The halls of many colleges and universities display paintings of school presidents, donors and famous alumni. But at Princeton University, a gallery of portraits presents campus workers in a whole new light. Howard Sutphin in Campus Dining, who is featured in one of the portraits of campus workers by visiting art fellow Mario Moore, said: “That’s going to be here after I retire, cause the school has purchased it. … All the years, I gave love. I got it back in that.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/princeton-university-portraits-give-campus-workers-the-spotlight-2019-12-30/

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Princeton researchers, led by electrical engineering professor Niraj Jha, developed a technique that produces advanced artificial intelligence programs for wearable devices like a smart watch. By mimicking the brain’s developmental arc, the new approach leads to benchmark accuracy using a fraction of the energy of other systems. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/12/20/grow-and-prune-ai-mimics-brain-development-slashes-energy-use

Princeton researchers have uncovered new rules governing how objects absorb and emit light, fine-tuning scientists’ control over light and boosting research into next-generation solar and optical devices. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/12/23/new-rules-illuminate-how-objects-absorb-and-emit-light

Researchers at Princeton University have made an important step forward in the quest to build a quantum computer using silicon components, which are prized for their low cost and versatility compared to the hardware in today’s quantum computers.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/12/30/leap-quantum-computing-silicon-quantum-bits-establish-long-distance-relationship

Minjie Chen, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and his team are building a family of devices to dramatically reduce power consumption at the gigantic data centers that serve as the backbone of internet services and cloud computing. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/12/19/new-technology-boosts-energy-efficiency-data-centers

Irvin Glassman, a leading authority on combustion and propulsion who served on the Princeton faculty for 49 years, died Dec. 14, 2019, at his home in Princeton. He was 96.