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. 

Congratulations to the Computer Science Department Class of 2015!

Princeton has always produced many of the world's most successful and innovative entrepreneurs. To build on the university's success, President Eisgruber asked the Princeton Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee (PEAC), which included COS professors Jennifer Rexford and Kai Li to issue a report on the future of entrepreneurship at Princeton.

Congratulations to Rajesh Ranganath for winning the Jacobus Fellowship! The Jacobus Fellowship is the highest honor bestowed upon doctoral students at Princeton

Congratulations to computer science PhD student Xin Jin for winning the Procter Fellowship! The Procter Fellowship is one of Princeton's competitive Honoric Fellowships.

Princeton University will be very well represented at the 2015 USENIX Security Symposium with five papers in the refereed technical sessions. USENIX Security is one of the most competitive conferences in applied computer security. The Princeton authors of these papers include 8 different faculty, 4 graduate students, and 2 undergraduate students.

Ed Felten is going to be blogging and tweeting from his new post as Deputy Chief Technology Officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Andrew Appel recalls that his initial goal as chair of the Department of Computer Science was “don’t break anything.”