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Researchers have developed a new type of smart window: a self-powered version that promises to be inexpensive and easy to apply to existing windows. The window powers itself with transparent solar cells that harvest near-ultraviolet light.
Members of the Class of 2017 marked a long list of achievements over their four years at Princeton, from developing new ways to deliver anti-malarial drugs, to creating software that measures the stability of masonry arches, to building an app that uses a smartphone to measure the speed of a fastball.
Sanjeev Kulkarni, dean of the Princeton University Graduate School and a professor of electrical engineering, has been appointed dean of the faculty effective July 1.
Astellas Pharma Inc., a pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, and Northbrook, Illinois, has promoted Andrew Krivoshik to vice president of medical science, oncology. He will lead the group in the therapeutic area and be responsible to advance Astellas developments in oncology, which include clinical programs. Formerly, Krivoshik was the executive medical director in the company's oncology therapeutic area.
Five members of the Princeton Engineering faculty received 2017 Junior Faculty Awards on May 18 for their achievements in research and teaching.
It was announced by Forest City Realty Trust, Inc., that Ketan Patel is their new executive vice president, secretary, and general counsel. Forest City is an NYSE-listed national real estate company with headquarters in Cleveland. It develops and manages a portfolio of premier retail, office, apartment, and mixed-use properties across the United States.
Carl Theobald was appointed president and chief executive officer of RichRelevance. He will be responsible for the company's global operations and expansion into new areas.
Ted Hall was named the 2017 Napa Valley Grower of the Year for contributions to the Napa Valley wine industry and community. As president and CEO of Long Meadow Ranch since 1989, Hall was recognized for following a motto of "excellence through responsible farming," resulting in agricultural preservation, sustainable practices, and dedicated community focus. He has developed a diversified agricultural program to produce wine, olive oil, fruits and vegetables, beef, lamb, and more on the ranch.
The Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association (SVIPLA) named Conor Madigan, chief operating officer and president of Kateeva, Inventor of the Year for 2016. With over 100 patents under his name, Madigan was recognized for developing manufacturing equipment to mass produce organic light emitting diodes (OLEDS), which are used in flat-panel and flexible display units and have led to breakthroughs in the display industry.
Diane Souvaine, professor of computer science and senior advisor to the provost at Tufts University, was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by her peers. In the category of information, computing and communication, she was cited for her "contributions to the field of computational geometry and for exemplary service on behalf of the computing community," according to the Tufts website
As of July 1, David C. Munson Jr. will become the tenth president of the Rochester Institute of Technology. In this capacity, Munson will build on the 2025 strategic plan and direct program development, faculty and student recruitment, facilities expansion, and fundraising. The privately endowed research university with nine colleges and a student body of over 18,000 emphasizes career education and experiential learning. It is also recognized as a leader in preparing deaf and hard-of-hearing stu
Getting something from nothing sounds like a good deal, so for years scientists have been trying to exploit the tiny amount of energy that arises when objects are brought very close together. Now, a research team including Princeton scientists has found a way to harness a mysterious force of repulsion, which is one aspect of that force.
Four Princeton Engineering juniors have been awarded one-year Goldwater Scholarships, the premier award for outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. They are: Lamia Ateshian, Sally Jiao, Jonathan Lu and Omkar Shende.
Neereja Sundaresan, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering, was recenty named one of four winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University's top honor for graduate students.
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet Inc. and a 1976 graduate of Princeton Engineering, spoke on Alumni Day about the power of technology to solve societal problems.
At this year's Innovation Forum at Princeton, Robert Pagels had three minutes to pitch his team's new method to cram several months' worth of medicine into a single injection. His presentation won top honors at the Keller Center's 12th Annual Innovation Forum last week.
Minjie Chen has been appointed assistant professor of electrical engineering as a faculty member of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Chen received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Three Princeton Engineering members were among six researchers from Princeton University named as 2017 Sloan Research Fellows.
Neereja Sundaresan, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering, is one of four students who have been named winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University's top honor for graduate students.
Electromagnetic pulses lasting one millionth of a millionth of a second may hold the key to advances in medical imaging, communications and drug development. But the pulses, called terahertz waves, have long required elaborate and expensive equipment to use. Researchers at Princeton University have drastically shrunk much of that equipment: moving from a tabletop setup with lasers and mirrors to a pair of microchips small enough to fit on a fingertip.
Researchers developed a technique in which nanoscale perovskite particles self-assemble to produce more efficient, stable and durable perovskite-based LEDs.
H. Vincent Poor, the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering, has been awarded the IEEE's Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the institute announced.
David Treadwell has joined Amazon after spending almost three decades at Microsoft. The impetus was the challenge and opportunity to grow in a different tech problem space.
James Obsitnik was appointed chief operating officer of Capsilon Corporation, a provider of cloud-based document and data management solutions for the mortgage industry. He will work out of the San Francisco headquarters and be responsible for the company's business operations, including sales, marketing, product operations, support and services.
David Wentzlaff devotes most of his research to designing new computers, but this year his team did something different: They developed a tool that allows others unprecedented ability to create their own sophisticated computer chips. Wentzlaff and his team created the system, called OpenPiton, after they realized there were almost no simple ways for chip designers – outside major corporations – to experiment with complex "manycore" systems, which have many processing u
Most scientists who work closely with data try to improve ways to process it or to harness it for other, broader inquiries. Andrew Houck '00 and his team are taking a different approach: they are trying to change the nature of data itself. Houck, a professor of electrical engineering, and colleagues are seeking to build a quantum computer, a new type of machine that uses the strange rules of quantum mechanics to address problems that are not possible to solve with standard computers. &l
Princeton University honored three engineering students with two of its top prizes for work in the sophomore and junior years at Opening Exercises on Sunday, Sept. 11.
Princeton University researchers have built a new computer chip that promises to boost performance of data centers that lie at the core of online services from email to social media.
Antoine Kahn, the Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science and professor of electrical engineering, is serving as vice dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science effective July 1.
Researchers from Princeton University are joining with colleagues from U.S. government laboratories in an effort to dramatically improve the test for the Ebola virus. The goal is to offer a quick, accurate and inexpensive method to help contain future epidemics.
Five engineering professors were recognized for distinguished teaching at the 2016 graduation ceremonies.
Diane Souvaine, vice provost for research at Tufts University, has been elected vice chair of the National Science Board (NSB), the governing body of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSB establishes NSF policies and serves as advisor to the president and Congress on policies related to science and engineering and education in science and engineering.
Dark Matter, an international cyber security firm based in the United Arab Emirates, has promoted Najwa Aaraj to senior vice president of special projects. She moves from her previous position as vice president of the business unit. In her new role she will identify and develop business opportunities, provide new security and technology tools to the company, and focus on research.
Cornell Tech has appointed Rob Brachman its new director of the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. Brachman was formerly Yahoo's chief scientist and head of Yahoo Labs, where he oversaw Yahoo's science activities worldwide and provided leadership at the intersection of research, applied science and academic partnerships. A computer scientist, he is known for his work in the field of artificial intelligence.
For their senior thesis, two Princeton engineers worked across departments to solve fundamental problems and create a flexible sheet of sensors to detect strains over wide areas of structures such as buildings, bridges and dams.
Nathalie de Leon has a penchant for diamonds. But don't expect glittering, princess-cut jewels when visiting her lab at Princeton's Department of Electrical Engineering, where she is a new faculty member.
The School of Engineering and Applied Science honored three assistant professors for outstanding teaching and research early in their careers at the school's faculty meeting May 25. Each award includes $45,000 to support the recipient's research.
The room-filling machinery looks diabolical, clicking and whirring with wires running all over the place. Perched at a computer terminal linking him to the mysterious instrument is Jeff Thompson, a new faculty member in Princeton's Department of Electrical Engineering.
Cynthia Dwork, currently a distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley, will join the faculty at Harvard in January 2017. She will be the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) and also hold the Radcilffe Alumnae Professorship at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Mark Jung has joined the board of directors of Accela, a provider of cloud-based productivity and civic engagement solutions for state and local government agencies worldwide. As chair, he will help guide the California-headquartered company on best practices and in planning strategies for future developments.
