The Silicon Valley Leadership Group honored NetApp Chairman and Princeton Engineering alumnus Dan Warmenhoven last week for lifetime achievement and contributions to the community.
"Dan Warmenhoven is not only a highly talented and creative technology leader, he is one of Silicon Valley’s finest community leaders," said Carl Guardino, president and CEO of the Leadership Group. […]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt — who graduated from Princeton Engineering in 1976 — spoke June 30 at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the annual intellectual pow-wow which this year included among many others starchitect Frank Gehry, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Atlantic correspondent James Fallows, and the photorealist painter Chuck Close.
In his wide-ranging […]
Time magazine named Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who graduated from Princeton Engineering in 1986, one of its top 100 people of 2009, putting him in the company of Tiger Woods, George Clooney, and Michelle Obama.
The magazine enlisted Bill Gates, the chair of Microsoft, to write […]
Students taking "Theory of Games" — a k a MAT308/ECO308 — recently enjoyed a seminar led by two legends in the field of game theory — John Nash and Harold Kuhn. Thanks to the wonders of Youtube, you too can hear first-hand from Nash and Kuhn about […]
The current issue of U.S. 1 has a fascinating interview with Mung Chiang on the subject of a new quantitative method for matching up Internet ads with potential consumers.
"Online advertising needs a workout," Chiang tells U.S. 1. "It needs to be innovatively re-engineered. It is not reaching the right […]
NOVA recently broadcast an exciting episode on the mathematical/computer wizardry that researchers are developing to smoke out art forgeries.
Princeton wavelet pioneer Ingrid Daubechies is featured in the segment along with two electrical engineering students — Shannon Hughes and Eugene Brevdo.
NOVA challenged […]
Technology Review yesterday covered a new technique developed by Stephen Chou and Qiangfei Xia for improving microchip quality without increasing costs.
The idea, basically, is to liquefy microchip components and then let surface tension naturally “melt away” defects, producing in the end structures with precisely defined […]
Last week Margaret Martonosi gave a talk on the hot topic of mobile computing and sensor networks at the Royal Society’s “From Computers to Ubiquitous Computing by 2020 Symposium.”
Martonosi, a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton, is especially interested in power-efficient wireless networks and she is co-leader […]
Princeton Engineering alum Leonard Liu, the chairman and CEO of Augmentum, gave the keynote address at Asia America MultiTechnology Association Connect 2007, at which leading executives gathered to discuss China’s rising world influence.
At the event, Liu received the Asia Impact Award — an honor that recognizes leaders for risk-taking.
The Road […]
Sergio Verdú, a giant in the field of information theory, tomorrow will be delivering the Shannon Lecture at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory being held this week in Nice, France.
What exactly is information theory? Not to be confused with “information technology,” information theory is the discipline in […]
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