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.

Building on two previous offerings of the course, in May 2015, Prof. Nick Feamster will again offer his course on Software Defined Networking for the third time.

Nick Feamster, a professor who spent nine years at Georgia Tech and earned accolades for his research in cybersecurity and other problems with real-world communications networks, joined the faculty of the Princeton University Computer Science Department in January.

Pallavi Koppol was named the new president of the organization for Princeton Women in Computer Science (PWiCS). The goal of PWiCS is to provide a community for women interested in computer science at Princeton and, through outreach to local schools, to encourage girls in the Princeton area to consider careers in science, technology and engineering.

Every year the ACM and IEEE technical societies name a small number of their members Fellows in recognizition of their lifetime contributions to computer science or electrical engineering.  Congratulations to Princeton faculty Adam Finkelstein (Computer Science) and Sharad Malik (Electrical Engineering), two of 47 new ACM Fellows. 

Aarti Gupta, an international leader in research on the formal verification of hardware and software systems, has joined the Princeton University Computer Science Department after two decades in the private sector. She became a full professor on Jan. 1.

Every year, the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) recognizes the paper appearing 10 years earlier that is judged to have had the most impact on the field over the intervening decade. This year at CGO 2015, the paper entitled "SWIFT: Software Implemented Fault Tolerance" by George A. Reis, Jonathan Chang, Neil Vachharajani, Ram Rangan, and David I. August won the award

Jonathan Mayer '09 is a Princeton grad, computer scientist, lawyer and web privacy advocate. He is also one of Forbes "30 Under 30" for 2014. Over the last couple of months, he has been investigating how companies track users through controversial new "Zombie cookies" that most users probably do not know exist and are hard to delete, even if you are aware of them.