Princeton’s Olga Troyanskaya, described as “one of the most promising young researchers in bioinformatics” has won this year’s Overton Prize, given by the International Society for Computational Biology for outstanding accomplishment to a scientist in the early to mid stage of his or her career.
One of the key problems Troyanskaya […]
The New York Academy of Sciences has named two Princeton engineers as finalists for the 2011 Blavatnik Awards for Young
Scientists: Olga Troyanskaya, an associate professor of computer science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, and Gerard Wysocki, an assistant professor of […]
Researchers from the Center for Information Technology Policy have released a study on the standardized forms commonly used in testing and voting that require respondents to select answers by penciling in a bubble.
CITP’s surprising finding? These forms are not so anonymous as one might think. The researchers have created […]
In a wide-ranging conversation in this month’s McKinsey Quarterly, Google executive Eric Schmidt shares management strategies and holds forth on everything from the future of drug discovery to the magic of digital language translation.
Below are a few gems from Schmidt, who graduated from Princeton in 1976. You can watch […]
Princeton Engineering’s Howard A. Stone and Ed Felten have just been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Other members elected to the academy this year include jazz icon Dave Brubeck, filmmaker Ken Burns, singer-songwriter Paul Simon, actor Sam Waterston, and […]
Pixar’s David Laur ’84 is awarded Oscar
David Laur ’84 recently won a Sci-Tech Academy Award for his behind-the-scenes work turning complex 3-D models into two-dimensional movie frames for Pixar. A software engineer, Laur received a Technical Achievement Award for his role in developing Pixar’s Alfred system, which the Academy cites as being “the first […]
What happens when humans behave as if they were schooling fish or swarming insects or flocking birds?
Well, we are about to find out. Engineering professor Naomi Ehrich Leonard ’85 and choreographer Susan Marshall are conspiring with a creative group of undergraduates to host
All Things Digital lauds Felten appointment
All Things Digital columnist John Paczkowski is unequivocal in his enthusiasm for today’s announcement that Princeton’s Ed Felten has been appointed chief technologist for the Federal Trade Commission.
Says Paczkowski:
“Looks like the Federal Trade Commission got its first choice of Chief Technologist, because it’s hard to think of anyone better to serve […]
J. Alex Halderman on the blog Freedom to Tinker reports the arrest of Hari Prasad, an Indian colleague who coauthored a research paper detailing serious security flaws in India’s electronic voting machines.
The research paper has produced a hot debate in India, according to Halderman: “Many commentators […]
The buzz about the newest version of Photoshop started back in mid-March when Adobe released a sneak-peak video, which received millions of hits on YouTube, demonstrating how users would soon be able to manipulate images with magic-like speed. The new tool, called “Content-Aware Fill,” also was featured widely […]
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