Seeking to provide "tinkerers" with freedom to explore hunches and passions, businesswoman and philanthropist Lynn Shostack has given $10 million to permanently endow the Project X innovation fund in Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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Edgar Choueiri, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has developed a way to record three-dimensional sound and play it back over regular loudspeakers, such as those on televisions and computer laptops.
Project X, a fund is administered by the dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, gives faculty members in the engineering school the freedom to pursue hunches and unconventional ideas, even if those ideas are outside their direct expertise.
