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Akamai acquires company powered by Princeton technology

By Teresa Riordan On November 15, 2012 · In computer science, electrical engineering, innovation, Keller Center, Princeton Engineering alumni, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Uncategorized

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 […]

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SiriusXM, co-founded by Rob Briskman ’54, gives Smithsonian pioneering satellite

By Teresa Riordan On October 23, 2012 · In electrical engineering, Princeton Engineering alumni

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 […]

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Mung Chiang publishes new book on ‘Networked Life’

By Teresa Riordan On September 17, 2012 · In electrical engineering, engineering education, Uncategorized

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 […]

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Wireless solar charging for portable electronics

By Teresa Riordan On June 21, 2012 · In electrical engineering, innovation

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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FTC chief technologist Ed Felten encourages techies to influence policy

By Teresa Riordan On June 14, 2012 · In Center for Information Technology Policy, computer science, electrical engineering

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,” […]

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David Brooks *01 wins ACM award

By Teresa Riordan On June 14, 2012 · In computer science, electrical engineering, Princeton Engineering alumni

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 […]

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Four Princeton undergraduates named Anita Borg winners

By Teresa Riordan On June 8, 2012 · In computer science, electrical engineering

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.

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‘Smart teeth’ invention makes cover of New York Times magazine

By Teresa Riordan On June 4, 2012 · In electrical engineering, mechanical and aerospace

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 […]

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Coursera to feature popular Princeton computer science courses

By Teresa Riordan On April 26, 2012 · In electrical engineering

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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Politico features research that casts doubt on Fizziological leaps

By Teresa Riordan On April 5, 2012 · In electrical engineering

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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