I can definitively say that I will never attend another Princeton reunion. The university abandoned its scriptural foundation long ago and it shows no signs of returning. Sadly, the same can be said for the seven other Ivy League schools & other universities with similar reputations. The drunken debauchery I witnessed during of my 25th reunion is a testament to what these schools have become.

https://www.chirho.consulting/blog/one-of-the-most-disgusting-weekend-of-my-life

#Princeton #PrincetonUniversity #PrincetonReunions #EndTimes #Apocalypse

The first week of the academic year is a wrap! And it’s been supercharged so far! Pro tip: Take time to step away from your desk. Face to face interactions can be serendipitous. Take in the scenery too. The afternoon light at Carl Icahn Laboratory is especially nice.

#princetonuniversity #worklifebalancematters
#explore #photography #saturday

Facebook’s Algorithm Is ‘Influential’ but Doesn’t Necessarily Change Beliefs, Researchers Say - In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook’s... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/technology/facebook-instagram-algorithms.html #corporatesocialresponsibility #nationalopinionresearchcenter #universityoftexasataustin #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #princetonuniversity #mobileapplications #newyorkuniversity #instagraminc

Card catalog at the #PrincetonUniversity #library. #DeweyDecimalSystem #Books #College

#RuthOrkin, #AlbertEinsteinalpranzo della #PrincetonUniversity ...

#RuthOrkin #photography

http://www.artribune.com/2014/05/ruth-orkin-e-morris-engel-quando-vita-e-arte-vanno-in-coppia/6-ruth-orkin-albert-einstein-al-pranzo-della-princeton-university-princeton-1953/

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Holography for people with no time

Henry W. Lin, Juan Maldacena, Liza Rozenberg, Jieru Shan
SciPost Phys. 14, 150 (2023)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.6.150

#IAS
#PrincetonUniversity
#SimonsFoundation
#DOE

Dezeen : SOM and Princeton University create self-balancing arch for Venice Architecture Biennale https://www.dezeen.com/2023/06/01/som-princeton-university-self-balancing-arch-venice-architecture-biennale/ #VeniceArchitectureBiennale #PrincetonUniversity #Augmentedreality #Architecture #Pavilions #Venice #all #SOM

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Looking at supersymmetric black holes for a very long time

Henry W. Lin, Juan Maldacena, Liza Rozenberg, Jieru Shan
SciPost Phys. 14, 128 (2023)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.5.128

#IAS #PrincetonUniversity
#SimonsFoundation #DOE

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

On classical and hybrid shadows of quantum states

Saumya Shivam, Curt W. von Keyserlingk, Shivaji L. Sondhi
SciPost Phys. 14, 094 (2023)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.5.094

#PrincetonUniversity
#KCL
#UniversityofBirmingham
#UniversityofOxford
#LeverhulmeTrust
#UKResearchandInnovation

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Conformal Carroll scalars with boosts

Stefano Baiguera, Gerben Oling, Watse Sybesma, Benjamin T. Søgaard
SciPost Phys. 14, 086 (2023)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.4.086

#BGU
#NORDITA
#UniversityofIceland
#PrincetonUniversity
#AzrieliFoundation
#DFG #ISF #NordForsk
#SwedishResearchCouncil

"Big oil on campus: how #US universities are ‘colonized’ by the fossil fuel industry - Students at #Princeton describe unease that #Exxon employee had an office on campus, while dozens of universities have big oil links

The lecturer looked, and sounded, the part. Sporting a pale blue shirt and Princeton University ID badge, he had his own office on campus, a short stroll from the room where several dozen students were gathered to hear him confidently talk about the challenges in moving away from fossil fuels.

But Tim Barckholtz is not a Princeton professor, but rather a senior scientific adviser at ExxonMobil, the oil giant that has done so much to both perpetuate and downplay the climate crisis. Barckholtz, an affable figure who has fronted adverts for Exxon touting its emissions reduction research, spent around six months sitting in and contributing to lectures and research groups, based in his own office space at the elite university.

