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Recordings of public lectures and events held at Princeton University.
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The Ruins Lesson | Susan Stewart, Professor of English 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. | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoThe Ruins Lesson | Susan Stewart, Professor of English 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. | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoWhat Does It Mean To Be Literate in the Age of Google? | What does it mean to be literate at a time when you can search over billions of texts in less than 300 milliseconds? Although you might think that “literacy” is one of the great constants that transcends the ages, the skills of a literate person have changed substantially over time as texts and technology allow for new kinds of reading and understanding. Knowing how to read is just the beginning of it—knowing how to frame a question, pose a query, how to interpret the texts that you find, how to organize and use the information you discover, how to understand your metacognition—these are all critical parts of being literate as well. In this talk Russell review what literacy is today, in the age of Google, and show how some very surprising and unexpected skills will turn out to be critical in the years ahead. Daniel M. Russell is the Über Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness for Google where he studies how people search for and organize information. He earned his PhD in computer science at the University of Rochester (NY), specializing in artificial intelligence until he realized that magnifying and understanding human intelligence was his real passion. Twenty years ago he foreswore AI in favor of HI, and enjoys teaching, learning, running and music, preferably all in one day. He has worked at Xerox PARC before it was PARC.com, was in the Advanced Technology Group at Apple where he wrote the first 100 web pages for www.Apple.com using SimpleText. He has also worked at IBM as a senior research scientist, and briefly at a startup that developed tablet computers a few years before the iPad. A Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Does It Mean To Be Literate in the Age of Google? | What does it mean to be literate at a time when you can search over billions of texts in less than 300 milliseconds? Although you might think that “literacy” is one of the great constants that transcends the ages, the skills of a literate person have changed substantially over time as texts and technology allow for new kinds of reading and understanding. Knowing how to read is just the beginning of it—knowing how to frame a question, pose a query, how to interpret the texts that you find, how to organize and use the information you discover, how to understand your metacognition—these are all critical parts of being literate as well. In this talk Russell review what literacy is today, in the age of Google, and show how some very surprising and unexpected skills will turn out to be critical in the years ahead. Daniel M. Russell is the Über Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness for Google where he studies how people search for and organize information. He earned his PhD in computer science at the University of Rochester (NY), specializing in artificial intelligence until he realized that magnifying and understanding human intelligence was his real passion. Twenty years ago he foreswore AI in favor of HI, and enjoys teaching, learning, running and music, preferably all in one day. He has worked at Xerox PARC before it was PARC.com, was in the Advanced Technology Group at Apple where he wrote the first 100 web pages for www.Apple.com using SimpleText. He has also worked at IBM as a senior research scientist, and briefly at a startup that developed tablet computers a few years before the iPad. A Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoThe Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square | Cyril Black International Book Forum, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies: The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Discussants: Bernard Haykel, Near Eastern Studies Amaney Jamal, Politics Daniel Kurtzer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs The Cyril Black International Book Forum is held in honor of the late Cyril Black, the emeritus James S. McDonnell Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University. Black was director of the Princeton’s Center of International Studies from 1968 to 1985 and a member of the University faculty for 50 years. | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square | Cyril Black International Book Forum, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies: The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Discussants: Bernard Haykel, Near Eastern Studies Amaney Jamal, Politics Daniel Kurtzer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs The Cyril Black International Book Forum is held in honor of the late Cyril Black, the emeritus James S. McDonnell Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University. Black was director of the Princeton’s Center of International Studies from 1968 to 1985 and a member of the University faculty for 50 years. | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Martin Luther King Day Celebration | After decades of fighting for equality, civil rights leader and educator Bob Moses exhorted young people attending Princeton University's annual King Day celebration on Jan. 16 to remove segregation from a critical facet of public life where it still exists: education. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy as inspiration, Moses called on students to employ the U.S. Constitution to ensure educational equality for all Americans. "We need a constitutional amendment that says every child in this country is entitled to a quality public school education," said Moses, the 2011-12 distinguished fellow in Princeton's Center for African American Studies. This year's King Day event focused on the importance of education as a foundation for success throughout life. Speakers noted that widening economic gaps and other social disparities have led to failing public schools, high dropout rates and educational inequalities across the country. Forgoing the traditional keynote speech, Moses gave a civics lesson of sorts, turning Richardson Auditorium into his classroom and the audience of about 400 local schoolchildren, University community members and the public into his pupils. A New Perspective Jazz Band, a youth quartet from Ewing, N.J., also performed at the ceremony. | 1/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoMartin Luther King Day Celebration | After decades of fighting for equality, civil rights leader and educator Bob Moses exhorted young people attending Princeton University's annual King Day celebration on Jan. 16 to remove segregation from a critical facet of public life where it still exists: education. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy as inspiration, Moses called on students to employ the U.S. Constitution to ensure educational equality for all Americans. "We need a constitutional amendment that says every child in this country is entitled to a quality public school education," said Moses, the 2011-12 distinguished fellow in Princeton's Center for African American Studies. This year's King Day event focused on the importance of education as a foundation for success throughout life. Speakers noted that widening economic gaps and other social disparities have led to failing public schools, high dropout rates and educational inequalities across the country. Forgoing the traditional keynote speech, Moses gave a civics lesson of sorts, turning Richardson Auditorium into his classroom and the audience of about 400 local schoolchildren, University community members and the public into his pupils. A New Perspective Jazz Band, a youth quartet from Ewing, N.J., also performed at the ceremony. | 1/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoRivers R Us: Reviving Rivers, Reinventing Cities | Cosponsored by the Office of Sustainability, and the Princeton Environmental Institute | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rivers R Us: Reviving Rivers, Reinventing Cities | Cosponsored by the Office of Sustainability, and the Princeton Environmental Institute | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Time of Our Lives | Tom Brokaw, one of the most trusted and respected figures in broadcast journalism, is an author and special correspondent for NBC News. Hired by the network in 1966, he anchored the “TODAY” show and was the anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” for 21 years. Appearing in more than 30 documentaries, Brokaw has reported on subjects ranging from race, AIDS, the war on terror, health care, Los Angeles gangs, Bill Gates, literacy, immigration and the evangelical movement. In addition, he collaborated with NBC's Peacock Productions for Discovery's Emmy-winning documentary "Global Warming: What You Need to Know with Tom Brokaw," and History Channel's two-hour documentaries, "1968 with Tom Brokaw" and "KING." He has received numerous honors and is credited with a series of journalistic “firsts,” including an exclusive U.S. one-on-one interview with Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only anchor to report from the scene the night the Berlin Wall fell, and the first American anchor to travel to Tibet to report on human-rights abuses and to conduct an interview with the Dalai Lama. Brokaw also became a best-selling author with the book “The Greatest Generation” and later wrote "The Greatest Generation Speaks," "An Album of Memories," "A Long Way from Home" and "BOOM! Voices of the Sixties." | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoThe Time of Our Lives | Tom Brokaw, one of the most trusted and respected figures in broadcast journalism, is an author and special correspondent for NBC News. Hired by the network in 1966, he anchored the “TODAY” show and was the anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” for 21 years. Appearing in more than 30 documentaries, Brokaw has reported on subjects ranging from race, AIDS, the war on terror, health care, Los Angeles gangs, Bill Gates, literacy, immigration and the evangelical movement. In addition, he collaborated with NBC's Peacock Productions for Discovery's Emmy-winning documentary "Global Warming: What You Need to Know with Tom Brokaw," and History Channel's two-hour documentaries, "1968 with Tom Brokaw" and "KING." He has received numerous honors and is credited with a series of journalistic “firsts,” including an exclusive U.S. one-on-one interview with Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only anchor to report from the scene the night the Berlin Wall fell, and the first American anchor to travel to Tibet to report on human-rights abuses and to conduct an interview with the Dalai Lama. Brokaw also became a best-selling author with the book “The Greatest Generation” and later wrote "The Greatest Generation Speaks," "An Album of Memories," "A Long Way from Home" and "BOOM! Voices of the Sixties." | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoThe Long and Tragical History of Post-Partisanship | 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. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Long and Tragical History of Post-Partisanship | 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. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoThe Financial Crisis and the Path of Reform | LAPA is pleased to welcome Michael Barr, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and key architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, will discuss the origins of the financial crisis, and will assess the extent to which reforms help consumers, make the system safer, and end "too big to fail." Barr is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and at the Brookings Institution. He served from 2009-2010 as the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions. Barr was a key architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and played a central role in the Administration's housing finance policies. At Michigan, Barr teaches financial institutions and international financial regulation, among other courses. Barr conducts large-scale empirical research regarding financial services and writes about a wide range of issues in financial regulation. Recent books include "Insufficient Funds" and "Building Inclusive Financial Systems." Barr is a Contributor for CNBC and a frequent commentator on financial and housing issues. Barr previously served as Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin's Special Assistant, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, as Special Advisor to President William J. Clinton, as Special Advisor and Counselor on the Policy Planning Staff at the State Department, and as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and Judge Pierre N. Leval of the Southern District of New York. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, an M. Phil in International Relations from Magdalen College, Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar, and his B.A., summa cum laude, with Honors in History, from Yale University. This event is cosponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School the Bendheim Center for Finance, and the Economics Department. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Financial Crisis and the Path of Reform | LAPA is pleased to welcome Michael Barr, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and key architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, will discuss the origins of the financial crisis, and will assess the extent to which reforms help consumers, make the system safer, and end "too big to fail." Barr is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and at the Brookings Institution. He served from 2009-2010 as the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions. Barr was a key architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and played a central role in the Administration's housing finance policies. At Michigan, Barr teaches financial institutions and international financial regulation, among other courses. Barr conducts large-scale empirical research regarding financial services and writes about a wide range of issues in financial regulation. Recent books include "Insufficient Funds" and "Building Inclusive Financial Systems." Barr is a Contributor for CNBC and a frequent commentator on financial and housing issues. Barr previously served as Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin's Special Assistant, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, as Special Advisor to President William J. Clinton, as Special Advisor and Counselor on the Policy Planning Staff at the State Department, and as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and Judge Pierre N. Leval of the Southern District of New York. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, an M. Phil in International Relations from Magdalen College, Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar, and his B.A., summa cum laude, with Honors in History, from Yale University. This event is cosponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School the Bendheim Center for Finance, and the Economics Department. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoHistorian's Eye | Beginning as a modest effort in early 2009 to capture the historic moment of our first black president’s inauguration in photographs and interviews, the “Our Better History” project and the Historian’s Eye website have evolved into an expansive collection of some 1000+ photographs and an audio archive addressing Obama’s first term in office, the ’08 economic collapse and its fallout, two wars, the raucous politics of healthcare reform, the emergence of a new right-wing formation in opposition to Obama, the politics of immigration, Wall Street reform, street protests of every stripe, the BP oil spill, and the seeming escalation of anti-Muslim sentiment nationwide. Interviewees narrate and reflect upon their own personal histories as well, a dimension of the archive that now spans many decades and touches five continents. The momentum of our culture encourages very short memory and very quick judgment. We take our public discourse mostly in sound bites, and hence things that predate the latest news cycle are most often crowded out of our consideration. Historian’s Eye asks you to slow down; to look and to listen; to pay close attention and to notice; to entertain a variety of perspectives; to ask varied questions; to think about the current moment as possessing a deep history, and also to think of it as itself historical—futurity’s history. Above all, Historian’s Eye asks you to pitch in and to talk back. Matthew Frye Jacobson is Professor of American Studies, African American Studies, and History at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University in 1992, and is the author of Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America (2006); What Have They Built You to Do? THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and Cold War America (with Gaspar Gonzalez, 2006); Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876–1917 (2000); Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998); and Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (1995). He is currently at work on Odetta's Voice and Other Weapons: The Civil Rights Era as Cultural History, and a multimedia documentary project devoted to the Obama presidency and political life in contemporary America. His teaching interests are clustered under the general rubric of race in U.S. political culture, including U.S. imperialism, immigration and migration, popular culture, and the juridical structures of U.S. citizenship. | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Historian's Eye | Beginning as a modest effort in early 2009 to capture the historic moment of our first black president’s inauguration in photographs and interviews, the “Our Better History” project and the Historian’s Eye website have evolved into an expansive collection of some 1000+ photographs and an audio archive addressing Obama’s first term in office, the ’08 economic collapse and its fallout, two wars, the raucous politics of healthcare reform, the emergence of a new right-wing formation in opposition to Obama, the politics of immigration, Wall Street reform, street protests of every stripe, the BP oil spill, and the seeming escalation of anti-Muslim sentiment nationwide. Interviewees narrate and reflect upon their own personal histories as well, a dimension of the archive that now spans many decades and touches five continents. The momentum of our culture encourages very short memory and very quick judgment. We take our public discourse mostly in sound bites, and hence things that predate the latest news cycle are most often crowded out of our consideration. Historian’s Eye asks you to slow down; to look and to listen; to pay close attention and to notice; to entertain a variety of perspectives; to ask varied questions; to think about the current moment as possessing a deep history, and also to think of it as itself historical—futurity’s history. Above all, Historian’s Eye asks you to pitch in and to talk back. Matthew Frye Jacobson is Professor of American Studies, African American Studies, and History at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University in 1992, and is the author of Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America (2006); What Have They Built You to Do? THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and Cold War America (with Gaspar Gonzalez, 2006); Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876–1917 (2000); Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998); and Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (1995). He is currently at work on Odetta's Voice and Other Weapons: The Civil Rights Era as Cultural History, and a multimedia documentary project devoted to the Obama presidency and political life in contemporary America. His teaching interests are clustered under the general rubric of race in U.S. political culture, including U.S. imperialism, immigration and migration, popular culture, and the juridical structures of U.S. citizenship. | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoThe Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy | The Program in Law and Public Affairs invites you to join us Wednesday, November 16 at 4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120, for a Book Forum on The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy(Princeton University Press 2011) by Maurizio Viroli. Professor Viroli will be joined by a panel of distinguished scholars to talk about the book, and discussion of the developing events in Italy. | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy | The Program in Law and Public Affairs invites you to join us Wednesday, November 16 at 4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120, for a Book Forum on The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy(Princeton University Press 2011) by Maurizio Viroli. Professor Viroli will be joined by a panel of distinguished scholars to talk about the book, and discussion of the developing events in Italy. | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Gotten Into Us? Staying Healthy in a Toxic World | McKay Jenkins *96, Cornelius Tilghman Professor of English and Director of Journalism, University of Delaware, will discuss his bestselling new book on the growing presence of synthetic chemicals in our bodies and environment: What's Gotten Into Us? Staying Healthy in a Toxic World (Random House, 2011). Joining him as interlocutor will be Richard Preston *83, bestselling author of The Hot Zone. In addition to their discussion of environmental toxins, Jenkins and Preston will reflect on the process and challenge of nonfiction science and environmental writing. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoWhat’s Gotten Into Us? Staying Healthy in a Toxic World | McKay Jenkins *96, Cornelius Tilghman Professor of English and Director of Journalism, University of Delaware, will discuss his bestselling new book on the growing presence of synthetic chemicals in our bodies and environment: What's Gotten Into Us? Staying Healthy in a Toxic World (Random House, 2011). Joining him as interlocutor will be Richard Preston *83, bestselling author of The Hot Zone. In addition to their discussion of environmental toxins, Jenkins and Preston will reflect on the process and challenge of nonfiction science and environmental writing. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoWriting Life: A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates | Cosponsored by the J. Edward Farnum Lecture Fund, the Center for Jewish Life, and the Departments of English and Comparative Literature Jonathan Safran Foer, a 1999 graduate of Princeton, is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). In 2009, he published a work of nonfiction titled Eating Animals. He is working on a version of the Haggadah, which will be released in March 2012. His talk, a conversation with novelist and creative writing professor Joyce Carol Oates, will focus on the profession of writing, as well as the role of autobiographical elements and issues of Jewish identity that appear in Foer’s work. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writing Life: A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates | Cosponsored by the J. Edward Farnum Lecture Fund, the Center for Jewish Life, and the Departments of English and Comparative Literature Jonathan Safran Foer, a 1999 graduate of Princeton, is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). In 2009, he published a work of nonfiction titled Eating Animals. He is working on a version of the Haggadah, which will be released in March 2012. His talk, a conversation with novelist and creative writing professor Joyce Carol Oates, will focus on the profession of writing, as well as the role of autobiographical elements and issues of Jewish identity that appear in Foer’s work. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Court, the Constitution and the Justice from Illinois | Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens discussed his stance on several hot-button issues, the personal rapport justices have with one another and what drew him to the legal profession in a well-attended public discussion at Princeton University with Provost Christopher Eisgruber, Monday, Oct. 10. At age 91, Stevens spoke fluently about the specifics of dozens of Supreme Court opinions, both recent and decades old, with Eisgruber, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, who served as a law clerk for Stevens from August 1989 to July 1990. Stevens retired from the Supreme Court in 2010 after serving as a justice for 34 terms, having written 1,400 opinions, roughly half of them dissents. The event, titled "The Court, the Constitution and the Justice from Illinois: John Paul Stevens in Conversation with Provost Christopher Eisgruber," was held in a packed Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall. The Walter E. Edge Lecture and the John Marshall Harlan '20 Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication, it was presented by the Princeton University Public Lectures and the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA). | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoThe Court, the Constitution and the Justice from Illinois | Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens discussed his stance on several hot-button issues, the personal rapport justices have with one another and what drew him to the legal profession in a well-attended public discussion at Princeton University with Provost Christopher Eisgruber, Monday, Oct. 10. At age 91, Stevens spoke fluently about the specifics of dozens of Supreme Court opinions, both recent and decades old, with Eisgruber, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, who served as a law clerk for Stevens from August 1989 to July 1990. Stevens retired from the Supreme Court in 2010 after serving as a justice for 34 terms, having written 1,400 opinions, roughly half of them dissents. The event, titled "The Court, the Constitution and the Justice from Illinois: John Paul Stevens in Conversation with Provost Christopher Eisgruber," was held in a packed Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall. The Walter E. Edge Lecture and the John Marshall Harlan '20 Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication, it was presented by the Princeton University Public Lectures and the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA). | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Press conference with 2011 Nobel Prize winners Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent | A 40-year path of friendly arguments and groundbreaking studies of how governments weigh policies to deal with economic troubles has led a pair of prominent economists to share the 2011 Nobel Prize in their field. Princeton University professor Christopher Sims was honored along with Thomas Sargent, a New York University economist and visiting professor this semester at Princeton, for developing tools to analyze the economic causes and effects of monetary policy. Their work has revolutionized the field of macroeconomics and how it is applied by central banks and governments around the world. Sims, who is Princeton's Harold H. Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking, has been a faculty member at Princeton since 1999, and is the third tenured faculty member at Princeton to win the Nobel Prize in economics in the past decade. He and Sargent are longtime colleagues, and are currently teaching partners for a graduate course at Princeton. The day was highlighted by the insistence of both men to proceed with teaching their classes -- while also accepting the worldwide interest in their research -- and lighthearted banter over their career-long history of disagreements within the field. Both Sims and Sargent remarked on the prize with humility. | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoPress conference with 2011 Nobel Prize winners Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent | A 40-year path of friendly arguments and groundbreaking studies of how governments weigh policies to deal with economic troubles has led a pair of prominent economists to share the 2011 Nobel Prize in their field. Princeton University professor Christopher Sims was honored along with Thomas Sargent, a New York University economist and visiting professor this semester at Princeton, for developing tools to analyze the economic causes and effects of monetary policy. Their work has revolutionized the field of macroeconomics and how it is applied by central banks and governments around the world. Sims, who is Princeton's Harold H. Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking, has been a faculty member at Princeton since 1999, and is the third tenured faculty member at Princeton to win the Nobel Prize in economics in the past decade. He and Sargent are longtime colleagues, and are currently teaching partners for a graduate course at Princeton. The day was highlighted by the insistence of both men to proceed with teaching their classes -- while also accepting the worldwide interest in their research -- and lighthearted banter over their career-long history of disagreements within the field. Both Sims and Sargent remarked on the prize with humility. | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoA Midnight Modern Conversation | A panel discussion titled "A Midnight Modern Conversation" marked the opening of the Firestone Library exhibition "Sin and the City: William Hogarth’s London" | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Midnight Modern Conversation | A panel discussion titled "A Midnight Modern Conversation" marked the opening of the Firestone Library exhibiton "Sin and the City: William Hogarth’s London" | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoThe End of the American Century and What's in it for You? | The Council of the Humanities presents the Belknap Visitors in the Humanities: Creator and producer of the HBO series, The Wire, set in Baltimore, and Tremé, which takes place in New Orleans, Simon is also the author of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. He will speak about The End of the American Century and What's in it for You? | 9/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The End of the American Century and What's in it for You? | The Council of the Humanities presents the Belknap Visitors in the Humanities: Creator and producer of the HBO series, The Wire, set in Baltimore, and Tremé, which takes place in New Orleans, Simon is also the author of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. He will speak about The End of the American Century and What's in it for You? | 9/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoFreshman Assembly: History, Collective Memory, and the Power of Images | On Sunday, September 11, Rachael DeLue, Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology, addressed the Class of 2015 for the annual freshman assembly on the topic of “History, Collective Memory, and the Power of Images.” Professor DeLue offered the following introduction to her lecture: “We commonly distinguish “history,” which entails the description of past events, from “memory,” defined as an individual’s recollection of those events. History, we assume, deals objectively with facts, while memory is personal and subjective, located in a murky middle ground between sensory perception and imagination. Yet memory plays a significant role in the telling of history and the formation of identity; how each of us remembers our past shapes how we see ourselves and how we perceive others today. Likewise, collective memory—the memory of events as shared by a large group, such as a culture or a nation—has a hand in determining how that group imagines itself and, importantly, the stories that group tells about its past, present, and future. The telling of history, thus, is often a matter of memory, a combination of fact and feeling, objective accounting and subjective storytelling. This lecture explores the entanglement of history and memory, beginning with a series of questions raised by the complex and controversial effort to memorialize the tragic events of September 11th. Through a consideration of the images and structures we create for the purposes of narrating collectively experienced and remembered events, from slavery in America to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, we can learn a great deal about how we envision and make use of our past. We also gain insight into how our picturing of the past in works of art or in public memorials can in turn have a hand in determining who we are and what we do.” | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Freshman Assembly: History, Collective Memory, and the Power of Images | On Sunday, September 11, Rachael DeLue, Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology, addressed the Class of 2015 for the annual freshman assembly on the topic of “History, Collective Memory, and the Power of Images.” Professor DeLue offered the following introduction to her lecture: “We commonly distinguish “history,” which entails the description of past events, from “memory,” defined as an individual’s recollection of those events. History, we assume, deals objectively with facts, while memory is personal and subjective, located in a murky middle ground between sensory perception and imagination. Yet memory plays a significant role in the telling of history and the formation of identity; how each of us remembers our past shapes how we see ourselves and how we perceive others today. Likewise, collective memory—the memory of events as shared by a large group, such as a culture or a nation—has a hand in determining how that group imagines itself and, importantly, the stories that group tells about its past, present, and future. The telling of history, thus, is often a matter of memory, a combination of fact and feeling, objective accounting and subjective storytelling. This lecture explores the entanglement of history and memory, beginning with a series of questions raised by the complex and controversial effort to memorialize the tragic events of September 11th. Through a consideration of the images and structures we create for the purposes of narrating collectively experienced and remembered events, from slavery in America to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, we can learn a great deal about how we envision and make use of our past. We also gain insight into how our picturing of the past in works of art or in public memorials can in turn have a hand in determining who we are and what we do.” | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Opening Exercises: A University Convocation - Class of 2015 | The University marked the beginning of the academic year with Opening Exercises at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, in the University Chapel. The annual interfaith service included an address by President Shirley M. Tilghman, and the recognition of academic achievements of undergraduate students. Freshmen entered the chapel with classmates in their residential college. The chapel was filled with the 1,300 members of the class of 2015, as well as faculty and administrators who processed in academic regalia. | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoOpening Exercises: A University Convocation - Class of 2015 | The University marked the beginning of the academic year with Opening Exercises at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, in the University Chapel. The annual interfaith service included an address by President Shirley M. Tilghman, and the recognition of academic achievements of undergraduate students. Freshmen entered the chapel with classmates in their residential college. The chapel was filled with the 1,300 members of the class of 2015, as well as faculty and administrators who processed in academic regalia. | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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9/11 Gathering of Remembrance | Princeton University commemorated the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, on Cannon Green. Speakers included Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman, former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley '65 and Professor Anthony Appiah. The Chapel Choir and Glee Club also performed. | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | Video9/11 Gathering of Remembrance | Princeton University commemorated the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, on Cannon Green. Speakers included Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman, former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley '65 and Professor Anthony Appiah. The Chapel Choir and Glee Club also performed. | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maintaining the End: Telomere Replication and Its Connections to Human Health | 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. | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoMaintaining the End: Telomere Replication and Its Connections to Human Health | 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. | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Math Comes to Mind: Intuition, Visualization, and Teaching | Stanislas Dehaene is director of the INSERM-Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit and a professor at the College de France. He is a neuroscientist. The most recent edition of his book The Number Sense will be published in April. Steven Strogatz is a professor and director of the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. His most recent book, published in 2009, is The Calculus of Friendship. In this free-wheeling conversation between a cognitive scientist and a mathematician, Professors Dehaene and Strogatz will exchange ideas about how people learn math and gain intuition about it, whether the human mind creates math or discovers it, where math is born in the brain, and what the best ways may be to lead students (and their parents) to embrace math and understand it. | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoHow Math Comes to Mind: Intuition, Visualization, and Teaching | Stanislas Dehaene is director of the INSERM-Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit and a professor at the College de France. He is a neuroscientist. The most recent edition of his book The Number Sense will be published in April. Steven Strogatz is a professor and director of the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. His most recent book, published in 2009, is The Calculus of Friendship. In this free-wheeling conversation between a cognitive scientist and a mathematician, Professors Dehaene and Strogatz will exchange ideas about how people learn math and gain intuition about it, whether the human mind creates math or discovers it, where math is born in the brain, and what the best ways may be to lead students (and their parents) to embrace math and understand it. | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoEating Clubs at Princeton | Princeton University has a closely knit campus community that offers a wide range of opportunities for life beyond the classroom. Princeton's 10 non-residential eating clubs are a significant part of social life for many undergraduate students. In addition to being friendly places to share meals, the eating clubs that line Prospect Avenue serve as hubs for social activities, academic support, recreational sports and service opportunities. While open for membership to juniors and seniors, they also provide a center of social activity for non-members as well. About 70 percent of Princeton's junior and senior class members eat their meals in one of the clubs. All of the clubs are coeducational and are operated by student leadership. "What being a member of a club means most to me is having a family on campus," said Haley Thompson, a member of Cap and Gown Club and the class of 2011. "I study here, I eat here, I do pretty much everything here," she added in a video profile highlighting the many services offered by the eating clubs. The video addresses one of the goals outlined in the May 3, 2010, report of the University's Task Force on the Relationships between the University and the Eating Clubs, which recommended enhancing communication about the clubs by providing prospective students and others a virtual introduction to the eating clubs and their role at Princeton. | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Haiti: Containing Democracy in the Twenty-First Century | A Round Table discussion with Peter Hallward, Kim Ives, Ray Laforest, and Nick Nesbitt. Princeton University, March 3, 2011 | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoMartin Luther King Day Celebration | Today's young Americans must combine their technological savvy with a commitment to environmental sustainability to help achieve Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a just society, keynote speaker Van Jones told the audience at Princeton University's annual King Day ceremony. This year's event focused on exploring the environmental impact of Hurricane Katrina and the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf Coast region, in the context of King's vision for equality and his concern for the poor and oppressed. The theme was addressed in literary arts, visual arts and video contests for students from area schools. Jones, an environmental activist who is a visiting fellow at Princeton, pointed to the student contest winners who were honored at the ceremony as examples of a generation that holds the power to realize King's vision. | 1/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Martin Luther King Day Celebration | Today's young Americans must combine their technological savvy with a commitment to environmental sustainability to help achieve Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a just society, keynote speaker Van Jones told the audience at Princeton University's annual King Day ceremony. This year's event focused on exploring the environmental impact of Hurricane Katrina and the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf Coast region, in the context of King's vision for equality and his concern for the poor and oppressed. The theme was addressed in literary arts, visual arts and video contests for students from area schools. Jones, an environmental activist who is a visiting fellow at Princeton, pointed to the student contest winners who were honored at the ceremony as examples of a generation that holds the power to realize King's vision. | 1/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Remembering a friendship and artistic relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe | Patti Smith is a singer, songwriter, poet, and visual artist. Her memoir, Just Kids (Ecco, Harper Collins 2010) about her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe, just won the 2010 National Book Award for nonfiction. Smith will read excerpts from the book and her poems and perform some of the music that made her famous | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoRemembering a friendship and artistic relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe | Patti Smith is a singer, songwriter, poet, and visual artist. Her memoir, Just Kids (Ecco, Harper Collins 2010) about her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe, just won the 2010 National Book Award for nonfiction. Smith will read excerpts from the book and her poems and perform some of the music that made her famous | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoThe Polarization of American Politics | 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. | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Polarization of American Politics | 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. | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoSIGNALS GraphicChipDesignKidd | Citing examples from his near quarter-century’s worth of work, Chip Kidd explains the way graphic design works, how our brains process it, what it means if it succeeds or fails, and why we should care. Chip Kidd is an award-winning art director and graphic designer. Currently he is associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House. He is the designer of covers for books by hundreds of authors. He is also the author of two novels (The Cheese Monkeys, Simon and Schuster 2001, and The Learners, Scribner, 2008), coauthor with Lisa Birnbach of the recently published True Prep (Knopf 2010), a musician, and an avid fan of comic book media, particularly Batman. He has designed book covers for several DC Comics publications, including The Complete History of Batman. | 11/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SIGNALS GraphicChipDesignKidd | Citing examples from his near quarter-century’s worth of work, Chip Kidd explains the way graphic design works, how our brains process it, what it means if it succeeds or fails, and why we should care. Chip Kidd is an award-winning art director and graphic designer. Currently he is associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House. He is the designer of covers for books by hundreds of authors. He is also the author of two novels (The Cheese Monkeys, Simon and Schuster 2001, and The Learners, Scribner, 2008), coauthor with Lisa Birnbach of the recently published True Prep (Knopf 2010), a musician, and an avid fan of comic book media, particularly Batman. He has designed book covers for several DC Comics publications, including The Complete History of Batman. | 11/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | VideoThe Ashtray | Errol Morris is a director and filmmaker. His film “The Fog of War” about Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara won the 2003 Academy Award for best documentary feature. Other films have won the Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America, the Golden Horse (Taiwan International Film Festival), the Grand Jury Prize (Sundance Film Festival) and have appeared on many ten best lists. They have been honored by the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, and New York, Chicago, Boston, and Los Angeles film critics. Roger Ebert called Morris’s first feature, “Gates of Heaven,” one of the 10 Best Films of All Time. A survey in 1988 by the Washington Post picked “The Thin Blue Line” as the best film of the year. In his 2008 film “Standard Operating Procedure” Morris examined the incidents of abuse of suspected terrorists at Abu Ghraib. His latest film, “Tabloid,” was released in 2010 and is about a former Miss Wyoming who kidnapped a Mormon missionary in England in the late 1970s. His Princeton talk is about an event that occurred while he was a graduate student as Princeton University. A Spencer Trask lecture | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Ashtray | Errol Morris is a director and filmmaker. His film “The Fog of War” about Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara won the 2003 Academy Award for best documentary feature. Other films have won the Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America, the Golden Horse (Taiwan International Film Festival), the Grand Jury Prize (Sundance Film Festival) and have appeared on many ten best lists. They have been honored by the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, and New York, Chicago, Boston, and Los Angeles film critics. Roger Ebert called Morris’s first feature, “Gates of Heaven,” one of the 10 Best Films of All Time. A survey in 1988 by the Washington Post picked “The Thin Blue Line” as the best film of the year. In his 2008 film “Standard Operating Procedure” Morris examined the incidents of abuse of suspected terrorists at Abu Ghraib. His latest film, “Tabloid,” was released in 2010 and is about a former Miss Wyoming who kidnapped a Mormon missionary in England in the late 1970s. His Princeton talk is about an event that occurred while he was a graduate student as Princeton University. A Spencer Trask lecture | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | VideoFundamentals (Part II) | This is a two-part lecture series. Modern science is constantly enriched by new discoveries and occasionally rocked by revolutions, but some fundamental conclusions, which answer questions traditionally assigned to philosophy, now seem secure. These lectures cover ten such fundamentals, presenting each in the context of (once) plausible alternatives. The discussion will bring in many interesting “case studies.” 1. We perceive a tiny portion of reality. 2. The physical world is comprehensible. 3. The basic laws are mathematical. 4. The basic laws are local. 5. The basic laws predict probabilities. 6. The world is a very big place. 7. The world is a very old place. 8. The state of the universe is comprehensible. 9. Vast opportunities are presently unexploited. 10. There’s still plenty we don’t understand. Frank Wilczek is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wilczek, along with David Gross and H. David Politzer, won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. He has been a faculty member at Princeton, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of California, Santa Barbara Institute for Theoretical Physics. A Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture, cosponsored by the Center for Theoretical Physics | 11/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fundamentals (Part II) | This is a two-part lecture series. Modern science is constantly enriched by new discoveries and occasionally rocked by revolutions, but some fundamental conclusions, which answer questions traditionally assigned to philosophy, now seem secure. These lectures cover ten such fundamentals, presenting each in the context of (once) plausible alternatives. The discussion will bring in many interesting “case studies.” 1. We perceive a tiny portion of reality. 2. The physical world is comprehensible. 3. The basic laws are mathematical. 4. The basic laws are local. 5. The basic laws predict probabilities. 6. The world is a very big place. 7. The world is a very old place. 8. The state of the universe is comprehensible. 9. Vast opportunities are presently unexploited. 10. There’s still plenty we don’t understand. Frank Wilczek is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wilczek, along with David Gross and H. David Politzer, won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. He has been a faculty member at Princeton, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of California, Santa Barbara Institute for Theoretical Physics. A Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture, cosponsored by the Center for Theoretical Physics | 11/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 57 | VideoFundamentals (Part I) | This is a two-part lecture series. Modern science is constantly enriched by new discoveries and occasionally rocked by revolutions, but some fundamental conclusions, which answer questions traditionally assigned to philosophy, now seem secure. These lectures cover ten such fundamentals, presenting each in the context of (once) plausible alternatives. The discussion will bring in many interesting “case studies.” 1. We perceive a tiny portion of reality. 2. The physical world is comprehensible. 3. The basic laws are mathematical. 4. The basic laws are local. 5. The basic laws predict probabilities. 6. The world is a very big place. 7. The world is a very old place. 8. The state of the universe is comprehensible. 9. Vast opportunities are presently unexploited. 10. There’s still plenty we don’t understand. Frank Wilczek is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wilczek, along with David Gross and H. David Politzer, won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. He has been a faculty member at Princeton, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of California, Santa Barbara Institute for Theoretical Physics. A Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture, cosponsored by the Center for Theoretical Physics | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fundamentals (Part I) | This is a two-part lecture series. Modern science is constantly enriched by new discoveries and occasionally rocked by revolutions, but some fundamental conclusions, which answer questions traditionally assigned to philosophy, now seem secure. These lectures cover ten such fundamentals, presenting each in the context of (once) plausible alternatives. The discussion will bring in many interesting “case studies.” 1. We perceive a tiny portion of reality. 2. The physical world is comprehensible. 3. The basic laws are mathematical. 4. The basic laws are local. 5. The basic laws predict probabilities. 6. The world is a very big place. 7. The world is a very old place. 8. The state of the universe is comprehensible. 9. Vast opportunities are presently unexploited. 