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.

Margaret Martonosi received this year’s International Symposium of Computer Architecture (ISCA) Long-Term Influential Paper award, along with her co-authors David Brooks*01 and Vivek Tiwari*96.

Congratulations to Prof. Zeev Dvir and 2nd year grad Sivakanth Gopi! Their paper "2-server Private Information Retrieval with sub-polynomial communication" received one of three best paper awards at the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing 2015 this week.

Congratulations to Princeton Professor David Walker for winning the ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award. This award is given out annually to recognize "outstanding contributions by young investigators in the area of programming languages."

Congratulations to Princeton professors Nick Feamster and Arvind Narayana and their students Sarthak Grover and Steven Englehardt for winning 2015 Data Transparency Lab grants! These grants provide 50,000 Euro for research and tools that help us understand how online services use personal data.

Congratulations to Eric Schneider'17 (undergraduate, Math), Jon Schneider (graduate student, CS) and Siddhartha Jayanti'17 (undergraduate, CS) for competing in the World Finals of the 2015 ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition, held in Morocco.