The students, Sara Fridovich-Keil and Siddhartha Jayanti, are among 252 undergraduates who were recognized with the scholarship after proposing innovative solutions to research problems in their fields.
The Pentagon announced that Eric Schmidt, executive chair of Alphabet, will head its new Defense Innovation Advisory Board, formed to provide advice on technology and related innovation to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. The board will be composed of 12 members, including those outside of the Pentagon representing the commercial technology sector, who can provide the latest knowledge on topics such as rapid prototyping, iterative product development, complex data analysis and the use of cloud a
The National Science Foundation announced that Fengnian Xia has received a 2016 Faculty Early Career Development CAREER Award. Xia is the Barton L. Weller Assistant Professor in Engineering and Science at Yale's School of Engineering and Applied Science. As an electrical engineer, he will use the monetary award to study the properties of graphene, a single atom layer of carbon, and its possible uses for infrared devices and applications, including thermal imaging, night vision and free-space o
In a recent study, a researcher at Princeton and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have come up with a formula that describes the maximum heat transfer in such tight scenarios. Surprisingly — and encouragingly — the formula suggests that a million times more heat transfer is possible between close objects than previously thought.
H. Vincent Poor, dean of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, was awarded the 2016 John Fritz Medal by the American Association of Engineering Societies for his fundamental contributions to wireless technology.
Sergio Verdú, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering, is the recipient of the 2016 National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing. The award was bestowed in recognition of his leading work in the field of information theory.
Cohesity, a pioneering startup based in Silicon Valley that offers hyperconverged secondary storage, has announced that Dan Warmenhoven has joined its board of directors. Warmenhoven is the former NetApp executive chairman and CEO.
Yale University has announced that faculty member Fengnian Xia was named the Barton L. Weller Assistant Professor in Engineering and Science.
G. David Forney, Jr., presently an adjunct professor at MIT, will be recognized for his contributions to the data communications field with the 2016 IEEE Medal of Honor, the institute's highest award.
Pinnacle, a producer, marketer and distributor of branded food products headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, announced that Mark Jung has joined its board of directors as an independent director. Jung will also serve on the board's audit, nominating and corporate governance committees.
Researchers at Princeton have created a flame so cool that it would be possible to run your hand through it without getting burned.
Members of the World Academy of Sciences have elected H. Vincent Poor, dean of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, as a fellow.
Researchers at Princeton University's Edge Lab are leading a global effort -- with scientists and business leaders at ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel and Microsoft -- to develop an important new mobile technology: fog networks.
Kroll, a global company offering risk mitigation and response solutions, named William Krivoshik its chief technology officer. Kroll has more than 50 offices in over 30 countries. Krivoshik will be located in Kroll's New York City headquarters.
Old National Bancorp, the largest financial services holding company headquartered in Indiana, has elected Katherine White to its corporate board of directors. White, a 1988 Princeton graduate from electrical engineering and computer science, is a law professor at Wayne State University.
One researcher at the School of Engineering and Applied Science has been awarded the 2015 New York Academy of Sciences' Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists and a second has been named a finalist.
Citigroup has announced that James Forese is president at Citigroup, Inc., an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, and head of the institutional clients group, which includes the markets and securities services business, treasury and trade solutions business, and corporate and investment banking activities as well as the Citi Private Bank.
After 18 years of leadership in the field of materials science, James Sturm will step down as director of the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) effective June 30. Craig Arnold, associate director of PRISM and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will serve as interim director.
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, will receive a 2015 Genius Award from Liberty Science Center, an interactive science museum located in Jersey City, New Jersey. Besides his contribution to the growth of e-commerce, Bezos will be recognized for founding Blue Origin, LLC, an aerospace manufacturer that is developing a sequence of technologies to enable private human access to space.
What would the world look like if you were a giant? For their senior thesis, two electrical engineering students are creating a system to answer that question.
It was announced by NewNet Communication Technologies, a global provider of telecom solutions, that Jonathan Huberman is its new president and CEO. In this role, he will further develop strategies for the company's long-term growth in four areas: mobile messaging, payment security, interactive voice communications, and broadband wireless.
Coca-Cola will base its largest bottling operation in Africa in Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Starting in March 2015, Hüseyin Akin will step into his new role as CEO of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa and lead the strategic and integration planning of its establishment. The bottler, which plans to merge with SABMiller, Gutsche Family Investments, and the Coca-Cola Company, is expected to serve 12 countries in the southern and eastern regions of Africa.
Ian Cook, M.D., was named chief medical officer and senior vice president of NeuroSigma, Inc., a life-sciences company developing bioelectrical neuromodulation treatments for epilepsy, depression, PTSD, ADHD, and traumatic brain injury. He previously served as a consultant to the company for several years.
John Kidd, senior vice president and CTO at Net App, has joined Infinio's advisory board. Infinio is a provider of storage acceleration for virtualized data centers.
Jan Allebach, the Hewlett-Packard Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, was named a 2014 fellow by the National Academy of Inventors.
Re-examining longstanding beliefs about the physics of lasers, engineers have shown that carefully restricting the delivery of power to certain areas within a laser could boost its output by many orders of magnitude.
Using a new nanoscale structure, the researchers, led by electrical engineering professor Stephen Chou, increased the brightness and efficiency of LEDs made of organic materials (flexible carbon-based sheets) by 57 percent.
The team's findings are part of an effort to answer fundamental questions about atomic behavior by creating a device that can simulate the behavior of subatomic particles. Such a tool could be an invaluable method for answering questions about atoms and molecules that are not answerable even with today's most advanced computers.
Princeton University researchers have developed a way to use a laser to measure people's blood sugar, and, with more work to shrink the laser system to a portable size, the technique could allow diabetics to check their condition without pricking themselves to draw blood.
Gerard Wysocki explains how his lab is developing a single system that measures nitric oxide levels in breath, blood and urine to reveal clues about human health.
Inspired by anomalies that arise in certain mathematical equations, researchers have demonstrated a laser system that paradoxically turns off when more power is added rather than becoming continuously brighter.
Liquidity Services, Inc., a provider in the reverse supply chain with an online marketplace for business surplus, has appointed Beatriz Infante to its board of directors.
IEEE, the top professional society in electrical engineering, awarded its Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology to Stephen Chou, Princeton University's Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering.
Mark Jung is the new executive chair of OnLive, a company offering cloud gaming services and graphics-rich applications.
The Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science, has elected H. Vincent Poor, dean of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, as a member.
Two Princeton Engineering faculty members were elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors in all fields of science
David Waterman was appointed secretary of the board of directors of Block Communications Inc. This is in addition to his role as the general counsel for the company.
Mung Chiang, a noted researcher in communications networks who also is an entrepreneur and a leader in online education, has been appointed director of Princeton University's Keller Center, effective March 31.
Sanjeev Kulkarni, professor of electrical engineering and director of the Keller Center, has been appointed as the next dean of the Princeton University Graduate School.
Jerald Murphy has been appointed CEO of ACBB-Bits, LL. A subsidiary of Atlantic Community Bankers Bank, the company is a telecommunication services provider exclusively for community banks.
The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Foundation has named Jonathan Huberman, president and CEO of Tiburon, Inc., to its board of directors.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., has announced that Afsheen Afshar is among its new class of managing directors. This is effective as of January 2014. He moves from the position of vice president of strategy.
The Mayo Clinic has announced that Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, was elected a new member of its board of trustees.
Fellows are elected for "outstanding contributions to innovation in areas such as patents and licensing, innovative discovery and technology, significant impact on society, and support and enhancement of innovation."
Lightyear Capital, a New York-based private equity firm that focuses on financial services investing, announced that Richard Korhammer has been appointed senior advisor. In this position, he will help to identify and evaluate financial technology and capital markets investment opportunities.
Jonathan Huberman was named CEO of Tiburon, a provider of public safety and security software for secure cloud and on-premises solutions. He had been serving as the company's interim president and CEO.
Five members of the Engineering School faculty received the University's highest honors for their accomplishments in teaching and mentoring students.
Claire Gmachl, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering, has been appointed vice dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. She will succeed Pablo Debenedetti on July 1, when he assumes his new position as the University's dean for research.