10. There’s still plenty we don’t understand. Frank Wilczek is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wilczek, along with David Gross and H. David Politzer, won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. He has been a faculty member at Princeton, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of California, Santa Barbara Institute for Theoretical Physics. A Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture, cosponsored by the Center for Theoretical Physics | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 59 | VideoThe Politics of Food and Health Care | Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University; Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; food writer and author, respectively | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Politics of Food and Health Care | Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University; Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; food writer and author, respectively | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 61 | VideoWormholes and Time Machines on the Site of Virgil's Rome | 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. | 10/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wormholes and Time Machines on the Site of Virgil's Rome | 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. | 10/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Writer as Two Selves: Reflections on the Private Act of Writing and the Public Act of Citizenship | Born in Nigeria, novelist Chimamanda Adichie is the author of Purple Hibiscus (2003), which was nominated for a Booker Prize, and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), which won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction and revolves around the Biafran war of 1967-70. She has recently published a collection of short stories titled The Thing around Your Neck (2009). She was a MacArthur fellow in 2008. She has been a visiting writer at Wesleyan University and at Princeton University, where she was a Hodder fellow. | 10/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 64 | VideoThe Writer as Two Selves: Reflections on the Private Act of Writing and the Public Act of Citizenship | Born in Nigeria, novelist Chimamanda Adichie is the author of Purple Hibiscus (2003), which was nominated for a Booker Prize, and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), which won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction and revolves around the Biafran war of 1967-70. She has recently published a collection of short stories titled The Thing around Your Neck (2009). She was a MacArthur fellow in 2008. She has been a visiting writer at Wesleyan University and at Princeton University, where she was a Hodder fellow. | 10/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 65 | VideoFinance and the Good Society | Recent financial reforms—most notably the Dodd-Frank Act and the Basel III rules—are often described as “reining in Wall Street,” preventing taxpayer bailouts and protecting consumers from financial meltdowns. Simply reining in Wall Street, however, is not sufficient. With the benefit of recent lessons and improved knowledge of human behavior, we should work to release the potential of financial innovation. Despite the bad press financial innovation has received as a result of some individuals and institutions taking advantage of faulty innovations to enrich themselves, financial innovation has the potential to prevent worsening inequality and other social problems. History shows that advances in civil society have been associated with progress in financial institutions and practices. Robert J. Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University. | 10/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finance and the Good Society | Recent financial reforms—most notably the Dodd-Frank Act and the Basel III rules—are often described as “reining in Wall Street,” preventing taxpayer bailouts and protecting consumers from financial meltdowns. Simply reining in Wall Street, however, is not sufficient. With the benefit of recent lessons and improved knowledge of human behavior, we should work to release the potential of financial innovation. Despite the bad press financial innovation has received as a result of some individuals and institutions taking advantage of faulty innovations to enrich themselves, financial innovation has the potential to prevent worsening inequality and other social problems. History shows that advances in civil society have been associated with progress in financial institutions and practices. Robert J. Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University. | 10/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Freshman Assembly: Neuroscience and Everyday Life | On Sunday, September 12, Samuel Wang, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, addressed the Class of 2014 for the annual freshman assembly on the subject of "Neuroscience and Everyday Life." Professor Wang offered the following introduction to his lecture: "Our brains are essential to every aspect of our everyday lives, even though we are often not aware of it. The last few decades have been an incredible time of discovery and new understanding of brain function from a medical, a biological, and a philosophical point of view. I'll show you how neuroscience has touched your life and will continue to do so in the coming four years and for the rest of your lives." | 9/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 68 | VideoFreshman Assembly: Neuroscience and Everyday Life | On Sunday, September 12, Samuel Wang, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, addressed the Class of 2014 for the annual freshman assembly on the subject of "Neuroscience and Everyday Life." Professor Wang offered the following introduction to his lecture: "Our brains are essential to every aspect of our everyday lives, even though we are often not aware of it. The last few decades have been an incredible time of discovery and new understanding of brain function from a medical, a biological, and a philosophical point of view. I'll show you how neuroscience has touched your life and will continue to do so in the coming four years and for the rest of your lives." | 9/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 69 | VideoOpening Exercises: A University Convocation - Class of 2014 | Challenging the freshman class to embrace two ideas that might seem to be in contradiction, Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman told incoming students to spend their Princeton career building deep expertise in a specialty while also developing broad understanding. The new students and their families -- joined by new and returning graduate students, other undergraduates, faculty and staff -- filled the University Chapel and two simulcast sites for the interfaith service that traditionally marks the start of each academic year. Members of the class of 2014 entered the chapel with other students in their respective residential colleges. Each group was led by a student carrying a colorful banner bearing the college shield, as the students preceded faculty members and administrators in academic regalia. The procession followed African drummers and kite-bearers waving shimmering pieces of cloth on long poles. In addition to Tilghman's address, the event included music, prayers and readings from various religious and philosophical traditions. Undergraduate students also were recognized for their academic achievements during the previous year. | 9/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Opening Exercises: A University Convocation - Class of 2014 | Challenging the freshman class to embrace two ideas that might seem to be in contradiction, Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman told incoming students to spend their Princeton career building deep expertise in a specialty while also developing broad understanding. The new students and their families -- joined by new and returning graduate students, other undergraduates, faculty and staff -- filled the University Chapel and two simulcast sites for the interfaith service that traditionally marks the start of each academic year. Members of the class of 2014 entered the chapel with other students in their respective residential colleges. Each group was led by a student carrying a colorful banner bearing the college shield, as the students preceded faculty members and administrators in academic regalia. The procession followed African drummers and kite-bearers waving shimmering pieces of cloth on long poles. In addition to Tilghman's address, the event included music, prayers and readings from various religious and philosophical traditions. Undergraduate students also were recognized for their academic achievements during the previous year. | 9/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Princeton University's 263rd Commencement | Commencement is an open meeting of the Board of Trustees held on the front lawn of Nassau Hall, weather permitting. The program includes brief speeches by the salutatorian, the valedictorian, and the president of the University; the awarding of degrees to undergraduate and graduate students; the conferral of teaching awards to several New Jersey high school teachers and Princeton University faculty; and conferral of honorary degrees. Individual diplomas are distributed following the ceremony. | 6/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 72 | VideoPrinceton University's 263rd Commencement | Commencement is an open meeting of the Board of Trustees held on the front lawn of Nassau Hall, weather permitting. The program includes brief speeches by the salutatorian, the valedictorian, and the president of the University; the awarding of degrees to undergraduate and graduate students; the conferral of teaching awards to several New Jersey high school teachers and Princeton University faculty; and conferral of honorary degrees. Individual diplomas are distributed following the ceremony. | 6/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 73 | VideoPrinceton University's 2010 Hooding ceremony | The Hooding ceremony for advanced degree candidates was held at 5:00 p.m., May 31 in McCarter Theatre. Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman and Graduate School Dean William Russel presided. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Princeton University's 2010 Hooding ceremony | The Hooding ceremony for advanced degree candidates was held at 5:00 p.m., May 31 in McCarter Theatre. Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman and Graduate School Dean William Russel presided. | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 75 | VideoPrinceton University's 2010 Class Day ceremony | The Class Day ceremony is planned and presented by the members of the senior class. Although it varies from year to year, the event traditionally gives seniors an opportunity to acknowledge publicly achievements and contributions of members of the class and University community. The program includes 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. Class Day ends with the singing of “Old Nassau.” | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Princeton University's 2010 Class Day ceremony | The Class Day ceremony is planned and presented by the members of the senior class. Although it varies from year to year, the event traditionally gives seniors an opportunity to acknowledge publicly achievements and contributions of members of the class and University community. The program includes 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. Class Day ends with the singing of “Old Nassau.” | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Princeton University's 2010 Baccalaureate ceremony | Commencement activities start on Sunday with the Baccalaureate ceremony in the University Chapel. This University convocation begins with an academic procession of faculty, trustees, administrators and undergraduate degree candidates. The interfaith program, which lasts approximately one hour, includes music, prayers and readings from a variety of religious traditions, as well as an address by a guest speaker. This year's speaker is Jeff Bezos '86, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com | 5/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 78 | VideoPrinceton University's 2010 Baccalaureate ceremony | Commencement activities start on Sunday with the Baccalaureate ceremony in the University Chapel. This University convocation begins with an academic procession of faculty, trustees, administrators and undergraduate degree candidates. The interfaith program, which lasts approximately one hour, includes music, prayers and readings from a variety of religious traditions, as well as an address by a guest speaker. This year's speaker is Jeff Bezos '86, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com | 5/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reunions Seminar 2010: Thoughtful Legacy Planning in an Uncertain Environment | Francis J. Mirabello ’75 P07, a partner and the manager of the Personal Law Practice of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Philadelphia, presented a practical discussion to Princeton alumni on how to ensure their estate plans achieved their goals for family and philanthropy, particularly in light of changing federal estate and transfer tax laws under consideration in Congress. | 5/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 80 | VideoIron Tiger Throwdown | The Iron Tiger Throwdown, the Fristfest Culinary competition featuring ultimate chicken wings, was contested recently at the Frist Campus Center. Six teams of two representing the residential dining halls and the Frist Campus Center dining venues competed for two prestigious awards: the Iron Tiger Culinary Cup and the People's Choice Award. Judging the competition were a trio of Tom's; Tom Myers from Frist and University Scheduling, Tom Parker from Mail Services and Tom Quirk from Development Events in the Office of Development. Each judge had the arduous task of sampling six Ultimate Wing recipes. Stu Orefice, Director of Dining Services and Chef Rob Harbison provided blow by blow commentary as the event unfolded.. At competition’s end the highly coveted Iron Tiger Culinary Cup was awarded to Emily Capunpon and James Sims of Team Butler/Wilson Dining. The judges’ favorite recipe, Sticky Hot Wings, was prepared with a pomegranate hotsauce, finished with banana slices tossed in sauce and accompanied by a cool carrot celery slaw. The People’s Choice Award went to Chad Rovner and Valeria Sykes from Team Rockefeller/Mathey Dining. Their recipe for Zesty-Tangy-Sweet-Wings was voted crowd favorite by fans viewing the event from the gallery. Made with housemade hot sauce and local honey, this ultimate wing recipe was accompanied with jimica slaw. | 4/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Current State of the Economy | Matthew Taibbi, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and Gillian Tett, the U.S. managing editor of Financial Times, will talk about the causes and possible outcomes of the current financial crisis. Taibbi, a 1991 graduate of Bard College who finished his studies at Leningrad Polytechnical University, has worked as a freelance reporter in the Soviet Union and Uzbekistan. In 1997 he and writer Mark Ames founded a Moscow-based, English-language newspaper, the Exile, which reported on corruption in the Russian government and in American aid organizations. Returning to the United States in 2002 he founded a Buffalo newspaper, The Beast, before leaving to work for the New York Press, and then Rolling Stone. He is the author of The Great Derangement (Spiegel and Grau, 2008) about corruption and absurdity in modern American politics, and two collections of essays. The recipient of the 2008 National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, he was named in 2004 by the New York Observer one of the most influential young New Yorkers. More recently he has received attention for a March 2009 article in Rolling Stone, “The Big Takeover,” in which he examines the close connections between Washington lawmakers and Wall Street. Tett is the author of Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Simon and Schuster, 2009), which won the Spear’s Book Award for the financial book of 2009. Tett joined the Financial Times in 1993 after receiving a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Cambridge University. Before her appointment as U.S. managing editor in 2010 she served as assistant editor for the FT’s markets coverage as well as capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief and correspondent, the London-based economics reporter, and a reporter in Russia and Brussels. British Press Awards named her Journalist of the Year in 2009 and Business Journalist of the Year in 2008. In addition to Fool’s Gold, she is the author of Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from Its Trillion Dollar Meltdown (Harper Collins, 2003). | 4/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 82 | VideoThe Current State of the Economy | Matthew Taibbi, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and Gillian Tett, the U.S. managing editor of Financial Times, will talk about the causes and possible outcomes of the current financial crisis. Taibbi, a 1991 graduate of Bard College who finished his studies at Leningrad Polytechnical University, has worked as a freelance reporter in the Soviet Union and Uzbekistan. In 1997 he and writer Mark Ames founded a Moscow-based, English-language newspaper, the Exile, which reported on corruption in the Russian government and in American aid organizations. Returning to the United States in 2002 he founded a Buffalo newspaper, The Beast, before leaving to work for the New York Press, and then Rolling Stone. He is the author of The Great Derangement (Spiegel and Grau, 2008) about corruption and absurdity in modern American politics, and two collections of essays. The recipient of the 2008 National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, he was named in 2004 by the New York Observer one of the most influential young New Yorkers. More recently he has received attention for a March 2009 article in Rolling Stone, “The Big Takeover,” in which he examines the close connections between Washington lawmakers and Wall Street. Tett is the author of Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Simon and Schuster, 2009), which won the Spear’s Book Award for the financial book of 2009. Tett joined the Financial Times in 1993 after receiving a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Cambridge University. Before her appointment as U.S. managing editor in 2010 she served as assistant editor for the FT’s markets coverage as well as capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief and correspondent, the London-based economics reporter, and a reporter in Russia and Brussels. British Press Awards named her Journalist of the Year in 2009 and Business Journalist of the Year in 2008. In addition to Fool’s Gold, she is the author of Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from Its Trillion Dollar Meltdown (Harper Collins, 2003). | 4/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Secrets of the Human Genome | April 19, 2010. Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture | 4/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 84 | VideoSecrets of the Human Genome | April 19, 2010. Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture | 4/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 85 | VideoReflections\Problems of Black Suffering | A conversation was held on March 29, 2010 between Dr. Sherman Jackson and Dr. Cornel West in which they offered perspectives on the historical and contemporary problem of suffering from a Christina and Muslim lens. Dr. Jackson is a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the author of "Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering." Dr. West is the celebrated professor of religion and race at Princeton University. | 3/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reflections\Problems of Black Suffering | A conversation was held on March 29, 2010 between Dr. Sherman Jackson and Dr. Cornel West in which they offered perspectives on the historical and contemporary problem of suffering from a Christina and Muslim lens. Dr. Jackson is a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the author of "Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering." Dr. West is the celebrated professor of religion and race at Princeton University. | 3/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 87 | Simulations at the Petascale and Beyond for Fusion Energy Sciences PDF - March 10, 2010 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Major progress in magnetic fusion research has led to ITER – a multi-billion dollar burning plasma experiment supported by seven governments (EU, Japan, US, China, Korea, Russia, and India) representing over half of the world’s population. Currently under construction in Cadarache, France, it is designed to produce 500 million Watts of heat from fusion reactions for over 400 seconds with gain exceeding 10 – thereby demonstrating the scientific and technical feasibility of magnetic fusion energy. It is a truly dramatic step forward in that the fusion fuel will be sustained at high temperature by the fusion reactions themselves. Data from experiments worldwide, supported by advanced computation, indicate that ITER is likely to achieve its design performance. Indeed, temperatures in existing experiments have already exceeded what is needed for ITER. While many of the technologies used in ITER will be the same as those required in an actual demonstration power plant (DEMO), further science and technology is needed to achieve the 2500 MW of continuous power with a gain of 25 in a device of similar size and field. Strong R & D programs are needed to harvest the scientific knowledge from ITER and leverage its results. Advanced computations in tandem with experiment and theory are essential in this mission. The associated research demands the accelerated development of computational tools and techniques that aid the acquisition of the scientific understanding needed to develop predictive models which can prove superior to extrapolations of experimental results. This is made possible by access to leadership class computing resources which allow simulations of increasingly complex phenomena with greater physics fidelity. Reliable whole-device modeling capabilities in Fusion Energy Sciences will surely demand computing resources at the petascale (10^15 floating point operations per second) range and beyond to address ITER burning plasma issues. This provides the key motivation for the Fusion Simulation Program (FSP) – a new U.S. Department of Energy initiative supported by its Offices of Fusion Energy Science and Advanced Scientific Computing Research -- that is currently in the program definition/planning phase. Even more powerful supercomputers at the “exascale” (10^18 floating point operations per second) range and beyond will be needed to meet the future challenges of designing a demonstration fusion reactor (DEMO). With ITER and leadership class computing being two of the most prominent current missions of the U.S. Department of Energy, whole device integrated modeling, which can achieve the highest possible physics fidelity, is a most worthy exascale-relevant project for producing a world-leading realistic predictive capability for fusion. This should prove to be of major benefit to U.S. strategic considerations for Energy, Ecological Sustainability, and Global Security. Further info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2010/03/simulations_at_the_petascale_and_beyond_for_fusion_energy_sciences.html | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Simulations at the Petascale and Beyond for Fusion Energy Sciences - March 10, 2010 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Major progress in magnetic fusion research has led to ITER – a multi-billion dollar burning plasma experiment supported by seven governments (EU, Japan, US, China, Korea, Russia, and India) representing over half of the world’s population. Currently under construction in Cadarache, France, it is designed to produce 500 million Watts of heat from fusion reactions for over 400 seconds with gain exceeding 10 – thereby demonstrating the scientific and technical feasibility of magnetic fusion energy. It is a truly dramatic step forward in that the fusion fuel will be sustained at high temperature by the fusion reactions themselves. Data from experiments worldwide, supported by advanced computation, indicate that ITER is likely to achieve its design performance. Indeed, temperatures in existing experiments have already exceeded what is needed for ITER. While many of the technologies used in ITER will be the same as those required in an actual demonstration power plant (DEMO), further science and technology is needed to achieve the 2500 MW of continuous power with a gain of 25 in a device of similar size and field. Strong R & D programs are needed to harvest the scientific knowledge from ITER and leverage its results. Advanced computations in tandem with experiment and theory are essential in this mission. The associated research demands the accelerated development of computational tools and techniques that aid the acquisition of the scientific understanding needed to develop predictive models which can prove superior to extrapolations of experimental results. This is made possible by access to leadership class computing resources which allow simulations of increasingly complex phenomena with greater physics fidelity. Reliable whole-device modeling capabilities in Fusion Energy Sciences will surely demand computing resources at the petascale (10^15 floating point operations per second) range and beyond to address ITER burning plasma issues. This provides the key motivation for the Fusion Simulation Program (FSP) – a new U.S. Department of Energy initiative supported by its Offices of Fusion Energy Science and Advanced Scientific Computing Research -- that is currently in the program definition/planning phase. Even more powerful supercomputers at the “exascale” (10^18 floating point operations per second) range and beyond will be needed to meet the future challenges of designing a demonstration fusion reactor (DEMO). With ITER and leadership class computing being two of the most prominent current missions of the U.S. Department of Energy, whole device integrated modeling, which can achieve the highest possible physics fidelity, is a most worthy exascale-relevant project for producing a world-leading realistic predictive capability for fusion. This should prove to be of major benefit to U.S. strategic considerations for Energy, Ecological Sustainability, and Global Security. Further info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2010/03/simulations_at_the_petascale_and_beyond_for_fusion_energy_sciences.html | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 89 | VideoThe Meaning of Race in the Post-Genome Era | The 5th Annual James Baldwin Lecture titled “The Meaning of Race in the Post-Genome Era” was delivered by President Shirley M. Tilghman on March 9, 2010 at 5:30 pm in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. The annual James Baldwin Lecture celebrates the scholarship of a distinguished Princeton faculty member and provides an occasion for our intellectual community to reflect on the issue of race and American culture. The