Asked by a student about the Paris climate agreement, Barckholtz expressed doubt that it could be met as it was too hard to ditch fossil fuels. “I’m not optimistic, I’m going to call it the way I see it,” he said. “The system is just too big to be flipped.”
...
“A few of the students thought it was weird he was in the class and that he then taught the class,” said Claire Kaufman, a second year masters student in public affairs who said she started talking to Barckholtz during one of the first negative emissions technology classes and was “quite shocked” to discover he was an Exxon employee."

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/mar/27/fossil-fuel-firms-us-universities-colonize-academia

#ClimateCrisis #Climate #BigOil #PrincetonUniversity #Academia #FossilFuels #FossilFuelIndustry #Academics #ExxonMobil

#WindowFriday #princetonuniversity #newjersey #Alttext Princeton University, New Jersey

Princeton Prof. Arvind Narayanan about (not so) #anonymous users in data sets, de-anonymization, #tracking, #PIM, #fairness in machine learning and AI snake oil

https://www.quantamagazine.org/he-protects-privacy-and-ai-fairness-with-statistics-20230310/

There is also a video v=oKkzVII_wHQ (e. g. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=oKkzVII_wHQ, pick your frontend)

#machinelearning #ml #ai #snakeoil #deanonymization #princetonuniversity #cs #adm

SciPost Physics @physics

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #physics

Theory of oblique topological insulators
Benjamin Moy, Hart Goldman, Ramanjit Sohal, Eduardo Fradkin
SciPost Phys. 14, 023 (2023)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.2.023

#UIUC
#MIT
#PrincetonUniversity
#GordonandBettyMooreFoundation
@NSF
#NSERC

Paper about Predictive Optimization challenges #legitimacy, presents #flaws, includes case studies. Seems to make us #rethink the #validity of such predictions.
Obviously, #automated decisions re. loans, hiring etc. can have great impacts on people and the #economy.
See Prof. @randomwalker post: https://mastodon.social/@randomwalker/109903444603053793
https://predictive-optimization.cs.princeton.edu/
#princetonuniversity #cs #adm #predictiveoptimzation #prediction #predictive #predictivecrime #ml #forecasting #optimisation #optimization #flaw

Marian Croak is behind the tech that enables us to talk on FaceTime, Zoom, and other apps that connect friends, family and others around the globe.

Marian Croak from the Great Class of 1977 holds the patent for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which helps us make calls over the internet instead of a phone line.

Marian Croak has spent her life inventing. After graduating from #princetonuniversity and earning her Ph.D. from #uscedu, she worked at Bell Labs-Nokia in New Jersey, creating technologies “in service of humanity.” She went on to work for AT&T and is now vice president of engineering at Google.

In 2022, Marian, owner of 200+ U.S. patents, was one of the first two Black women to be inducted to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Among her inventions is the text-to-donate function that her team helped create in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which has helped to raise millions of dollars since its inception in 2005.

Croak also leads the Research Center for Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology at Google, which “ensures that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning positively impacts users and the world, particularly marginalized communities."

Content/photo credit Princeton University Instagram, courtesy of the Inventors Hall of Fame. #BlackHistoryMonth #MarianCroak

NYT Architecture : Robert Geddes, Modernist Dean of Princeton’s Architecture School, Dies at 99 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/arts/design/robert-geddes-dead.html #PoliceDepartment(Philadelphia,Pa) #InstituteforAdvancedStudy #AreaPlanningandRenewal #PrincetonUniversity #Deaths(Obituaries) #Architecture

Stef Wallace puts Princeton on the board first and I can, belatedly, introduce Mastodon to Howard DeWitt #thisIsHowWeDoIt #princetonuniversity

Just finished my 68th book of 2022, “Hello, World! Opinion columns from the Daily Princetonian” by Brian Kernighan. And just blogged brief thoughts on what I thought was a delightful collection of short essays on academia, computer science and more. https://vivdunstan.dreamwidth.org/337793.html
#Academia #Princeton #PrincetonUniversity #ComputerScience #Computing #Cprogramming #BrianKernighan

🇺🇸 Princeton, New Jersey 1946?: Jane at her father’s Princeton University reunion #janewellslonghardin #mother #wemissyiu #princetonuniversity #princetontigers #collegereunion @ Princeton University, New Jersey https://www.instagram.com/p/CmM058JugfH/?igshid=YTgzYjQ4ZTY=