Using 3-D printing tools, scientists at Princeton University have created a functional ear that can "hear" radio frequencies far beyond the range of normal human capability.
Douglas Foy has joined the Fuel Freedom Foundation policy team, serving as senior legal advisor.
Most term papers are evaluated by one or two people, but Carlee Joe-Wong's will be checked by hundreds. The paper, completed in 2010, has evolved into a research project involving wireless operators like AT&T and 1,000 participating wireless customers
Hisashi Kobayashi, former dean and emeritus professor of electrical engineering, received the 2012 C&C (Computer and Communications) Prize for his seminal role in advancing the storage of digital information, a key part of the computer revolution.
Mung Chiang, a Princeton University engineering professor who uses innovative mathematical analysis to simplify and strengthen the design of wireless networks, has been awarded the National Science Foundation's highest honor for young researchers, the Alan T. Waterman Award.
The Innovation Forum brings together teams of faculty members, postdocs and graduate students to pitch ideas for commercializing early-stage research to a panel of judges.
Students conferred their semi-annual Excellence in Teaching Awards to professors and teaching assistants at a ceremony Feb. 21. The awards included a Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor Pablo Debenedetti.
The book Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile written by Eden Medina, associate professor at Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, was awarded the Computer History Museum Prize and the Society for the History of Technology's Edelstein Prize.
Tom Leighton is the new CEO of Akamai Technologies, Inc., an internet content delivery network based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was formerly the company's chief scientist.
Mark A. Jung has been appointed to the Keynote Systems board of directors. This global company headquartered in San Mateo, California, provides internet and mobile cloud testing and monitoring for businesses.
Princeton researchers have found a simple and economical way to nearly triple the efficiency of organic solar cells, the cheap and flexible plastic devices that many scientists believe could be the future of solar power.
James Armstrong is the new chief technology officer at Symmetricom, a source of precise timekeeping technologies and instruments. Armstrong will lead the company's technology standards, product development and execution, and oversee growth of technology and infrastructure.
Juan Carlos Niebles, who received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton last year, is one of seven researchers worldwide to be recognized with a 2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow award.
Steven McLaughlin is the new Steve W. Chaddick School Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. McLaughlin oversees the school's more than 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students and more than 100 faculty members. The school graduates the largest number of electrical and computer engineers in the country.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) awarded an honorary doctorate to H. Vincent Poor, dean of Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science, in recognition of his fundamental contributions to wireless communications and his innovations in undergraduate education.
In a key step toward creating a working quantum computer, Princeton researchers have developed a method that may allow the quick and reliable transfer of quantum information throughout a computing device.
Daniel Wong's new book, Fundamentals of Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies, was recently released by publishers John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Jeff Bezos '86, founder of Amazon.com, and Jeffrey Ullman *66, Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science (Emeritis), Stanford University, were elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Bezos was recognized as a business leader and Ullman for his contributions to computer science.
The HTC Corporation named Chia-Lin Chang as chief financial officer and spokesperson effective April 16.
Howard Huang has written a book on wireless cellular network design titiled MIMO Communication for Cellular Networks (Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage).
The Consumer Electronics Association selected Robert Briskman, technical executive of Sirius XM, to be inducted into the association's Hall of Fame. Briskman was recognized for "advancing the products and services that inform, educate entertain and keep consumers connected." He will be honored along with 11 other professionals selected for their contributions at the association's Industry Forum in San Francisco in October 2012.
A flair for creating innovative courses and a dedication to mentoring students brought recognition to three Princeton Engineering faculty members at the close of 2011-2012 academic year.
A laboratory test used to detect disease and perform biological research could be made more than 3 million times more sensitive, according to researchers who combined standard biological tools with a breakthrough in nanotechnology.
Computer science is among the most forward-looking of disciplines, and in an address at Princeton University on Thursday evening, May 10, Eric Schmidt paid tribute to Alan Turing, one of the giants of the field, by looking ahead to an almost unimaginable future.
The National Academy of Engineering awarded the 2012 Charles Stark Draper Prize to George Heilmeier and three others "for the engineering development of the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) that is utilized in billions of consumer and professional devices."
Mung Chiang, an electrical engineering professor at Princeton, has been awarded the 2012 Kiyo Tomiyasu Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Princeton electrical engineering professor Mung Chiang introduced the undergraduate class "Networks: Friends, Money and Bytes" to examine the common foundation governing the networks that wind throughout modern life. A key part of the coursework is a two-week mini-project.
Zephyr Photonics, a research and development company, has appointed Dan Tuck as its new general manager and vice president of component operations. The company said Tuck brings experience in technology development, operations management and strategic business planning.
Bradley Dickinson, a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University who helped shape one of the engineering school's fundamental design courses, died of cardiac arrest Jan. 22 at Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton. He was 63.
An international team of researchers including scientists at Princeton University have achieved a 100-fold increase in the ability to maintain control the spins of electrons in a solid material, a key step in the development of ultrafast quantum computers.
Small packages: Nanoparticles improve drug delivery A technique for encapsulating drug molecules in tiny plastic-like coatings shows promise for improving treatment of cancer and tuberculosis, while aiding the laboratory testing of new drugs. Robert Prud'homme, professor of chemical and biological engineering, developed the fundamental method, called "flash nanoprecipitation," and has numerous collaborations with companies, medical researchers and engineering colleagues to de
Fundamentals of fluids Researchers in the lab of Howard Stone, the Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, are applying a deep understanding of fluid flows to reveal the mechanics behind critical biological functions. In one project, Stone's group found the unexpected formation of bacterial ribbons in the middle of flowing fluids, which has implications for understanding serious infections and has led to a collaboration with Bon
Conventional wisdom would say that blocking a hole would prevent light from going through it, but Princeton University engineers have discovered the opposite to be true. A research team has found that placing a metal cap over a small hole in a metal film does not stop the light at all, but rather enhances its transmission.
Noah Jafferis did not expect, when he started graduate school at Princeton, to invent something that has been touted in media coverage from around the world as a "magic carpet."
Sanjeev Kulkarni, an acclaimed teacher and engineer whose research ranges from signal processing to philosophy, has been appointed director of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education.
Stuart Schwartz, a pioneer of mathematical methods that led to techniques for efficiently transmitting information, and an instrumental force in building the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, died Saturday, Aug. 27.
Princeton engineering students are participating in a research project to produce fiber-optic-based computational devices that work similarly to neurons, but are a billion times faster.
A Princeton researcher and his international collaborators have used lasers to peek into the complex relationship between a single electron and its environment, a breakthrough that could aid the development of quantum computers
ACADEMICS Computer graphics, digital signal processing, and robotics. For his independent work, Tralie developed a method to recognize and classify objects from LIDAR (an optical version of RADAR) data. He is starting with LIDAR scans of the city of Ottawa collected by Google. WHY "I decided to work with Professor Tom Funkhouser (computer science) after taking his computer graphics course. I had such an amazing experience in that class and was so enthralled with the material that
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH Working in Professor Sigurd Wagner's lab with funding from Universal Display Corporation, Song worked on thin-film transistors that include a hybrid insulator to combine the performance of inorganic materials with the flexibility of organic materials. She also worked with Wagner and Assistant Professor Naveen Verma on large-area, amorphous silicon-based circuits for a structural health-monitoring system. Their system combines nanoscale integrated circuits, which of
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH Working on the Photonic Neuron Project led by Professor Paul Prucnal. The project seeks to enable ultrafast computing by using nonlinear optical devices to imitate neurons. These neurons perform computation on laser pulses that encode information. ADDITIONAL STUDIES Earned certificates in neuroscience, robotics, applications in computing, and engineering biology. WHY "It's a nice marriage of my interests in electrical engineering and neuroscience.&r
Mung Chiang and his team are using a miniaturized version of the global communications network, dubbed the EDGE Lab, to develop new ideas and systems that will help ensure that the networking infrastructure of the future will meet consumer demand.
Princeton researchers have invented an extremely sensitive sensor that opens up new ways to detect a wide range of substances, from tell-tale signs of cancer to hidden explosives.
The University created a new certificate program that explores the links between information technology and society. The Program in Information Technology and Society began enrollment this year and already has attracted students in majors ranging from computer science and electrical engineering to history and politics.
