On September 27, 2018 Yi Wang *09 and his company Liulishuo had its Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Professors Jennifer Rexford and Kai Li were in attendance for the celebration.

The U.S. Senate confirmed on Thursday the appointment of Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs Ed Felten to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a bipartisan agency within the executive branch.

The paper “Endorsements on Social Media: An Empirical Study of Affiliate Marketing Disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest” by CS graduate student Arunesh Mathur along with Research Scholar Marshini Chetty and Associate Professor Arvind Narayanan was selected for a best paper award at the top tier ACM conference Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) for their work on measuring the prevalence of and user perceptions of endorsement disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest.

Professor Funkhouser was inducted for work in 3D shape-based retrieval and analysis, and for work on interactive systems for both visual and acoustic modeling of complex virtual environments.

When Jonathan Mayer ’09 joined the faculty this spring, he was conducting a seminar on information technology and public policy at Princeton while finishing his term as a technical adviser to U.S. Senator Kamala Harris. He alternated between creating political history in Washington and teaching it at Princeton.

In the literal sense, she is creating computer vision technology that uses artificial intelligence to better identify objects and people. But Russakovsky, an assistant professor of computer science, also wants to help grow the next generation of artificial intelligence computer scientists, to expand the field’s diversity of thought to better serve all of humanity.

Children under 8 spend at least a couple of hours per day interacting with digital content, yet online security has yet to join the ranks of other early lessons meant to keep kids safe. Realizing this, Marshini Chetty is creating interactive lessons and games aimed at equipping kids with basic skills for maintaining digital privacy.

Most people never think about the encryption that underlies secure online activities including banking, shopping and communications. But all rely on computer programs to generate a random number that serves as a key to unlock encrypted communication. The problem is that small programming errors can make these systems vulnerable, and those vulnerabilities can often be very difficult to detect.

For three weeks this summer, high school students packed the conference rooms of Princeton’s Computer Science building, honing programming skills while taking on challenges in artificial intelligence — from sharpening computer vision for self-driving cars to identifying fake or misleading online news.

On September 13, the Siebel Scholars Foundation honored five graduate students from the Princeton Computer Science department with $35,000 awards: Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, Brian Bullins, Ross Teixeira, Cyril Zhang, and Yinda Zhang.

Suppose you’re about to go snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef or some other area of underwater beauty. You should be thinking about the wondrous marine life you’ll certainly see. But instead you’re fixated on the vanishingly small chance of coming eye to eye with a hungry shark.

Jennifer Rexford, chair of computer science and the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor in Engineering, speaks about growth, research and innovative education in computer science.