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

Christopher Eisgruber, president of Princeton University, has published an article entitled “The Power and Promise of Computer Science” in which he discusses the importance of Computer Science as a discipline. He discusses the important science being conducted at Princeton in this field, and the “intellectual excitement” arising from CS’s new insights into age-old questions.

Congratulations to Princeton CS graduate student Kevin Boutarel for his first-place finish in the Open DayLight /dev/boot bootcamp and hackathon hosted by Cisco Systems and Princeton University.

Serena Zheng '17 writes of her love for the intellectual content of the field, as well as the supportive environment she found in the CS department.

ACCENTURE PRIZE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Robert Tarjan, member of the Princeton Computer Science faculty since 1985, received an honorary Doctor of Mathematics degree on October 23 from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is the world's largest gathering of women technologists. This week, 25 Princeton undergrads are attending, to network with women (and men) in computer science research and the computing industry.

Professor Olga Troyanskaya, of Princeton's Computer Science department and Genomics institute, has a new way to study how tissues function, based on an automated algorithm to synthesize 38,000 sets of genomic experiments done by others to create a tool that shows how the genes in 144 human tissues work.

GraduatePrograms.com ranks Princeton Computer Science in the top 10 grad computer science programs nationwide.

The Science&Tech section of the Daily Mail newspaper has an article about Princeton graduate student Ohad Fried's research in removing unwanted people and objects from photos.

This week the National Science Foundation announced its research grants for Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC). The NSF singled out three largest, multi-institution awards for special mention. Every one of those has a Principal Investigator who's an alumnus of, or current faculty in, Princeton Computer Science.

Professor YY Zhou of the University of California at San Diego won the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award this month. The award is given annually to "an individual who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in operating systems research."