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Princeton, NJ 08544 USA Princeton in the NewsNew Scientist, June 9, 2001 Say the magic words ...Last year Nobel prize-winning physicist Philip Anderson of Princeton University published a paper in "Science" (vol 288, p 480) on cooperation between electrons. Anderson had seen evidence that electrons in high-temperature superconductors seemed to arrange themselves so as to protect the superconducting state from the effects of external disturbances. It's not dissimilar to the flocking behaviour of birds or the swarming of bacteria...
San Jose Mercury News, June 9, 2001 Dan Gilmor Column LAWYERS, PART 1: It's not every day that an Ivy League professor and his colleagues at other institutions have to ask a judge for permission to publish something. Then again, it's not every day that the entertainment moguls persuade Congress to pass a law bad enough to make this necessary. But the entertainment industry pulled off the latter in 1998, and the result was the grotesque Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This year the record companies wielded the law in a threat that caused Princeton computer scientist Ed Felten and his co-authors to halt publication of their study of the Secure Digital Music Initiative...
CNNFN/THE N.E.W. SHOW , June 8, 2001 Digital Copyright Fight BRUCE FRANCIS, CNNfn ANCHOR, THE N.E.W. SHOW: Well, here's another twist in the digital music war. A digital copyright law is creating a stir among some computer scientists, who say it in fear -- it interferes with encryption (17:16:10) research. PATRICIA SABGA, CNNfn ANCHOR, THE N.E.W. SHOW: A group of them has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to declare the law unconstitutional. Edward Felten, a professor of computer science at Princeton University, is one of them, and he joins us (17:16:20) from Palo Alto to explain his views...
The Boston Globe, June 7, 2001 Technology & Innovation / Upgrade ...The Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet civil liberties group, has sued the RIAA in a federal court in New Jersey. It is acting on behalf of a Princeton computer science professor, Edward Felten, who'd simply like to publish a scientific paper without fear of a massive lawsuit. All Felten did was to defeat a technology that is supposed to prevent the illegal copying of digital music files. And like any good scientist, he wants to tell the world. This he proposed to do in April, at a scientific conference in Pittsburgh. But before he could clear his throat, he received a remarkable letter from an RIAA attorney, warning him that his words could be used against him in a court of law...
The Canberra Times, June 7, 2001 Huge CEO pay bonuses are widespread ..."Pay for performance" is clearly a key principle of good corporate governance. But it is essential that the measures of performance in executive remuneration schemes are appropriate. Two economists from Princeton University and MIT have recently examined whether US executives are rewarded for "observable luck". By luck they mean changes in company performance that are beyond the CEOs' control. For example, where CEOs of oil companies are rewarded substantially under option schemes due to large movements in oil prices. The researchers found that CEO pay does respond to luck...
Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2001 Technology A Princeton encryption expert and other researchers who cracked the music industry's prized anti-piracy initiative filed a lawsuit Wednesday to secure the right to publish their work despite objections and legal threats from the recording industry... ...Edward Felten, a professor and the leader of a group of scientists from Princeton and Rice universities, brought the suit with backing from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based civil liberties organization...
The New York Times, June 7, 2001 Technology In a lawsuit that seeks to test the free speech limits of a 1998 copyright law, a group of computer scientists asked a federal court yesterday for permission to explain how it cracked the music industry's antipiracy technology for compact discs. Edward W. Felten, an associate professor of computer science at Princeton University, withdrew in April from a conference where he had planned to discuss the research after receiving a letter from a music industry trade association warning that by doing so he could be violating the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act...
The San Francisco Chronicle, June 7, 2001 Tech-rights group sues recording industry A team of computer scientists filed a lawsuit against the recording industry yesterday in an effort to publish details of how they cracked proposed anti-music piracy technology without fear of being sued. The suit against the Recording Industry Association of America was filed in Trenton, N.J., by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco online civil rights group that is representing Princeton University Professor Edward Felten and a team of researchers from Rice University in Houston and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center...
Africa News, June 6, 2001 Press, Media and Communications ...The challenges the African political geography poses in state-building is totally different from anywhere despite the colonialists and their African hangers-on attempt to build European structures in Africa and in doing so their inability to account for the African experience. For this reason, a new book States and Power in Africa Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control by Jeffrey Herbst (Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540,U.S.A. 2000; pages: 280; price: $18.16 (paperback); $57.50 (hardcover) is wrapped around the notion that "states are only viable if they are able to control the territory defined by their borders." Control is normally assured by "developing an infrastructure to broadcast power and by gaining the loyalty of citizens."...
