Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) defeated IBM’s Watson, a computer that can respond to spoken questions, in a Congressional exhibition “Jeopardy!” match in Washington, D.C., on Monday night.
Morrison delivered her lecture, titled “Invisible Ink: Reading the Writing and Writing the Reading,” to a packed auditorium of students, University officials and community members. The lecture was hosted by Wilson College as part of its lecture series in honor of the residential college’s 50th anniversary.
Within the span of five months in 2009, three gun scares — none of which involved real guns — hit the University campus, each renewing calls to allow the University’s unarmed Public Safety officers to carry guns.
The University and Borough reopened public talks about the Arts and Transit Neighborhood on Tuesday evening at the Borough Council meeting.
The editorial board at The Chronicle, Duke University’s student newspaper, ran an editorial last month examining grade inflation at the university and recommending that administrative officials take action against it.
Rockefeller College card-checker Helen Wilkinson, 81, passed away last Wednesday at her home in Princeton Junction.
Despite the Obama administration’s recommendation that the Justice Department should no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which was described as unconstitutional by the White House last week, the fight of Joshua Vandiver GS to stop the deportation of his husband Henry Velandia appears far from over.
At this time last year, Lizzie Martin ’14 was teaching crocheting and English to disabled teenagers and adults in Varanasi, India, a sharp contrast to her current life as a freshman at the University.
In December, Terrace Club passed a measure to allow graduate students to sign in to the club during this year’s round of spring sign-ins. Despite the club’s advertising at TigerTransit stops, high-traffic areas and the Graduate College, no graduate student took advantage of the policy change.
The next generation’s great technology companies may have seen their first public exposure in McCosh Hall on Saturday. Six finalist teams presented start-up proposals to judges in the TigerLaunch competition, in which would-be student entrepreneurs vied for thousands of dollars in seed money.
Though Princeton and Harvard eliminated their early admission programs in 2006 with the stated goal of making the application process fairer for economically disadvantaged students, Princeton’s admission office maintains that it still intends to ensure that low-income students will have equal access to all application opportunities despite Thursday’s announcements that both universities would re-implement early admission programs.
Alumni, along with family and friends, flocked to campus on Saturday to attend events held on the University’s Alumni Day.
Intel has awarded a $1.3 million grant to a team of researchers from Princeton, Oxford, Rice University and the University of British Columbia to invent technology that would increase the reliability of and discover errors in firmware, a type of software embedded in computer chips.
The USG approved four new student groups at the USG Senate Meeting held in Frist Campus Center on Sunday night. Princeton Equality Project, Princeton Flutes, Princeton Scandinavian Association and Princeton Opera Company were unanimously approved by the USG senate.
Responding to natural disasters, hostage takings, mass uprisings, drug cartels and economic collapse was all in a day’s work for the participants at the Princeton Interactive Crisis Simulation, which took place this weekend at the Friend Center.
When archeologist Wade Catts, mapping specialist Matthew Harris and historian Robert Selig teamed up in 2009 to study the historical significance of the Battle of Princeton, they never expected to uncover evidence that would overturn decades-old beliefs about the battle’s history.
The Excellence in Teaching Awards for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences were presented in a ceremony Thursday at the Friend Center.
Ed Kelley ’13 lives in a room with an entrance just like that of any other room in Whitman, with the exception of a crest on the nameplate next to the door. The shield contains the flags of Texas, Hong Kong, Brazil and Florida surrounded by a moose and a lobster, with the motto “praeterire feminas acquirere pecuniam.” Inside, a leather armchair, an oriental rug and a TV set to the fireplace channel greet visitors. This isn’t a typical student dorm. Welcome to the Chalet.
As Cap & Gown Club puts the finishing touches on its new wing — which officially opened in early February — Tiger Inn renovations are proceeding according to plan and are scheduled to be completed in August 2011. Construction on Charter Club’s new lounge, originally set to be completed in December or January, will begin within the next two weeks and be completed in April.
The program in Law and Public Affairs announced its fellows for the 2011-12 academic year on Wednesday.
