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."

Today's Daily Princetonian has an editorial praising the CS department as a leader in innovation in undergrad education at Princeton. They mention three things in particular that they really like.

Professor Arvind Narayanan was quoted this week in a Nature News article on Bitcoin. The article also cites a new paper by Narayanan's student, Steven Goldfeder, and several other authors, about a new crypto scheme to secure Bitcoin wallets.

Daily Princetonian reports Computer Science has the most majors.

A new paper from researchers at Princeton and Berkeley is getting a lot of uptake on the twitter-sphere. The researchers on the Active Probing project include Princeton professor Nick Feamster and postdocs Roya Ensafi and Philipp Winter.

Alex Halderman, who received his Bachelor's and PhD degrees from the Princeton University computer science department, was named one of Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10 of 2015". The Brilliant 10 "honors the brightest young minds reshaping, science, engineering, and the world". Halderman, who is now an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, was honored for "strengthen[ing] democracy using software," for his work on voting systems.

Kyle Jamieson, whose research centers on wireless computer networks, has joined Princeton’s Department of Computer Science as an assistant professor.

Princeton University's class of 2017, the junior class, contains the most computer-science majors ever: 128, which is (of course) 2 to the 7th power. Of these CS majors, 37% are female, the highest proportion of women ever. More Princeton students now major in Computer Science than in any other discipline. It looks like the class of 2018 will have even more women (and more men, too!), but it's too early to tell, since some of our majors (candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree) don't officially declare their majors until April of their sophomore year.

Vladimir Feinberg, a computer science major at Princeton University, has won the George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize. The prize is given to a member of Princeton's junior class in recognition of exceptional academic achievement during sophomore year.