Berkeley, and Stanford (in that order).
Princeton Engineering has experienced extraordinary growth of late. During the past six years, sponsored research […]
Fast Company has a charming video interview of Smule cofounder Ge Wang, who earned his doctorate in computer science from Princeton in 2008. Ge talks about growing up in Beijing listening to Western classical music taped from the radio by his grandfather, about learning to play the accordian, and about how, at […]
The United Arab Emirates-based newspaper The National has a terrific video of Princeton Engineering’s Rebecca Fiebrink talking about the application of computer science to creating and composing, and performing music.
Two things really excite Fiebrink about the future of computer-generated music:
“The first is the […]
Forbes magazine has a fascinating interview with NetApp cofounder Dave Hitz, who describes his experiences at Deep Springs ranch before coming to Princeton. One of those experiences was learning how to castrate a bull (the title of Hitz’s 2009 book).
Hitz says his experience on the […]
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