Philipp Winter, postdoc in Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) recently gave a talk at Chaos Computer Club (CCC), the oldest and largest security conference in Europe, about his work with Roya Ensafi (postdoc in CITP), Nick Feamster (professor in CS and CITP), and other authors.

Three computer science students at Princeton University were honored by the Computing Research Association, which recognizes undergraduate students at North American universities for outstanding potential in areas of computing research.

The Future of Privacy Forum has selected 5 papers for "What Privacy Papers should Policymakers be Reading in 2016?". Among these is "A precautionary approach to Big Data privacy," by Professor Arvind Narayanan of the Princeton CS department and CITP, (Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy); Joanna Huey, Associate Director of CITP; and Professor Ed Felten of CS and CITP.

Fifteen years ago, Brian Kernighan told an interviewer that if he were stranded on an island with only one programming language, that language would have to be the one called simply “C.”

U.S.1, the newspaper of Central New Jersey's Route 1 business corridor, has an article about Professor Robert Sedgewick of the Princeton CS Department.

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.