complexities of race in the United States demand the insightful work both of experts in the field and of all who share a genuine commitment to the well-being of our society. The Baldwin Lecture Series presents Princeton scholars, accomplished in their respective fields, with the opportunity to think carefully with others about race in America. The Baldwin lectures also honor the extraordinary legacy of the late James Baldwin (1924-1987). One of America’s most powerful cultural critics and essayists, Baldwin exemplified ways in which we might remain critically focused upon and engaged with the relationship of race to democracy in American society. | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Meaning of Race in the Post-Genome Era | The 5th Annual James Baldwin Lecture titled “The Meaning of Race in the Post-Genome Era” was delivered by President Shirley M. Tilghman on March 9, 2010 at 5:30 pm in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. The annual James Baldwin Lecture celebrates the scholarship of a distinguished Princeton faculty member and provides an occasion for our intellectual community to reflect on the issue of race and American culture. The complexities of race in the United States demand the insightful work both of experts in the field and of all who share a genuine commitment to the well-being of our society. The Baldwin Lecture Series presents Princeton scholars, accomplished in their respective fields, with the opportunity to think carefully with others about race in America. The Baldwin lectures also honor the extraordinary legacy of the late James Baldwin (1924-1987). One of America’s most powerful cultural critics and essayists, Baldwin exemplified ways in which we might remain critically focused upon and engaged with the relationship of race to democracy in American society. | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 91 | Video'I Am Kinda': Reflections on the Culture of Imperialism | Famed linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky delivered a lecture titled "'I Am Kinda': Reflections on the Culture of Imperialism" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 8. Chomsky, a professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a renowned public intellectual who has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The lecture's title refers to a woman named Kinda who introduced herself to Chomsky at a lecture he gave in Beirut in 2006. As a child, she had written a letter to President Ronald Reagan after the 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya, her home country. Chomsky had printed the letter in his book "Pirates and Emperors: International Terrorism in the Real World." Chomsky's other books include "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance," "Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy" and "Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs." The talk is designated as the Edward Said Memorial Lecture and is sponsored by the Department of English and the Princeton Committee on Palestine. | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'I Am Kinda': Reflections on the Culture of Imperialism | Famed linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky delivered a lecture titled "'I Am Kinda': Reflections on the Culture of Imperialism" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 8. Chomsky, a professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a renowned public intellectual who has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The lecture's title refers to a woman named Kinda who introduced herself to Chomsky at a lecture he gave in Beirut in 2006. As a child, she had written a letter to President Ronald Reagan after the 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya, her home country. Chomsky had printed the letter in his book "Pirates and Emperors: International Terrorism in the Real World." Chomsky's other books include "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance," "Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy" and "Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs." The talk is designated as the Edward Said Memorial Lecture and is sponsored by the Department of English and the Princeton Committee on Palestine. | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Copenhagen Climate Summit, in Context: What Came Before, What Happens Next? | 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. | 3/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 94 | VideoThe Copenhagen Climate Summit, in Context: What Came Before, What Happens Next? | 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. | 3/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Send A Secret On A Postcard: Public Key Cryptography - March 3, 2010 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Computers use an ingenious invention called public key cryptography to transmit secrets on the internet, even through public channels that can be observed by anyone. This talk will explain how public key cryptography works, without assuming any prior knowledge of math or computer science. We'll also find out why there was a big party in San Francisco on September 21, 2000. Further info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2010/03/how_to_send_a_secret_on_a_postcard_public_key_cryptography.html | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An App A Day: Tasty Apps for iPhone and Android - February 24, 2010 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Smartphones are the new platform, and apps are the core. At the start of the new decade, Apple reported that the App Store for iPhone users has surpassed 100,000 applications, and users have downloaded over 2 billion apps -- not bad for a new market that was created only a year and a half earlier. Meanwhile, Google's Android Market doubled over the last quarter to around 20,000 apps. In this talk Doug Dixon explores the range of apps being developed for these new platforms. Beyond rude sound effects and popping bubbles, developers are leveraging both the intelligence of your handset and the power of back-end cloud computing to provide new kinds of timely services. For example, location-based services now go beyond displaying maps and finding a near-by Starbucks to reporting the lowest local prices for gas, and providing the pulse of the neighborhood from real-time Twitter feeds. And new "augmented reality" services can use the smartphone's camera to provide information on what's around you -- to look up a product bar code, or an interesting building or painting, or to identify the buildings that you see in front of you. So bring your favorite apps, and think about future possibilities. It's not much of a stretch to imagine face recognition apps that can identify business colleagues -- and perform instant background checks on potential dates. Further info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2010/02/an_app_a_day_tasty_apps_for_iphone_and_android.html | 2/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alumni Day: Woodrow Wilson Award Recipient | National Endowment for the Humanities Chair Jim Leach, a longtime former U.S. congressman, was given the Woodrow Wilson Award, the highest honor for undergraduate alumni. Leach, who earned his A.B. in politics with honors from Princeton in 1964, began a four-year term in August as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent grant-making agency of the U.S. government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation and public programs in the humanities. In his 15 terms as a Republican congressman representing Iowa, Leach was known for his efforts to reach across partisan lines in policymaking. During his Alumni Day address, he expressed frustration with today's rancorous political discourse and called for a return to civility. | 2/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 98 | VideoAlumni Day: Woodrow Wilson Award Recipient | National Endowment for the Humanities Chair Jim Leach, a longtime former U.S. congressman, was given the Woodrow Wilson Award, the highest honor for undergraduate alumni. Leach, who earned his A.B. in politics with honors from Princeton in 1964, began a four-year term in August as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent grant-making agency of the U.S. government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation and public programs in the humanities. In his 15 terms as a Republican congressman representing Iowa, Leach was known for his efforts to reach across partisan lines in policymaking. During his Alumni Day address, he expressed frustration with today's rancorous political discourse and called for a return to civility. | 2/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 99 | VideoAlumni Day: James Madison Medalist | U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as commander of the U.S. Central Command, was presented with the James Madison Medal, the University's top honor for graduate alumni. Petraeus, who earned his master's in public affairs and a Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1985 and 1987, respectively, is renowned both as a military leader and public intellectual. He emphasized the qualities needed for successful strategic leadership -- developing big ideas, effectively communicating and implementing those ideas, and learning from best and worst practices. While he applied those examples to his experience with the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, Petraeus underscored that such qualities were keys to success in any endeavor. | 2/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alumni Day: James Madison Medalist | U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as commander of the U.S. Central Command, was presented with the James Madison Medal, the University's top honor for graduate alumni. Petraeus, who earned his master's in public affairs and a Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1985 and 1987, respectively, is renowned both as a military leader and public intellectual. He emphasized the qualities needed for successful strategic leadership -- developing big ideas, effectively communicating and implementing those ideas, and learning from best and worst practices. While he applied those examples to his experience with the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, Petraeus underscored that such qualities were keys to success in any endeavor. | 2/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 101 | VideoThe Politics of Homosexuality - February 18, 2010 | On the topic of homosexuality, Andrew Sullivan has stated “There are as many politics of homosexuality as there are words for it, and not all of them contain reason. And it is harder perhaps in this passionate area than in any other to separate a wish from an argument, a desire from a denial. This fracturing of discourse is more than a cultural problem; it is a political problem. Without at least some common ground, no effective compromise to the homosexual question will be possible. Matters may be resolved, as they have been in the case of abortion, by a stand-off in the forces of cultural war. But unless we begin to discuss this subject with a degree of restraint and reason, visceral unpleasantness will dog the question of homosexuality for a long time to come, intensifying the anxieties that politics is supposed to relieve.” Andrew Sullivan is a blogger (The Atlantic Online’s Daily Dish), a senior editor at The New Republic, and author of The Conservative Soul (HarperCollins, 2006). His 1993 TNR essay, “The Politics of Homosexuality,” was credited by the Nation magazine as the most influential article of the decade regarding gay rights. Sullivan is a graduate of Oxford University and has a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. Cosponsored by the Princeton University Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Center. | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Politics of Homosexuality - February 18, 2010 | On the topic of homosexuality, Andrew Sullivan has stated “There are as many politics of homosexuality as there are words for it, and not all of them contain reason. And it is harder perhaps in this passionate area than in any other to separate a wish from an argument, a desire from a denial. This fracturing of discourse is more than a cultural problem; it is a political problem. Without at least some common ground, no effective compromise to the homosexual question will be possible. Matters may be resolved, as they have been in the case of abortion, by a stand-off in the forces of cultural war. But unless we begin to discuss this subject with a degree of restraint and reason, visceral unpleasantness will dog the question of homosexuality for a long time to come, intensifying the anxieties that politics is supposed to relieve.” Andrew Sullivan is a blogger (The Atlantic Online’s Daily Dish), a senior editor at The New Republic, and author of The Conservative Soul (HarperCollins, 2006). His 1993 TNR essay, “The Politics of Homosexuality,” was credited by the Nation magazine as the most influential article of the decade regarding gay rights. Sullivan is a graduate of Oxford University and has a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. Cosponsored by the Princeton University Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Center. | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 103 | The Fruits of the Genome for Society PDF - February 17, 2010 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: The sequence of the human genome, the primary goal of the Human Genome Project, was achieved just a few years ago. Because our genomes are a string of 3 billion sequences of four chemical letters in the DNA polymer, the ability to obtain genomic sequences depended on revolutionary progress not just in DNA chemistry but also on the equally revolutionary advances in speed, capacity and versatility of digital computers. By far the most prominent result of the determination of the sequences of many hundreds of diverse organisms is the unambiguous reality that all these organisms are related to each other by descent, as predicted by Darwin. Another clear conclusion from sequence analysis is the realization that the human species is extremely young in evolutionary terms, and originated in Africa before radiating out of Africa into the rest of the world. Among the many more practical benefits to society provided by our knowledge of genomic sequences has been in the realms of forensics and medicine. Probably the most important medical results are the identification, through their inheritance in families, of thousands of genes that cause inherited diseases. Among them are genes that cause inherited predispositions to breast cancer, colon cancer, and kidney cancer, among others. Study of how these genes cause relatively rare forms of cancer has informed our understanding of cancer generally. Another benefit of the genomic sequences is that they allow us, for the first time, to study the activities of all the genes simultaneously, using once again a combination of new DNA chemistry and computational methods. With these methods it has become possible to study, at a comprehensive (genome-wide) level, the differences in gene activity that accompany the transformation of tissues from normal to cancerous, and to classify different subtypes of cancers by their “molecular signatures”. We now can distinguish several kinds of breast cancer, some of which are more aggressive and lethal than others, and some of which are uniquely sensitive to new classes of unusually effective drugs directed specifically at these subtypes. Further info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2010/02/the_fruits_of_the_genome_for_society.html | 2/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Fruits of the Genome for Society - February 17, 2010 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: The sequence of the human genome, the primary goal of the Human Genome Project, was achieved just a few years ago. Because our genomes are a string of 3 billion sequences of four chemical letters in the DNA polymer, the ability to obtain genomic sequences depended on revolutionary progress not just in DNA chemistry but also on the equally revolutionary advances in speed, capacity and versatility of digital computers. By far the most prominent result of the determination of the sequences of many hundreds of diverse organisms is the unambiguous reality that all these organisms are related to each other by descent, as predicted by Darwin. Another clear conclusion from sequence analysis is the realization that the human species is extremely young in evolutionary terms, and originated in Africa before radiating out of Africa into the rest of the world. Among the many more practical benefits to society provided by our knowledge of genomic sequences has been in the realms of forensics and medicine. Probably the most important medical results are the identification, through their inheritance in families, of thousands of genes that cause inherited diseases. Among them are genes that cause inherited predispositions to breast cancer, colon cancer, and kidney cancer, among others. Study of how these genes cause relatively rare forms of cancer has informed our understanding of cancer generally. Another benefit of the genomic sequences is that they allow us, for the first time, to study the activities of all the genes simultaneously, using once again a combination of new DNA chemistry and computational methods. With these methods it has become possible to study, at a comprehensive (genome-wide) level, the differences in gene activity that accompany the transformation of tissues from normal to cancerous, and to classify different subtypes of cancers by their “molecular signatures”. We now can distinguish several kinds of breast cancer, some of which are more aggressive and lethal than others, and some of which are uniquely sensitive to new classes of unusually effective drugs directed specifically at these subtypes. Further info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2010/02/the_fruits_of_the_genome_for_society.html | 2/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 105 | VideoThe Man Who Loved China - February 11, 2010 | Seldom can it be said that any one person ever managed to change the outside world’s perception of an entire nation, an entire people. But, beginning in 1954, Joseph Needham (1900–1995), a Cambridge biochemist, a figure dauntingly eccentric and brilliantly polymathic in equal measure, did just that. This account, drawn from his diaries and letters and the immense and extraordinary book he spent half a lifetime writing, is his remarkable story. A graduate of Oxford University, Simon Winchester began his career as a journalist in 1967 and has covered numerous stories for The Guardian and The Sunday Times, including the Ulster crisis, the creation of Bangladesh, the fall of President Ferdinand Marcos, the Watergate affair, the Jonestown massacre, the assassination of Anwar Sadat, and the Falklands War. He has worked as a free-lance writer for more than 20 years, contributing to Harper’s, Smithsonian, National Geographic, The Spectator, Granta, the New York Times, and The Atlantic, and publishing several best-selling books. He has written The River at the Center of the World, about China’s Yangtze River; the bestselling The Professor and the Madman; The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans, which tells the story of his journey from Austria to Turkey during the 1999 war in Kosovo; and The Map That Changed the World, about 19th-century geologist William Smith. In addition he is the author of the best-selling Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 and A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906. His latest book is The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (May 2008). | 2/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Man Who Loved China - February 11, 2010 | Seldom can it be said that any one person ever managed to change the outside world’s perception of an entire nation, an entire people. But, beginning in 1954, Joseph Needham (1900–1995), a Cambridge biochemist, a figure dauntingly eccentric and brilliantly polymathic in equal measure, did just that. This account, drawn from his diaries and letters and the immense and extraordinary book he spent half a lifetime writing, is his remarkable story. A graduate of Oxford University, Simon Winchester began his career as a journalist in 1967 and has covered numerous stories for The Guardian and The Sunday Times, including the Ulster crisis, the creation of Bangladesh, the fall of President Ferdinand Marcos, the Watergate affair, the Jonestown massacre, the assassination of Anwar Sadat, and the Falklands War. He has worked as a free-lance writer for more than 20 years, contributing to Harper’s, Smithsonian, National Geographic, The Spectator, Granta, the New York Times, and The Atlantic, and publishing several best-selling books. He has written The River at the Center of the World, about China’s Yangtze River; the bestselling The Professor and the Madman; The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans, which tells the story of his journey from Austria to Turkey during the 1999 war in Kosovo; and The Map That Changed the World, about 19th-century geologist William Smith. In addition he is the author of the best-selling Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 and A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906. His latest book is The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (May 2008). A Spencer Trask lecture | 2/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 107 | Brian Kernighan: Millions, Billions, Zillions -- (In)numeracy Still Matters PDF - February 3, 2010 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: As calculators and computers have become steadily more powerful, they have buried us in an avalanche of numbers and graphs and charts, many of which claim to present the truth about important issues. But at the same time, our personal facility with numbers has diminished, often leaving us at the mercy of quantitative reasoning and presentation that is sometimes wrong and often not disinterested. For the past ten years, Dr. Kernighan has been teaching a course that satisfies "QR", Princeton's dreaded Quantitative Reasoning requirement. Increasingly, he has come to view a significant part of the QR component as basic numeric self-defense: assessing the numbers presented by other people, and producing sensible numbers of one's own. In this talk, he'll explore some of the central ideas, with plenty of illustrative examples. Further info at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2010/02/millions_billions_zillions_innumeracy_still_matters.html. | 2/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian Kernighan: Millions, Billions, Zillions -- (In)numeracy Still Matters - February 3, 2010 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: As calculators and computers have become steadily more powerful, they have buried us in an avalanche of numbers and graphs and charts, many of which claim to present the truth about important issues. But at the same time, our personal facility with numbers has diminished, often leaving us at the mercy of quantitative reasoning and presentation that is sometimes wrong and often not disinterested. For the past ten years, Dr. Kernighan has been teaching a course that satisfies "QR", Princeton's dreaded Quantitative Reasoning requirement. Increasingly, he has come to view a significant part of the QR component as basic numeric self-defense: assessing the numbers presented by other people, and producing sensible numbers of one's own. In this talk, he'll explore some of the central ideas, with plenty of illustrative examples. Further info at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2010/02/millions_billions_zillions_innumeracy_still_matters.html. | 2/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 109 | VideoGreen Fluorescent Protein: Lighting Up Life - January 28, 2010 | Martin Chalfie, chair and professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). GFP has become a fundamental tool in cell biology, developmental biology, genetics, neurobiology and the medical sciences. It has permitted scientists to study damaged cells in Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and genetic disorders. It also has many applications in industry. Chalfie has a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard University. A Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture | 1/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Green Fluorescent Protein: Lighting Up Life - January 28, 2010 | Martin Chalfie, chair and professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). GFP has become a fundamental tool in cell biology, developmental biology, genetics, neurobiology and the medical sciences. It has permitted scientists to study damaged cells in Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and genetic disorders. It also has many applications in industry. Chalfie has a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard University. A Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture | 1/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In Pursuit of the Salesman: Mathematics at the Limit of Computation - December 16, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: The traveling salesman problem, or TSP for short, is easy to state: given a number of cities along with the cost of travel between each pair of them, find the cheapest way to visit them all and return to your starting point. Easy to state, but difficult to solve! Despite decades of research by top applied mathematicians around the world, in general it is not known how to significantly improve upon simple brute-force checking. It is a real possibility that there may never exist an efficient method that is guaranteed to solve every instance of the problem. This is a deep mathematical question: Is there an efficient solution method or not? The topic goes to the core of complexity theory concerning the limits of feasible computation. For the stout-hearted who would like to tackle the general version of the TSP, the Clay Mathematics Institute will hand over a $1,000,000 prize to anyone who can either produce an efficient general method or prove an impossibility result. The complexity question that is the subject of the Clay Prize is the Holy Grail of traveling-salesman-problem research and we may be far from seeing its resolution. This is not to say that mathematicians have thus far come away empty-handed. Within the theoretical community the problem has led to a large number of results and conjectures that are both beautiful and deep. In the arena of exact computation, an 85,900-city challenge problem was solved in 2006, when the optimal tour was pulled out of a mind-boggling number of candidates in a computation that took the equivalent of 136 years on top-of-the-line computer workstations. On the practical side, solution methods are used to compute optimal or near-optimal tours for a host of applied problems on a daily basis, from genome sequencing to arranging music on iPods. In this talk Dr. Cook discusses the history, applications, and computation of this fascinating problem. | 12/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 112 | VideoInternational Forum with May Cheng: "Afghanistan 2009: A Reality Check with Amb. Robert Finn" | In addition to being the former ambassador to Afghanistan, Robert Finn is a Lecturer in Near Eastern Studies and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School | 12/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 113 | Toward Quantum Computing - PDF - December 9, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Imagine a computer that made direct use of quantum mechanical phenomena. Such a machine would likely operate exponentially faster than our present computers. Zahid Hasan is leading an international scientific collaboration that has observed an exciting and strange behavior in electrons' spin within a new material that could be harnessed to transform computing and electronics. The team believes that the discovery is an advancement in the fundamental physics of quantum systems and could lead to significant advances in electronics, computing and information science. The team has been searching for a material whose atoms, when placed in certain configurations, would trigger electrons to produce exotic "quantum" effects. In the Feb. 13 issue of Science, the team reported this behavior in a carefully constructed crystal made of an antimony alloy laced with bismuth. The behavior involves a strange form of rotation that could potentially transform computing and storage. