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Princeton University's 261st Commencement ceremony – June 3, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Tue, Jun 3, 2008
The University's 261st Commencement ceremony was held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 3, on the lawn in front of Nassau Hall. Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman presided and addressed the graduates.
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Princeton University's 261st Commencement ceremony – June 3, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Tue, Jun 3, 2008
The University's 261st Commencement ceremony was held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 3, on the lawn in front of Nassau Hall. Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman presided and addressed the graduates.
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Princeton University's Hooding ceremony – June 2, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Mon, Jun 2, 2008
The Hooding ceremony for advanced degree candidates was held at 5 p.m. Monday, June 2, in McCarter Theatre. Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman and Graduate School Dean William Russel presided.
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Princeton University's Hooding ceremony – June 2, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Mon, Jun 2, 2008
The Hooding ceremony for advanced degree candidates was held at 5 p.m. Monday, June 2, in McCarter Theatre. Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman and Graduate School Dean William Russel presided.
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Princeton University's Class Day ceremony – June 2, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Mon, Jun 2, 2008
The Class Day ceremony for seniors took place at 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 2, on Cannon Green. The program included the awarding of various prizes to classmates, student speeches, honorary class member inductions, a review of the class history, and remarks by President Shirley M. Tilghman. *Note* Stephen Colbert's keynote address is not featured in this podcast.
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Princeton University's Class Day ceremony – June 2, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Mon, Jun 2, 2008
The Class Day ceremony for seniors took place at 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 2, on Cannon Green. The program included the awarding of various prizes to classmates, student speeches, honorary class member inductions, a review of the class history, and remarks by President Shirley M. Tilghman. *Note* Stephen Colbert's keynote address is not featured in this podcast.
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Princeton University's Baccalaureate ceremony – June 1, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Sun, Jun 1, 2008
The Baccalaureate service took place at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 1, in the University Chapel. The speaker was Paul Farmer, the medical anthropologist and physician who founded the international charity organization Partners in Health.
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Princeton University's Baccalaureate ceremony – June 1, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Sun, Jun 1, 2008
The Baccalaureate service took place at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 1, in the University Chapel. The speaker was Paul Farmer, the medical anthropologist and physician who founded the international charity organization Partners in Health.
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Reunions Seminar 2008: "Estate Planning with William D. Zabel '58" – May 31, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Sat, May 31, 2008
William D. Zabel '58 spoke to alumni at Reunions about estate planning. Zabel is the author of 'The Rich Die Richer, and You Can Too.' As senior partner at the New York firm Schulte Roth and Zabel LLP, he has handled wills and estate matters for many prominent individuals. The seminar was held at the Frist Campus Center on Saturday, May 31st.
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David Hopkins, Princeton University: Tuning In or Tuning Out? The New World of Digital TV
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Apr 30, 2008
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: When is the right time to buy a flat panel television? What does 1080p mean? After February, 2009, will my old TV work? David Hopkins does some “myth-busting” on latest packages presented by companies like Comcast. He breaks down the HDTV format into easy understand terms and talks about the latest technologies in video distribution. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/04/tuning_in_or_tuning_out_the_new_world_of_digital_tv.html
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David Hopkins, Princeton University: Tuning In or Tuning Out? The New World of Digital TV PDF
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Apr 30, 2008
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: When is the right time to buy a flat panel television? What does 1080p mean? After February, 2009, will my old TV work? David Hopkins does some “myth-busting” on latest packages presented by companies like Comcast. He breaks down the HDTV format into easy understand terms and talks about the latest technologies in video distribution. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/04/tuning_in_or_tuning_out_the_new_world_of_digital_tv.html
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Douglas Dixon, Manifest Technology: The Joys and Ploys of Little Toys
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Apr 23, 2008
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Gadget nirvana -- or device hell? Doug Dixon explores this messy world of consumer electronics, looking at developing trends, new technologies, and colliding markets:
- Connected home: Purchased content is becoming less encumbered, with DRM-free MP3 downloads and managed transfers within the connected home. But do you really want TV on your PC, or PC features on your TV? And who will control the box that bridges the two worlds, the cable company or Apple TV?
- Digital TV: Flat-screen TVs are hot with consumers, and have finally reached "Full HD" resolution. But there's still major improvements coming in size, design, picture quality, and connectivity -- as well as the new OLED displays. Or is the future in mobile TV on smaller screens?
