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Princeton University professor John Hopfield has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics(Link is external) “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

He shares the prize with Geoffrey E. Hinton of the University of Toronto.

The generations of Americans who remember fallout shelters and “duck and cover” air raid drills is rapidly aging, and the threat of nuclear warfare — while as urgent as ever, if not more so — is a distant concern for most young adults today.

These days, it’s all too common to see a front-page story about a foreign government’s influence operation — secret attempts to sway the opinions of another country’s citizens through social media campaigns, paid advertising, hacking, direct emails, or SMS text messaging.

In August, the FBI confirmed that the Iranian government was behind a hacking scheme to breach and subsequently leak confidential information about both the Trump and Harris presidential campaigns. Last week, the FBI reported that the operation is likely ongoing.

Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.

If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”

Low-orbit satellites could soon offer millions of people worldwide access to high-speed communications, but the satellites’ potential has been stymied by a technological limitation — their antenna arrays can only manage one user at a time.

The Program on Science and Global Security(external link) (SGS) has been awarded a two-year, $750,000 core support grant by Carnegie