Albuquerque Journal, June 6, 2001 Sky survey finds galaxies at farthest reach of universe Astronomers on Tuesday announced the discovery of the two most distant objects ever seen, massive galaxies fueled by voracious black holes on the far edge of the universe... ...Because it took so long for their light to arrive here, the newly discovered distant galaxies give scientists an unprecedented look back in time to a universe still in its infancy, said Xiahui Fan, a Princeton University astronomer involved in the discoveries... ..."It's this sort of strip mining of the sky," said Ed Turner, a Princeton astronomer who has long followed the project's progress...
The Associated Press, June 6, 2001 Professor sues for permission to discuss anti-piracy research A Princeton University professor who successfully bypassed the music industry's latest anti-piracy technology sought court permission Wednesday to talk about his research. Edward Felten said the music industry or developers of the technology may sue him if he presents his findings at a conference in August. Felten asked a federal court in Trenton, N.J., to declare ahead of time that his work is a legal expression of free speech...
National Journal's Technology Daily, June 6, 2001 Courts: civil liberties group files suit over copyright, protection The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed suit on Wednesday seeking a declaration from a federal judge in New Jersey that a Princeton University computer scientist professor should be permitted to document flaws in copyright-control technology. The issue has put a spotlight on the growing tension between computer scientists asserting their First Amendment rights and copyright holders who rely on technology-protection measures to guard against digital piracy....
The New York Times, June 6, 2001 Commencement ...Even before Princeton honored the 1,084 undergraduates and 648 graduate students who stood to receive degrees today at the university's 254th commencement, it first paid a tribute to the parents of those students, who, like Ms. Pitts, made the sacrifices that nurtured those honors. Then, at a ceremony rich with the traditions of the privileged and infused with reminders of the social contract, Princeton University said farewell to both its graduating students and to its president of 14 years, Harold T. Shapiro...
Newsbytes, June 6, 2001 Despite its warning to a group of Princeton scientists that their publication of digital music protection cracking research would violate the law, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said it has no intention to sue, and does not know why it has been sued in turn. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a group of scientists at Princeton University today petitioned a federal judge to allow publication of research that RIAA and other groups say will compromise legal online music distribution...
The Associated Press State & Local Wire, June 5, 2001 Princeton president bids farewell after 13 years At the final commencement of his 13-year tenure, outgoing Princeton University President Harold T. Shapiro on Tuesday reflected on his term and urged graduating seniors to consider the ethical questions raised by advances in biological research. Filmmaker Spike Lee and basketball great Bill Russell were among the eight recipients of honorary degrees at the sunny graduation ceremony on the lawn in front of Nassau Hall...
The Des Moines Register, June 5, 2001 Impressive launch for libraries ...Des Moines city officials, library trustees and foundation leaders have set their sights on a new main library that will be a signature work of architecture and a centerpiece in the Western Gateway park. It would reflect the progressive image Des Moines leaders hope to project for the city while accommodating the changing role of downtown libraries as places where people are exposed to knowledge, culture and community. Toward that end, the city has interviewed world-class architects -including Michael Graves, a Princeton University architecture professor and recipient of the American Institute of Architects' 2001 gold medal -but who would be required to team with a local firm. ..
The New York Times, June 5, 2001 Princeton honors ex-judge once turned away from race ...Today, in an effort to redress the university's past at least a bit, Princeton's graduating seniors made Justice Wright, now 83 years old, an honorary member of their class, along with the university's departing president, Harold T. Shapiro; its incoming president, Shirley M. Tilghman; and the entertainer Bill Cosby... ...The university that had so coldly rejected Mr. Wright decades ago embraced him warmly today. The members of the class of 2001 and their families gave him a standing ovation, and some of the students cried. Dr. Shapiro wrapped Justice Wright in a bearhug. Several trustees, including Bill Bradley, the former senator, and Brent L. Henry, a black Princetonian who graduated in 1969, stopped by after the ceremony to congratulate him. ...