- Mobile media: Portable media players add video and connectivity, while mobile phones add media and Internet playback, both overlapping further with Internet radio, streaming video, and Web access. And both do GPS, while GPS navigators add media and hands-free phone. Now you can watch TV while reading the live map, and talking on the phone.
- Cameras: The picture phone is becoming the dominant imaging device. But still cameras shoot better photos plus reasonable video, and video camcorders shoot HD video and great stills. We'll all be recording and recorded, especially as today's memory-based HD camcorders shrink to the size of a soda can.
- Portable storage: Storage outstrips Moore's Law, with continued re-doubling of capacity and shrinking size, with solid-state drives (SSD) starting to make sense for laptops. Yet sneakernet still lives, both for sharing, and for moving content within the home.
- Wireless: There's Wi-Fi and WiMAX to the home and neighborhood, wireless mobile Internet to the PC, wireless HD video to the TV, wireless USB to devices, and even wireless power for recharging. Or you can just network over the existing power line. Or can a simple approach like Bluetooth continue to develop to really enable computers, players, phones, and headsets to share phone calls, stereo music, and controls through the air?
More information: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/04/devices.html
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Ira Fuchs, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Emerging Tools for Research and Instruction
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Apr 16, 2008
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Discussion on IT tools that are helping to support the thoughtful application of information technology to a wide range of scholarly purposes and the impact of information technology (and especially digitization) on scholarship, scholarly communication. More information: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/04/emerging_tools_for_research_and_instruction.html
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Mark Ratliff, Princeton University: Collaboration Tools at Princeton PDF
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Apr 09, 2008
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: New forms of electronic collaboration promise to ease the sharing of information and ideas. These technologies reduce the barriers to participation and increase the efficiency with which information can be produced and exchanged. The University is now making available a new set of collaboration tools. This talk will introduce three of these tools and discuss their primary features, most appropriate uses, and how to begin working with each.
Mark Ratliff, Princeton's new Digital Repository Architect, will introduce a panel of three OIT speakers. Dennis Hood will present an overview of Princeton’s Webshare file management system, show how it can be used to provide your colleagues with remote access to files you wish to share, and discuss possible uses in teaching, including linking it with Blackboard and using it as an class file exchange. Sal Rosario will discuss the Miscrosoft SharePoint service, which offers a full-fledged collaboration environment for website creation, document sharing, group discussions, blogging, calendaring, and Wikis. Harris Otubu will provide an overview of WebEx, which can be used to deliver real-time presentations to remote PCs for use in conferencing or training.
More info is available at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/04/collaboration_tools_at_princeton.html.
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Mark Ratliff, Princeton University: Collaboration Tools at Princeton
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Apr 09, 2008
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: New forms of electronic collaboration promise to ease the sharing of information and ideas. These technologies reduce the barriers to participation and increase the efficiency with which information can be produced and exchanged. The University is now making available a new set of collaboration tools. This talk will introduce three of these tools and discuss their primary features, most appropriate uses, and how to begin working with each.
Mark Ratliff, Princeton's new Digital Repository Architect, will introduce a panel of three OIT speakers. Dennis Hood will present an overview of Princeton’s Webshare file management system, show how it can be used to provide your colleagues with remote access to files you wish to share, and discuss possible uses in teaching, including linking it with Blackboard and using it as an class file exchange. Sal Rosario will discuss the Miscrosoft SharePoint service, which offers a full-fledged collaboration environment for website creation, document sharing, group discussions, blogging, calendaring, and Wikis. Harris Otubu will provide an overview of WebEx, which can be used to deliver real-time presentations to remote PCs for use in conferencing or training.
More info is available at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/04/collaboration_tools_at_princeton.html.
