Ge Wang *08 co-founded the mobile music company Smule, whose apps have reached more than 200 million users. Now he’s a professor at Stanford in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.

Sixteen Princeton University students traveled to Washington, D.C., during fall 2018 to learn more about the intersection between technology and policymaking.

The National Academy of Sciences announced today that Thomas Griffiths has received one of the two Troland Research Awards issued this year “for his research into how people and machines make decisions.” The Troland awards recognize unusual achievement by young investigators (defined as no older than 40) working within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology.

Levy, who joined the CS department in 2018 as an assistant professor after earning his doctorate from Stanford, is interested in distributed systems, operating systems, security, privacy, and programming languages, but his current goal is to improve the security and reliability of the small electronic devices that we’re carrying around these days as the Internet of Things explodes into all aspects of everyday life.

Congrats to PhD student Raghuvansh Saxena (advised by Assistant Professor Gillat Kol) and Katherine Ye '16 (now at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science) for winning a 2019 Microsoft PhD Fellowship!

The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital by CS professor emeritus Ken Steiglitz sheds light on the genesis of the digital idea and shows how it transformed civilization.

Doctors in intensive care units face a continual dilemma: Every blood test they order could yield critical information, but also adds costs and risks for patients. To address this challenge, researchers from Princeton University are developing a computational approach to help clinicians more effectively monitor patients’ conditions and make decisions about the best opportunities to order lab tests for specific patients.

The growing use of artificial intelligence in both everyday life and life-altering decisions brings up complex questions of fairness, privacy and accountability. Surrendering human authority to machines raises concerns for many people. At the same time, AI technologies have the potential to help society move beyond human biases and make better use of limited resources.

Artificial intelligence is already a part of everyday life. It helps us answer questions like “Is this email spam?” It identifies friends in online photographs, selects news stories based on our politics and helps us deposit checks via our phones — if all somewhat imperfectly.

Depending on who you ask, blockchain technology is poised to revolutionize the world — from creating a universal currency to building a free and truly private internet. Or, the new technology, built with a combination of encryption and transparency, is a solution in search of a problem.

Congratulations to Maryam Bahrani and Eric Neyman, both selected as award finalists for the 2019 Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Congratulations also to Zachariah Cohen and Trisha Datta who were both selected for honorable mentions.

Robert Fish, Lecturer in Computer Science at Princeton, has been elected as a Fellow of the IEEE "for application of visual communications and networking."