Every few weeks, it seems that some high-profile, public network (airline operations, online services, sometimes critical infrastructure like banking) goes dark, leaving users to curse the systems and the people who run them.

Congratulations to the Computer Science Department Class of 2019!

Historic Guyot Hall will be substantially rebuilt and expanded to create a new home for Princeton’s Department of Computer Science, thanks to a gift from Eric Schmidt ’76 and his wife, Wendy Schmidt.

Many mutations in DNA that contribute to disease are not in actual genes but instead lie in the 99% of the genome once considered “junk.” Even though scientists have recently come to understand that these vast stretches of DNA do in fact play critical roles, deciphering these effects on a wide scale has been impossible until now.

Michael J. Freedman, a professor of computer science, has been awarded this year’s Grace Murray Hopper Award, the Association for Computing Machinery announced May 8.

Jen Rexford, Class of 1991 and chair of Princeton’s computer science department, has seen it all. From tinkering with the first consumer PCs in 1984 to saving the internet as we know it, Jen has been at the forefront of her field during an epoch of extraordinary advancement … and there’s much more to come.

Google’s newest AI lab — located across the street from Princeton University’s Nassau Hall — officially launched on Thursday, May 2, with speeches and research presentations by state and local officials, Google executives, and University executives and students.

Opeyemi, from Nazareth, Pa., is concentrating in computer science. During his time at the University, he has played soccer on the men’s varsity team and has worked extensively with several of the University affinity groups, including serving as a committee member for the Men’s Allied Voices for a Respectful & Inclusive Community Project and as mentorship chair for the Princeton African Student Association.

Edward Felten, the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, is the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy. Felten, who studies the intersection of public policy and information technology, served as a technology adviser at the Federal Trade Commission and the White House during portions of the Obama administration. Felten often blogs at Freedom to Tinker.

Zhandry, who joined the Department of Computer Science in 2016, is confident that the technology, driven by peculiarities of physics like superposition and entanglement, is the wave of future — in which quantum computers will solve complex problems exponentially faster than current computers.

Robert Sedgewick, the William O. Baker ’39 Professor in Computer Science, is the recipient of this year’s Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the Association for Computing Machinery announced today.

Brian Kernighan, a pioneer of early programming languages and software tools and a scholar known for distilling and clarifying complex technical subjects, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.