Check out this awesome stop-motion video of a starshade. Our own Jeremy Kasdin, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is one of the principal researchers on the project, which will aid in the search for planets outside our own solar system.
“This is the first time we’ve actually seen this thing deploy,” Kasdin […]
Red Bulletin magazine has named Mike McAlpine one of the world’s 20 mightiest minds. He is in good company: Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee also made the cut.
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New Yorker features Choueiri’s 3D sound
Adam Gopnik, writing in the current New Yorker, features the redoubtable Edgar Choueiri *91 and his “quest for 3-D recording and other mysteries of sound.” You have to be a subscriber to read the whole piece. Here is an abstract.
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James Wei has written a new book on Great Inventions that Changed the World. The book is written for a lay audience and covers inventions in a wide range of fields, from medicine and communications to music and painting.
The book grows out of an freshman course Wei taught at Princeton […]
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 […]
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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Mark Bernstein, writing in the current issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly features some very cool robotics coming out of Princeton Engineering. Check out:
• Robert Stengel‘s robo shop where “students are designing machines that seem to have minds of their own”
• a submersible arm invented by Ben Rush […]
Robert J. Moore ’06 on the power of data
Last weekend Robert J. Moore, co-founder of R.J. Metrics and a 2006 Princeton Engineering graduate, was in town to be a judge at a startup networking event organized by students
Momchil Tomov, Ryan Shea, and Vivian Qu.
If you missed the event, you may want to take in this TEDx […]
SwoopTEXT sweeps media
SwoopTEXT, a student communication platform invented by two 2011 Princeton graduates that enables instant and targeted group communication via text message, is getting a lot of play in the media of late.
The platform was Invented by Michael Perl, who majored in chemistry, and Michael Keaton, who majored in chemical and […]
Forbes magazine’s September 12 issue has a nice piece by Helen Coster on how trucking company Schneider National decided to invest in a fleet-wide “tactical planning simulator” that used algorithms developed by Princeton Engineering’s Warren Powell to “mimic the decision making of human dispatchers on an inhumanly large scale.”
“What interested […]
About this blog
EQN is a blog from Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science that highlights faculty, students and alumni who, through innovation and leadership, are changing the world.
Recent Entries
- Starshade deploys for first time
- Hale ’11 and Ohlendorf ’05 shine in the major leagues
- Flood risk study receives $2.3 million Rockefeller Foundation grant
- Ice cream social August 9 to feature vintage technology
- Jennifer Rexford ’91 one of top 10 ‘cloud trailblazers’
- Dan Boneh *96 wins prize for advances in cryptography
- Computer science researchers untangle a hairy problem
- Technology Review: mining cellphone data without violating privacy
- Dean H. Vincent Poor elected fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Bob Kahn wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
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