Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World

Peter Bogucki, associate dean for undergraduate affairs in the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), is coeditor-in-chief of the most recent addition to the Scrib-ner world history series. The two-volume set is titled Ancient Europe, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World.

“Humanity’s most important stages are detailed here: the development of agriculture and its tools, construction techniques, evidence of wealth and status, and the emergence of cities and states that have survived to the present day,” wrote the publisher, Charles Scribner’s Sons. “This detailed encyclopedia is the first to explore the many peoples of early European civilization.”

Dean Bogucki received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from Harvard University, both in anthropology. His research efforts are focused on European prehistory, dating from four to eight thousand years ago, specifically in Poland.

He has three books in print: Forest Farmers and Stockherders: Early Agriculture and Its Consequences in North Central Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988); Case Studies in European Prehistory (edited; Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1993); and The Origins of Human Society (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1999).

As associate dean for SEAS undergraduate affairs, Dean Bogucki oversees the academic progress and standing of nearly 800 students who are candidates for the B.S.E. degree, including advising first-year students; monitoring the aca-demic progress of students toward completion of degree requirements; coordinating undergraduate engineering organizations; and implementing support programs for academic and professional development of engineering students.



Margaret Martonosi promoted to professor

Margaret Martonosi has been promoted to professor of electrical engineering. She also is an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Computer Science.

Since joining Princeton in 1994 as an assistant professor, Professor Martonosi has become a leader in the field of power-aware computing. Her highly acclaimed research contributions in this area include the Wattch framework for assessing the implications of architectural design decisions on the power consumption of computer processors. She also has been a leader in interdisciplinary research through the design of intelligent, low-power radio collars for wildlife tracking in Africa.

Professor Martonosi earned her undergraduate degree from Cornell University. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Stanford University, which she earned in 1987 and 1993, respectively. At Princeton she has taught computer architecture and developed a course on configurable computing and is a highly sought after student adviser and mentor.



Poor named to endowed chair

Erhan Çinlar, chairman of the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, has been elected to honorary membership in the Omega Rho Society, the official honor society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Professor Çinlar gave the Omega Rho Distinguished Lecture at a plenary session of the Joint International Meeting of the Association of European Operations Research Societies (EURO) and INFORMS in July.

In addition, Professor Çinlar received the 2003 INFORMS Fellows Award. INFORMS chooses award recipients based upon their contributions to research, community service, management, and education.

Recently, the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) held a modest but heartfelt celebration to honor Professor Çinlar’s accomplishments.

ORFE Professor Warren Powell ’77 was responsible for nominating Professor Çinlar and paid him another great compliment at the celebration.

“When I was a student, I ran across Professor Çinlar’s papers,” Professor Powell said. “It was his research that drove my thinking in some of my early work.”

Professor Çinlar accepted the praise humbly, stating that much of his work was driven not by the thought of winning awards, but simply for enjoyment.

“Mathematics is a pretty good drug to help cure your problems,” he said.

Omega Rho was founded in 1976 to recognize superior scholarship and encourage leadership in operations research, management science, and related disciplines.

Honorary membership in Omega Rho is bestowed upon individuals who provide leadership and extraordinary support for the encouragement of operations research and management science through their professional activities. Professor Çinlar is the 35th person to be elected an honorary member.



Hypersonic wind tunnel funding doubles this year

Funding for the radiatively driven, hypersonic wind-tunnel project headed by Professors Garry Brown and Richard Miles will double in 2004 to $12 million.

This increase reflects the U.S. Army’s intention to build a national, pilot-scale, hypersonic facility based on the principles developed here at Princeton.

In addition to the research during this past year, an effort was made to identify the most immediate national “requirement” for this hypersonic capability.

This has played an important role in bringing the program to the new funding level.

The principle of this pilot-scale tunnel is to use a 3MeV, 25 MW e-beam as an energy source that is guided by a magnetic field to heat (radiatively) a supersonic airstream that, at the same time, is cooled through expansion and further acceleration.

In this way hypersonic flight conditions are predicted in the atmosphere (Mach 10 to 11) and can be duplicated for flow times that are 100 to 1,000 times longer and with concentrations of nitric oxide that are 100 times lower than in the best current national shock tube facility.

Recent experiments at powers of nearly 1 MW have supported these predictions. If, as a result of further research, no intrinsic showstopper is found, it is fair to say that this is the most significant new principle for the duplication of flight conditions on the ground since the duplication of supersonic flight more than 60 years ago.



Awards and honors

Faculty members recognized for accomplishments

Pendray Award
The Robert H. Goddard Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Chung K. Law received the Pendray Literature Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

He was cited for “Outstanding and sustained contributions to the aerospace literature, particularly in the areas of combustion and propulsion.”

Professor Law is a fellow of the AIAA, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the current president of the International Combustion Institute.

Brunetti Award
Stephen Chou, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, received the 2004 IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Professor Chou was cited for “the invention and development of tools for nanoscale patterning, especially nanoimprint lithography, and for the scaling of devices into new physical realms.”

The IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award was established in 1975 through a bequest made by the late Cledo Brunetti. The award is presented by the IEEE board of directors on the recommendation of the Technical Field Awards Council and the Awards Board for outstanding contributions to miniaturization in the electronics arts.

World’s best
Ron Weiss, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, was named among the world’s 100 best and brightest by Technology Review Magazine.

In exploring the juncture between biology and computer engineering, Professor Weiss has undertaken the ambitious task of “programming” living cells.

He does so by engineering the cell’s DNA to manufacture designated proteins and uses the concentrations of these proteins as “computational signals.” He eventually hopes to do the same type of modeling of tissue-specific human stem cells, instructing them on how to become different types of cells and, perhaps eventually, whole organs.

Honorary degree
Maria Klawe, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, received an honorary degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Dean Klawe is an advocate for women in the mathematical and computational sciences. She was recognized for her contributions in several areas of mathematics and computer science, including functional analysis, discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, and interactive-multimedia for math education.

Named chair
Sharad Malik, professor of electrical engineering, was named the general chair of the 41st Design Automation Conference (DAC), which will be held June 7 to 11, 2004, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif.

As general chair, Professor Malik provides strategic direction for the conference’s technical program, exhibition, new initiatives, operations, and publicity.

“Members of the executive committee for the 41st DAC were carefully selected for their diversity of opinion, expertise, and knowledge,” Professor Malik said. “All are committed to working together to deliver the best conference for attendees, researchers, and exhibitors to exchange information and ideas, as well as to network.

“It takes a tremendous amount of work to put together a premier conference like DAC,” he continued. “This group of high-quality individuals will be volunteering a huge amount of time between now and the conference to make this happen.”

The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/ SIGDA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Circuits and Systems Society (IEEE/CAS), and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium).

For more information, including registration details, visit the DAC Website at: www.dac.com.