In 1996, at age 26, he joined the applied physics faculty at Caltech in Pasadena.
Mark Changizi and his colleagues at Caltech examined more than a hundred ancient and modern writing systems.
For more live updates, including photos and footage from Mars, visit the Jet Propulsion Lab at CalTech.
Colin Camerer, an economist at Caltech, blames "diffusion of responsibility" for the problems.
Curiosity was built at CalTech and is the size of a small SUV.
Preston McAfee, Vice President and Research Fellow, who left his position at CalTech for the more data-rich environment of Yahoo.
Mitchell Guttman, of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and soon-to-be faculty at Caltech, discovered an entirely new type of gene.
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Yet despite its immense capabilities, practical quantum computing is still a long way from reality, says Steven Koonin, provost at Caltech and a quantum-computing researcher.
They both arrived at Caltech in the early 1950s--Carver the freshman whiz kid from the Sierra foothills outside of Fresno, Feynman a young professor from Cornell.
When he joined Columbia University in 1987 for his first job after postdoctoral studies at Caltech, he scrapped his past research on how electrons move through biological molecules.
When I was a boy, my father, who is an electrical engineer, used to do research at Caltech in the summer, and he sometimes took me to J.
And quantum computing is so new that scientists can only begin to imagine what it might one day be able to do, says John Preskill, a physicist at Caltech.
Along the way to his PhD in 2005, Spanos worked at Google (GOOG) and when he finally completed his post-doctoral education at CalTech in 2008, he considered three options.
Such are the questions left to the experts at Caltech, which have just concocted a new device that can focus light to a point just a few nanometers wide.
The surly native of Vicenza, Italy signed up his friend Mead, who has helped start 20 companies, written an industry bible on chip architecture and run a famous lab at Caltech.
The main difference between the two creatures "is that the real jellyfish can go and get nutrients and ours can't, " said John Dabiri, a co-author of the study and a bioengineer at Caltech.
"Panguite is an especially exciting discovery since it is not only a new mineral, but also a material previously unknown to science, " study researcher Chi Ma, a senior scientist at Caltech, said in a statement.
The Raytheon editor is just one of several caught sanitizing corporate histories or smearing rivals since Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at Caltech, released a Web tool capable of tracking the source of changes on Wikipedia.
Nearly three decades later in 2007, while visiting as a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Yazami and Robert Grubbs, also a chemistry professor at the Caltech and the recipient of the 2005 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, were rumored to have made a major breakthrough in carbon-fluoride technology that would revolutionize the field of energy storage.
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Google is the most visible company working on these types of vehicles, but similar projects are under way at other organizations, including Caltech.
For instance, whereas 85% or so of undergraduates at (expensive, private) Stanford and CalTech graduate within four and a half years, only 48% at (cheap, state-run) Berkeley manage it in six.
"We are delighted that the TMT project has now been granted a Conservation District Use Permit, " said Edward Stone, the Morrisroe Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and vice chair of the TMT board.
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How does one become a professor at universities such as Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT?
Smarr is forging fiber links among computers at Urbana-Champaign, San Diego, CalTech and Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois to form a "TeraGrid, " capable of performing 13.5 trillion operations per second, as powerful as 13, 000 desktop computers.
Everybody at the duo's little startup dropped out of Stanford, Caltech or Wharton, and the whole bunch works 80 hours a week.
For example, if an entrepreneur graduated at the top of his class from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, or Caltech, with a host of awards and achievements, it would carry weight with a potential investor.
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"This is one of the brightest and whitest things we've seen with the Mastcam at the Gale Crater site, " said Melissa Rice, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in Pasadena.
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At the college library one day, he read a journal article by the late Jay Bailey , a Caltech chemical engineer who was trying to use genetic engineering to fashion "designer" bacteria to produce drugs, agricultural products and industrial chemicals.
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