Princeton Engineering graduate Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, recently went mano-a-mano with Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report….
In other engineering alumni news: Nick Frey has launched Boo Bicycles… … Paul Johnson has been named dean of engineering at Arizona State […]
The Obama administration has appointed Princeton Engineering alumna Alice Gast as one of three State Department envoys charged with promoting U.S. global engagement in science and technology.
According to the State Department, she will use this role to “deepen existing ties and foster new relationships […]
Former Princeton Engineering undergraduate and legendary entrepreneur (at the ripe age of 21) Seth Priebatsch recently gave a TED talk on his ambitions to “build a game layer on the top of the world.”
His first step in doing so is SCVNGR, a phone-based gaming system that Priebatsch first developed at Princeton. After […]
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 […]
J. Alex Halderman on the blog Freedom to Tinker reports the arrest of Hari Prasad, an Indian colleague who coauthored a research paper detailing serious security flaws in India’s electronic voting machines.
The research paper has produced a hot debate in India, according to Halderman: “Many commentators […]
At Princeton’s Baccalaureate ceremony this week Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos spoke to the Class of 2010 about the difference between choices and gifts.
Cleverness, Bezos pointed out, is a gift, while being kind to others is a choice. One’s character, he suggested, is […]
Princeton Engineering alumnus Lance Collins has been named the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell University.
Collins’s work on mechanisms of droplet breakup in turbulence was recognized with the 1997 Best Paper Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society […]
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 […]
David and James Billington had a fascinating public discussion recently about the humanities, engineering, and the future of America.
Two years apart in age, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and his older brother, the legendary Princeton engineering professor David […]
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