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Allen and Felten discuss the ethics of AI

Allen and Felten discuss the ethics of AI

Albert Jiang

In a talk on Wednesday night, Gen. John R. Allen and Professor Edward W. Felten talked about both the benefits and the ethical dilemmas that would accompany military-related advancements in artificial intelligence. “This is a capability that has the capacity for great good,” Allen said, but also can be “applied with great destructiveness.”

NEWS | 10/03/2019

Professors ponder organ donation in cases of brain death

Professors ponder organ donation in cases of brain death

Caitlin Limestahl

Months after a young California resident Jahi McMath was declared brain dead, she could clearly respond to instructions to move certain parts of her body. Cases like Jahi’s were the subject of a lecture yesterday which raised questions of what it really means to be dead, entitled “The Challenge to ‘Brain Death’: Are We Taking Organs from Living Human Beings, and If We Are, Does It Matter?”

NEWS | 10/03/2019

Former Obama, Clinton pollster Joel Benenson talks campaign strategy

Former Obama, Clinton pollster Joel Benenson talks campaign strategy

Evelyn Doskoch

On Wednesday, at an event titled “What the Press and Pundits Get Wrong: Reading the Electorate,” Benenson discussed what he sees as common errors in political strategy and misinterpretations of polling data. The award-winning Democratic pollster also discussed his past experience working with various high-profile political candidates.

NEWS | 10/03/2019

U. signs agreement with India's largest renewable energy producer

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U. signs agreement with India's largest renewable energy producer

Ngan Chiem

The University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), and the top independent renewable energy producer in India, ReNew Power, have agreed to combine resources for future collaboration in the field of renewable energy.

NEWS | 10/02/2019

Activist Naomi Klein talks global climate justice imperative

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Activist Naomi Klein talks global climate justice imperative

Allie Spensley

When Naomi Klein looks at the world today, she sees flames. There are three “fires” that the global community is facing, she told an audience at Richardson Auditorium on Tuesday, and they are increasingly converging.

NEWS | 10/02/2019

Judge rules in favor of Harvard in civil action alleging discrimination against Asian-American applicants

Judge rules in favor of Harvard in civil action alleging discrimination against Asian-American applicants

Mallory Williamson

On Monday, Sept. 30, Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled in favor of Harvard University in a civil-action lawsuit filed by Students for Fair Admissions, a group which alleged that Harvard discriminated against Asian-American students in its admission process.

NEWS | 10/01/2019

General Mark Milley ’80 sworn in as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

Mark Milley speaking at ROTC commissioning

General Mark Milley ’80 sworn in as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

Rooya Rahin

Milley will now hold the highest officer position in the United States military.

NEWS | 10/01/2019

Removal of Tigerbook photos not due to U. policy change

Zachary Shevin

Student photos have been unavailable on Tigerbook since Sept. 30. “The issue may be related to the transition of the College Facebooks to a new publishing platform,” Deputy University Spokesperson Michael Hotchkiss wrote in an email to the Daily Princetonian. “If Tigerbook’s developers reach out to the Office of Information Technology, staff there can talk with them about the issue and possible solutions.”

NEWS | 10/01/2019

Creative writing professor emeritus Edmund White receives 2019 Letters Medal

Benjamin Ball

According to the National Book Foundation, Edmund White majored in Chinese at the University of Michigan before moving to New York City. There, he formed the Violet Quill, a casual club comprising himself as six other gay writers: Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, and George Whitmore.

NEWS | 10/01/2019

EcoReps Move-In Resale diverts 15 tons of waste

EcoReps Move-In Resale diverts 15 tons of waste

Naomi Hess

“We take those prices and reduce the price to anywhere between 20-50% depending on the quality of the item – how new it is, the condition of the item, the uniqueness of the item based on our inventory,” Lisa Nicolaison, who is the Engagement and Communication Coordinator at the Office of Sustainability, wrote in an email to The Daily Princetonian.

