Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, has been awarded an honorary doctor of science degree by Rutgers University, an honor presented to her at the 2022 Rutgers Commencement by the 21st president of Rutgers, Jonathan Scott Holloway.
Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor, has been elected to the newest class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a lifetime honor and one of the most laudable distinctions in the scientific community.
Researchers, including computer scientist and former Member
Dana Randall, are
experimenting with sets of simple robots in an effort to learn how
to control them so that they function in a manner similar to swarms
of bees or colonies of ants: Each...
Some forms of obfuscation generate genuine but misleading
signals—much as you would protect the contents of one vehicle
by sending it out accompanied by several other identical vehicles,
or defend a particular plane by filling the sky with other...
Theoretical astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan writes in the
New York Review of Books:
In the late nineteenth century, the term “computer” referred not
to a machine but to a person who took measurements, graphed data,
and made calculations that...
