Thwarting Terrorism
He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,—
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.”
From “Paul Revere’s Ride,”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For centuries, it has been recognized that threats can arrive from all sides—a potential immortalized in Longfellow’s Revolutionary War-era poem. While the advance of technology enables increasingly potent threats to security, they also herald the invention of tools and devices to detect and mitigate these assaults. Here, EQuad News profiles some of the technologies Princeton Engineering researchers are developing, including advanced surveillance and sensor systems, to offer protection on all fronts.