The Associated Press, June 4, 2001 Style 6-4 ...Jenna Weissman Joselit, author of the new book "A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character and the Promise of America," wonders if these styles are reappearing as a "quiet protest against the homogenization of American society."... ...It's ironic that when these styles first appeared, people wore them to fit in, observes Joselit, a visiting professor of American studies at Princeton University. Now they are being worn to stand out...
FIBER OPTICS NEWS, June 4, 2001 Princeton powers up with tunable lasers Using the brain power at Princeton University and other New Jersey academic institutions, Princeton Optronics is developing tunable lasers and other products for the long-haul optical networking market... ...We are building our facilities near Princeton. We have been working with Princeton University for many years. In terms of devices, Princeton has very good fabrication facilities. We do a lot of R&D work there...
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, June 3, 2001 Student earns high marks in all parts of life ..."I am still in total awe," he said. "When my mother told me on the telephone that I had been admitted to Princeton, I could not believe it. This is like a dream come true for me." But the journey has not been easy for his family. Juan, his mother, Irma, and younger brother, Jose, came to the United States 13 years ago to join Juan's father, Juan Sr. Mr. Lopez was living in a two-room apartment in Dallas with other construction workers and painters. Two years earlier, Mr. Lopez had walked for three days to cross the border from Mexico and find work...
The New York Times, June 3, 2001 10,000 miles of stained glass gleam ...Since $10 million in renovations began on the chapel in February 2000, workers have been here five or six days a week, sometimes up to 13 hours a day. The project, the second in a campaign to restore Princeton's towers, includes repairs to the masonry and roofing and to nearly 10,000 miles of stained glass inlaid into the chapel walls...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 3, 2001 Barriers confront working women ...In higher education, several recent high-profile presidencies have gone to women, including Shirley M. Tilghman at Princeton University and Ruth J. Simmons at Brown University. They bring the number of women leading Ivy League schools to three. University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin was the first. Overall, only 19 percent of college and university presidents and one in five full professors are women...
Saint Paul Pioneer Press, June 3, 2001 Dave Beal Column DOES JOB LOSS EQUAL INVESTOR GAIN? ...Economists Henry Farber, from Princeton University, and Kevin Hallock, from the University of Illinois, ought to know. Their researchers combed every issue of the Wall Street Journal from 1970 to 1997 for "reduction in force" announcements from Fortune 500 companies. They found that their stocks, on net, fell in the three-day period surrounding a disclosure of the job cuts. Over time, though, the stocks' reactions to these announcements became less negative...
The Virginian-Pilot, June 3, 2001 Poetry collection a landmark work ON MAY 24, the 16th annual Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in the amount of $100,000, was presented to Yusef Komunyakaa. The prize, one of the largest poetry prizes in the United States, recognizes Komunyakaa as a major poet of our time. Komunyakaa was already a Pulitzer prize-winner, an elected chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, a professor in the council of the humanities and creative writing at Princeton University, and a recipient of other heavyweight honors like the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the William Faulkner Prize. He brings to readers in this 12th volume of verse an impressive profile of his 25 years' work in the genre, together with some early uncollected work and an opening section of 18 new poems...
The Boston Globe, May 27, 2001 David Warsh / Economic Principles ...Harold Shapiro, president of Princeton University, was in town the other day to talk to an audience of presidential science advisers and their students. Some cultures are Promethean, he said, in that they seek to manipulate the world around them, and others are not. But all cultures crave meaning. To this end they have embraced a variety of narratives that explain the origins and ultimate meaning of life. Mostly these narratives are religious. Virtually all have in common two basic themes: that there is something very special about the Earth and about the moral status of human beings with respect to all other forms of life... ...Recent developments in biomedical science constitute a new challenge to our shared understanding of what it means to be human, Shapiro said. Contraception and abortion are easy matters compared to our newfound ability to repair bodies with transplanted parts and to control in ever-more intricate ways the genetic inheritance of future generations...
Electronics Weekly, April 25, 2001 Curved-surface sensor breakthrough GREATLY SIMPLIFIED digital cameras with vastly superior performance, claim researchers at Princeton University, could come out of recent work producing "well-behaved" semiconductor devices on curved surfaces. Led by Prof Sigurd Wagner, the team patterned individual devices onto a deformable Kapton polymer substrate, before deforming the substrate and fabricating interconnections to form circuits. ... |
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