Yan (Bill) Huang, (class of ’19, future Math major and COS certificate earner), presented a paper entitled WNSpell: A WordNet-based Spell Corrector at the Eighth Global WordNet Conference in Bucharest, Romania, on January 30.

Ye, a senior computer science major at Princeton University, is an advocate of formal methods, the process of using mathematical techniques to specify how software should function and to verify that it meets the specifications.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has announced that Computer Science alum Dan Boneh, Ph.D. 1996, is one of the 80 new elected members.

Congratulations to Joe Crouthamel, Brian Osborne, and Chris Sanchez of the Computer Science Technical Staff for winning a Special Performance Recognition Award from Princeton University for their work on the CS faculty jobs application software.

Princeton professors Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, and grad student Arpit Gupta have a new application of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) to high-performance Internet eXchange Points (IXPs).

The next time a software maker tells you to update your favorite computer application immediately to fix serious defects or patch gaping security holes, don't lose faith. Help is on the way.

Philipp Winter, postdoc in Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) recently gave a talk at Chaos Computer Club (CCC), the oldest and largest security conference in Europe, about his work with Roya Ensafi (postdoc in CITP), Nick Feamster (professor in CS and CITP), and other authors.

Three computer science students at Princeton University were honored by the Computing Research Association, which recognizes undergraduate students at North American universities for outstanding potential in areas of computing research.

The Future of Privacy Forum has selected 5 papers for "What Privacy Papers should Policymakers be Reading in 2016?". Among these is "A precautionary approach to Big Data privacy," by Professor Arvind Narayanan of the Princeton CS department and CITP, (Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy); Joanna Huey, Associate Director of CITP; and Professor Ed Felten of CS and CITP.

Fifteen years ago, Brian Kernighan told an interviewer that if he were stranded on an island with only one programming language, that language would have to be the one called simply “C.”

U.S.1, the newspaper of Central New Jersey's Route 1 business corridor, has an article about Professor Robert Sedgewick of the Princeton CS Department.

The Association for Computing Machinery has named 42 of its members ACM Fellows in recognition of their significant contributions to computer science.