Engineering students win International Association for Hydrogen Energy award for developing "homemaker" hydrogen generator.
An engineering project to dramatically improve diabetes care was among two research efforts chosen as the first to receive support from Princeton University's Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund.
Princeton has been certified as a federal hub for cybersecurity research, opening the door to more research to solve national security problems.
BrightPearl announced that Salman Malik has joined the business software company located in Bristol, U.K., as its new CEO.
Dan Warmenhoven, chairman of the board of directors and executive chairman of NetApp and its CEO from 1994 to 2009, was presented with the 2010 Visionary Award by the Entrepreneurs Foundation.
A comprehensive assessment of doctoral programs in the United States ranked departments at Princeton Engineering as among the very best in the nation. The National Research Council assessment gave median scores in the top 10 to all departments within the School of Engineering and Applied Science that have a comparable peer group of departments.
Princeton engineering researchers will participate in a $122 million research project to develop technologies that make buildings more energy efficient.
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who graduated from Princeton in 1986 with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering, gave the Baccalaureate address to Princeton's Class of 2010.
The school of engineering honored three junior faculty members with the E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr./Emerson Electric Co. Faculty Advancement Award on May 10. The award recognizes young faculty members who have established vibrant teaching and research programs early in their careers at Princeton.
Princeton engineers are leading a research center that brings together scientists and engineers from multiple universities to determine how to improve the speed, reliability and energy-efficiency of tomorrow's computer systems while reducing their cost.
Princeton engineers have developed new technique for revealing images of hidden objects may one day allow pilots to peer through fog and doctors to see more precisely into the human body without surgery.
Beatriz Infante joins boards of communications and information technology companies.
Adam Erlich joined Block Engineering LLC as vice president of marketing and business development.
Two professors and a lecturer from Princeton's engineering school have been elected members of the National Academy of Engineering, a professional society whose members are among the world's most accomplished engineers.
Brother and sister Princeton alums find an innovative solution to using smart phones in the winter.
A sociologist, a political scientist and two electrical engineers, each a Princeton faculty member with expertise in different types of social and technological networks, have received a grant of $1.1 million to study the relations between these networks.
Margaret Martonosi, a Princeton professor of electrical engineering, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and of the IEEE, an international professional association for the advancement of technology.
Princeton University physical scientists and engineers will partner with researchers at four other institutions to explore the driving forces behind the evolution of cancer under a five-year, $15.2 million award from the National Cancer Institute.
As the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos '86 has revolutionized commerce and pioneered a wide range of online innovations, from user reviews to one-click shopping. Bezos graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, have created a $25 million endowment fund at Princeton for the invention, development and use of cutting-edge technology that has the capacity to transform research in the natural sciences and engineering.
As the CEO of Google since 2001, Eric Schmidt '76 has overseen its growth from a Silicon Valley startup into the world's largest search engine. Schmidt studied electrical engineering as a Princeton undergraduate and earned a Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of California at Berkeley.
H. Vincent Poor, the dean of Princeton engineering, has been elected as one of three new international fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom, a professional organization comprised of Britain's most eminent and distinguished engineers.
Researchers have demonstrated a method for identifying nitric oxide gas using lasers and sensors that are inexpensive, compact and highly sensitive, a portable device that could be of great value to atmospheric science, pollution control, biology and medicine.
Andrew Houck, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and a past Princeton valedictorian, was named to Technology Review magazine's list of the top 35 young innovators for 2009.
William Fung, managing director of Li & Fung Trading Ltd., is among the six newly appointed to Princeton University's board of trustees.
Steve Chou, the Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering and professor of electrical engineering at Princeton, has been awarded the 2009 Outstanding Research Award by the Pan Wen Yuan Foundation.
Sharad Malik, the George Van Ness Lothrop Professor of Engineering and director of Princeton's Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, has received the 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
Professors of electical engineering "swept" the highest teaching awards given at Princeton at the 2009 Commencement ceremonies. Sharad Malik, Paul Prucnal, Claire Gmachl and Sanjeev Kulkarni were all recognized for their excellent teaching and mentoring of graduate and undergraduate students.
The U.S. Department of Defense has selected Princeton engineers to lead two new multi-institutional research initiatives, one aimed at transforming wireless telecommunications networks and the other at inventing materials that adapt themselves to changing loads and environments.
Abraham Haddad received a Fellow Award from the International Federation of Automatic Control at its 17th World Congress held in 2008 in Seoul, Korea. The award is given to an engineer, scientist, technical leader or educator who has made an outstanding contribution in a field related to the focus of the federation.
Young faculty members who are pioneering new areas of communications networks, environmental sensing and other fields have received numerous awards for outstanding contributions early in their careers. Mung Chiang, associate professor of electrical engineering, received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House. He was one of only sixty-seven scientists who received the prestigious awards at a ceremony held at the White House last December. Chiang was
Thomson Leighton '78, gave the keynote at the 2008 Automotive Internet Roundtable, an event organized to present ways that the Internet could be better utilized to market and sell cars. It was hosted by J.D. Powers and Associates at the Bellagio Resort in Las Vegas.
Andrew Houck, a Princeton assistant professor of electrical engineering, has been awarded a 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He will receive $50,000 in funding for the two-year period for his research into applying the theories of quantum mechanics to the fields of computing and optics.
For Aleksandra Smiljanic, the makings of a good life include rock concerts, travel, and the freedom to pursue independent research. An evening at the theater makes it even better. Her varied background helped prepare her for her post as Serbia's first minister of telecommunications and information.
Electrical engineering graduate student Ekua Bentil is the recipient of a Technology for Developing Regions fellowship to deploy a gas-sensing system in her native Ghana. With the goal of avoiding illnesses caused by the smoke of wood fires, Bentil will use the system to detect carbon dioxide, ozone and water vapor in the air.
Princeton researchers traveled to China to study changes in Beijing's air quality during the Olympics, when the Chinese government dramatically cut vehicle and factory emissions.
Andrew Houck, a Princeton professor of electrical engineering, won a 2008 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences. The prize included $15,000 in unrestricted funding.
Teams from 16 middle schools and 17 high schools honed their engineering know-how in the regional Science Olympiad tournament hosted by Princeton. Featured are electrical engineering graduate student Ekua Bentil and civil and environmental engineering graduate student Yan Zhang.
Mung Chiang, a Princeton engineering professor who studies the communications networks integral to modern society, has received a 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House.
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, joined cyclist Lance Armstrong, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and filmmaker Steven Spielberg on the 2008 list of America's Best Leaders.
Peet's Coffee & Tea, a California-based specialty tea and coffee retailer, announced in October that Ted Hall has joined its board of directors.
An international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturization of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom. This breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life a quantum computer - a device based on the fundamental theory of quantum mechanics which could crack problems unsolvable by current technology.
Jennifer Rexford, a Princeton alumna and professor of computer science, has joined the technical advisory board at AlterPoint, a company that develops advanced network governance solutions.
Robert Briskman '54 received the Technology Business Leadership Award from the A. James Clark Engineering School at the University of Maryland for his role in founding Sirius Satellite Radio.
H. Vincent Poor, dean of engineering and the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Simon Pun, postdoctoral research associate, received the Best Paper Award at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications.
Two papers by Princeton Engineering researchers have been selected for inclusion in IEEE Micro's January/February 2008 Special Issue of Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Board of Directors has honored Sergio Verdu with the 2008 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal "for fundamental contributions to information theory and the development of multiuser detection."
Christopher Fine discussed "Colloboration, Cooperation and Co-opetition" at the VON Fall 2007 Conference in Boston.
Don Boroson, group leader of the Optical Communications Technology Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, has been named the recipient of a Lincoln Laboratory Technical Excellence Award. The award recognizes "exceptional, sustained individual technical excellence" in a laboratory mission area.
Robert Kahn has been named the recipient of the 2008 Japan Prize for Information Communication Theory and Technology.
Bypassing decades-old conventions in making computer chips, Princeton engineers developed a novel way to replace silicon with carbon on large surfaces, clearing the way for new generations of faster, more powerful cell phones, computers and other electronics.
iStor Networks, a manufacturer of network storage solutions, has appointed Kevin Daly as chief executive officer.