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Julie Shackford, Princeton University: The Sporting Edge - IT Tools for Winning Soccer
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Apr 02, 2008
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Soccer coach Julie Shackford and assistant Scott Champ discuss Dartfish and other technologies that they are using from the scouting process to post-game analysis. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/04/the_sporting_edge_it_tools_for_winning_soccer.html
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Emmanuel Kreike, Princeton University: Beyond Words: Environmental History, Digitization and GIS PDF
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Mar 26, 2008
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: How the integration of digital tools and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has the potential to add dramatically to the capacity of the humanities to more fully understand and explain the dynamics of environmental change. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/03/beyond_words_environmental_history_digitization_and_gis.html
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Emmanuel Kreike, Princeton University: Beyond Words: Environmental History, Digitization and GIS
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Mar 26, 2008
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: How the integration of digital tools and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has the potential to add dramatically to the capacity of the humanities to more fully understand and explain the dynamics of environmental change. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/03/beyond_words_environmental_history_digitization_and_gis.html
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Edwidge Danticat: "Create Dangerously - The Immigrant Artist at Work" – March 25, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Tue, Mar 25, 2008
Born in Haiti during the brutal Duvalier dictatorship, Edwidge Danticat - whose parents moved to the United States when she was a child, leaving her in the care of relatives - discovered The Word at the foot of family storytellers and in the books of French language writers. As a child, she watched that mixed literary heritage upset as well as comfort her neighbors and countrymen. The staging of an Albert Camus play following a political murder was one of its most striking examples.
Inspired by Camus’ landmark essay “Create Dangerously” and his definition of art as “a revolt against everything fleeting and unfinished in the world,” Danticat’s lecture will focus on her experiences, and the experiences of other immigrant artists, living and working - culturally, linguistically and politically - between several sometimes violent and unfriendly worlds.
Sponsored jointly by the Center for African American Studies and Princeton University Press, the Toni Morrison Lectures will be held annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars and writers who have risen to positions of prominence both in academe and in the broader world of letters.
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Edwidge Danticat: "Create Dangerously - The Immigrant Artist at Work" – March 25, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Tue, Mar 25, 2008
Born in Haiti during the brutal Duvalier dictatorship, Edwidge Danticat - whose parents moved to the United States when she was a child, leaving her in the care of relatives - discovered The Word at the foot of family storytellers and in the books of French language writers. As a child, she watched that mixed literary heritage upset as well as comfort her neighbors and countrymen. The staging of an Albert Camus play following a political murder was one of its most striking examples.
Inspired by Camus’ landmark essay “Create Dangerously” and his definition of art as “a revolt against everything fleeting and unfinished in the world,” Danticat’s lecture will focus on her experiences, and the experiences of other immigrant artists, living and working - culturally, linguistically and politically - between several sometimes violent and unfriendly worlds.
Sponsored jointly by the Center for African American Studies and Princeton University Press, the Toni Morrison Lectures will be held annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars and writers who have risen to positions of prominence both in academe and in the broader world of letters.
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Shana Weber, Princeton University: The Greening of Technology - Sustainability Initiatives at Princeton PDF
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Mar 12, 2008
Princeton’s Campus Sustainability Plan includes comprehensive efforts to reduce waste and conserve resources in all areas of University operations, as well as initiatives in research, education, civic engagement, and communications. Computing is becoming a large part of the University’s energy-use footprint and considerable efforts are underway to find sustainable energy and conservation solutions. From high energy super-computers to paper use to videoconferencing, this session will explore the challenges and options in energy conservation in computing at Princeton.
Leila Shahbender will describe Web-ex, a tool for online videoconferencing and collaboration. She will also discuss the challenges of greener printing. Charles Kruger will talk about our use of virtualization of servers and storage to reduce power needs. He will also mention briefly our use of Sun’s “CoolThreads” servers. Curt Hillegas will consider the balance between research progress and minimizing global impact in the area of high-performance computing. And John Shorey will cover current and future developments of power management for the University’s DeSC computing environment.
About the speakers:
Shana Weber is Sustainability Manager, Engineering and Construction and Lecturer in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Princeton Environmental Institute.
Leila Shahbender is Senior Manager, Customer Services, Support Services, OIT.
Charles Kruger is Manager, Enterprise Servers and Storage, Enterprise Infrastructure Services, OIT
Curt Hillegas is Director of the TIGRESS High-Performance Computing Center and Computational Science and Engineering, Academic Services, OIT
John Shorey is Software Support Specialist, Support Services, OIT
More at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/03/the_greening_of_technology_sustainability_initiatives_at_princeton.html
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Shana Weber, Princeton University: The Greening of Technology - Sustainability Initiatives at Princeton
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Mar 12, 2008
Princeton’s Campus Sustainability Plan includes comprehensive efforts to reduce waste and conserve resources in all areas of University operations, as well as initiatives in research, education, civic engagement, and communications. Computing is becoming a large part of the University’s energy-use footprint and considerable efforts are underway to find sustainable energy and conservation solutions. From high energy super-computers to paper use to videoconferencing, this session will explore the challenges and options in energy conservation in computing at Princeton.
