Researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington have developed an ultracompact camera the size of a coarse grain of salt. The system relies on a technology called a metasurface, which is studded with 1.6 million cylindrical posts and can be produced much like a computer chip. Image courtesy of the researchers

On October 4th shortly before noon Eastern Time, billions of users were unable to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp while the social media giant scrambled to restore services. It was more than five hours before services began to return.

The story of computer science at Princeton goes back well before the founding of the discipline as a freestanding department. In this portion of #E100, we will look at the people, places and milestones that have led to the creation of the campus’ most in-demand major.

A pigeon looks at pictures. The bird knows nothing about heart attacks, nothing about cancer. Yet, trained to classify mammograms and cardiograms, it can outperform doctors.

A team of scientists, led by researchers at Princeton University, have now implicated two genes associated with mammal tooth development to be at the center of the tuskless elephant phenomenon. And one of these genes is connected to the X-chromosome and is lethal to males, while humans who have that same gene mutation exhibit similar teeth defects.

Five scholars from four universities participated in a pilot research program for rising juniors, run jointly by leaders at Intel Corporation and Princeton Engineering. Over eight weeks, organizers introduced scholars to field-leading research problems in computer security and privacy and led talks on how to navigate a career in research.

Andrés Monroy-Hernández, who joined Princeton this fall as an assistant professor of computer science, explores the potential of computing to connect communities, build skills and promote equity.

On Oct. 6, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing to discuss consumer privacy and data security.

The Siebel Scholars Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2022 Siebel Scholars award. Now in its 21st year, the Siebel Scholars program annually recognizes nearly 100 exceptional students from the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering. The awardees include five Princeton University graduate students in computer science, Xiaoqi Chen, Huihan Li, Nikunj Saunshi, Jiaqi Su, and Kaiyu Yang.

To probe the origin and spread of cancers in the human body more effectively, Ben Raphael, professor of computer science at Princeton University, and his research lab created HATCHet or Holistic Allele-specific Tumor Copy-number Heterogeneity, an algorithm that is capable of finding and analyzing genes that have been duplicated or deleted in multiple tumor samples from a single cancer patient.

Three CS Undergraduate students were awarded prizes at the University’s formal Opening Exercises, which took place in the University Chapel on Sunday, August 29, 2021.

Michael Freedman has been named the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science, established by a gift of Robert E. Kahn, who earned a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1964 and is widely known as a “father of the internet.”