Science & Medicine
John Hopfield dreamed up the modern neural network while at Caltech. Geoffrey Hinton built on it, creating an AI firm that Google bought for $44 million.
Entertainment & Arts
Take a leisurely stroll through history at one of the world’s leading research universities using PST Art installations as your guide.
California
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The California Institute of Technology, long a bastion of male STEM students, enrolls an undergraduate class of majority women this fall, the first time in its 133-year history.
Letters to the Editor
With incoming female freshmen outnumbering men for the first time, a graduate student at Caltech in the 1960s congratulates her former campus.
Caltech has retired a telescope atop the summit of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea following a cultural sea change in how people view land development on revered landmarks.
Business
Inspired by the approach followed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the gift from a longtime Caltech donor will create the Brinson Exploration Hub to facilitate faster research by Caltech and JPL scientists and engineers.
Music
Seattle Swifties aren’t the only ones who can shake it off to seismic proportions. Taylor Swift’s L.A. fans also caused earthquake-like activity, a study says.
A few in the Golden State are deemed very high threats. I worried about that for a workday so you don’t have to.
Caltech is dropping requirements for high school calculus, chemistry and physics courses for students without access to them and will offer other ways to demonstrate knowledge in those fields.