The June 4 issue of Newsweek features a provocative essay by molecular biologist Lee Silver on the maverick field of synthetic biology.
Silver surveys the work of a number of researchers in synthetic biology. “SynBio engineers think they can take what we know [about living organisms] and design and construct novel forms […]
Forbes.com just posted an interesting interview with Dan Warmenhoven, chief executive of Network Appliance, the maker of supersize hard drives that serve a wide range of industries, from financial services to video animation.
Dan Frommer of Forbes asks Warmenhoven, who received his undergraduate degree from Princeton in electrical engineering, what he considers to be the […]
The tradition of peer-reviewed journals in the sciences has been much in the news recently, as online publishing and communally edited wikis threaten traditional forms of publishing.
A panel of distinguished researchers debated the future of the peer-reviewed journal recently on a lively panel organized by
Internet content-delivery services powerhouse Akamai has just paid $177 million in stock to acquire Netli, which produces a custom protocol that smooths out communications between Internet servers.
“We discovered that they had some really cool stuff, and it’s very complementary to what we’re doing,” Akamai’s chief scientist Tom Leighton told Hiawatha Bray […]
Red Herring today reports on Stephen Chou’s latest improvement on a nanoimprinting technique he pioneered that promises to revolutionize the way computer chips are made.
Nanoimprinting greatly simplifies the production of computer microchips by creating molds that can emboss intricate patterns onto silicon chips. But air bubbles created during one type of […]
A just-released study of scholarly output gives high rankings to the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton.
The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, produced by Academic Analytics, ranked Princeton as number 1 in the category of aeronautical and aerospace engineering and number 2 in electrical engineering. In materials science, Princeton was […]
A paper by Mung Chiang, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Princeton, has been cited as being one of the top 1 percent of scientific papers published in 2006. Chiang’s paper heralded a hot area of research called “Layering As Optimization Decomposition” which provides a new methodology for understanding and designing communication […]
Princeton Engineering’s Jason Fleischer is using lasers to shed light on the behavior of superfluids — strange, frictionless liquids that are difficult to create and study. Their technique allows them to simulate experiments that are difficult or impossible to conduct with superfluids.
The odd behavior of particles in superfluids, which move together instead of […]
Robert F. Service, writing in the Dec. 22 issue of Science explores the role that nanotechnology will play in the future of disk-drive technology. In the piece, he cites the nanoimprint technology developed by Stephen Chou at Princeton as being promising in the never-ending quest to increase disk drives’ capacity […]
The current edition of Science quotes Sigurd Wagner, professor of electrical engineering. The article is titled “Inorganic Electronics Begin to Flex Their Muscle.”
“Like a desert mirage, the promise of organic electronics seems to shimmer always on the horizon,” writes Robert F. Service.
Service observes that when organic electronics first came on […]
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