Ever taken a selfie? Around the world, people snap tens of millions of these self-portraits every day, usually with a mobile device held at arm’s length. For all their raging popularity, though, selfies can often be misrepresentative, even unflattering. Due to the camera’s proximity, selfies render subjects’ noses larger, ears smaller and foreheads more sloping.

Inspired by the desire to help broaden boundaries for vision-impaired people, three Princeton University students created an armband device that allows a wearer without the ability to see to interpret color.

Professor Brian Kernighan was awarded the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at the 2016 commencement ceremonies. Established in 1991, the award recognizes excellence in undergraduate teaching by Princeton faculty members.

Congratulations to the Computer Science Department Class of 2016!

In the Faculty Room of Nassau Hall, Director of the Program in Teacher Preparation Christopher Campisano (left) and Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber (third from right) meet with four outstanding New Jersey secondary school teachers on Commencement Day.

Congratulations to Brent Waters who has received the Grace Murray Hopper Award for the introduction and development of the concepts of attribute-based and functional encryption.

The computer science department will have new 41 AB concentrators in addition to 121 BSE concentrators from the Class of 2018, compared to 28 AB concentrators and 102 BSE concentrators the previous year.

Distinguishing an actual book from a photo of a book seems so simple that we humans don't even think about it. But for a computer, it is another story.

Researchers have found that the "Great Firewall" technology that controls internet traffic entering and leaving China is not merely an apparatus that statically blocks traffic.

Five years ago, the most popular majors for members of the Class of 2011 were economics, politics, history, the Woodrow Wilson School, and operations research and financial engineering. Computer science, which awarded 36 degrees in 2011, wasn’t even close to cracking the top five.

Professor Appel gave a TEDx talk at the local Princeton University TEDx event.

Princeton sophomore Sara Fridovich-Keil and juniors Siddhartha Jayanti and Peter Park have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships, the premier award for outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.