With backing from some of the largest technology companies, a major project called RISC-V seeks to facilitate open-source design for computer chips, offering the possibility of opening chip designs beyond the few firms that dominate the space.

Serena Zheng '17 describes what it is like being a COS major for the Undergraduate Admission's student blog "Speaking of Princeton".

Prof. Margaret Martonosi and her students and collaborators have received an ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper award for their paper "Energy-Efficient Computing for Wildlife Tracking: Design Tradeoffs and Early Experiences with ZebraNet” which was originally published in the 2002 International Conference on Architecture Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS).

Four Princeton Engineering juniors have been awarded one-year Goldwater Scholarships, the premier award for outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. They are: Lamia Ateshian, Sally Jiao, Jonathan Lu and Omkar Shende.

About 500 students gathered at Princeton University's Friend Center over the weekend to take part in this spring’s HackPrinceton. Students from roughly 100 schools across the United States and Canada spent the weekend creating hardware and software projects.

A number of innovative research projects ranging from the sciences to the arts and engineering have been granted funding through Princeton's Office of the Dean for Research.

Early this year, about 30 neuroscientists and computer programmers got together to improve their ability to read the human mind.

The National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) has named Professor Jennifer Rexford the recipient of the 2017 Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Fish, recipient of the IEEE-SA Standards Medallion “for leadership in initiating, architecting, and implementing IEEE ComSoc Standards Activities.”

Crowd wisdom such as what might arise from online voting is popularly assumed to provide better answers than any one person by aggregating multiple perspectives.

Raising further questions about privacy on the internet, researchers from Princeton and Stanford universities have released a study showing that a specific person's online behavior can be identified by linking anonymous web browsing histories with social media profiles.