Princeton Engineering freshman Seth Priebatsch’s scheme for a text-messaging scavenger hunt has won first prize in the Tigerlaunch Business Plan Competition. Priebatsch may be a freshman but he is by no means a greenhorn when it comes to starting businesses. His PostcardTech specializes in producing interactive postcards containing […]
The Princeton Urban Grand Challenge team has arrived in Victorville, Calif., just in time for today’s opening ceremonies.
The Princeton team is the only undergraduate team among the 35 semifinalists in the event, which promises $3.5 million in prize money. Most teams participating in the qualification event have serious financial and technical […]
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 […]
SteriCoat, an early stage company developing an antimicrobial coating for medical devices, this week won a new innovation prize — $250,000 of seed financing from the first annual DFJ East Coast Venture Challenge at the Columbia Business School.
Two of the founders of Stericoat are Joel Moxley and Christopher Loose, […]
Here is a CNET report on the latest breaking news in the Pentagon’s urban grand challenge:
“The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said Friday that it has whittled down the contestants for its upcoming urban robot race from 89 to 53 teams via qualification events,” writes CNET’s Stefanie Olsen. […]
Mark Twain once said that “an inventor is a poet–a true poet–and nothing in any degree less than a high order of poet.”
Michele Alperin, writing in the business newspaper US 1, gives us a glimpse into the poetic mind of the inventor with her profile of Michael Hecht in the current issue.
Hecht, […]
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