A Princeton-led research team has created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials. This startling property may contribute to significant advances in many areas, including high-speed communications, medical diagnostics and detection of terrorist threats.
Creating ultrasmall grooves on microchips -- a key part of many modern technologies -- is about to become as easy as making a sandwich, using a new process invented by Princeton engineers.
A little clay and sawdust went a long way at Princeton this month when a group of Trenton-area high school students used the simple materials to create effective, low-cost water filters.
Audrey Ellerbee has been selected as a AAAS Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow for 2007-08.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of a class that yokes two very unlikely subjects -- philosophy and engineering.
Li-Shiuan Peh has been named the winner of the 2007 Anita Borg Early Career Award by the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research.
Stephen Chou, the Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering, was recently honored for his contributions to the nanotechnology field with a Nano 50 award from Nanotech Briefs magazine.
Dean of Engineering H. Vincent Poor will receive the 2007 IEEE Guglielmo Marconi Best Paper Award, sponsored by Qualcomm, Inc. The annual award is given for an original paper in the field of wireless communications published in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, selected based upon its originality, utility, timeliness and clarity of presentation.
From outstanding research to dedicated service to the School of Engineering and Applied Science, members of this year's graduating class were recognized for their achievements and contributions at the engineering Class Day ceremony Monday, June 4.
Aleksandra Smiljanic was recently appointed Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society in the Government of Serbia. Born in Belgrade.
Joseph Kennedy, CEO of Pandora, was appointed to Ecast's board of directors. Ecast is the largest broadband touch-screen media network in the United States, providing digital music to clubs and bars.
In July, Michael D. Smith, associate dean of computer science and engineering at Harvard, will become Harvard's dean of the faculty of arts and sciences.
Two engineering professors were among the four Princeton faculty members who received President's Awards for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement ceremonies June 5.
In mid-April Robert Briskman will be presented with the 2007 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Communications Award at an international conference in Seoul, Korea.
Fortune magazine in its 2007 list of "America's Most Admired Companies" has named Network Appliance Inc. No. 1 in the computer peripherals industry. NetApp was co-founded by David Hitz, who earned his B.S.E. in electrical engineering and computer science at Princeton in 1986 and currently serves as the California-based company's executive vice president.
Stephen Chou and Sergio Verdu, professors of electrical engineering, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the greatest honors in the engineering field.
As they eliminate tiny air bubbles that form when liquid droplets are molded into intricate circuits, a Princeton-led team is dissolving a sizable obstacle to the mass production of smaller, cheaper microchips.
Aruba Networks of Sunnyvale, Calif., a secure wireless access provider, recently named Daniel Warmenhoven to its board of directors.
Eric Schmidt, the chairman and chief executive officer of Internet search giant Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., was named 2006 CEO of the Year by Investors Business Daily.
Three years after Leonard Liu founded Augmentum, a software development firm based in Foster City, Calif., the company's workforce has doubled in size from 500 employees to more than 1,000.
Symmetricom, manufacturer of atomic clocks, network synchronization tools and timing products, has appointed James Armstrong to be vice president of engineering at the company's Telecom Solutions Division in San Jose, Calif.
Princeton University electrical engineers are using lasers to shed light on the behavior of superfluids -- strange, frictionless liquids that are difficult to create and study. Their technique allows them to simulate experiments that are difficult or impossible to conduct with superfluids.
A Princeton-led team of students who are programming stem cells to treat diabetes ranked third in the world in a recent competition to build working "genetic machines" out of DNA building blocks.
Princeton engineers have invented a method of stealth communication that disguises not only the information contained in a message, but the existence of the message itself.
Sharad Malik, George Van Ness Lothrop Professor in Engineering , has been named director of Princeton's Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE).
Solar panels that are slated to be installed this fall on the roof of Princeton's Engineering Quadrangle will shave only about $60 off the University's monthly electricity bill. But the technology that emerges from this unique industry-academia research collaboration may eventually save New Jersey households millions of dollars in energy costs.
Clusters of students gathered in Princeton's Lewis Thomas Lab on a recent Friday for a trouble-shooting session before heading to their benches for another attempt at something few labs in the world can do: transforming mouse stem cells into muscle cells
Members of this year's class of graduating engineering students are leaving Princeton with impressive records of accomplishments and ambitious plans for the future, Dean H. Vincent Poor told students and their families during the engineering Class Day ceremony Monday, June 5.
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Understudies from BRING IT ON, ONCE and WICKED Get Challenged in 'Half Hour 2' Concert Tonight, 10/28
Tonight, October 28th at 8pm, BroadwayUnderstudies.com has once again invited some of Broadway's most talented understudies to the stage of the Laurie Beechman Theatre to share their rare talent-the ability to perform at a second's notice. They'll be thrown into the fire in "Half Hour 2: A Last Minute Concert," a show where even they don't know what they'll be singing before they step up to the microphone. The audience will get to vote on what song each performer will sing.
Performers include: Nikki Bohne (Bring it On), Joanne Borts (Once), Joe Carroll (Once), Ariana DeBose (Bring it On), Brandon Ellis (Once), Kate Fahrner (Wicked), Jenny Florkowski (Wicked), David Hull (Wicked), Jesse JP Johnson (Wicked), Janet Krupin (Bring it On), Eddie Pendergraft (Wicked), Teddy Toye (Bring it On), and J Michael Zygo (Once). F. Michael Haynie (Wicked) will serve as guest host for the evening.
The concert is produced by Shoshana Feinstein with musical direction by Benjamin Rauhala, and will feature Jeremy Yaddaw on drums and Charlie Rosen on bass.
Cover charge is $15 with a $15 food/drink minimum. Call (212) 695-6909 to make reservations.
After years of trading rumors with fans, Shoshana Feinstein and Karen Marshall started BroadwayUnderstudies.com as a way to aggregate and celebrate the performances of Broadway's most under appreciated talent: the understudy. Follow Broadway Understudies on Twitter @understudies for the latest information on how to catch your favorite understudy in the role of a lifetime.

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Teaching Modern Physics using Selected Nobel Lectures
A. Stinner
Some years ago I realized that what I can do as a University educator preparing students who are planning to become physics teachers is to build on their undergraduate knowledge of modern physics using an unconventional approach. I decided to give them some enthusiasm and self confidence for the teaching of the ideas and the concepts of modern physics, using a selected number of appropriate Nobel lectures. Based on my prior experience, I was convinced that the conventional approach revisiting the main ideas of modern physics using a textbook would only lead to boredom.
Using seminal papers of the great physicists of the past to teach physics is notoriously difficult. Papers by the Nobel laureates chosen that contributed to the work on which the Nobel Prize was awarded are generally inaccessible to students. However, there are many Nobel lectures that are accessible and can be fruitfully studied by students.
What follows is a brief description and a rationale of the course I present to physics teacher candidates at the University of Manitoba. The paper also containes a shortened version of a handout produced by one of my students (in consultation with the instructor) based on the work of J.J. Thomson, as reported in his Nobel lecture.
Description of the presentation
I always begin my classes with a quotation by G.P. Thomson, the son of J.J. Thomson, taken from his Nobel lecture:
The goddess of learning is fabled to have sprung full-grown from the brain of Zeus, but it is seldom that a scientific conception is born in its final form, or owns a single parent. More often it is a product of a series of minds, each in turn modifying the ideas of those that came before, and providing material for those that came after. The electron is no exception.
I then emphasize that the Nobel lectures chosen must illustrate the interconnectedness of ideas and the dependence of new work on earlier achievements, as described in the statement. (Nobel lectures chosen, with a shortened version of the citation, are listed below.)
A note of explanation must be added here. Roentgen did not give an acceptance speech and Einstein's Nobel lecture (given a year later) was not based on the work for which he was awarded the prize (photoelectric effect). For Roentgen, my students read relevant articles taken from the special edition of "History of Physics", an AAPT publication. The Einstein acceptance speech is based on his two theories of relativity, and is generally inaccessible to students. Here I made an exception, and I ask my students to read the first part of his ultimately revolutionary 1905 paper on relativity. Finally, Rutherford received his Nobel Prize in chemistry, much to his annoyance, and the second Nobel Prize of Madame Curie was also in chemistry.
