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.

Mark Braverman, who focuses on core problems of theoretical computer science and applies the results to a broad range of disciplines, has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s highest honor for young researchers, the Alan T. Waterman Award.

The European Symposia on Algorithms (ESA) Test-of-Time Award (ToTA) recognizes excellent papers in algorithms research that were published in the ESA proceedings 19-21 years ago and which are still influential and stimulating for the field today.

For much of the past decade, fierce political battles over the internet have involved concerns that the fastest access would go only to those with the greatest ability to pay. In testimony last week in Washington, however, a Princeton professor said measuring such performance is no longer so simple. On the internet, speed no longer rules.

Sisters Claudia and Laura Roberts, Ph.D. students in computer science at Princeton, are examining how technology affects society.

Princeton University researchers will push the limits of data science by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning across the research spectrum in an interdisciplinary pilot project made possible through a major gift from Schmidt Futures.

The logical place to start would be to peruse books and guides that relate the adventures of other people who have done it, to learn from their experiences (including their missteps). With that knowledge, you might follow someone else’s lead, create your own unique experience, or, for that matter, scrap the whole idea.

Edward Felten has worked at the intersection of computer science and policy, fighting to retain, the “freedom to tinker” amongst other things. “Freedom to Tinker” is also the name of his influential blog, which contains research and expert commentary on digital technologies in public life.

Gillat Kol and Wyatt Lloyd, both assistant professors of computer science at Princeton, have been awarded 2019 Sloan Fellowships, out of just 16 awarded nationwide in computer science by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation “in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.”