Alumnus Conor Madigan named to TR35
Conor Madigan, who graduated from Princeton with a degree in electrical engineering in 2000, has been anointed this year as one of Technology Review‘s top 35 innovators under the age of 35.
Madigan is the CEO and co-founder of Kateeva, a leading startup in the […]
The buzz about the newest version of Photoshop started back in mid-March when Adobe released a sneak-peak video, which received millions of hits on YouTube, demonstrating how users would soon be able to manipulate images with magic-like speed. The new tool, called “Content-Aware Fill,” also was featured widely […]
Princeton researchers push the frontiers of next-generation fuels
The current issue of PRISM magazine features the research of Chung "Ed" Law, who is the director of a $20 million energy research center at Princeton whose mission is to spur the invention of new, cleaner fuels for the 21st century.
"Think the internal combustion engine is dead?" writes Charles Q […]
Today’s Wall Street Journal profiles Princeton Engineering graduate Dave Hitz, who cofounded NetApp, the Silicon Valley company specializing in the management and storage of digital data.
Among other revelations in the article by Elizabeth Garone: before coming to Princeton, where one of his roommates was Amazon founder […]
The BBC is profiling a handful of the world’s top digital thinkers. Among them are two Princeton Engineering alumni: Eric Schmidt of Google and Ge Wang of Smule.
You can view a preview of the BBC videos here.
The full BBC interviews will be posted in the next couple […]
Tomorrow Princeton students will be vying for tens of thousands of dollars in prize money at two different venues: the Class of ’76 Green Business Plan Competition and TigerLaunch 2010.
Em[Power], a plan to transform landfill waste in Karachi, Pakistan, into energy, is a finalist in both competitions. The […]
Google funds projects on privacy and Internet energy efficiency
Today’s Daily Princetonian reports on new Google grants for two Princeton Engineering projects. Ed Felten received $400,000 for his research on preserving privacy in the face of sophisticated web-tracking technologies. Margaret Martonosi, Jennifer Rexford, Michael Freedman, and Mung Chiang received $100,000 for their project on […]
A device used by electrical engineering Professor Stephen Chou to develop a technique for manufacturing the tiniest of electrical circuits and other nanostructures is featured in a new exhibit in the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany.
The museum is displaying the original press Chou used for nanoimprint lithography, a method […]
New Yorker magazine highlights Smule
Sasha Frere-Jones, the pop-music critic of The New Yorker, writes about I Am T-Pain, a new iPhone application from Smule that is getting something like 10,000 downloads a day.
Smule, a company that specializes in sonic iPhone apps, was cofounded by Princeton Engineering alum Ge Wang. Hear Ge […]
Princeton Engineering’s Emily Carter appeared yesterday at a Capitol Hill news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Rep. Rush Holt to announce a new initiative that will highlight scientific research made possible […]
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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.
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