Technology Review highlights 3D Purple America election map
MIT Technology Review this week highlights Robert Vanderbei‘s 3D Purple America map, a nuanced visualization of the 2012 presidential election showing the proportion of people who voted Democrat or Republican, county by county, as a gradient between blue and red. The height of the horizontal bars indicates how many […]
Princeton Engineering professors Philip Holmes and William Massey have been named to the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, the world’s largest and most influential society dedicated to mathematical research, scholarship, and education.
Holmes is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical […]
Robert Vanderbei has published a new paper describing a computer program that allows one to analyze data from a specific weather station to detect whether the local climate has changed. First he applied the model to data from a local New Jersey weather station, which showed that temperatures have gone […]
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney begins his three-day tour of Iowa today in anticipation of next week’s caucuses. What is the optimal path for him to travel in order to hit all 99 counties?
This is a version of something known as “the traveling salesman problem,” one of the great unsolved […]
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 […]
Fourth-year graduate student Jamol Pender (at right in photo) last week was named the winner of the INFORMS 2011 New Jersey chapter student contest. Pender, who is in the department of operations research and financial engineering, is researching queueing theory inspired by problems in communications centers.
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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 […]
The cover story in the January issue of Wired is devoted to research at the forefront of artificial intelligence. “Today’s AI doesn’t try to re-create the brain,” Wired writes. “Instead, it uses machine learning, massive data sets, sophisticated sensors, and clever algorithms to master discrete tasks.”
The piece features transportation algorithms developed by Princeton researchers […]
What happens when humans behave as if they were schooling fish or swarming insects or flocking birds?
Well, we are about to find out. Engineering professor Naomi Ehrich Leonard ’85 and choreographer Susan Marshall are conspiring with a creative group of undergraduates to host
Princeton Engineering’s Robert Vanderbei’s new book on the cosmos, Sizing Up the Universe, hasn’t hit bookstores yet but astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium, is calling it “a feast for the eyes and a banquet for the mind.”
The highly illustrated book, published by National […]
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