The Princeton University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will present its annual awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching to Olga Russakovsky, assistant professor of computer science as well as Helmut Reimitz, professor of history and director of the Program in Medieval Studies.

Princeton University was not on junior Raya Ward's radar when she was deciding where to study. A spur-of-the-moment Orange Key tour – her mother's suggestion en route from their home in Georgia – shot Princeton to the top of her list. Financial aid was a primary factor, and she heard all the right things during her visit. "A huge consideration for me was financial aid," Ward said. "And my tour guide spent at least ten minutes explaining the incredible support Princeton offers."

Adji Bousso Dieng wants to create artificial intelligence that can understand the mechanisms underlying complex systems and have a level of control over their behavior — work that could impact fields including science, health care and automated systems. 

Three Computer Science graduate students, Ameet Deshpande, Sadhika Surya Malladi, and Matthew Myers have been awarded the Graduate School Teaching Award for their significant and exceptional contribution to undergraduate teaching.

The Association for Computing Machinery named Princeton graduate alumni Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman recipients of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award. The award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” carries a $1 million prize, with financial support provided by Google, Inc. It is named for Alan M. Turing, also a Princeton Ph.D. alumnus, who articulated the mathematical foundation and limits of computing.

Heide is an Assistant Professor in the CS department and leads the Princeton Computational Imaging lab. The CAREER award will support the lab's work to develop and optimize cameras to be used in a variety of domains including medical imaging, robotics, scientific imaging, virtual/artificial reality, and self-driving vehicles. The research efforts are also tightly integrated with an outreach program that introduces underrepresented and at-risk students in the New Jersey and New York area to science and technology through domain-specific cameras for self-driving vehicles.

“A.I. Nation” is co-hosted by Ed Felten, the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and founding director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, and WHYY reporter Malcolm Burnley. Over the course of five episodes, the pair will investigate how artificial intelligence is affecting our lives right now, and the impact that technologies like machine learning, automation and predictive analytics will have on our future.

For a half century, women have played leading roles in research, teaching and innovation at Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Today, our faculty also includes women who completed their graduate or undergraduate degrees in engineering at Princeton. Spanning different disciplines and generations, each of them has made outstanding contributions in her respective field, and each exemplifies Princeton’s traditions of fundamental research and engineering in the service of humanity.

A team of Princeton neuroscientists scanned students’ brains six times during spring 2018 to watch how neural response patterns changed as the students learned the curriculum for COS 126, “Introduction to Computer Science.” Here, research specialist Hanna Hillman sits in the fMRI control room as she prepares to scan one of the students.

As a data scientist within Princeton University's Schmidt DataX Initiative, Arnold has now switched his focus from plants to human cancer cells and other biological processes. The DataX Initiative aims to spread and deepen artificial intelligence and machine learning across campus to speed scientific discovery. The Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) participates in this initiative and is involved in hiring and creating a community of data scientists like Arnold at Princeton.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the Abel Prize for 2021 to Avi Wigderson, a 1983 Ph.D. graduate of Princeton.

Following a nationwide call last summer for social equity and anti-racism, Princeton undergraduates returned to their classes in fall ready to transform their computer science skills into a force for social good.