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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.
Before returning to campus for the fall semester, 12 students had the unique opportunity to travel to Liechtenstein, Austria, and Germany to present original research on democracy and security.
On September 13, Brazil LAB kicked off its fall programming with “United States-Brazil: 200 Years of Diplomatic Relations,” a two-day symposium. Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, the ambassador of Brazil to the U.S. delivered the keynote address.
On Tuesday, September 3, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) celebrated the start of a new academic year with a welcome reception for returning and new visiting scholars.
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.
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.
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Princeton research is pursuing a sustainable future for New Jersey and the world
When it comes to understanding and protecting the environment, New Jersey provides fertile ground for Princeton University researchers. The state’s four geological regions and its mix of urban, rural and suburban communities allow Princeton faculty, staff and students to develop environmental...
Faculty Author Q&A: Thomas Conlan on “Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan”
Thomas Conlan is Professor of East Asian Studies and History, and Director of the Program in East Asian Studies. His book, “Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471–1877: A Sourcebook” was published as an eBook in March 2022, and in print in April 2022 by Hackett Publishing...
A Princeton-Microsoft project is tracing the digital fingerprints of disinformation
As the 2018 U.S. mid-term elections approached, a group of Princeton alumni military veterans pitched an idea to the School of Public and International Affairs to host a conference on national security. With reports of foreign interference during the 2016 presidential election campaign still...
Study Reveals How Inland and Coastal Waterways Influence Global Climate
“Streams to the river, river to the sea.” If only it were that simple.
Urgent climate dispatches from the Arctic
Arctic Indigenous worlds, experiences, and challenges past and present — along with their implications for our climate crisis — are the focus of a course at Princeton this spring titled “Pluriversal Arctic.” That is also the life’s work of the course’s instructor, Olga Ulturgasheva, an Eveny...
How the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab contributed to the new world record in clean fusion energy
Research by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has played a supporting role in the recent major advance in the production of fusion power at the Joint European Torus (JET) in the United Kingdom. In the recently disclosed breakthrough by...
World’s thinnest roots are ‘underground weapons’ in ecological competition
Most of us only think about the easily visible parts of plants — stems, flowers, leaves — but in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Princeton ecologists Lars Hedin and Mingzhen Lu show that the hidden root systems beneath a South...