The following is a shortened version of a student's summary of the work of J.J. Thomson. This report is handed out after the PPT (PowerPoint) presentation by the student-presenter, to be discussed in detail in the following session. Of course, appropriate diagrams and pictures are contained in the PPT presentation, which are also handed out to the students.
Carriers of negative electricity
Thomson begins his lecture by reviewing the experiments by Crookes to show that cathode rays travel in straight lines. These "rays" were found to be absorbed by a thin plate of mica. Two views were prevalent in 1897: one, held by English physicists, that the rays are negatively electrified bodies, shot off the cathode with great velocity, and the other, supported by German physicists, that these rays are vibrations in the ether.
The arguments in favor of the rays being negatively charged particles were: they are deflected by electric and magnetic fields, as we expect moving charges to behave, and they can be confined in a vessel to give up their negative charges.
If the electric field E and the magnetic field B are so arranged that the forces cancel we have:
Bev = Ee
v = E / B
where B is the magnetic field, e the charge on the negative particle, v is the velocity of the particle (in the horizontal direction) and e the electric charge of the particle.
We can now determine the velocity of the particles. It turns out that the velocity can be as high as 1/3 the velocity of light, or about 60,000 miles per second.
Having found the velocity of the rays, we can determine the e/m ratio of the particle. When the particles find themselves in a constant electric field they experience a constant force. The physics here is like that of a bullet projected horizontally with a velocity v and being acted upon by a gravitational force. It is easy to show that the displacement of the particle will be given by
d = ½ Ee l2 / mv2
where l is the horizontal length, m the mass of the particle.
We can now find the displacement d and then calculate the e/m ratio of the particle:
e/m = V / B2 l2
(Thomson expressed this as)
e/m = V θ / B2 l d
θ = d/l
This ratio seems to be independent of the velocity as well as the kind of electrodes we use!
The value for e/m found was about 1.7x107 as measured in the cgs system of units. The value of this ratio found for atoms of hydrogen was only about 104. Therefore, this ratio for the corpuscle associated with cathode rays is about 1700 times larger. The conclusion Thomson reached was that the mass of the corpuscle was about 1/1700 that of the hydrogen atom.
There are many sources of cathode rays: metals heated to a high temperature and any substance when heated gives out corpuscles to some degree; sodium and potassium give off negative corpuscles even when cold and exposed to light. Radioactive materials (uranium and radium) emit them continuously and at very high velocities
Thomson goes on to describe how the newly discovered Wilson cloud chamber has assisted physicists to show those properties described above. He also discusses a first attempt to find the charge on these particles using Stokes' law. He then estimates the charge on a particle to be about 3.0 x10-10 electrostatic units, or about 10-20 electromagnetic units.
Since we know the charge to mass ratio, we can now estimate the mass of the negatively charged particle. This mass turns out to be about 6x10-28 g.
The conclusion then is that "in all known cases in which negative electricity occurs in gases at very low pressures, it occurs in the form of corpuscles, small bodies with an invariable charge and mass.
Questions based on the Nobel lecture by J.J. Thomson:
- In what year did J.J. Thomson discover his "negatively charged corpuscle", we now call the electron?
- What were the two hypotheses about what cathode rays are initially?
- What were the main arguments in favor of the particle theory of cathode rays?
- What were the two main conclusions about the "particle" that was discovered?
- What physical arrangement allowed the calculation of the velocity of the particle?
- About how fast did these particles move?
- What are some of the sources of these particles?
- How was the Wilson cloud chamber used to find the charge of the particles?
- How did Thomson estimate the mass of the particle?
Thomson concludes his lecture by stating that: "In all known cases in which electricity occurs in gases at very low pressures, it occurs in the form of corpuscles, small bodies with an invariable charge and mass. The case is entirely different with positive electricity." What did he mean?
Main concepts: Electric field, magnetic field, electric charge, force, potential difference, kinetic energy.
Questions and Problems:
- How do physicists produce a constant electric field? A constant magnetic field? Explain.
- Who first suggested the name of electron for Thomson's electric corpuscle? When was this suggested?
- What were the arguments and evidence for believing that cathode rays are negatively charged particles?
- Describe how Thomson set up his apparatus and explain how he found the e/m ratio of the electron.
- How did Thomson estimate the charge on the electron?
- In our experiment, we used a 2000 V potential difference for both the plate voltage and the anode voltage. The coil had 320 turns, and its diameter was 15 cm. The plate separation was 5.0 cm, and the length of the plate 7.0 cm. The ammeter reading of the current was 1.0 Amps.
Using the method of Thomson, calculate the e/m ratio, based on these figures.
Comparison with a "typical" contemporary textbook presentation:
- Read the textbook presentation of J.J. Thomson's experiment and compare the content with the historical description, taken directly from the Nobel lecture. Comment.
- Here is one of the questions in the text: "Electrons move through a
6.0x10-2 T magnetic field balanced by a 3.0x103 N/C electric field. What is the speed of the electrons?"
What assumptions does the author make about students conceptual understanding? How would you change, or extend the problem in order to go beyond just testing the students' ability to "plug in values" and find an answer?
Relevant Articles:
"The discovery of the electron: a centenary", by Leif Gerward, Physics Education,
"J.J. Thomson, The Electron, and Atomic Structure", by Helge Kragh, The Physics Teacher, Sept. 1997.
My students have generally found the reading, the studying, and the discussions of the selected Nobel lectures refreshingly different from the lecture-based and textbook-centered presentations in their undergraduate years. Revisiting the basic ideas, concepts and empirical evidence presented in textbooks using this historical approach allows students to read the summary of the work of a Nobel laureate from an accessible primary source. It is hoped that having had this background study they not only understand the basic ideas of modern physics better but also have developed confidence and enthusiasm to present them on a level accessible to their physics students in high school.
Wilhelm Roentgen, The discovery of the remarkable rays named after him. (1901)
J.J. Thomson, The experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases. (1906) (Our emphasis is the discovery of the electron.)
Ernest Rutherford, The chemistry of radioactive substances. (1908)
William Henry Bragg, and William Lawrence Bragg, The analysis of crystal structure by means of x-rays. (1915)
Madame Curie, The discovery of the elements radium and polonium. (1911)
Niels Bohr, The structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them. (1922)
Albert Einstein, The discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. (1921)
Robert Millikan, The elementary charge of electricity and the photoelectric effect. (1923)
Arthur Compton, For his discovery of the effect named after him. (1927)
Lois de Broglie, For his discovery of the wave nature of electrons. (1929)
James Chadwick, The discovery of the neutron. (1935)
G.P. Thomson, The experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons. (1937)
Arthur Stinner is a professor of science education at the University of Manitoba. He specializes in physics education and history of science, and his interests are in contextual science teaching and the writing of science plays. This article is based on a paper presented at the 2008 summer AAPT meeting in Edmonton.
This article is not peer refereed and represents solely the views of the author and not necessarily the views of APS.


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On the side I work part-time barristaing it up at a local coffee shop. It's really fun to make fancy coffee for people and send them on their way to enjoy the day.
Outside of that I am a nerd. I love to play all types of board games (scrabble being one of my favourites) and other games as well. Dominion is a very addictive game and I suggest it to everyone! Other than that I search the interspheres for random stuff I find interesting or play some fun games.
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Police in Oregon say Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh crashed his car into a tree in downtown Portland, but was not injured.
Police say Suh was not impaired and was cooperative with officers following the accident at about 1:15 a.m. Saturday. Suh lost control of the 1970 Chevrolet Coupe he was driving, which then hit a curb, light pole, drinking fountain and tree. His vehicle was towed from the scene.
The second-year NFL player had two passengers in the vehicle. They were not injured.
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Suh, who graduated from Portlands Grant High School, was suspended without pay by the NFL for stomping on the arm of Green Bay Packers guard Evan Dietrich-Smith in a nationally televised Thanksgiving Day game.
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My best guess is that the cpu-throttled ipdf wasn't created with the zlib compression libraries. Or maybe there were other libraries or functions that were included with the program enhancements. I haven't tested it, so I do not know.
