"Today, we’re pushing infrastructure to the limits with our demands for real-time information and connections between users and services that can number in the thousands. We just assume that someone, somewhere is doing the hard work to make all this possible. The Cloud Trailblazers are those people."

Rexford was named a trailblazer for her "outreach and commitment to opening up the networking world". http://gigaom.com/2013/05/28/cloud-trailblazers-10-for-2013/ ]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/276 Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013
Professor Robert Sedgewick and Senior Lecturer Kevin Wayne were recognized for their co-teaching in computer science with the Princeton University chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa's annual award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/99/27O26/]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/275 Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Professor Margaret Martonosi has been recognized by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) "outstanding mentorship, high-quality research opportunities, and efforts to encourage and advance undergraduates (particularly women and minorities) in computing-related fields".

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-ncwit-honor-computer-science-150000594.html]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/274 Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Professor Jennifer Rexford has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

http://www.amacad.org/news/alphalist2013.pdf]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/273 Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013
Computer Science major Amy Ousterhout was one of three Princeton students to receive a Hertz Fellowship. Amy will continue her research at MIT next year.

http://dailyprincetonian.com/2013/04/11/32895/]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/271 Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Professor Moses Charikar one of three recipients of the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. This award honors specific theoretical accomplishments that significantly affect the practice of computing. http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2013/acm-tech-awards-2012]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/272 Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Princeton researchers Chris Monsanto, Josh Reich, Jen Rexford and David Walker, and their collaborator Nate Foster at Cornell, were co-winners of the 2013 USENIX NSDI Community Award for the design and implementation of Pyretic, a new programming language for managing software-defined networks. For more information, see http://www.frenetic-lang.org/pyretic/ ]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/270 Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Alumnus Robert Kahn is one of the first ever recipients of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for his "major controbutions to the development of the Internet and the World Wide Web." Kahn, along with Louis Pouzin and Vinton Cerf, developed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP). In 2007 Kahn endowed a chair at Princeton, which is currently held by Professor Larry Peterson.

http://www.princeton.edu/engineering/news/archive/?id=9946 ]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/269 Date: Monday, March 18, 2013
Fourth year graduate student Jingwan "Cynthia" Lu's, digital stroke stylization research was featured in a Princeton video "Cynthia Lu: The Art of Computer Science"

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S36/27/74Q78/]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/268 Date: Thursday, February 14, 2013
Congratulations to Professor Zeev Dvir, recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 2013. "The Sloan Research Fellows represent the next generation of leaders in the natural sciences, economics, and mathematics."

http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/2013-sloan-research-fellows/ ]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/267 Date: Thursday, February 14, 2013
Katie Stouffer'13 was one of three Princeton students and alum to be awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She will be enrolling in the University of Cambridge for postgraduate study this fall in the field of medical research. "I want to try and apply [the computer science concept of machine learning] to medical problems," Stouffer said.

Recently, Stouffer was also the recipient of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship. Following her studies at Cambridge, she will work for a year as a Sachs Global Scholar in South Africa contributing to research on drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Gates Cambridge: http://www.gatescambridge.org/news/detail.asp?ItemID=13714
More on Kaitlin: http://gatescambridge.org/our-scholars/new-scholar-profile.aspx?ScholarID=5829
The Daily Princetonian: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2013/02/13/32737/ ]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/266 Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013
Edward W. Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Prof. Felten is Director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy. Professor Felten was recognized "For contributions to security of computer systems, and for impact on public policy."

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=02072013]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/265 Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012
Professor Kai Li's paper with Paul Hudak of Yale, "Memory Coherence in Shared Virtual Memory Systems" (ACM TOCS, 1989) was given an ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award.

For information on the Hall of Fame Award: http://www.sigops.org/award-hof.html

For a copy of the paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=75105]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/264 Date: Monday, September 10, 2012
Recent Ph.D. recipient Minlan Yu*11 and current graduate student Nanxi Kang were both recognized at last month's SIGCOMM 2012 conference held in Helsinki, Finland.

Minlan Yu received the first annual ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Computer Networking and Data Communication for her thesis Scalable Management of Enterprise and Data-Center Networks. This award is to recognize excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of computer networking and data communication.

Nanxi Kang was third place in the Student Research Competition in the poster session for "Policy Transformation in Software Defined Networks".

Professor Jennifer Rexford has served as advisor for both Yu and Kang.

http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/dissertation

http://src.acm.org/winners.html ]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/263 Date: Monday, August 20, 2012
Winners of the Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in discrete mathematics were awarded yesterday at ISMP 2012 in Berlin. Professor Sanjeev Arora along with Professors Satish Rao and Umesh V. Vazirani of Berkeley won for their paper Expander flows, geometric embeddings and graph partitioning(JACM 2009).]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/262 Date: Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Princeton had quite a showing at the USENIX Security Symposium last week in Bellevue, Washington.