NEWS | 09/30/2019

Burglary and motor vehicle theft increase, Public Safety reports

Burglary and motor vehicle theft increase, Public Safety reports

Benjamin Ball

Also included in the report were statistics regarding fires for the 2018 year, listing five incidents on campus: one in Blair Hall, one in 1901 Hall, one in Dodge-Osborne, one in Yoseloff Hall, and one in the Lawrence Graduate apartments.

NEWS | 09/30/2019

‘The Daily Show’ host Trevor Noah, Microsoft president Brad Smith ’81 discuss technology in society

‘The Daily Show’ host Trevor Noah, Microsoft president Brad Smith ’81 discuss technology in society

Linh Nguyen

The conversation oriented itself around Smith’s 2019 book, “Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age,” as well as Noah’s 2017 memoir, “Born a Crime.”

NEWS | 09/30/2019

Gilbert ’09 sentenced to life with possible parole for murdering his father

Gilbert ’09 sentenced to life with possible parole for murdering his father

David Veldran

The elder Thomas Gilbert, who graduated from the University in 1966, was a wealthy Wall Street hedge-fund banker. His death, at the age of 70, stunned the financial world.

NEWS | 09/30/2019

USG reviews newly approved clubs, positions at weekly meeting

Benjamin Ball

Lutfah Subair ’21 presented on the new clubs approved by the Student Groups Recognition Committee (SCGC). Those clubs were the Latino Medical Students Association + Princeton University, Our Health Matters, and Hip-Hop Empowerment Conference Planning Committee.

NEWS | 09/29/2019

Lawsuit filed against University by Lithuanian start-up over alleged illegal appropriation

Lawsuit filed against University by Lithuanian start-up over alleged illegal appropriation

Allan Shen

In June, Lithuanian start-up company Planner 5D filed a lawsuit against the University and Facebook over alleged illegal appropriation of the firm’s proprietary dataset, which consisted of three-dimensional objects and scenes.

NEWS | 09/26/2019

Creative Writing Program begins 80th year with a reading by celebrated authors

Creative Writing Program begins 80th year with a reading by celebrated authors

Yael Marans

On Wednesday, Sept. 25, the Program in Creative Writing started off this year’s Althea Ward Clark Reading Series and the celebration of the 80th year of the program with a reading featuring distinguished authors Maxine Hong Kingston, Yusef Komunyakaa, and David Treuer ’92.

NEWS | 09/26/2019

Gutenberg exhibition features some of the world’s earliest datable books

Gutenberg exhibition features some of the world’s earliest datable books

Paige Allen

The University Library recently opened a new exhibition in the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery, titled “Gutenberg & After: Europe’s First Printers 1450–1470.” Curated by Scheide Librarian Paul Needham and Curator of Rare Books Eric White, it is the first exhibition to focus on this early period of European printing, featuring loaned items from the United Kingdom never before seen in the United States and items from U.S. collections displayed outside their home libraries for the first time.

NEWS | 09/26/2019

Joint Committee, External Review reports on Title IX to be released in October

Joint Committee, External Review reports on Title IX to be released in October

Benjamin Ball

The results of an external review of the University’s Title IX program are set to be released in October.

NEWS | 09/26/2019

Prof. Anderson of Brown University argues for interdisciplinary study of rumination

Prof. Anderson of Brown University argues for interdisciplinary study of rumination

Haleigh Gundy

Rumination — repetitive and obsessive thoughts — are widely considered by the field of psychology to be pathological, associated with neuroticism and anxiety. However, in a lecture on Wednesday, Sept. 25, Professor Amanda Anderson offered a different view. Drawing on the field of literary analysis, she argued that rumination can be not only intrusive, but also productive and essential for ethical thought.

NEWS | 09/26/2019

Doctors speak at U. about the status of Ukraine's healthcare system

Doctors speak at U. about the status of Ukraine's healthcare system

Kris Hristov

Two Ukrainian neurosurgeons spoke at the University about the state of their country’s health care system.

NEWS | 09/25/2019

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