Princeton Professor Mark Braverman and PhD student Jonathan Schneider are featured in a news article at phys.org this week. "While previously it has seemed that physical systems may violate the Church-Turing thesis—a conjecture that in a sense defines a computer—here the researchers show that this is not the case for noisy systems due to a new computing limit.

This week the Siebel Scholars Foundation honored five graduate students from the Princeton Computer Science department with $35,000 awards: Shivam Agarwal, Ankit Garg, Xin Jin, Shilpa Nadimpalli, and Rajesh Ranganath. The Siebel Scholars program promotes leadership, academic achievement, and the collaborative search for solutions to the world’s most critical issues.

Researchers have found an automated way to identify and eliminate those stray soda cans, roaming cars and photobombing strangers that can send favorite photos to the recycle bin.

Bitcoin Magazine has a story about Princeton's Bitcoin MOOC on Coursera that starts September 4th. It's taught by Professor Arvind Narayanan of the Princeton Computer Science, along with Joe Bonneau, Ed Felten, and Andrew Miller. The course focuses on the computer science behind Bitcoin; it cuts through the hype and gets to the core of what makes Bitcoin unique.

Three decades ago, as computer science was emerging from its infancy, Microsoft introduced its Windows operating system, Steve Jobs left Apple and formed a new company called NeXT, Commodore unveiled a PC with 128 kilobytes of RAM, corporate names like Dell and Gateway sprang into the public consciousness, Nintendo released its initial “Super Mario” game, and the first Internet domain was registered to a Massachusetts computer systems company called Symbolics.

Congratulations to lecturer Robert Fish, elected Vice President of Standards Activities for IEEE Communications Society! The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is one of the leading organizations creating technical standards, and contributes across a wide range of fields including information technology, telecommunications, power and energy, and more.

The Summer Program in Algorithmic and Combinatorial Thinking (PACT) took place from June 22-July 31. More than 70 students participated in the program which was lead by Prof. Rajiv Gandhi of Rutgers University, Camden.

Congratulations to Princeton's networking group for their remarkable showing at SIGCOMM 2015, the ACM's annual showcase of the top technical results in applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication.

Congratulations to Princeton's networking group! This year, they and their collaborators will present 5 of the 40 papers at ACM SIGCOMM, one of the top conferences in networking.

Graduate student Haipeng Luo, and grad alum Satyen Kale*07, are coauthors on one of the two papers to win the best paper award at ICML 2015, a premier conference in machine learning. The paper is called "Optimal and Adaptive algorithm for Online Boosting."

Jennifer Rexford, the Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering, became chair of the Department of Computer Science on July 1, succeeding Andrew Appel.

Princeton Music Professor Daniel Trueman will be offering a new online course on computational music with support from Kadenze, an online platform developed to support the arts and creative technologies.