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/12/toward_quantum_computing.html | 12/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Toward Quantum Computing - December 9, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Imagine a computer that made direct use of quantum mechanical phenomena. Such a machine would likely operate exponentially faster than our present computers. Zahid Hasan is leading an international scientific collaboration that has observed an exciting and strange behavior in electrons' spin within a new material that could be harnessed to transform computing and electronics. The team believes that the discovery is an advancement in the fundamental physics of quantum systems and could lead to significant advances in electronics, computing and information science. The team has been searching for a material whose atoms, when placed in certain configurations, would trigger electrons to produce exotic "quantum" effects. In the Feb. 13 issue of Science, the team reported this behavior in a carefully constructed crystal made of an antimony alloy laced with bismuth. The behavior involves a strange form of rotation that could potentially transform computing and storage. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/12/toward_quantum_computing.html | 12/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Inequality - December 7, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: In the Internet's early years, some observers believed that the new technology would reduce social inequality in at least two ways. First, by reducing the price of information, it would make information more available, and therefore level the playing field. Second, because young people appeared to have the inside track in mastering and using the new technologies (and because youth is negatively associated with wealth and uncorrelated with other indicators of socioeconomic status), some felt that the advantage of the young would likewise reduce certain kinds of inequality in access to and use of information. By contrast, other more jaded observers predicted that the well to do and well educated would use their resources to extract more benefit from the Web than for their less prosperous and well schooled neighbors, reproducing or even exacerbating inequality rather than moderating it. Now that the commercial Internet is almost 15 years old, which of these two groups of prophets proved more prescient? Based on research that Dr. DiMaggio and his students have carried out, he will address three issues. First, what is the status of the digital divide? Which divides (i.e. inequality in accessw to the Internet between which groups) have persisted and which have moderated over time, and why? Second, once people go on-line, how does social inequality shape their experience --- how they use the Internet and what they get out of it? Third, what difference does it make? What evidence addresses the question of whether access to and use of the internet does (or does not) improve people's life chances and ability to participate in their communities? More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/12/digital_inequality.html | 12/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 116 | VideoIs an Eclipse Described in Homer's Odyssey? – November 30, 2009 | Plutarch and Heraclitus believed that a certain passage in the 20th book of The Odyssey (“Theoclymenus’s prophecy”) was a poetic description of a total solar eclipse. In the late 1920s Schoch and Neugebauer computed that the solar eclipse of 16 April 1178 B.C.E. was total over the Ionian Islands and was the only suitable eclipse in more than a century to agree with classical estimates of the decade-earlier sack of Troy around 1192–1184 B.C.E. However, much skepticism remains about whether the verses refer to this, or any, eclipse. Marcelo Magnasco and his colleague Constantino Baikouzis of the Observatorio Astronomico in La Plata, Argentina analyzed other astronomical references in the epic, without assuming the existence of an eclipse, and searched for dates matching the astronomical phenomena they probably describe. Using three astronomical references in the epic—Boötes and the Pleiades, Venus, and the New Moon—and supplementing them with a conjectural identification of Hermes’s trip to Ogygia with the motion of planet Mercury, they searched all possible dates in the span 1250–1115 B.C., trying to match these phenomena in the order and manner that the text describes. In that period, a single date closely matches the phenomena: 16 April 1178 B.C.E. They speculate that the astronomical references in the epic, plus the disputed eclipse reference, may refer to that specific eclipse. | 11/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 117 | VideoAmerica's War on Immigrants: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions - December 10, 2009 | 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. | 11/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is an Eclipse Described in Homer's Odyssey? – November 30, 2009 | Plutarch and Heraclitus believed that a certain passage in the 20th book of The Odyssey (“Theoclymenus’s prophecy”) was a poetic description of a total solar eclipse. In the late 1920s Schoch and Neugebauer computed that the solar eclipse of 16 April 1178 B.C.E. was total over the Ionian Islands and was the only suitable eclipse in more than a century to agree with classical estimates of the decade-earlier sack of Troy around 1192–1184 B.C.E. However, much skepticism remains about whether the verses refer to this, or any, eclipse. Marcelo Magnasco and his colleague Constantino Baikouzis of the Observatorio Astronomico in La Plata, Argentina analyzed other astronomical references in the epic, without assuming the existence of an eclipse, and searched for dates matching the astronomical phenomena they probably describe. Using three astronomical references in the epic—Boötes and the Pleiades, Venus, and the New Moon—and supplementing them with a conjectural identification of Hermes’s trip to Ogygia with the motion of planet Mercury, they searched all possible dates in the span 1250–1115 B.C., trying to match these phenomena in the order and manner that the text describes. In that period, a single date closely matches the phenomena: 16 April 1178 B.C.E. They speculate that the astronomical references in the epic, plus the disputed eclipse reference, may refer to that specific eclipse. | 11/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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America's War on Immigrants: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions - December 10, 2009 | 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. | 11/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 120 | VideoThe Role of Europe in a Multilateral World - November 19, 2009 | In his lecture, “The Role of Europe in a Multilateral World,” Romano Prodi will examine the benefits and challenges presented by the European Union’s expansion. Although the enlargement of the union has had significant impact on the democratic transition in eastern Europe and has extended European markets, there is no unanimity on issues of security, energy, and foreign affairs. Prodi maintains that if the EU aims to play a key role on the world’s political stage, it will need to develop an integrated European foreign policy. Trained in law and economics, Dr. Prodi graduated from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan) and the London School of Economics. He taught at the University of Bologna before entering politics. A founder of the center-left coalition, the Olive Tree, he served as prime minister of Italy from 1996 to 1998. He then served as president of the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, from 1999 to 2004. During that period he presided over the eastward expansion of the European Union and the adoption of the euro as a common currency. He returned to Italian politics, once more serving as prime minister, from 2006 to 2008. Prodi is currently professor-at-large at the Watson Institute for international studies at Brown University. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Role of Europe in a Multilateral World - November 19, 2009 | In his lecture, “The Role of Europe in a Multilateral World,” Romano Prodi will examine the benefits and challenges presented by the European Union’s expansion. Although the enlargement of the union has had significant impact on the democratic transition in eastern Europe and has extended European markets, there is no unanimity on issues of security, energy, and foreign affairs. Prodi maintains that if the EU aims to play a key role on the world’s political stage, it will need to develop an integrated European foreign policy. Trained in law and economics, Dr. Prodi graduated from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan) and the London School of Economics. He taught at the University of Bologna before entering politics. A founder of the center-left coalition, the Olive Tree, he served as prime minister of Italy from 1996 to 1998. He then served as president of the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, from 1999 to 2004. During that period he presided over the eastward expansion of the European Union and the adoption of the euro as a common currency. He returned to Italian politics, once more serving as prime minister, from 2006 to 2008. Prodi is currently professor-at-large at the Watson Institute for international studies at Brown University. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 122 | Smart Art: Database Tools for Research and Curation - PDF - November 18, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: The Princeton University Art Museum, Educational Technologies Center, and the Broadcast Center have collaborated on a number of projects over the years. Just completed is a website to accompany the Museum’s exhibition, Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. The website highlights the unique and compelling archaeological art primarily from the first millennia A.D. of the Bering Strait region. For this and other projects, the museum and ETC have written special components to connect to the museum’s SQL Collection Information Management System and deliver content and images through Roxen. Art Museum staff will share the decision to partner with OIT and to use Roxen as its content management system; discuss the potential of the Roxen connection to the Museum’s database to enhance access to collections and scholarship; and demonstrate how this sustainable “single source” architecture works for Art Museum collection information online. More info at: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/11/smart_art_database_tools_for_research_and_curation.html | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Smart Art: Database Tools for Research and Curation - November 18, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: The Princeton University Art Museum, Educational Technologies Center, and the Broadcast Center have collaborated on a number of projects over the years. Just completed is a website to accompany the Museum’s exhibition, Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. The website highlights the unique and compelling archaeological art primarily from the first millennia A.D. of the Bering Strait region. For this and other projects, the museum and ETC have written special components to connect to the museum’s SQL Collection Information Management System and deliver content and images through Roxen. Art Museum staff will share the decision to partner with OIT and to use Roxen as its content management system; discuss the potential of the Roxen connection to the Museum’s database to enhance access to collections and scholarship; and demonstrate how this sustainable “single source” architecture works for Art Museum collection information online. More info at: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/11/smart_art_database_tools_for_research_and_curation.html | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 124 | Henry Umansky: "Managing Content on the Princeton Web" - PDF - November 11, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Discusses the concepts and philosophies underlying Content Management Systems, the pros and cons of using a Content Management System, and briefly touches on some of the tools available at Princeton, notably SharePoint, Xythos, and Roxen. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/11/managing_content_on_the_princeton_web.html | 11/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Henry Umansky: "Managing Content on the Princeton Web" - November 11, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Discusses the concepts and philosophies underlying Content Management Systems, the pros and cons of using a Content Management System, and briefly touches on some of the tools available at Princeton, notably SharePoint, Xythos, and Roxen. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/11/managing_content_on_the_princeton_web.html | 11/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 126 | Marvin Bielawski, Nancy Pressman Levy, Richard Schulz: "Princeton's Partnership with Google Books" - PDF - November 4, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: The speakers describe the Library's Partnership Project with Google. In addition to describing recent developments, the talk will provide an update on the Google Settlement from the Library's perspective. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/11/princetons_partnership_with_google_books.html | 11/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marvin Bielawski, Nancy Pressman Levy, Richard Schulz: "Princeton's Partnership with Google Books" - November 4, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: The speakers describe the Library's Partnership Project with Google. In addition to describing recent developments, the talk will provide an update on the Google Settlement from the Library's perspective. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/11/princetons_partnership_with_google_books.html | 11/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 128 | Dave Wirth: "Voice Over IP at Princeton" - PDF - October 28, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Discussion of new possibilities and future uses of VoIP on campus plus other emerging voice technologies including Google Voice, some new ways to keep track of calls, new ways to make calls, and some new ways to keep in touch. Further info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/10/digital_telephony_at_princeton.html | 10/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dave Wirth: "Voice Over IP at Princeton" - October 28, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Discussion of new possibilities and future uses of VoIP on campus plus other emerging voice technologies including Google Voice, some new ways to keep track of calls, new ways to make calls, and some new ways to keep in touch. Further info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/10/digital_telephony_at_princeton.html | 10/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 130 | VideoFlocks and Fleets: Collective Motion in Nature and Robotics - October 22, 2009 | On October 22, 2009, Naomi Leonard spoke about motion in nature and robotics in the first of a series of lectures hosted by President Shirley Tilghman. | 10/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Flocks and Fleets: Collective Motion in Nature and Robotics - October 22, 2009 | On October 22, 2009, Naomi Leonard spoke about motion in nature and robotics in the first of a series of lectures hosted by President Shirley Tilghman. | 10/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Neurology Can Tell Us about Human Nature - October 15, 2009 | Studies of neurological patients can provide insight into the workings of the brain and suggest new treatments. The first section of the lecture will focus on phantom limbs as a key to understanding brain functions. We show that far from having fixed connections, even the basic “wiring ” of the brain is constantly being modified in response to changing sensory inputs. This has theoretical implications as well as practical implications for recovery of function from stroke, phantom pain, and RSD and has ushered in a new era for treating neurological diseases. The second part of the talk will be about synesthesia, an inherited condition in which sounds and printed numbers are seen as colored. We show its neural basis and suggest it might provide clues to understanding high-level brain functions, such as metaphor and abstraction, that make human brains unique. V.S. Ramachandran is director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, and adjunct professor of biology at the Salk Institute. Initially trained as a physician, Dr. Ramachandran switched to research very early in his career, obtaining a a Ph.D. from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He has pursued two parallel careers, one in human vision and the other in behavioral neurology. He is best known for his experiments, some of which, despite their simplicity, have had far-reaching impact on the field. Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins has called him the Marco Polo of neuroscience, and Nobel laureate Eric Kandel refers to him as “The modern Paul Broca.” His work is featured frequently in the major news media. Newsweek magazine recently included him among the “hundred most prominent people to watch in the next century.” | 10/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 133 | VideoWhat Neurology Can Tell Us about Human Nature - October 15, 2009 | Studies of neurological patients can provide insight into the workings of the brain and suggest new treatments. The first section of the lecture will focus on phantom limbs as a key to understanding brain functions. We show that far from having fixed connections, even the basic “wiring ” of the brain is constantly being modified in response to changing sensory inputs. This has theoretical implications as well as practical implications for recovery of function from stroke, phantom pain, and RSD and has ushered in a new era for treating neurological diseases. The second part of the talk will be about synesthesia, an inherited condition in which sounds and printed numbers are seen as colored. We show its neural basis and suggest it might provide clues to understanding high-level brain functions, such as metaphor and abstraction, that make human brains unique. V.S. Ramachandran is director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, and adjunct professor of biology at the Salk Institute. Initially trained as a physician, Dr. Ramachandran switched to research very early in his career, obtaining a a Ph.D. from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He has pursued two parallel careers, one in human vision and the other in behavioral neurology. He is best known for his experiments, some of which, despite their simplicity, have had far-reaching impact on the field. Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins has called him the Marco Polo of neuroscience, and Nobel laureate Eric Kandel refers to him as “The modern Paul Broca.” His work is featured frequently in the major news media. Newsweek magazine recently included him among the “hundred most prominent people to watch in the next century.” | 10/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 134 | John Jameson, Shani Hilton: "Blogs, Lulz and Tweets - Social Media Comes to Princeton" - PDF - October 14, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: More traffic comes to Princeton.edu from Facebook, Wikipedia, College Confidential, FARK, and StumbleUpon than any mainstream media news site. Controlling Princeton's image on these social media sites is not always possible, but joining the conversation often is. Using examples from our institutional presence as well as faculty presence on the social Web, we will explore the role social media can take in a strategic communications plan. For departments and individuals considering establishing or expanding a presence on the social Web, we will review the considerations that should be addressed before taking the plunge. We believe asking the right questions will save time and increase your impact. We will discuss who the audience is and what they expect, comment moderation policies, correctly incorporating University Web policy, and potential legal pitfalls. Speaker Bios: Shani Hilton and John Jameson chair the Social Media SPIN committee, which consists of campus communicators leading departmental and institutional social media initiatives. Hilton and Jameson work in the Office of Communications, to which they bring 9 years of professional experience and 826 Facebook friends. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/10/blogs_lulz_and_tweets_social_media_comes_to_princeton.html | 10/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Jameson, Shani Hilton: "Blogs, Lulz and Tweets - Social Media Comes to Princeton" - October 14, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: More traffic comes to Princeton.edu from Facebook, Wikipedia, College Confidential, FARK, and StumbleUpon than any mainstream media news site. Controlling Princeton's image on these social media sites is not always possible, but joining the conversation often is. Using examples from our institutional presence as well as faculty presence on the social Web, we will explore the role social media can take in a strategic communications plan. For departments and individuals considering establishing or expanding a presence on the social Web, we will review the considerations that should be addressed before taking the plunge. We believe asking the right questions will save time and increase your impact. We will discuss who the audience is and what they expect, comment moderation policies, correctly incorporating University Web policy, and potential legal pitfalls. Speaker Bios: Shani Hilton and John Jameson chair the Social Media SPIN committee, which consists of campus communicators leading departmental and institutional social media initiatives. Hilton and Jameson work in the Office of Communications, to which they bring 9 years of professional experience and 826 Facebook friends. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/10/blogs_lulz_and_tweets_social_media_comes_to_princeton.html | 10/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 136 | VideoThe Future of Conservatism - October 12, 2009 | This panel discussion among four conservative thinkers will address the role of conservatism in the current political arena—where it fits in the major parties, what role it may play in the next election, and what will happen to the right and far right. Ross Douthat is an author and blogger. Formerly a senior editor at The Atlantic, he is the author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (Hyperion, 2005) and, with Reihan Salam, Grand New Party (Doubleday, 2008). In 2009 he replaced William Kristol as the conservative columnist at the New York Times. David Frum was an economic speechwriter for former President George W. Bush. A resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute and a former contributing editor of National Review, he is the founder of NewMajority.com, a site “dedicated to the modernization and renewal of the Republican party and the conservative movement.” He is the author of several books, most recently, Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again (2008). Daniel Larison is a contributing editor at The American Conservative, which publishes his blog Eunomia. A scholar of Byzantine history, Larison recently completed a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Virginia Postrel ‘82 is the author of The Future and Its Enemies (1998) and The Substance of Style (2003). From 1989 to 2000, she was the editor-in-chief of Reason. She has been an economics columnist for The New York Times, “Commerce and Culture” columnist for The Atlantic, and a columnist for Forbes and Forbes ASAP. A pioneering blogger, she currently edits a group blog at DeepGlamour.net and continues to blog sporadically at Dynamist.com, the website she founded in 1998. She is writing a book on glamour for The Free Press. | 10/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of Conservatism - October 12, 2009 | This panel discussion among four conservative thinkers will address the role of conservatism in the current political arena—where it fits in the major parties, what role it may play in the next election, and what will happen to the right and far right. Ross Douthat is an author and blogger. Formerly a senior editor at The Atlantic, he is the author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (Hyperion, 2005) and, with Reihan Salam, Grand New Party (Doubleday, 2008). In 2009 he replaced William Kristol as the conservative columnist at the New York Times. David Frum was an economic speechwriter for former President George W. Bush. A resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute and a former contributing editor of National Review, he is the founder of NewMajority.com, a site “dedicated to the modernization and renewal of the Republican party and the conservative movement.” He is the author of several books, most recently, Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again (2008). Daniel Larison is a contributing editor at The American Conservative, which publishes his blog Eunomia. A scholar of Byzantine history, Larison recently completed a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Virginia Postrel ‘82 is the author of The Future and Its Enemies (1998) and The Substance of Style (2003). From 1989 to 2000, she was the editor-in-chief of Reason. She has been an economics columnist for The New York Times, “Commerce and Culture” columnist for The Atlantic, and a columnist for Forbes and Forbes ASAP. A pioneering blogger, she currently edits a group blog at DeepGlamour.net and continues to blog sporadically at Dynamist.com, the website she founded in 1998. She is writing a book on glamour for The Free Press. | 10/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 138 | VideoSean Carroll, University of Wisconsin: "Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species" – Oct | The search for the origins of species has entailed a series of great adventures over the past 200 years. Biologist and author Sean B. Carroll will chronicle the exploits of a group of explorers who walked where no one had walked, saw what no one had seen, and thought what no one else had thought. Their achievements sparked a revolution that changed, profoundly and forever, our perception of the living world and our place within it. | 10/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin: "Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species" – Oct | The search for the origins of species has entailed a series of great adventures over the past 200 years. Biologist and author Sean B. Carroll will chronicle the exploits of a group of explorers who walked where no one had walked, saw what no one had seen, and thought what no one else had thought. Their achievements sparked a revolution that changed, profoundly and forever, our perception of the living world and our place within it. | 10/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Szymon Rusinkiewicz: "Reassembling the Wall Paintings of Thera" - September 30, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: The archaeological site of Akrotiri on the volcanic island of Thera (modern-day Santorini, Greece) has yielded an unparalleled trove of artifacts and information from the prehistoric Aegean. The ancient civilization was destroyed by a volcanic eruption, which buried the remains of a flourishing Late Bronze Age (c. 1630 B.C.) settlement in ash. Among the most significant finds are numerous wall paintings, ranging from naturalistic and narrative scenes to abstract motifs. However, these paintings are recovered as thousands of plaster fragments, and reassembling them consumes a substantial portion of the effort expended at Akrotiri. Dr. Rusinkiewicz will describe a system that uses 3-D and 2-D digitization hardware, together with computer-based matching techniques, to assist archaeologists and conservators in documenting and reassembling the wall paintings. Although mature technologies exist for acquiring images, geometry, and surface normals of small objects, they remain cumbersome and time-consuming for non-experts to employ on a large scale. Our system addresses the scalability, usability, and quality challenges of large-scale 3-D and 2-D digitization, by incorporating new algorithms to automatically align 3-D scans, register 2-D scans to 3-D geometry, and compute surface normals from 2-D scans. A novel 3-D matching algorithm efficiently searches for matching fragments using the scanned geometric models. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/10/reassembling_the_wall_paintings_of_thera.html | 9/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 141 | VideoWomen in Theatre conference: "Issues for the 21st Century" – September 26, 2009 | Women artists continue to be excluded from positions of power and visibility in the American theatre industry. Recent research, including a provocative study by Princeton alumni Emily Sands, indicates that plays by women are less frequently produced now than they were at the turn of the 20th century. More women have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in recent years, including Suzan-Lori Parks (Top Dog/Underdog) Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) and this year, Lynn Nottage (Ruined), but very few women ever win the Tony Award for playwrighting or directing. What does this imply? Why and how does gender disparity persist in theatre? Leading women involved with theatre will discuss these issues, their experiences and their vision in a day-long conference at Princeton University on Saturday, September 26th. | 9/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Women in Theatre conference: "Issues for the 21st Century" – September 26, 2009 | Women artists continue to be excluded from positions of power and visibility in the American theatre industry. Recent research, including a provocative study by Princeton alumni Emily Sands, indicates that plays by women are less frequently produced now than they were at the turn of the 20th century. More women have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in recent years, including Suzan-Lori Parks (Top Dog/Underdog) Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) and this year, Lynn Nottage (Ruined), but very few women ever win the Tony Award for playwrighting or directing. What does this imply? Why and how does gender disparity persist in theatre? Leading women involved with theatre will discuss these issues, their experiences and their vision in a day-long conference at Princeton University on Saturday, September 26th. | 9/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey: "Building Global Peace: Turkish Regional Foreign Policy Priori | Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pushed his counterparts around the world to pursue a "new global order" based on peace and trust rather than conflict in an address Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Princeton University. | 9/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 144 | VideoRecep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey: "Building Global Peace: Turkish Regional Foreign Policy Priori | Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pushed his counterparts around the world to pursue a "new global order" based on peace and trust rather than conflict in an address Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Princeton University. | 9/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 145 | VideoSteven Johnson, Author, The Ghost Map: "The Myth of the Echo Chamber: Politics in the Age of the Participatory Web" – Septemb | Steven Berlin Johnson is the author of The Ghost Map (2006), a chronicle of the 1854 cholera epidemic in London, and The Invention of Air (2008), the story of British scientist Joseph Priestly and his influence on the America's Founding Fathers. In this lecture Johnson will argue against those who maintain that the internet has fragmented society by enabling us to filter out voices with viewpoints different from our own. On the contrary, he claims that the internet promotes a diversity far more comprehensive than older forms of media. | 9/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steven Johnson, Author, The Ghost Map: "The Myth of the Echo Chamber: Politics in the Age of the Participatory Web" – Septemb | Steven Berlin Johnson is the author of The Ghost Map (2006), a chronicle of the 1854 cholera epidemic in London, and The Invention of Air (2008), the story of British scientist Joseph Priestly and his influence on the America's Founding Fathers. In this lecture Johnson will argue against those who maintain that the internet has fragmented society by enabling us to filter out voices with viewpoints different from our own. On the contrary, he claims that the internet promotes a diversity far more comprehensive than older forms of media. | 9/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 147 | VideoPresident Shirley M. Tilghman: "Opening Exercises: A University Convocation" – September 13, 2009 | President Shirley M. Tilghman addressed the class of 2013 at the event "Opening Exercises: A University Convocation," which was held in the University Chapel on September 13, 2009. | 9/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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President Shirley M. Tilghman: "Opening Exercises: A University Convocation" – September 13, 2009 | President Shirley M. Tilghman addressed the class of 2013 at the event "Opening Exercises: A University Convocation," which was held in the University Chapel on September 13, 2009. | 9/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 149 | VideoPrinceton University's 262nd Commencement ceremony – June 2, 2009 | The University's 262nd Commencement ceremony was held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 2, on the lawn in front of Nassau Hall. Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman presided and addressed the graduates. | 6/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Princeton University's 262nd Commencement ceremony – June 2, 2009 | The University's 262nd Commencement ceremony was held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 2, on the lawn in front of Nassau Hall. Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman presided and addressed the graduates. | 6/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Princeton University's Hooding ceremony – June 1, 2009 | The Hooding ceremony for advanced degree candidates was held at 5 p.m. Monday, June 1, in McCarter Theatre. Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman and Graduate School Dean William Russel presided. | 6/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 152 | VideoPrinceton University's Hooding ceremony – June 1, 2009 | The Hooding ceremony for advanced degree candidates was held at 5 p.m. Monday, June 1, in McCarter Theatre. Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman and Graduate School Dean William Russel presided. | 6/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Princeton University's Class Day ceremony – June 1, 2009 | The Class Day ceremony for seniors took place at 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 1, 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* Katie Couric's keynote address is not featured in this podcast. | 6/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 154 | VideoPrinceton University's Class Day ceremony – June 1, 2009 | The Class Day ceremony for seniors took place at 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 1, 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* Katie Couric's keynote address is not featured in this podcast. | 6/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Princeton University's Baccalaureate ceremony – May 31, 2009 | The Baccalaureate service took place at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 31, in the University Chapel. The speaker was U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, a Princeton graduate alumnus and commander of the U.S. Central Command. | 5/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 156 | VideoPrinceton University's Baccalaureate ceremony – May 31, 2009 | The Baccalaureate service took place at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 31, in the University Chapel. The speaker was U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, a Princeton graduate alumnus and commander of the U.S. Central Command. | 5/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reunions Seminar 2009: Family Wealth, Values, and Legacies – May 30, 2009 | Thomas C. Rogerson, Managing Director, Family Wealth, BNY Wealth Management, presented an inspiring and informative session to Princeton alumni on how families with significant means can ensure that personal wealth is transferred where and how they choose. Held on May 30, 2009 at the Frist Campus Center. | 5/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 158 | VideoInternational Forum with May Cheng: "Of Bugs and Men - Fighting Infectious Diseases in the 21st Century: A Conversation with Ad | Hosted by May Cheng, this program explores international and national issues with Princeton University specialists including faculty members, former ambassadors and government officials and visiting foreign officers. This episode features Adel Mahmoud, Senior Policy Analyst and Lecturer with the rank of Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School and the University’s Department of Molecular Biology, and former president of Merck Vaccines. | 5/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 159 | Matthew Botvinick: Computer Modeling of the Mind and Brain - May 6, 2009 PDF | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Brain ==> Computation ==> Behavior. Matthew Botvinick's lab works at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology and computer science, seeking to clarify the computational and neural foundations of human behavior. In pursuit of this mission, they employ a diverse set of research tools, including functional neuroimaging (fMRI), behavioral techniques (reaction time, error, and decision analyses), and computational modeling (neural networks, reinforcement learning models, and belief nets), typically applying multiple techniques to a single problem. They are leveraging these tools to investigate a range of specific research questions, spanning the topics of cognitive control, working memory, decision making, sequential action, and language processing. Current projects include the monitoring and control of cognitive processing, the control of sequential behavior, and the representation of sequential order in working memory. For more information see: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/05/computer_modeling_of_the_mind_and_brain.html | 5/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matthew Botvinick: Computer Modeling of the Mind and Brain - May 6, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Brain ==> Computation ==> Behavior. Matthew Botvinick's lab works at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology and computer science, seeking to clarify the computational and neural foundations of human behavior. In pursuit of this mission, they employ a diverse set of research tools, including functional neuroimaging (fMRI), behavioral techniques (reaction time, error, and decision analyses), and computational modeling (neural networks, reinforcement learning models, and belief nets), typically applying multiple techniques to a single problem. They are leveraging these tools to investigate a range of specific research questions, spanning the topics of cognitive control, working memory, decision making, sequential action, and language processing. Current projects include the monitoring and control of cognitive processing, the control of sequential behavior, and the representation of sequential order in working memory. For more information see: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/05/computer_modeling_of_the_mind_and_brain.html | 5/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 161 | Mark Cohen, Ben Johnston: The Cairo Geniza - Ancient Papers in the Digital Age - April 29, 2009 PDF | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: In 1986, Cohen and a colleague in Near Eastern Studies proposed starting a computerized database of Geniza documents. It now contains more than 4,000 documents. Discussed are the background and challenges of this project. For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/04/the_cairo_geniza_ancient_papers_in_the_digital_age.html. | 5/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark Cohen, Ben Johnston: The Cairo Geniza - Ancient Papers in the Digital Age - April 29, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: In 1986, Cohen and a colleague in Near Eastern Studies proposed starting a computerized database of Geniza documents. It now contains more than 4,000 documents. Discussed are the background and challenges of this project. For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/04/the_cairo_geniza_ancient_papers_in_the_digital_age.html. | 5/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 163 | Daniel Santamaria: Manuscripts and Archives - Library Finding Aids - April 22, 2009 PDF | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: An introduction to Encoded Archival Description (EAD) (an international XML metadata standard developed by the archival community that provides a standard structure for finding aids) and Princeton's EAD website. For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/04/archives_and_manuscripts_library_finding_aids.html. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Santamaria: Manuscripts and Archives - Library Finding Aids - April 22, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: An introduction to Encoded Archival Description (EAD) (an international XML metadata standard developed by the archival community that provides a standard structure for finding aids) and Princeton's EAD website. For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/04/archives_and_manuscripts_library_finding_aids.html. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Doug Dixon: Flash Forward - The Rise of Small Tech Gadgets - April 15, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Doug Dixon (Manifest Technologies) presents the latest toys from the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. Flash memory and solid state drives abound in thumb drives, video cameras, etc. Is the hard drive, as we know it, soon to be a thing of the past? For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/04/flash_forward_the_rise_of_small_tech_gadgets.html. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 166 | Michael G. Littman: All Aboard! Teaching Engineering with Computerized Toys PDF - April 1, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Imagine being paid, or getting Princeton credit, for playing with trains and LEGOs™. For more than 25 years, Professor Michael G. Littman, of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton, has taught MAE 412 Microprocessors for Measurement and Control, a course about microcomputer control. Littman believes that the use of the toys helps to engage students in important engineering concepts. Learn how Professor Littman and his students are using embedded microcomputers to keep model trains from colliding or control a LEGO™ Mars Rover. For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/04/embedded_microcomputers_for_teaching.html. | 4/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael G. Littman: All Aboard! Teaching Engineering with Computerized Toys - April 1, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Imagine being paid, or getting Princeton credit, for playing with trains and LEGOs™. For more than 25 years, Professor Michael G. Littman, of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton, has taught MAE 412 Microprocessors for Measurement and Control, a course about microcomputer control. Littman believes that the use of the toys helps to engage students in important engineering concepts. Learn how Professor Littman and his students are using embedded microcomputers to keep model trains from colliding or control a LEGO™ Mars Rover. For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/04/embedded_microcomputers_for_teaching.html. | 4/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Betty Leydon, Emily Carter, Jennifer Rexford, Olga Troyanskaya: Women in Research Computing - March 25, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Princeton University's Vice President for Information Technology and CIO, Betty Leydon, moderates a panel of three "women in research computing." The panelists, Emily Carter (Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics), Olga Troyanskaya (Assistant Professor of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics), and Jennifer Rexford (Professor of Computer Science), summarize their use of Princeton's high-performance computing facilities and then enter into a dialogue about varied issues, from the challenges of performing research in a male-dominated field to the importance of mentorship. How did they overcome or work around political and societal obstacles? How do they deal with the different work/life expectations that our society places on women? Do they see progress toward equaling the playing field? For more information, see: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/03/women_in_research_computing.html. | 3/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 169 | David Hopkins, Lance Herrington: Princeton University's Broadcast Center - First Cuts PDF - March 11, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Broadcast Center Director David Hopkins and videographer Lance Herrington provide a summary of this new facility's capabilities and talk about some of its first productions. | 3/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Hopkins, Lance Herrington: Princeton University's Broadcast Center - First Cuts - March 11, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Broadcast Center Director David Hopkins and videographer Lance Herrington provide a summary of this new facility's capabilities and talk about some of its first productions. For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/03/princeton_universitys_broadcast_center_first_cuts.html. | 3/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 171 | Andrea LaPaugh: Foundations and Future of Information Search PDF - March 4, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Everyone googles - in the U.S, about 12 billion times a month (including search engines that aren’t Google). We are mostly pleased with the results we get. How can it be that we give an automated system a couple of words and it finds reasonably relevant documents among one hundred billion or so possibilities? Will our satisfaction with these tools increase or decrease as the Web and our expectations grow? Dr. LaPaugh gives a peek “under the hood” and discuss core techniques used by search engines. These techniques range from word occurrence analysis for text documents, originating in the 1960s, to Web linking analysis, pioneered by Google’s 1998 PageRank document ranking method. Dr. LaPaugh also discusses the challenges of non-text media such as music and images and new techniques, including exploiting user behavior. Bio: Andrea LaPaugh is a Professor of Computer Science. Her research is in the development and evaluation of methods for searching and analyzing information. She is currently teaching COS 435: Information Retrieval, Discovery, and Delivery. For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/03/foundations_and_future_of_information_searchfoundations_and_future_of_information_search.html. | 3/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrea LaPaugh: Foundations and Future of Information Search - March 4, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Everyone googles - in the U.S, about 12 billion times a month (including search engines that aren’t Google). We are mostly pleased with the results we get. How can it be that we give an automated system a couple of words and it finds reasonably relevant documents among one hundred billion or so possibilities? Will our satisfaction with these tools increase or decrease as the Web and our expectations grow? Dr. LaPaugh gives a peek “under the hood” and discuss core techniques used by search engines. These techniques range from word occurrence analysis for text documents, originating in the 1960s, to Web linking analysis, pioneered by Google’s 1998 PageRank document ranking method. Dr. LaPaugh also discusses the challenges of non-text media such as music and images and new techniques, including exploiting user behavior. Bio: Andrea LaPaugh is a Professor of Computer Science. Her research is in the development and evaluation of methods for searching and analyzing information. She is currently teaching COS 435: Information Retrieval, Discovery, and Delivery. For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/03/foundations_and_future_of_information_searchfoundations_and_future_of_information_search.html. | 3/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 173 | Keith Gresham, David Hollander: Creative Commons - Guilt-Free Reuse of Others' Work PDF- February 25, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Current copyright law can create problems and generate confusion for members of campus who would like to incorporate existing photographs, illustrations, music, video, and other forms of creative content into their own publications, presentations, and projects. Creative Commons provides an easy-to-understand alternative to traditional copyright and is designed precisely to encourage people to share and build upon the work of others. Creators of content disseminated on the Web can use Creative Commons licenses to invite others to reuse, transform, and republish their intellectual property, all without cost to either party and without having to obtain time-consuming permissions. Creative Commons make use of four different license conditions--attribution, share-alike, noncommercial, and no derivative works--in varying combinations to create six distinct--and free--usage licenses. It is estimated that several million pages of web content are currently governed by Creative Commons licenses. This presentation will provide participants with an introduction to the core principles of Creative Commons; provide a brief overview of the various Creative Commons licenses and their conditions; demonstrate how to locate and use Web-based content governed by the licenses; and explain how and why individuals on campus should use Creative Commons licenses when displaying their own creative works on the Web. Bio: Keith Gresham began serving as Associate University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services at Princeton this past fall and is providing leadership within the organization for reference services; research, instruction, and outreach programs; and document delivery/interlibrary loan and microform operations. Keith's areas of scholarly investigation include information literacy programs and initiatives in higher education, uses of technology in the provision of library services, and pedagogical models of library instruction for undergraduates. Most recently he has been examining how the growing use of social software among undergraduates may necessitate changes to our current understanding of teaching and learning processes. Prior to joining Princeton, Keith worked in similar positions at the University of Vermont Libraries and at the University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. He