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Ice cream social August 9 to feature vintage technology

By Teresa Riordan On July 29, 2013 · In engineering education, mechanical and aerospace, School of Engineering and Applied Science

The School of Engineering and Applied Science is hosting an ice cream social Friday, August 9, at 4:30 p.m. in the Friend Center Atrium on the Princeton University campus. Professor Michael Littman will do a show and tell with antique motorcycles, telephones, phonographs, radios, and more from his marvelous collection of […]

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Dean H. Vincent Poor elected fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh

By Teresa Riordan On March 20, 2013 · In Princeton Engineering alumni, School of Engineering and Applied Science


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 […]

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Bob Kahn wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

By Teresa Riordan On March 18, 2013 · In Princeton Engineering alumni, School of Engineering and Applied Science

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) […]

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Pi Day comedy mashup to feature Princeton faculty

By Teresa Riordan On March 1, 2013 · In School of Engineering and Applied Science

The Princeton Theatre Experiment, in collaboration with the Arts Council of Princeton, on Saturday, March 9, is presenting a comedy mashup featuring several Princeton faculty. The event, called “An Evening of Physico-Mathematica-Logical Music and Comedy,” is a warm up to the town of Princeton’s annual Pi Day, a celebration of […]

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Princeton chapter wins national EWB award

By Teresa Riordan On February 22, 2013 · In Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, civil engineering, engineering education, Keller Center, School of Engineering and Applied Science

The United States Engineers Without Borders organization has named Princeton’s EWB chapter a 2013 Premier Project winner for its library project in Ashaiman, Ghana. In the summer of 2011, five students from Princeton Engineers Without Borders traveled to Ashaiman, to finish the construction of a community library. This trip was the culmination of […]

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Princeton Fung Global Forum contemplates the future of the city

By Teresa Riordan On January 29, 2013 · In civil engineering, mechanical and aerospace, School of Engineering and Applied Science

The Princeton Fung Global Forum conference on the future of the city takes place January 30 to February 1 this year in Shanghai, China.  The conference showcases the work of a number of Princeton Engineering faculty and affiliated faculty, including Howard Stone, James Smith, Sigrid Adriaenssens, Branko […]

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Akamai acquires company powered by Princeton technology

By Teresa Riordan On November 15, 2012 · In computer science, electrical engineering, innovation, Keller Center, Princeton Engineering alumni, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Uncategorized

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 […]

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Holmes, Massey named inaugural AMS fellows

By Teresa Riordan On November 12, 2012 · In mechanical and aerospace, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science

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 […]

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Princeton’s Art of Science exhibit travels to Liberty Science Center

By Teresa Riordan On October 8, 2012 · In School of Engineering and Applied Science

A special Princeton Art of Science traveling show, consisting of 44 images chosen from the more than 250 images exhibited during the competition’s first five years, opened last month at Liberty Science Center. The traveling show was selected by celebrated photographer Emmet Gowin and Joel Smith, former curator of photography at the […]

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Princeton Engineering ranked 2nd in world in new report

By Teresa Riordan On October 4, 2012 · In engineering education, School of Engineering and Applied Science

 

The Times Higher Education has just issued its list of top 50 engineering schools for 2012-13, and Princeton’s School of Engineering is ranked number 2, after Caltech and ahead of MIT, University of California-Berkeley, and Stanford.

Princeton Engineering was ranked number 3 in last year’s line-up.

When making its […]

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    • Starshade deploys for first time
    • Hale ’11 and Ohlendorf ’05 shine in the major leagues
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    • Jennifer Rexford ’91 one of top 10 ‘cloud trailblazers’
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