The technology news blog GigaOM has named computer scientist Jennifer Rexford, the Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering at Princeton, one of the top ten ‘cloud trailblazers’ for 2013.
Rexford is working to develop modular programming language called “Frenetic.” It works, GigaOM reports, by “breaking up monolithic network services, from routing and monitoring to […]
Dan Boneh *96, now a professor at Stanford, has racked up another award: the ACM Gödel Prize for advances in cryptography. Read all about it here.
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Engineering Dean H. Vincent Poor *77 has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Poor is a leading researcher in the areas of statistical signal processing, stochastic analysis and information theory — particularly as they apply to wireless networks. As EQN has pointed out before, two […]
Robert Kahn *64, widely credited with being one of the fathers of the Internet, is one of the winners of the first-ever Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
Fellow award winners are Louis Pouzin, Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, and Vint Cerf, with whom Kahn invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) […]
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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Spring Berman ’05 has won the Grolier Discovery Award for her book of poetry “All Time Acceptable.” The award is bestowed by the venerable Grolier Poetry Book Shop at Harvard Square. Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Berman’s mentor in mechanical and aerospace engineering, reports that the book […]
Fei-Fei Li ’99, along with Princeton colleagues, has built the world’s largest visual database in an effort to mimic the human vision system, according to a report by John Markoff in The New York Times.
“With more than 14 million labeled objects, from obsidian to orangutans to ocelots, the database has become a […]
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 […]
Behind the scenes: NYC’s Second Avenue Subway project
Phil Rice ’77 and Eve Glazer ’06 are coming to the Princeton campus to give their firsthand perspective of construction on the Second Avenue Subway project, New York City’s largest expansion of the subway system in more than 50 years. When completed, it will provide a new line on the east side of […]
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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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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