Sina is co-advised by Robert Schapire.]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/201 Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
CS Graduate Student Matt Hoffman has won the Best Student Paper Award at the upcoming International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, to be held in Kobe, Japan Oct 26-30. The paper, entitled "Easy as CBA: A Simple Probabilistic Model for Tagging Music," was co-authored with Professors David Blei and Perry Cook.

The paper:
http://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/publications/2009_ismir_cba.pdf

The conference:
http://ismir2009.ismir.net]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/200 Date: Friday, October 2, 2009
Kai Li, a member of our faculty since 1986, has been named the Paul M. and Marcia R. Wythes Professor in Computer Science. Professor Li does research in data visualization, networks, and storage systems; he recently co-founded the Data Domain corporation. Paul Wythes, a member of Princeton's class of 1955 and a former Trustee of the University, recently endowed this new chair in Computer Science.]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/199 Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Two graduates of Princeton CS, Lester Mackey and David Weiss, were on a leading team for the $1M NetFlix competition. The goal of the competition is to significantly improve on NetFlix's algorithm for recommending movies to their users. Lester and David's solution employs modern machine learning methods, and they began working on this problem in 2007 while taking COS424:Interacting with Data with Professors Robert Schapire and David Blei.

New York Times coverage]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/197 Date: Monday, July 13, 2009
Professor Larry Peterson has been named the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award "for ground-breaking contributions to the design, implementation, and deployment of networked software systems."]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/196 Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Professor Andrew Appel '81 has been appointed as the new Chair of the Department of Computer Science, effective July 1, 2009. Appel joined the department in 1986. He succeeds Larry Peterson, who completed his six-year term on June 30. Appel is a member of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy. His research is in computer security, programming languages and compilers, automated theorem proving, and technology policy. He received his A.B. summa cum laude in physics from Princeton in 1981, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985. He has been Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems and is a Fellow of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). ]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/194 Date: Monday, June 8, 2009

In the true spirit of interdisciplinary research, Computer Science Dept Assistant Professor Fei-Fei Li and Psychology Department postdoc Dr. Marius Peelen and Professor Sabine Kastner have co-published a Nature paper, titled "Neural mechanisms of rapid natural scene categorization in human visual cortex". The full paper can be accessed at: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nature08103.html

This study sheds light on a long standing puzzle in neuroscience -- the human visual system is extremely effective and efficient at categorizing complex natural scenes even without attending the scene, a phenomenon not predicted by well accepted theory of the visual mind. This previous finding was part of Prof. Li's dissertation work at Caltech in 2002. Since then, numerous experimental and theoretical studies have attempted to explain this finding. The recently published Nature paper sheds the first light on explaining this phenomenon by using fMRI techniques to find the first neural correlates in the brain for rapid scene categorization.

In September 2008, ACM SIGPLAN, the ACM chapter dedicated to programming languages and compilers, nominated five research papers for consideration as "research highlights" to appear in Communications of the ACM. These five papers were selected from amongst all papers appearing at the top programming language and compilers conferences over the past 3 years. The selection committee was composed of the current and past ACM SIGPLAN chairs and the program chairs of the top SIGPLAN conferences. Remarkably, two of the five papers were from the Princeton computer science department:

"The next 700 data description languages" appeared at POPL 06 and was co-authored by Kathleen Fisher (AT&T Research), Yitzhak Mandelbaum, and David Walker. It formed the centerpiece of Yitzhak Mandelbaum's 2007 Princeton Ph.D. thesis. Yitzhak has since been hired by AT&T research and continues his work on programming languages for data processing at AT&T.

"Fault-Tolerant Typed Assembly Language" appeared at PLDI 07 and was co-authored by Frances Perry, Lester Mackey, George A. Reis, Jay Ligatti, David I. August, and David Walker. The theoretical components of this paper formed the core of Frances Perry's 2008 Ph.D. thesis, while the implementation components were analyzed in George A. Reis' 2008 Ph.D. thesis. Both Frances and George are continuing their research after graduation at Google. Lester Mackey, an exceptional undergraduate from Princeton, is now in graduate school at Berkeley and Jay Ligatti, another former Princeton Ph.D., is now faculty at the University of South Florida.

The formal nominations may be found here: http://www.sigplan.org/CACMPapers.htm

Full story here.]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/182 Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008
A paper by Princeton researchers and colleagues at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Wind River Systems won the Best Student Paper award at the 2008 Usenix Security Symposium. The paper, "Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys" is available, along with accompanying video and code, at http://citp.princeton.edu/memory]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/181 Date: Monday, May 5, 2008
Congratulations to our faculty and graduate students who were recognized by SEAS and their students for their outstanding teaching in the Fall 2007 semester. They are:

Faculty: Sanjeev Arora, David Blei, Brian Kernighan, Szymon Rusinkiewicz and Robert Schapire.

Graduate Students: Joseph Calandrino, Indraneel Mukherjee, Lindsey Poole, Arun Raman and Yun Zhang.

The full article can be found here.]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/179 Date: Friday, April 18, 2008
A three member team from Princeton, freshman John Pardon and seniors David Costanzo (Computer Science) and Amirali Modir Shanechi (EE) , was one of 100 teams which competed in the World Finals of the prestigious ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, 2008, in Banff, Canada. The Princeton team placed thirteenth along with nine other teams; the top twelve teams receive gold silver and bronze medals. The only other American teams that performed better than Princeton were MIT and Stanford. Congratulations to them for a great performance!]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/180 Date: Friday, April 18, 2008
Umar Syed (advisor: Rob Schapire) was awarded the Wallace Fellowship in Engineering for 2008-09. This award is one of the University's Honorific Fellowships, awarded to students in their final year of study. The Honorifics recognize outstanding performance in graduate study and professional promise. Congratulations!]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/178 Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2008

A paper by authors Matthew Bridges, Neil Vachharajani, Yun Zhang, Tom Jablin, and David I. August was selected as one of IEEE Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences. IEEE Micro's Top Picks issue recognizes papers "most relevant to industry and significant in contribution to the field of computer architecture" in 2007. The paper, entitled "Revisiting the Sequential Programming Model for Multi-Core", originally appeared in the proceedings of the International Conference on Microarchitecture.

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra is one of 17 winners of the Digital Media and Learning Competition, which awards funds to projects that use digital media in innovative ways for formal and informal learning.

The contest, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, awarded $238,000 to the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk for short) to support a mobile musical laboratory that students will use to explore new ways of making music with laptops and local area networks.

PLOrk, an ensemble of computer-based musical meta-instruments, grew out of a freshman seminar taught in 2005 by Perry Cook, a professor with joint appointments in computer science and music, and Dan Trueman, an assistant professor of music.

MacArthur Announcement

PLOrk Webpage