I have no idea what's involved in searching, so I can't answer that. I think it's on iRex's planned feature list though. As far as a dictionary search, it shouldn't be *too* difficult to program a button that will launch stardict from ipdf. It should run on top of it, so when you close out of the dictionary, your document will be there.
Yes, but I can imagine that the library defined appears as a pop-up box when you select a word with the pen and click the library icon in the tool bar, but your solution is OK too.
Searching is available in many PDF viewers. It is nothing special, I think. Just pattern recognition in the PDF file, with a little sophistication. Irex promised it long ago. Why it was not there from the start, I do not understand. Probably not in the source of the software that was chosen.
It is a problem on the iLiad to switch applications. The user interface is very primitive (or simple). As far as I know, you leave the application and return to the contentlister and you choose another application. If you use buttons in a program, you could go to the contentlister without leaving the application, like a MP3 player and it goes on in the background, if we could swith applications fast (and have them running together) we could switch between documents or between documents and notes or diary or webbrowsing, e-mail, or ....
There could be a toggle icon in the tool bar, subsequently switching through the running user applications (or their respective screen-image-memory pages, and attached controls!).
It will take some amount of memory to have a number of applications active simultaniously and, if they are actually running, like the MP3 player, also some processor sharing.
The iLiad is not really meant for too much of that, but a little bit of it would be nice.
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Investigation Discovery (ID) is a United States cable channel that launched in 1996. It's shows' focus on true crime subjects. It was featured in the Season Seventeen episode, "Informative Murder Porn". Other networks mentioned with similar shows: A&E, Oxygen and The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).
The parents of South Park watch this network, along with others, while having sex. Dubbed "Informative Murder Porn", kids block this channel from their parents because they believe it will end with their parents killing each other.
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- On The Case with Paula Zahn - ID
- Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry? - ID
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I know this might sound kind of weird because I am asking a question about a vasectomy and I am a woman, but how long does it take before a man can have sex after the procedure. My husband just had one done 4 days ago. I am not going to approach him until he says he is feeling OK but I would kind of like to know when that might be. And even if he says he is feeling OK, I am still kind of afraid that I will hurt him. I have to hand it to you guys, I don't know how you go so long after we have babies. I wasnt able to have sex again until 3 weeks after I gave birth to our second child, thats a long time!!! Sorry for all the hell women can put you through.
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Cuban Defector Chapman Likely to Sign Today
Some time today, a major signing will be announced.
Cuban defector Aroldis Chapman will sign with an MLB team–likely the Mets, Yankees, Marlins, or Athletics.
If you think the A's don't have a chance against the New Yorkers, think again. The A's were able to sign Dominican Michael Ynoa in 2008 and the 17-year-old Ynoa made his debut in the 2009 season in the minors.
Defection Opens Doors
Chapman defected from Cuba in July 2009 while in Rotterdam, The Netherlands for the World Port Tournament. Chapman had only been in Holland for an hour when he told his roommate he was going outside for a smoke. Instead of lighting up, Chapman jumped into a car owned by a friend and sped away from the hotel after Cuban officials neglected to collect his passport after landing at Rotterdam Airport. When he jumped into that car, he left a mother, father, girlfriend, and baby daughter back in Cuba.
He wound up in Andorra, not the country you most often think of as a breeding ground for 100+ MPH pitchers. But, there's a reason, Chapman resides in the tiny country between Spain and France–it's a tax haven. And, that's precisely why Chapman will likely sign somewhere on December 31, 2009.
Bonuses paid by American businesses to residents of other countries are not taxed. And, with Andorra's near zero tax rate, that's going to save Chapman a bundle so long as he doesn't pitch in America until 2010. It's a one-time tax bonus available only to international stars.
The Chapman Legend Begins
At age 19, Chapman opened eyes at the 2007 World Cup in Tapei. In 15 innings, the young southpaw fanned 20. He was a scout's dream–6′ 4″, left-handed, and still with a tremendous upside.
In the 2009 World Baseball Classic, Chapman dazzled scouts. In his first game against Australia, in Mexico City, he tossed 16 pitches that registered 99 MPH and four that hit triple figures. In his second game at Petco Park in San Diego, Chapman struggled with the disciplined Japanese hitters and was pulled after 2 1/3 innings.
Chapman's Stats — A Walk in the Park
In his four seasons in the National Series, Cuba's version of the MLB, Chapman had a 24-21 record with a 3.72 ERA. In 341 2/3 innings, he fanned 379. His achilles heal was his 210 walks, or 5.37 per 9 innings.
There's no doubt that Chapman needs to improve his control to be a front line starter in the MLB. More than five walks per 9 innings won't help your fantasy baseball WHIP, that's for sure. And, the word is that the Cuban strike zone is more lenient than what you'll find in the MLB or what Chapman found when he pitched at Petco against the Japanese squad.
"In Cuba, you knew you could throw a bad pitch and a batter would swing at it," Chapman admits. "In the big leagues, that doesn't happen very often."
Fantasy Baseball Preview — Aroldis Chapman
While there's no doubt about Chapman's heater, several executives in the MLB contend that his secondary pitches are not that good. He throws a curve, slider, changeup, and forkball.
That may make one think that Chapman is better suited as a closer. Chapman doesn't want to go there. "You pitch more frequently, but I don't want to be a closer."
Chapman has been called one of the three best young pitchers in the world who are not in the MLB. The others include Stephen Strasburg and Yu Darvish who pitches for the Nippon Ham Fighters. Strasburg will likely make his debut for the Nationals in 2010 and Darvish appears content to pitch in Japan.
Aroldis Chapman remains a long shot to make the MLB in 2010. He will likely toil in the high minors and attempt to improve his secondary pitches. In deeper leagues, however, Chapman is a good addition if you are willing to wait and have a large minor league roster. It is unlikely that Chapman will see MLB action in 2010.
The control issues and the fact that Chapman still has a lot to learn is not causing MLB teams to shy away from the young Cuban, however. ESPN listed him today as the fifth best free agent still available.
After all, it's not often that you find a guy who can throw 100+…especially a left-hander.


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The North Platte Lady Bulldogs could never really get into system on Tuesday against Ogallala and they fell to the Indians 25-17, 22-25, 25-14, 25-13 at the Dawg House.
But the Bulldogs couldnt tie or take the lead as the Lady Indians won four of the next five plays before expanding their lead.
The Lady Dawgs came out flat in the second set as well. Ogallala won five of the first six points after run served by Sidney Mell.
After that, NPHS started to show some life. They tied it at nine and took the lead at 11-10 after another ace served by Sawyer.
North Platte led as much as 21-15 after Allison Kuenle made a kill and an ace on consecutive plays.
The Indians rallied back and they came within 23-22. But the Lady Bulldogs won the next two plays to even the match.
But it was all Ogallala from the third set. NPHS just couldnt capitalize on the momentum it created in the second.
The Lady Bulldogs were outplayed by the smaller Indians at the net. Their hits lacked power and were easily dug by Ogallalas back row. On the other side, the Lady Indians were beating North Plattes block consistently and they were able to find holes in the defense.
Ogallala got out to an 8-3 lead in the third set after a run in service by libero Shayna Shaw and the Indians never looked back as the gap kept growing wider and wider.
In the fourth set, both teams were pretty even for the first 10 points. But the Indians broke away again shortly thereafter before putting away the match and avenging their defeat to NPHS on opening day on Sept. 5.
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The video finds the kids trying to shoot their film when a train passes, which unfortunately derails and causes chaos among them.
A new clip from "Super 8" has landed online. The video contains the preceding scene of a clip released earlier in May. The kids are trying to get a shot of a train for their film. Unfortunately, the train is derailed and causing chaos among them.
Previously, a fresh TV spot has also been unleashed. It offers preview to a different scene in which Elle Fanning and Joel Courtney are witnessing a creepy phenomenon in their room. The footage, entitled "Top Secret", also sees explosive scenes where buildings and a street blast.
Set in the summer of 1979, "Super 8" centers its story on a group of friends in a small Ohio town who witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
In addition to the aforementioned actors, the J.J. Abrams-directed movie also has Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard and Amanda Michalka in the cast ensemble. The sci-fi adventure film, which has Steven Spielberg among the producers, is slated to grace theaters across the nation on June 10.