holds a graduate degree in library science from the University of Washington and an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/02/creative_commons_guiltfree_reuse_of_others_work.html | 3/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Keith Gresham, David Hollander: Creative Commons - Guilt-Free Reuse of Others' Work - February 25, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Current copyright law can create problems and generate confusion for members of campus who would like to incorporate existing photographs, illustrations, music, video, and other forms of creative content into their own publications, presentations, and projects. Creative Commons provides an easy-to-understand alternative to traditional copyright and is designed precisely to encourage people to share and build upon the work of others. Creators of content disseminated on the Web can use Creative Commons licenses to invite others to reuse, transform, and republish their intellectual property, all without cost to either party and without having to obtain time-consuming permissions. Creative Commons make use of four different license conditions--attribution, share-alike, noncommercial, and no derivative works--in varying combinations to create six distinct--and free--usage licenses. It is estimated that several million pages of web content are currently governed by Creative Commons licenses. This presentation will provide participants with an introduction to the core principles of Creative Commons; provide a brief overview of the various Creative Commons licenses and their conditions; demonstrate how to locate and use Web-based content governed by the licenses; and explain how and why individuals on campus should use Creative Commons licenses when displaying their own creative works on the Web. Bio: Keith Gresham began serving as Associate University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services at Princeton this past fall and is providing leadership within the organization for reference services; research, instruction, and outreach programs; and document delivery/interlibrary loan and microform operations. Keith's areas of scholarly investigation include information literacy programs and initiatives in higher education, uses of technology in the provision of library services, and pedagogical models of library instruction for undergraduates. Most recently he has been examining how the growing use of social software among undergraduates may necessitate changes to our current understanding of teaching and learning processes. Prior to joining Princeton, Keith worked in similar positions at the University of Vermont Libraries and at the University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. He holds a graduate degree in library science from the University of Washington and an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. For more information see http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/02/creative_commons_guiltfree_reuse_of_others_work.html | 3/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Claire Gmachl, Jim Smith: Infrared Optical Sensing for Health and the Environment - February 18, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: The National Science Foundation has funded a multimillion-dollar Engineering Research Center based at Princeton University that is expected to revolutionize sensor technology, yielding devices that have a unique ability to detect minute amounts of chemicals found in the atmosphere, emitted from factories or exhaled in human breath. The speakers will talk about the work of the center and discuss an atmospheric field campaign in Beijing this summer. The summer field campaign was directed at monitoring air quality, clouds and precipitation during the 2008 Olympic games. Of particular importance are analyses of the impacts of pollution reduction strategies implemented for the Olympic Games. The center – dubbed MIRTHE, for Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment – will combine the work of about 40 faculty members, 10 post-docs, 70 graduate students and 30 undergraduates from the six universities. The center also is collaborating with dozens of industrial partners to turn the technology into commercial products, and is working with several educational outreach partners, which will use MIRTHE’s research as a vehicle for improving science and engineering education. The goal of the research is to produce devices that are so low in cost and easy to use that they transform aspects of the way doctors care for patients, local agencies monitor air quality, governments guard against attack and scientists understand the evolution of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. | 2/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 176 | Claire Gmachl, Jim Smith: Infrared Optical Sensing for Health and the Environment PDF - February 18, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: The National Science Foundation has funded a multimillion-dollar Engineering Research Center based at Princeton University that is expected to revolutionize sensor technology, yielding devices that have a unique ability to detect minute amounts of chemicals found in the atmosphere, emitted from factories or exhaled in human breath. The speakers will talk about the work of the center and discuss an atmospheric field campaign in Beijing this summer. The summer field campaign was directed at monitoring air quality, clouds and precipitation during the 2008 Olympic games. Of particular importance are analyses of the impacts of pollution reduction strategies implemented for the Olympic Games. The center – dubbed MIRTHE, for Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment – will combine the work of about 40 faculty members, 10 post-docs, 70 graduate students and 30 undergraduates from the six universities. The center also is collaborating with dozens of industrial partners to turn the technology into commercial products, and is working with several educational outreach partners, which will use MIRTHE’s research as a vehicle for improving science and engineering education. The goal of the research is to produce devices that are so low in cost and easy to use that they transform aspects of the way doctors care for patients, local agencies monitor air quality, governments guard against attack and scientists understand the evolution of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. | 2/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 177 | Sam Wang: The Princeton Election Consortium - A First Draft of Electoral History PDF - February 11, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: How we experience political races is dominated by opinion polls. Polling data can be confusing because of their sheer number. In 2008, hundreds of polls were released during the Presidential campaign. Is there a way to cut through the resulting noise? Four years ago Dr. Wang devised a statistical approach to analyze state polls to get a single, easy-to-understand snapshot of the race, viewed from the point of view of the Electoral College. In 2008, this approach made near-perfect predictions of the electoral vote count as well as Senate and House outcomes. Meta-analysis of polls also allowed the horserace to be tracked with high accuracy. Presidential races are stable most of the time, with game-changing events happening only once a month on average. Dr. Wang will show which events helped Barack Obama and John McCain - and which did not. Bio: Sam Wang is an Associate Professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Molecular Biology. He has published fifty papers in neuroscience, including many contributions to the statistical analysis of complex data. He has received young investigator awards from the W.M. Keck Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Before coming to Princeton he worked at Bell Labs and spent a year as a member of Congressional staff. He is a co-author of the award-winning bestseller "Welcome To Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How To Drive." He lives with his wife and daughter in Princeton, NJ. More information is available at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/02/sam_wang_election_predictions_and_more.html. | 2/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sam Wang: The Princeton Election Consortium - A First Draft of Electoral History - February 11, 2009 | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: How we experience political races is dominated by opinion polls. Polling data can be confusing because of their sheer number. In 2008, hundreds of polls were released during the Presidential campaign. Is there a way to cut through the resulting noise? Four years ago Dr. Wang devised a statistical approach to analyze state polls to get a single, easy-to-understand snapshot of the race, viewed from the point of view of the Electoral College. In 2008, this approach made near-perfect predictions of the electoral vote count as well as Senate and House outcomes. Meta-analysis of polls also allowed the horserace to be tracked with high accuracy. Presidential races are stable most of the time, with game-changing events happening only once a month on average. Dr. Wang will show which events helped Barack Obama and John McCain - and which did not. Bio: Sam Wang is an Associate Professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Molecular Biology. He has published fifty papers in neuroscience, including many contributions to the statistical analysis of complex data. He has received young investigator awards from the W.M. Keck Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Before coming to Princeton he worked at Bell Labs and spent a year as a member of Congressional staff. He is a co-author of the award-winning bestseller "Welcome To Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How To Drive." He lives with his wife and daughter in Princeton, NJ. More information is available at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/02/sam_wang_election_predictions_and_more.html. | 2/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 179 | VideoAn Interview With Maria E. Moreyra Garlock: "Behind the Candela Exhibit" - February 12, 2009 | Engineering assistant professor Maria Garlock describes how Princeton students helped research and build models for an exhibition on architect Félix Candela. | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 180 | Sanjeev Arora: Computational Intractability - A Barrier for Computers, Man, and Science PDF | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: We have begun to develop an understanding of what makes computational tasks "intractable" not just for current computers but for all foreseeable computers. This has implications for many scientific fields. An overview of the field and the research center headquartered at Princeton. More information available at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/12/computational_intractability_a_barrier_for_computers_man_and_science.html. | 12/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sanjeev Arora: Computational Intractability - A Barrier for Computers, Man, and Science | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: We have begun to develop an understanding of what makes computational tasks "intractable" not just for current computers but for all foreseeable computers. This has implications for many scientific fields. An overview of the field and the research center headquartered at Princeton. More information available at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/12/computational_intractability_a_barrier_for_computers_man_and_science.html. | 12/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 182 | Adriana Popescu, Priscilla Treadwell: E-books - Princeton and Beyond PDF | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: When e-books began to appear in the early 2000’s, there was speculation about the demise of the printed book. While that clearly did not come to pass, e-books did become a staple of the reference holdings of many libraries. Since then, both the library and consumer markets have matured, and despite all predictions and speculations, at Princeton University Library, print books and e-books have continued to co-exist quite nicely. Princeton University Press feels that this is the time to step into electronic publishing in a significant way. Therefore, they’ve embarked on a digital publishing initiative to make a substantial amount of their print content available in a variety of electronic formats for distribution into the library and consumer markets. This panel will present both the library and publisher perspectives: Princeton University Library’s selection process for e-books, and the usage patterns at the University that reveal what readers in an academic environment like and don’t like about e-books; and Princeton University Press’s rationale for making certain content available to both the library and consumer markets, including a discussion of their recent launch with books for sale on the Amazon Kindle reading device. More information is available at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/12/ebooks_princeton_and_beyond.html. | 12/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adriana Popescu, Priscilla Treadwell: E-books - Princeton and Beyond | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: When e-books began to appear in the early 2000’s, there was speculation about the demise of the printed book. While that clearly did not come to pass, e-books did become a staple of the reference holdings of many libraries. Since then, both the library and consumer markets have matured, and despite all predictions and speculations, at Princeton University Library, print books and e-books have continued to co-exist quite nicely. Princeton University Press feels that this is the time to step into electronic publishing in a significant way. Therefore, they’ve embarked on a digital publishing initiative to make a substantial amount of their print content available in a variety of electronic formats for distribution into the library and consumer markets. This panel will present both the library and publisher perspectives: Princeton University Library’s selection process for e-books, and the usage patterns at the University that reveal what readers in an academic environment like and don’t like about e-books; and Princeton University Press’s rationale for making certain content available to both the library and consumer markets, including a discussion of their recent launch with books for sale on the Amazon Kindle reading device. More information is available at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/12/ebooks_princeton_and_beyond.html. | 12/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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JamieRankin: Technology in the Classroom - Training and Mentoring Teaching Assistants | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Discussed are a database for graduate student instructors and a web site developed by these instructors where students of introductory German may mingle in a culturally pertinent cafe environment. More information is available at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/11/das_cafe_technology_in_the_language_classroom.html. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 185 | Bill Guthe, Ben Johnston: Google Earth and Sky PDF | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Google Earth and Maps are used extensively for instruction at Princeton. The talk describes some of these applications, the nature of Google Earth, and some features of Google Sky, which is found within the Google Earth application. More information is available at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/11/google_earth_sky.html. | 11/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bill Guthe, Ben Johnston: Google Earth and Sky | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Google Earth and Maps are used extensively for instruction at Princeton. The talk describes some of these applications, the nature of Google Earth, and some features of Google Sky, which is found within the Google Earth application. More information is available at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/11/google_earth_sky.html. | 11/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 187 | VideoElection '08: The Aftermath – November 5, 2008 | A Roundtable discussion with Cornel West '80, Eddie Glaude '79, Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, Julian Zelizer, and Farah Jasmine Griffin. Sponsored by the Center for African American Studies, the Graduate School and the Office of Academic Affairs and Diversity. | 11/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Election '08: The Aftermath – November 5, 2008 | A Roundtable discussion with Cornel West '80, Eddie Glaude '79, Anne-Marie Slaughter '80, Julian Zelizer, and Farah Jasmine Griffin. Sponsored by the Center for African American Studies, the Graduate School and the Office of Academic Affairs and Diversity. | 11/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice: "The Lighter Side of Life at the U.S. Supreme Court: Customs and Habits that Promot | Followed by a Discussion with Princeton University Provost Christopher Eisgruber. Walter E. Edge Lecture/Marshall Harlan '20 Lecture, cosponsored by the Program in Law and Public Affairs. | 10/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 190 | VideoRuth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice: "The Lighter Side of Life at the U.S. Supreme Court: Customs and Habits that Promot | Followed by a Discussion with Princeton University Provost Christopher Eisgruber. Walter E. Edge Lecture/Marshall Harlan '20 Lecture, cosponsored by the Program in Law and Public Affairs. | 10/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeroen Tromp, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Curt Hillegas: Applications of High Performance Computing at Princeton | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Two Princeton faculty describe their research uses of Princeton's high performance computing facilities. Professor Anatoly Spitkovsky will discuss "Simulations of Astrophysical Shocks. He will talk about the first-principles plasma simulations of shock waves in astrophysics, addressing a very simple-sounding problem --- what happens when two clouds of ionized gas collide in space? Professor Jeroen Tromp will talk about "Simulating the Big One, a large-scale 3D numerical simulations of seismic waves generated by real and hypothetical earthquakes and the resulting response of engineered structures. Bios: Curt Hillegas is Director of the TIGRESS High-Performance Computing Center and Computational Science and Engineering with OIT's Academic Services. Anatoly Spitkovsky is Assistant Professor of Astrophysical Sciences. Jeroen Tromp is Professor of Geosciences and Applied and Computational Mathematics. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/10/applications_of_high_performance_computing.html | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 192 | Anthony Scaturro: Cyber Security for Non-technical Users PDF | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Your work or home computer may contain information about yourself, (e.g., tax returns and other personal information), about others (e.g., work-related reports, databases), or about matters you are working on (e.g., research) that you may not want to share with the public. It is not uncommon for computer users to assume that the various computer and software vendors sell products that will protect such information “out-of-the-box.“ While their products may contain security mechanisms, it’s important for each of us to be informed and to make a concerted effort to keep our systems safe. In this session, the University’s IT Security Officer, Anthony Scaturro, will discuss the threats that computer hackers pose to your systems, the kind information that may be in jeopardy, and measures that you personally can take to reduce your exposure. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/10/is_your_computer_secure.html | 10/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthony Scaturro: Cyber Security for Non-technical Users Non-technical Users | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: Your work or home computer may contain information about yourself, (e.g., tax returns and other personal information), about others (e.g., work-related reports, databases), or about matters you are working on (e.g., research) that you may not want to share with the public. It is not uncommon for computer users to assume that the various computer and software vendors sell products that will protect such information “out-of-the-box.“ While their products may contain security mechanisms, it’s important for each of us to be informed and to make a concerted effort to keep our systems safe. In this session, the University’s IT Security Officer, Anthony Scaturro, will discuss the threats that computer hackers pose to your systems, the kind information that may be in jeopardy, and measures that you personally can take to reduce your exposure. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/10/is_your_computer_secure.html | 10/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marcia Angell, Harvard Medical School: "Reforming Our Health System: Why Neither Candidate Has the Answer" – September 17, 20 | Marcia Angell, M.D. is the author of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. Former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and trained in internal medicine and pathology, she has been a frequent critic of the U.S. healthcare system and the pharmaceutical industry. Her lecture will examine the American health system, which she believes is rapidly self-destructing. Costs per capita are more than double what they are in other advanced nations and rising at an unsustainable rate. Yet our health outcomes are worse than in most of these nations, and we provide fewer of many basic services. Moreover, a growing number of Americans have inadequate health insurance or none at all. Both major presidential candidates promise to reform our health system incrementally. But they face the following dilemma: If they try to control costs, coverage will inevitably shrink. On the other hand, if they try to expand coverage, costs will rise. The candidates have embraced opposite horns of this dilemma. Senator McCain has opted for holding down costs by passing more of the burden to individuals, even though it means more people will be without health care. Senator Obama has opted for increasing coverage, even though it means adding to the staggering costs. Neither is a long-term solution. The only way to have universal health care at a sustainable cost is to overhaul the system entirely. Dr. Angell will explain why that is so, and what needs to be done. | 9/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 195 | VideoMarcia Angell, Harvard Medical School: "Reforming Our Health System: Why Neither Candidate Has the Answer" – September 17, 20 | Marcia Angell, M.D. is the author of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. Former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and trained in internal medicine and pathology, she has been a frequent critic of the U.S. healthcare system and the pharmaceutical industry. Her lecture will examine the American health system, which she believes is rapidly self-destructing. Costs per capita are more than double what they are in other advanced nations and rising at an unsustainable rate. Yet our health outcomes are worse than in most of these nations, and we provide fewer of many basic services. Moreover, a growing number of Americans have inadequate health insurance or none at all. Both major presidential candidates promise to reform our health system incrementally. But they face the following dilemma: If they try to control costs, coverage will inevitably shrink. On the other hand, if they try to expand coverage, costs will rise. The candidates have embraced opposite horns of this dilemma. Senator McCain has opted for holding down costs by passing more of the burden to individuals, even though it means more people will be without health care. Senator Obama has opted for increasing coverage, even though it means adding to the staggering costs. Neither is a long-term solution. The only way to have universal health care at a sustainable cost is to overhaul the system entirely. Dr. Angell will explain why that is so, and what needs to be done. | 9/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steven Adams: Research Hacks - TIps & Tools for the Busy Scholar for the Busy Scholar | Lunch 'n Learn presentation: The vast print and online resources of the Princeton University Library can be a bit overwhelming to both nascent and seasoned scholars. Most scholars and researchers are so busy with their daily responsibilities that there’s little opportunity for exploration and staying current with new technologies and resources. In this talk, Steven Adams, the Biological and Life Sciences Librarian and Interim Psychology Librarian, will show you how to establish a system that watches over your research interests and brings interesting material directly to you in ways that are easy to process and digest. Steven will focus on several time-saving library research tools that will transform the way you search the literature. Most notably, Steven will officially launch the LibX PUL toolbar, an amazing browser plug-in that amalgamates several databases and library systems to make the research process more efficient. