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Supercomputer built of Pentium PCs tackles problems of
plate tectonics
On May 17 a delivery truck pulled up in front of Guyot
Hall, and Hans-Peter Bunge's project to build a
supercomputer was underway.
Bunge, assistant professor of
geosciences, and several graduate students and
undergraduates gathered around to help unload the cargo: 70
ordinary Pentium PCs. It was a Friday, and the group worked
through the day hauling the computers to the third floor of
Guyot where they arranged them in neat rows on gray metal
shelving units. [>>more]
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A centennial exhibit on Ernest Hemingway, "'one true
sentence': Hemingway and the Art of Fiction," opens October
4 in the Main Exhibition Gallery of Firestone Library.
"The exhibition focuses on the Nobel
Prize-winning author's fiction and his thoughts on the art
of writing -- not the hunting, fishing, bullfighting and war
reporting exploits that often claimed the headlines," notes
curator John Delaney, who is leader of the Library's Rare
Books and Manuscripts cataloging team. [>>more]
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tips for daily life
Translation provides access to encyclopedia of
Babylonian omens that was lost for centuries
If a city is set on a height, living in that city will
not be good."
So they believed in ancient Mesopotamia.
That line is the first in a huge collection of omens
compiled by Babylonians and Assyrians living in the area now
known as Iraq, between approximately 1800 and 600 BC.
[>>more]
Water crisis countdown
When Hurricane Floyd passed through on September 16, he left behind a considerable amount of water, but not much of it could be drunk. [>>more]
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Xiaohui Fan (l) of Astrophysical Sciences and Jay Ladin of English shared this year's Porter Ogden Jacobus Honorific Fellowship, which is awarded annually by the Graduate School to "students in their final year of enrollment who have demonstrated the highest scholarly excellence in their graduate work at Princeton." (Photo by Denise Applewhite)
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APGA President Todd Mitty *93 (l), past president Anthony Lutkus *74 and vice president Robert Schaffhauser *64 announced the APGA's pledge of $100,000 to the Graduate School's Fund for the Centennial at a luncheon on September 18 in the 1956 Room at the stadium. The donation, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Graduate School, will provide endowment to support summer travel and research by graduate students. (Photo by Sally Davidson)
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Sophia Gershman, who teaches at Watchung Hills Regional High School in Warren, used a microwave interferometer as part of her studies at the Plasma Physics Lab in July. She was one of 14 nationally selected high school physics teachers who participated in the Plasma Science and Fusion Energy Institute run by the lab's Science Education Program. Informally known as "plasma camp," the institute is an intensive two-week program of lectures, lab work and curriculum design intended to help develop materials for introductory physics teaching. (Photo by Elle Starkman)
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