Congratulations to Rafael Oliveira for receiving the best student paper award at the 2015 Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2015) for his paper "Factors of polynomials of low individual degree"!

Since the Human Genome Project drafted the human body’s genetic blueprint more than a decade ago, researchers around the world have generated a deluge of information related to genes and the role they play in diseases like hypertension, diabetes, and various cancers.

Congratulations to Professor Margaret Martonosi for winning the Marie R. Pistilli Women in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Achievement Award!

Congratulations to this year’s NSF Fellowship recipients. The NSF Fellowship recognizes top students across the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics who are perusing masters and doctoral degrees at US institutions.  We had an amazing number of undergraduate alumni and current grad students be recognized.

Congratulations to Sanjeev Arora, Professor of Computer Science, on his induction to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).

Computer science major Pranav Gokhale ’15 and his hackathon team brought home the “audience choice” award award from this month’s Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World, held at New York University Abu Dhabi.

Late last March, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was launched against GitHub, apparently for hosting Greatfire.org, a site that mirrors censored content from the BBC and the New York Times, making it accessible in China.

Congratulations to Shuran Song for being awarded the 2015-2016 Facebook Ph.D. Fellowship in Computer Vision. Shuran is a second-year PhD student in Computer Science and is advised by Professor Jianxiong Xiao.

Princeton graduate Michael Stonebraker has been awarded the A. M. Turing award by the Association for Computing Machinery; this is Computer Science's highest honor. Dr. Stonebraker, a professor at MIT, won the award "for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems."

Congratulations to Princeton Computer Science student Tengyu Ma for receiving the prestigious IBM Fellowship Award.

A recent article in the Daily Princetonian discusses the differences between the COS AB and BSE degrees.

Six Princeton students, Aditya Agarwalla, Andrew Tran, Anna Matlin, Cissy Chen, Hansen Qian, and Lucas Mayer have won a 2015 KPCB fellowship.