Frank Moss, until recently the director of the MIT Media Lab, has a new book coming out next week on the future of innovation. Full title: The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform […]
Today’s Daily Princetonian has some nice coverage on the election of four Princeton faculty members to the National Academy of Sciences — which, as the Prince notes, has been described as “an honor considered second only to a Nobel Prize.”
Two of the new NAS members are with the school of engineering:
In a wide-ranging conversation in this month’s McKinsey Quarterly, Google executive Eric Schmidt shares management strategies and holds forth on everything from the future of drug discovery to the magic of digital language translation.
Below are a few gems from Schmidt, who graduated from Princeton in 1976. You can watch […]
In a posting to his Foreign Policy blog this week titled “How Eric Schmidt can save America,” Clyde Prestowitz predicts that President Obama will appoint the Google executive as the new secretary of Commerce.
Read the full Prestowitz article here. Schmidt studied electrical engineering as an undergraduate at Princeton.
Pixar’s David Laur ’84 is awarded Oscar
David Laur ’84 recently won a Sci-Tech Academy Award for his behind-the-scenes work turning complex 3-D models into two-dimensional movie frames for Pixar. A software engineer, Laur received a Technical Achievement Award for his role in developing Pixar’s Alfred system, which the Academy cites as being “the first […]
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
Andrew Houck has just received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers — one of the highest honors bestowed on young researchers.
Houck, who studies electronics on a microscopic level, has the not-so-unambitious ambition of building the world’s first quantum computer. In 2009, […]
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California recently led a U.S. delegation of government representatives, technology company executives and venture capital investors to Russia. Among the governor’s posse: Princeton Engineering alumnus Don Dixon, co-founder of Palo Alto-based Trident […]
Princeton Engineering graduate John Dabiri, now a researcher at CalTech, has been named a MacArthur Fellow — an honor that comes with a no-strings-attached “genius grant” of $500,000.
Dabiri is a biophysicist whose work draws on a wide range of fields, from theoretical fluid dynamics to evolutionary biology. He studies the locomotion of […]
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