Leila Shahbender will describe Web-ex, a tool for online videoconferencing and collaboration. She will also discuss the challenges of greener printing. Charles Kruger will talk about our use of virtualization of servers and storage to reduce power needs. He will also mention briefly our use of Sun’s “CoolThreads” servers. Curt Hillegas will consider the balance between research progress and minimizing global impact in the area of high-performance computing. And John Shorey will cover current and future developments of power management for the University’s DeSC computing environment.
About the speakers:
Shana Weber is Sustainability Manager, Engineering and Construction and Lecturer in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Princeton Environmental Institute.
Leila Shahbender is Senior Manager, Customer Services, Support Services, OIT.
Charles Kruger is Manager, Enterprise Servers and Storage, Enterprise Infrastructure Services, OIT
Curt Hillegas is Director of the TIGRESS High-Performance Computing Center and Computational Science and Engineering, Academic Services, OIT
John Shorey is Software Support Specialist, Support Services, OIT
More at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/03/the_greening_of_technology_sustainability_initiatives_at_princeton.html
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John Haldon, Princeton University: History, Remote Sensing, and GIS - The Avkat Survey Project PDF
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Mar 05, 2008
This talk introduces briefly the Avkat Archaeological Survey, a collaborative research project in north-central Anatolia which seeks to integrate a number of different approaches to studying the past, using recent technological advances to integrate disparate datasets into a cohesive framework of analysis. From the 1980s, there has been continued development of methodologies of archaeological field survey, as well as remote sensing techniques ranging from ground-penetrating radar to airborne radar systems and satellite imagery. However, the integration of these techniques into a unified project design has rarely been achieved and all too often they are bolted onto an existing project design. In part this is because of the technical difficulties of integrating datasets, but the development of GIS has now reached a point where such complex problems are more easily handled. At the same time, GIS has rarely been used to its full potential in archaeological research. This project seeks to integrate traditional archaeological survey work with other disciplines into a 100% digital project, developing the use of GIS to enhance our understanding of the past and incorporating large datasets both of traditional archaeological nature, as well as non-archaeological such as large volumes of text, climatic and palynological data, and vegetational and geological classifications derived from multispectral satellite imagery. More at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/03/history_remote_sensing_and_gis_the_avkat_survey_project.html
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John Haldon, Princeton University: History, Remote Sensing, and GIS - The Avkat Survey Project
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Mar 05, 2008
This talk introduces briefly the Avkat Archaeological Survey, a collaborative research project in north-central Anatolia which seeks to integrate a number of different approaches to studying the past, using recent technological advances to integrate disparate datasets into a cohesive framework of analysis. From the 1980s, there has been continued development of methodologies of archaeological field survey, as well as remote sensing techniques ranging from ground-penetrating radar to airborne radar systems and satellite imagery. However, the integration of these techniques into a unified project design has rarely been achieved and all too often they are bolted onto an existing project design. In part this is because of the technical difficulties of integrating datasets, but the development of GIS has now reached a point where such complex problems are more easily handled. At the same time, GIS has rarely been used to its full potential in archaeological research. This project seeks to integrate traditional archaeological survey work with other disciplines into a 100% digital project, developing the use of GIS to enhance our understanding of the past and incorporating large datasets both of traditional archaeological nature, as well as non-archaeological such as large volumes of text, climatic and palynological data, and vegetational and geological classifications derived from multispectral satellite imagery. More at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/03/history_remote_sensing_and_gis_the_avkat_survey_project.html
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Alexander Nehamas, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature: "'Because It Was He, Because It Was I' The Good of Friendship" – March 4, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Tue, Mar 04, 2008
The President’s Lecture Series was established by President Shirley M. Tilghman in the fall of 2001 to give Princeton’s faculty an opportunity to learn about the work of their colleagues in other disciplines and to share their research with the University community. First proposed by Alan B. Krueger, the Lynn Bendheim Thoman, Class of 1976, and Robert Bendheim, Class of 1937, Professor in Economics and Public Policy, the lectures are presented three times a year and are open to the public. Past lectures have addressed a wide variety of topics, from “Jane Austen and War” to “How Bacteria Talk to Each Other.”
