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Houston's urban sprawl increased rainfall, flooding during Hurricane Harvey .
Princeton and University of Iowa researchers found that Houston's urban landscape directly contributed to the torrential rainfall and deadly flooding of Hurricane Harvey in 2017. The results highlight the human role in extreme weather events and the need to consider urban and suburban development when calculating hurricane risk.
Merging memory and computation, programmable chip speeds AI, slashes power use .
By shifting a fundamental property of computation, Princeton researchers have built a new type of computer chip that boosts the performance and slashes the energy demands of systems used for artificial intelligence.
Smaller components could mean big savings for data centers .
Researchers at Princeton and MIT have found a way to save big on power consumption for data centers while making a key electronic component much smaller.
External Partnerships
Princeton faculty members collaborate with colleagues throughout the world to carry out important, cutting-edge research and scholarship.
Celeste Nelson (center), a professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton, worked with a research team including Victor Varner and Mei Fong-Pang to examine how fluid pressure helps control the rate of development of embryonic lungs.
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Princeton researchers collaborate across academic fields and across the globe. The campus is home to numerous interdisciplinary research collaborations and centers.
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From high-performance computing to electron microscopy, the University provides researchers with access to state-of-the-art facilities and equipment.