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YEAR 3 children at All Saints Catholic Primary School in Liverpool were using computers as spelling aids to prepare for today's national literacy and numeracy tests.
But all schoolchildren could soon be using computers to take these tests online, under proposals being investigated by the agency responsible for the exams.
As students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sharpen their pencils for the annual tests, the Herald can reveal that when these students next sit the tests, they may be doing so on computers.
Documents obtained under freedom-of-information laws show the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority last November ordered a study of options for delivering the tests online.
Yesterday, the authority chairman, Barry McGaw, confirmed the agency was investigating the possibility, but said it would be up to federal, state and territory education ministers to decide whether tests went online.
Professor McGaw said online tests would allow assessments to be adapted to varying levels of student ability, based on the student's responses to questions.
''It means you don't waste students' time answering questions that are too easy or too hard for them,'' he said.
Computer-based assessment would allow other forms of assessment, such as simulations, and the use of media such as moving images, he said.
Online testing would also allow results to be processed faster, Professor McGaw said. At present, students sit the tests in May, but schools and parents must wait until September to receive the results.
Professor McGaw said any online system would need to be secure, and because some schools might lack the facilities to have all their pupils sit the tests online, computer-based tests would likely be optional.
He said the authority's work on online testing was at an early stage, and would not be completed in time for online tests to be offered next year.
Chris Watt, the federal secretary of the Independent Education Union, which represents private school teachers, said: ''If these tests are to be genuine diagnostic tests, providing them online and having more immediate feedback would be invaluable.''
He said the tests should be held in March, to provide an earlier measure of student performance and to reduce the intrusion of test preparation on the normal school program.
Angelo Gavrielatos, the federal president of the Australian Education Union, which represents government school teachers, said the current administration of the test was ''archaic'' and the time lag of more than four months between the tests and the delivery of results reduced the value of the exams.
Rose-Marie Hoekstra, the principal of All Saints, said she did not object to computerised testing, but doubted whether her school - which she said was relatively well resourced - would have enough computers for all pupils.
After practice at home and some preparation at school, year 3 pupil Jakob Polic, 8, was feeling confident about the tests, with maths, reading and spelling singled out as class favourites. ''Because we're really good at it,'' he said.


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There are over 12 million instances of Windows Server 2003 still running as of this year, according to MS.
It seems like some of those are ready to come into the 21st century and take advantage of features that didn't exist a decade ago.... and in most cases that will mean new server hardware (albeit much cheaper than a decade ago).
What best practices advice can you give to those of us who are looking to migrate to Server 2012?
Aug 16, 2013 at 9:07 UTC
When you upgrade , virtualize your servers.
also refer these (may be you already did):
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Aug 16, 2013 at 9:07 UTC
When you upgrade , virtualize your servers.
also refer these (may be you already did):
Aug 16, 2013 at 11:37 UTC
I agree with mxtj! Get Hyper-V and virtualize whatever you have in there.
Aug 19, 2013 at 5:33 UTC
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Agree with all comments thus far about Virtualizing your servers.
You can download Hyper-V for free here:
For core services check out this migration plan:
As far as the rest, be ready for a good learning curve. A lot of changes have happened between 03 and 12. But you will find you will have considerably more powerful tools and flexibility.
Aug 19, 2013 at 5:50 UTC
As said above, virtualize those machines!
Learn to leverage and embrace powershell and other built-in configuration and remote management tools.
Document everything along the way. In addition to note-taking, I've taken to using jing to make screen shots and captures of processes like DHCP migration, file server migration, and print server setup.
Aug 21, 2013 at 3:20 UTC
Thanks to all for the advice. So, Virtualize, Virtualize, Virtualize. WIll take to heart.
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Three Steps To Fix the Tennessee Volunteers Basketball TeamJanuary 8, 2009
For the first time since Bruce Pearl came to Knoxville, the Tennessee basketball team suddenly finds itself in a bit of a slump.
Consecutive losses to Kansas and Gonzaga—two unranked, yet legitimate teams—including the Vols' first home loss since March 2006, leave Tennessee in a bit of limbo. While Pearl still has a full stable of talented athletes, these clearly aren't last year's Tennessee Volunteers.
But that's fine. The Vols just need to understand this and move on. This year's Tennessee team has a ton of potential; it probably possesses more overall talent than last year's edition, which at one point was ranked No. 1 in the country.
If the Volunteers adhere to the following three steps, they will find themselves in the Sweet 16 again in March.
1. Get the ball inside.
Chris Lofton, the superstar shooting guard of Pearl's first three years, is gone. Bomber JaJuan Smith is gone too. Tennessee simply does not have the same firepower in the backcourt that it is accustomed to having.
What the Vols do have, though, are Tyler Smith and Wayne Chism: two frontcourt players who are capable of dominating any game. Against Gonzaga, Smith and Chism combined for 32 points and 27 rebounds. Chism, who absolutely owned the paint in the second half, had 19 rebounds himself, and there's a good chance at least half of those came on the offensive end.
But despite the inside presence these two players represent, Pearl's flex offense rarely runs through them. Sure, they get their chances naturally through the offense, but too many possessions this year have ended with poor three-point shooters taking deep shots.
Smith gets some opportunities to go one-on-one and is usually successful when given the chance. Chism often has very good post position and does not get the ball enough when he does. He has grown a tremendous amount as a player, as shown by big performances against Gonzaga, Marquette, and Kansas (he had six blocks in the loss); now he just needs to get the ball more.
Aside from Cameron Tatum and, on occasion, Scotty Hopson, the Vols simply don't have the shooters they are accustomed to having. For the first time under Pearl, their strength is in the paint. And that's where the ball needs to go.
2. Regain their defensive identity.
Pearl's teams are known for their aggressive, trapping style. Over the years, the Vols have consistently forced a tremendous amount of open-court turnovers, leading to easy baskets and large runs.
This year, not so much. Sure, the aggression is still there at times, and Tennessee is as good as ever at forcing turnovers on inbounds plays. But the intense full-court pressure that last year led to consecutive turnovers and quick 10-point swings isn't there.
And why not? JaJuan Smith was a great pressure defender, but Lofton wasn't, and Scotty Hopson and Emmanuel Negedu certainly don't lack athleticism. If Pearl isn't letting his team press as much, it's probably because they lack discipline.
But at this point, the Vols can't really guard anybody. So it's worth giving the press a shot.
3. Understand their roles.
The Vols are getting much better at this—Chism, for example is playing inside more, and Hopson is taking fewer bad shots—but they still have a long way to go.
As J.P. Prince showed last night, he should never take deep shots. Ever. Even if the defense leaves him wide open. Sure, that makes him a bit of an offensive liability, and if that's the case, maybe he shouldn't be on the floor as much—Hopson is probably a better option now that he has gained more discipline.
Tyler Smith and Bobby Maze are picking their spots more, which is a good thing when the offense is functioning smoothly. When it isn't, they are probably being a bit too selective.
But what the Vols really need to do is get the ball in Chism's hands. Not at the three-point line, but in the paint. He doesn't have to shoot every time; let the defense react, leaving Tatum open for a shot, Smith for a drive, or one of the many other talented Vols close to the basket.
The Volunteers have hit a bit of a rough stretch lately. But conference play hasn't even started, and Tennessee is a young team that has plenty of time to turn their season around. The signs of improvement are already there, even in defeat—the Vols just have to complete the transformation on offense and get back to their roots on defense.


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Mumbai: Indian private sector lender Axis Bank Ltd is selling shares to raise as much as $1 billion, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday, in the biggest equity deal for the year.
The bank is selling up to 34 million shares to institutional investors at Rs.1,390 a share to raise as much as $877 million, said the sources, who declined to be named as they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Separately, Axis is also raising up to $152 million by allotting up to 5.9 million shares on a preferential basis at Rs.1,390 rupees a share, said the sources, adding the bank would raise a total of about $1 billion from the two tranches.
Shares in Axis Bank ended 1.9% higher on Monday at Rs.1,412.95, outperforming a flat close in the broader market and 0.7% gain in the banking sector index.