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Alexander Nehamas, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature: "'Because It Was He, Because It Was I' The Good of Friendship" – March 4, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Tue, Mar 04, 2008
The President’s Lecture Series was established by President Shirley M. Tilghman in the fall of 2001 to give Princeton’s faculty an opportunity to learn about the work of their colleagues in other disciplines and to share their research with the University community. First proposed by Alan B. Krueger, the Lynn Bendheim Thoman, Class of 1976, and Robert Bendheim, Class of 1937, Professor in Economics and Public Policy, the lectures are presented three times a year and are open to the public. Past lectures have addressed a wide variety of topics, from “Jane Austen and War” to “How Bacteria Talk to Each Other.”
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Robert Vanderbei: Digitizing the Universe From Your Backyard PDF
Author: Princeton University
Mon, Mar 03, 2008
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Learn how the modern digital world in makes it possible, even almost easy, for amateurs to take astrophotos in their own backyards that are better than those taken at professional observatories only a generation ago. The key enablers are computer controlled mounts for very precise pointing control, CCD cameras, and modern image processing tools.
More at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/02/digitizing_the_universe_from_your_backyard.html
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Public address by King Abdullah II, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University – February 29, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Fri, Feb 29, 2008
King Abdullah II, the reigning monarch of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, delivered a policy address at Princeton University at noon Friday, Feb. 29, sponsored by Princeton"s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
King Abdullah addressed the future of Arab-American relations in the context of the Middle East"s current challenges, particularly how to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which Jordan views as the most significant issue facing the region.
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Public address by King Abdullah II, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University – February 29, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Fri, Feb 29, 2008
King Abdullah II, the reigning monarch of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, delivered a policy address at Princeton University at noon Friday, Feb. 29, sponsored by Princeton"s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
King Abdullah addressed the future of Arab-American relations in the context of the Middle East"s current challenges, particularly how to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which Jordan views as the most significant issue facing the region.
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Robert Vanderbei: Digitizing the Universe From Your Backyard
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Feb 27, 2008
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Learn how the modern digital world in makes it possible, even almost easy, for amateurs to take astrophotos in their own backyards that are better than those taken at professional observatories only a generation ago. The key enablers are computer controlled mounts for very precise pointing control, CCD cameras, and modern image processing tools.
More at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/02/digitizing_the_universe_from_your_backyard.html
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Robert Hass, poet: "Poetry Reading" – February 21, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Thu, Feb 21, 2008
Robert Hass, poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, will read from his latest collection, Time and Materials. Currently chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Hass has won several awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He received a Ph.D. in English from Stanford University and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. His volumes of poetry include Under Wood: New Poems (Ecco Press, 1996); Human Wishes (1989); Praise (1979); and Field Guide (1973), which was selected for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has cotranslated with Czeslaw Milosz several collections of poetry and is editor or author of several volumes of essays and translation.
A Spencer Trask Lecture cosponsored by the Department of English and the Princeton Environmental Institute
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Robert Hass, poet: "Poetry Reading" – February 21, 2008
Author: Princeton University
Thu, Feb 21, 2008
Robert Hass, poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, will read from his latest collection, Time and Materials. Currently chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Hass has won several awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He received a Ph.D. in English from Stanford University and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. His volumes of poetry include Under Wood: New Poems (Ecco Press, 1996); Human Wishes (1989); Praise (1979); and Field Guide (1973), which was selected for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has cotranslated with Czeslaw Milosz several collections of poetry and is editor or author of several volumes of essays and translation.
A Spencer Trask Lecture cosponsored by the Department of English and the Princeton Environmental Institute
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Brian Kernighan: The Changing Face of Programming PDF
Author: Princeton University
Wed, Feb 13, 2008
The rapid evolution of languages, tools, environments, and expectations presents major challenges and opportunities for programmers and for software engineering education. This is true across all kinds of programming, but is especially so for Web systems, which are now routinely written in untyped scripting languages and include Ajax, mashups, toolkits, frameworks like Rails and Django, and a profusion of interfaces, all operating asynchronously on distributed systems.
For the past 7 or 8 years Dr. Kernighan has been teaching a course on advanced programming techniques that is more and more stretched between important old material and new unproven material that might be important. In this talk he will illustrate some of the challenges and discuss ways in which we might use complexity and rapid change to advantage.
More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/02/the_changing_face_of_programming.html
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