Ariel J. Feldman, Aaron Blankstein, Michael J. Freedman, and Edward W. Felten were awarded Best Student Paper for Social Networking with Frientegrity: Privacy and Integrity with an Untrusted Provider.

Recent grads, Nadia Heninger*11 and J. Alex Halderman*09, were awarded Best Paper along with Zakir Durumeric and Eric Wustrow for their paper Mining Your Ps and Qs: Detection of Widespread Weak Keys in Network Devices.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/tech-schedule/technical-sessions ]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/257 Date: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Christopher Beck has just been awarded the Simons Foundation Fellowship in Theoretical Computer Science. This is a two year award. Chris's advisor is Sanjeev Arora, and he is working on lower bounds for time and space.

http://simonsfoundation.org/funding/funding-opportunities/mathematics-physical-sciences/simons-graduate-fellowships-in-theoretical-computer-science/2012-simons-graduate-fellowships-in-theoretical-computer-science/]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/255 Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The Simons Foundation selected 21 mathematicians, theoretical physicists, and theoretical computer scientists as Simons Investigators for 2012, the inaugural year of the program. The Simons Investigators program provides a stable base of support for outstanding scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term study of fundamental questions.

For more information on the program and the Simon Foundation's press release please see: https://simonsfoundation.org/mps-funded-programs-simons-investigators ]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/254 Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Professor Bernard Chazelle and co-author Nir Ailon received the 2012 SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize for their paper "The Fast Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform and Approximate Nearest Neighbors." The prize is given for outstanding papers published in SIAM journals during the three years prior to the year of the award.

http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/outstanding_paper.php.]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/253 Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2012
David Blei is a Dept of Defense recipient and Michael Freedman is a National Science Foundation recipient.

July 23, 2012-White House Press Release President Obama today named 96 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

“Discoveries in science and technology not only strengthen our economy, they inspire us as a people.” President Obama said. “The impressive accomplishments of today’s awardees so early in their careers promise even greater advances in the years ahead.”

The Presidential early career awards embody the high priority the Obama Administration places on producing outstanding scientists and engineers to advance the Nation’s goals, tackle grand challenges, and contribute to the American economy. The recipients are employed or funded by the following departments and agencies: Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of the Interior, Department of Veteran Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation, which join together annually to nominate the most meritorious scientists and engineers whose early accomplishments show the greatest promise for assuring America’s preeminence in science and engineering and contributing to the awarding agencies' missions.

The awards, established by President Clinton in 1996, are coordinated by the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President. Awardees are selected for their pursuit of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology and their commitment to community service as demonstrated through scientific leadership, public education, or community outreach. ]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/252 Date: Thursday, July 12, 2012
Mark Braverman, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has been named a Turing Research Fellow by the 'The Turing Centenary Research Project - Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics', supported by a major grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Prof. Braverman's main interests lie in the theory of computation and its applications in the natural and social sciences.

More information at http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?704 ]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/251 Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Graduate student Anirudh Badam and Professor Vivek Pai have been working on exploiting solid-state disk (SSD) to expand the addressable memory that programs can use; they developed a hybrid memory allocator called SSDAlloc. Today, Fusion-io announced their Extended Memory technology resulting from a collaboration with Badam and Pai.

The press release can be seen at http://www.fusionio.com/press-releases/fusion-io-and-princeton-university-scientists-team-up-to-seamlessly-extend-memory-from-dram-to-nand-flash/

and more details about SSDAlloc can be found at http://ssdalloc.cs.princeton.edu/ ]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/250 Date: Thursday, June 28, 2012
Professor Zeev Dvir received the Dénes König Prize in recognition of his paper "On the size of Kakeya sets in finite fields," Journal of the American Mathematical Society 20 (4): 1093-1097 (2009).

The prize is awarded every two years at the biennial SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics to a junior researcher(s) for outstanding research in an area of discrete mathematics, based on a publication by the candidate published in a peer-reviewed journal. This years conference was held at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

http://www.siam.org/activity/dm/

For more information on the Denés König Prize: http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/konig.php ]]> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/news/article/248 Date: Monday, June 18, 2012
Arvind Narayanan, who will be joining Princeton Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in September, was today named a "World's Most Wired Computer Scientist" with a 2500-word article in Wired.com profiling his research on Internet privacy and anonymity:

Arvind Narayanan Isn't Anonymous, and Neither Are You ]]>