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 […]
One of the first satellites designed to provide space-based digital radio service to consumers in North America was recently donated to the Smithsonian. The Sirius FM-4 broadcasting satellite was built as a flight-ready back-up for a constellation of three satellites manufactured by Space Systems/Loral. The FM-4 satellite will be on […]
Mung Chiang publishes new book on ‘Networked Life’
Cambridge University Press this month has released a new book by Mung Chiang titled Networked Life: 20 Questions and Answers. Driven by twenty real-world questions — from how Google figures out what to charge for ads to why Skype and BitTorrent don’t cost you a cent — this […]
Sounds to good to be true: Naveen Verma and colleagues are developing a technology “that could lead to widespread wireless charging stations for all our electronics.”
Verma, assistant professor of electrical engineering, is interviewed by IEEE Spectrum in this report.
Image courtesy Warren Rieutort-Louis.
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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.
The New York Times Magazine this week features a wireless “tooth tattoo” developed at Princeton that detects harmful bacteria.
The sliver-thin device — made of silk, graphene, and a tiny antenna — is applied to the tooth much like a child’s stick-on tattoo. It can detect bacteria associated with not just cavities but, perhaps […]
Princeton’s already enormously popular introductory computer science classes soon will be available on the new online learning platform Coursera. The first, on algorithms, created by Robert Sedgewick and jointly developed over the past decade by Sedgewick and his colleague Kevin Wayne, will be online late in the summer.
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A new article on Politicocasts doubt on efforts to predict election results by monitoring social media.
The article features research by Mung Chiang, a professor of electrical engineering, and postdoctoral researchers Soumya Sen and Felix Ming Fai Wong. They recently published a paper analyzing the correlation between […]
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