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B Y T H E N U M B E R S
E-mail
• Life at Princeton has increasingly come to rely on
e-mail. On average 60,000 e-mails are sent from
"princeton.edu" addresses every day, and another 107,000
messages arrive at the University each day. The campus has
18,581 e-mail addresses through the University's server.
• Though it may sometimes seem like it takes forever
for an e-mail to arrive, the average speed of a message sent
from an on-campus computer to a "princeton.edu" e-mail
account is a mere two seconds.
• The peak number of simultaneous connections to the
University's central e-mail server is 5,267.
• The large volume of e-mail opens the door for
viruses, which can disable a computer. In December, the
University's Office of Information Technology installed
anti-virus software on the central e-mail servers to strip
viruses from incoming e-mail. In the last month, the
software has removed 19,453 viruses from incoming
messages.
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April 1, 2002
Vol. 91, No. 21
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Contents
Page one
• Ruby Lee draws on
experience in industry and academia to rethink computer
design
• Class assignment
flourishes as mentoring program for local girls
Inside
• Labouisse prize
winner hopes to 'cross-pollinate' with her
research
• Economic crisis
supplies Goldberg with project fodder
• Students earn
scholarships for study in England
• Discovery of
bacterial 'touch sensor' could lead to biofilm
treatments
People
• Princeton
hydrologist wins the 'Nobel Prize of
water'
• Spotlight,
obituary
Sections
• By the
numbers: E-mail
• Nassau
Notes
• Calendar
of events
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Editor: Ruth Stevens
Calendar editor: Carolyn Geller
Staff writers: Jennifer Greenstein Altmann, Steven Schultz
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Photographer: Denise Applewhite
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