Erica Portnoy '15 is one of this year's winners of the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. This extremely prestigious award recognizes undergraduate and graduate women studying computer science for their academic and extracurricular achievements, and potential to become leaders in their field.

Subhash Khot, who earned a Ph.D. from Princeton’s Computer Science Department in 2003, has won the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, awarded every four years for outstanding contributions in mathematical aspects of information sciences.

Professor Jennifer Rexford has been appointed one of the six new members of the Computing Community Consortium. The CCC Council is comprised of experts in diverse areas of computing who help create and enable visions for future computing research.

Barbara Engelhardt is joining us from the faculty at Duke University where she is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics.

Congratulations to Professor Thomas Funkhouser, recipient of the 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award. The Computer Graphics Achievement award is given each year to recognize an individual for an outstanding achievement in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Big Data continues to transform the way we live and work, altering the relationships between government, citizens, businesses and consumers. But does it come at a cost?

Congratulations to Noah Apthorpe ’14, recipient of a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.

A robotic insect that waves hello, a calculator controlled by a few pokes in midair, an alarm clock that sprays water and posts embarrassing social media statuses — not ordinary products of a college student's weekend. But this was no ordinary weekend — it was HackPrinceton.

A 2004 paper co-authored by several members of the Princeton Department of Computer Science won a USENIX Test of Time Award. The award was announced April 2, 2014, at the Eleventh Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'14).

David Blei wins the ACM Infosys Foundation Award.

Forman Sinnickson Acton, a Princeton University professor of computer science, emeritus, who witnessed and helped pioneer the evolution of his field from its early days as a branch of mathematics to a stand-alone discipline that has revolutionized society, died Feb. 18, at age 93.