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.

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.