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/09/research_hacks_tips_tools_for_the_busy_scholar.html Speaker Bio: Steven Adams is the Biological and Life Sciences Librarian and Interim Psychology Librarian at Princeton University. In this position, he is responsible for doing collection development, instruction, outreach, and reference for Princeton's Molecular Biology Department, the Psychology Department, and the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department. Steven is currently working on developing innovative library services for the new Lewis Science Library, which opened this semester. He is also working with Janet Temos on the library component of the Princeton University Island in Second Life. | 9/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Assembly for the Class of 2012 – September 7, 2008 | Gideon Rosen, Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Council of the Humanities addressed the Class of 2012 in Matthews Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. | 9/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 198 | VideoAssembly for the Class of 2012 – September 7, 2008 | Gideon Rosen, Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Council of the Humanities addressed the Class of 2012 in Matthews Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. | 9/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 199 | VideoClass of 2012 Opening Exercises: A University Convocation – September 7, 2008 | On Sunday, President Shirley M. Tilghman addressed the Class of 2012 during the Opening Exercises. Several undergraduate prizes for academic distinction were awarded during this interfaith service, held at the University Chapel. | 9/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Class of 2012 Opening Exercises: A University Convocation – September 7, 2008 | On Sunday, President Shirley M. Tilghman addressed the Class of 2012 during the Opening Exercises. Several undergraduate prizes for academic distinction were awarded during this interfaith service, held at the University Chapel. | 9/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 201 | VideoPrinceton University's 261st Commencement ceremony – June 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. | 6/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Princeton University's 261st Commencement ceremony – June 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. | 6/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 203 | VideoPrinceton University's Hooding ceremony – June 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. | 6/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Princeton University's Hooding ceremony – June 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. | 6/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 205 | VideoPrinceton University's Class Day ceremony – June 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. | 6/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Princeton University's Class Day ceremony – June 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. | 6/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Princeton University's Baccalaureate ceremony – June 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. | 6/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 208 | VideoPrinceton University's Baccalaureate ceremony – June 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. | 6/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reunions Seminar 2008: "Estate Planning with William D. Zabel '58" – 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. | 5/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 210 | David Hopkins, Princeton University: Tuning In or Tuning Out? The New World of Digital TV PDF | 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 | 4/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Hopkins, Princeton University: Tuning In or Tuning Out? The New World of Digital TV | 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 | 4/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Douglas Dixon, Manifest Technology: The Joys and Ploys of Little Toys | 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 | 4/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ira Fuchs, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Emerging Tools for Research and Instruction | 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 | 4/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 214 | Mark Ratliff, Princeton University: Collaboration Tools at Princeton PDF | 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. | 4/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark Ratliff, Princeton University: Collaboration Tools at Princeton | 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. | 4/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Julie Shackford, Princeton University: The Sporting Edge - IT Tools for Winning Soccer | 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 | 4/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 217 | Emmanuel Kreike, Princeton University: Beyond Words: Environmental History, Digitization and GIS PDF | 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 | 3/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emmanuel Kreike, Princeton University: Beyond Words: Environmental History, Digitization and GIS | 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 | 3/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 219 | VideoEdwidge Danticat: "Create Dangerously - The Immigrant Artist at Work" – March 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. | 3/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edwidge Danticat: "Create Dangerously - The Immigrant Artist at Work" – March 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. | 3/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 221 | Shana Weber, Princeton University: The Greening of Technology - Sustainability Initiatives at Princeton PDF | 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 | 3/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shana Weber, Princeton University: The Greening of Technology - Sustainability Initiatives at Princeton | 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 | 3/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 223 | John Haldon, Princeton University: History, Remote Sensing, and GIS - The Avkat Survey Project PDF | 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 | 3/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Haldon, Princeton University: History, Remote Sensing, and GIS - The Avkat Survey Project | 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 | 3/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 225 | VideoAlexander Nehamas, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature: "'Because It Was He, Because It Was I' The Good of Frie | 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.” | 3/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alexander Nehamas, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature: "'Because It Was He, Because It Was I' The Good of Frie | 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.” | 3/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 227 | Robert Vanderbei: Digitizing the Universe From Your Backyard PDF | 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 | 3/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 228 | VideoPublic address by King Abdullah II, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University – February 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. | 2/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Public address by King Abdullah II, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University – February 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. | 2/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Vanderbei: Digitizing the Universe From Your Backyard | 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 | 2/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Hass, poet: "Poetry Reading" – February 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 | 2/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 232 | VideoRobert Hass, poet: "Poetry Reading" – February 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 | 2/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 233 | Brian Kernighan: The Changing Face of Programming PDF | 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 | 2/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian Kernighan: The Changing Face of Programming | 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 | 2/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 235 | VideoKrista Tippett, Founder and host of American Public Media's "Speaking of Faith": "Reading from 'Speaking of Faith' Followed by | The founder and host of American Public Media's "Speaking of Faith" will read from her book. Leigh Schmidt (Department of Religion), Matt Hedstrom (Center for the Study of Religion), and Judith Weisenfeld (Department of Religion) will be the panel participants. Carolyn Rouse, Department of Anthropology, will serve as moderator. A journalist and former diplomat, Krista Tippett conceived the idea for "Speaking of Faith" while consulting for the ecumenical institute of St. John's Abbey, Collegeville. She has hosted and produced the program at American Public Media since it began as an occasional feature in 2000, before taking on its current form as a national weekly program in 2003. Tippett is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and a former Fulbright Scholar. In divided Berlin in the 1980s she reported for The New York Times, Newsweek, the BBC and other international news organizations, and later served as special assistant to the U.S. ambassador to the former West Germany. A Spencer Trask Lecture cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology | 2/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Krista Tippett, Founder and host of American Public Media's "Speaking of Faith": "Reading from 'Speaking of Faith' Followed by | The founder and host of American Public Media's "Speaking of Faith" will read from her book. Leigh Schmidt (Department of Religion), Matt Hedstrom (Center for the Study of Religion), and Judith Weisenfeld (Department of Religion) will be the panel participants. Carolyn Rouse, Department of Anthropology, will serve as moderator. A journalist and former diplomat, Krista Tippett conceived the idea for "Speaking of Faith" while consulting for the ecumenical institute of St. John's Abbey, Collegeville. She has hosted and produced the program at American Public Media since it began as an occasional feature in 2000, before taking on its current form as a national weekly program in 2003. Tippett is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and a former Fulbright Scholar. In divided Berlin in the 1980s she reported for The New York Times, Newsweek, the BBC and other international news organizations, and later served as special assistant to the U.S. ambassador to the former West Germany. A Spencer Trask Lecture cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology | 2/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Martin Luther King Day Celebration - José Huizar, Princeton University Trustee: "Keynote Address" – January 21, 2008 | The theme of this year's program is immigration, a hotly debated topic today that is relevant to King given his concern for humanity. The keynote address will be delivered by José Huizar, a Princeton trustee and graduate alumnus who is the first Latino immigrant to serve as a member of the Los Angeles City Council. The event will include the presentation of awards to essay, poster and video contest winners in grades 4 through 12 from area schools, who submitted entries reflecting their views on how King might have participated in today's immigration debate. In addition, the University will present the MLK Day Journey Award, recognizing a member of the Princeton faculty, staff or student body who best represents King's continued journey. The event also will include a performance by the CASYM Steel Orchestra of New York. Huizar earned his master's in public affairs and urban and regional planning from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1994. He was named to the University's Board of Trustees in 2005, the same year he was elected to the Los Angeles City Council. As a City Council member, Huizar's focus has included enhancing public safety, strengthening education and youth programs, and building more affordable housing and public transportation. Previously, Huizar served two terms as president of the board of education for the Los Angeles Unified School District. During his tenure, he oversaw plans to build more than 160 new schools within eight years, the largest school construction program in the nation's history. He also led a successful effort to reform the high school curriculum to ensure that all students, regardless of their backgrounds, will complete courses required for admission to one of California's public universities. Huizar, who was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and raised in Los Angeles, has received numerous awards and distinctions, including being named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in America by Hispanic Business magazine. He previously served as a deputy city attorney in the Real Estate and Environmental Division of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office and as an associate with several private law firms. The event is convened by the University's Martin Luther King Day Committee and is coordinated by the Office of Communications and the Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity. | 1/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 238 | VideoMartin Luther King Day Celebration - José Huizar, Princeton University Trustee: "Keynote Address" – January 21, 2008 | The theme of this year's program is immigration, a hotly debated topic today that is relevant to King given his concern for humanity. The keynote address will be delivered by José Huizar, a Princeton trustee and graduate alumnus who is the first Latino immigrant to serve as a member of the Los Angeles City Council. The event will include the presentation of awards to essay, poster and video contest winners in grades 4 through 12 from area schools, who submitted entries reflecting their views on how King might have participated in today's immigration debate. In addition, the University will present the MLK Day Journey Award, recognizing a member of the Princeton faculty, staff or student body who best represents King's continued journey. The event also will include a performance by the CASYM Steel Orchestra of New York. Huizar earned his master's in public affairs and urban and regional planning from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1994. He was named to the University's Board of Trustees in 2005, the same year he was elected to the Los Angeles City Council. As a City Council member, Huizar's focus has included enhancing public safety, strengthening education and youth programs, and building more affordable housing and public transportation. Previously, Huizar served two terms as president of the board of education for the Los Angeles Unified School District. During his tenure, he oversaw plans to build more than 160 new schools within eight years, the largest school construction program in the nation's history. He also led a successful effort to reform the high school curriculum to ensure that all students, regardless of their backgrounds, will complete courses required for admission to one of California's public universities. Huizar, who was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and raised in Los Angeles, has received numerous awards and distinctions, including being named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in America by Hispanic Business magazine. He previously served as a deputy city attorney in the Real Estate and Environmental Division of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office and as an associate with several private law firms. The event is convened by the University's Martin Luther King Day Committee and is coordinated by the Office of Communications and the Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity. | 1/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Computing in the Cloud - Part 6: "What's next?" – January 15, 2008 | "Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 6 includes the third panel of the workshop, entitled "What's next?". What new services might develop, and how will today's services evolve? How well will cloud computing be likely to serve users, companies, investors, government, and the public over the longer run? Which social and policy problems will get worse due to cloud computing, and which will get better? Sponsored by Microsoft and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 240 | VideoComputing in the Cloud - Part 6: "What's next?" – January 15, 2008 | "Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 6 includes the third panel of the workshop, entitled "What's next?". What new services might develop, and how will today's services evolve? How well will cloud computing be likely to serve users, companies, investors, government, and the public over the longer run? Which social and policy problems will get worse due to cloud computing, and which will get better? Sponsored by Microsoft and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Computing in the Cloud - Part 5: "Civics in the cloud" – January 15, 2008 | "Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 5 includes the third panel of the workshop, entitled "Civics in the cloud". How and where can cloud computing best improve public knowledge and engagement in political issues? What has been achieved so far? What is possible in the long run? What moves by private actors, and what policy changes, might do the most to harness the power of cloud computing for civic engagement? Sponsored by Microsoft and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 242 | VideoComputing in the Cloud - Part 5: "Civics in the cloud" – January 15, 2008 | "Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 5 includes the third panel of the workshop, entitled "Civics in the cloud". How and where can cloud computing best improve public knowledge and engagement in political issues? What has been achieved so far? What is possible in the long run? What moves by private actors, and what policy changes, might do the most to harness the power of cloud computing for civic engagement? Sponsored by Microsoft and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 243 | VideoComputing in the Cloud - Part 4: "Princeton Research" – January 15, 2008 | "Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 4 includes a presentation and discussion of Princeton research. Sponsored by Microsoft and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Computing in the Cloud - Part 4: "Princeton Research" – January 15, 2008 | "Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 4 includes a presentation and discussion of Princeton research. Sponsored by Microsoft and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 245 | VideoComputing in the Cloud - Part 3: "Security and risk in the cloud" – January 14, 2008 | "Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 3 includes the second panel of the workshop, entitled "Security and risk in the cloud". How does the move to centralized services affect the security and reliability of users' interactions with technology? What new threats are likely to emerge? How might provider behavior, user behavior, or government policy need to change in response to those threats? How does the "open source" ethos work in a cloud computing environment? Sponsored by Microsoft and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. | 1/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Computing in the Cloud - Part 3: "Security and risk in the cloud" – January 14, 2008 | "Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 3 includes the second panel of the workshop, entitled "Security and risk in the cloud". How does the move to centralized services affect the security and reliability of users' interactions with technology? What new threats are likely to emerge? How might provider behavior, user behavior, or government policy need to change in response to those threats? How does the "open source" ethos work in a cloud computing environment? Sponsored by Microsoft and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. | 1/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 247 | VideoComputing in the Cloud - Part 2: "Possession and ownership of data" – January 14, 2008 | "Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 2 includes the first panel of the workshop, entitled "Possession and ownership of data". In cloud computing, a provider’s data center holds information that would more traditionally have been stored on the end user’s computer. How does this impact user privacy? To what extent do users “own” this data, and what obligations do the service providers have? What obligations should they have? Does moving the data to the provider’s data center improve security or endanger it? Sponsored by Microsoft and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. | 1/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Computing in the Cloud - Part 2: "Possession and ownership of data" – January 14, 2008 | "Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 2 includes the first panel of the workshop, entitled "Possession and ownership of data". In cloud computing, a provider’s data center holds information that would more traditionally have been stored on the end user’s computer. How does this impact user privacy? To what extent do users “own” this data, and what obligations do the service providers have? What obligations should they have? Does moving the data to the provider’s data center improve security or endanger it? Sponsored by Microsoft and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. | 1/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Computing in the Cloud - Part 1: "Introduction" – January 14, 2008 | "Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 1 includes introductory remarks by H. Vincent Poor, and a survey talk by Ed Felten. Sponsored by Microsoft and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. | 1/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 250 | VideoComputing in the Cloud - Part 1: "Introduction" – January 14, 2008 | "Computing in the cloud" is one name for services that run in a Web browser and store information in a provider's data center — ranging from adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new offerings such as virtual worlds and social networks. This workshop will bring together experts from computer science, law, politics and industry to explore the social and policy implications of this trend. Part 1 includes introductory remarks by H. Vincent Poor, and a survey talk by Ed Felten. Sponsored by Microsoft and Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. | 1/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 251 | Nancy Pressman Levy: Google Search Strategies PDF | Are you one of those Google searchers who just pop in a word or two in the search box and hope for the best? If so, this presentation is for you. This session covers *basic* Google searching tips which will help you to maximize the power of Google. Find out how you can limit your searches to a particular web site or domain (government, organization, university etc.), limit by file type, search for scholarly articles and books, perform calculations and more. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/01/google_search_strategies.html | 1/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nancy Pressman Levy: Google Search Strategies | Are you one of those Google searchers who just pop in a word or two in the search box and hope for the best? If so, this presentation is for you. This session covers *basic* Google searching tips which will help you to maximize the power of Google. Find out how you can limit your searches to a particular web site or domain (government, organization, university etc.), limit by file type, search for scholarly articles and books, perform calculations and more. More info: http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/01/google_search_strategies.html | 1/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 253 | VideoNicholas Stern, London School of Economics: "The Economics of Climate Change: Risk, Ethics, and a Global Deal" – January 7, 2 | The science of climate change structures the economics: risk of major damage and a global response must be at the core of an analysis of policy. History and wealth structure the ethics. The economics of climate change must, therefore, point to effective, efficient, and ethical, as well as collaborative, policy responses. This lecture will follow this analysis and describe a possible global deal or framework and how it might be built. Lord Stern is I.G. Patel Professor of Economics and Government and heads a new India Observatory within the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. He has been an adviser to the U.K. government on the economics of climate change and development, reporting to the prime minister from 2003-2007; author of the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change; and the head of the government economic service. From 2003-2005, he was second permanent secretary to the Treasury and from 2004-2005, director of policy and research for the prime minister's commission for Africa. He has also served as World Bank chief economist and senior vice president, development economics. In addition he has been the chief economist and special counsellor to the president at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. His most recent book on development, Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen, was published in April 2005. The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change was published in October 2006 (http://www.sternreview.org.uk), and in printed form by Cambridge University Press in January 2007. A Walter E. Edge Lecture, cosponsored by the Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy and the Princeton Environmental Institute | 1/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics: "The Economics of Climate Change: Risk, Ethics, and a Global Deal" – January 7, 2 | The science of climate change structures the economics: risk of major damage and a global response must be at the core of an analysis of policy. History and wealth structure the ethics. The economics of climate change must, therefore, point to effective, efficient, and ethical, as well as collaborative, policy responses. This lecture will follow this analysis and describe a possible global deal or framework and how it might be built. Lord Stern is I.G. Patel Professor of Economics and Government and heads a new India Observatory within the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. He has been an adviser to the U.K. government on the economics of climate change and development, reporting to the prime minister from 2003-2007; author of the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change; and the head of the government economic service. From 2003-2005, he was second permanent secretary to the Treasury and from 2004-2005, director of policy and research for the prime minister's commission for Africa. He has also served as World Bank chief economist and senior vice president, development economics. In addition he has been the chief economist and special counsellor to the president at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. His most recent book on development, Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen, was published in April 2005. The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change was published in October 2006 (http://www.sternreview.org.uk), and in printed form by Cambridge University Press in January 2007. A Walter E. Edge Lecture, cosponsored by the Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy and the Princeton Environmental Institute | 1/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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