Researchers in the Department of Computer Science are working on ways to make it easier to express artistic creativity without the painstaking hours spent learning new techniques.

An Amazon purchase here, a Zappos buy there. Individually, such simple online actions seem to carry little identifying information. But, when combined with other online behaviors, a "mosaic effect" can emerge, painting a specific — and traceable — picture of an online user's life.

Gathering more than 500 students from all over the country (and Canada), HackPrinceton is a 36-hour event during which students converge at Princeton to work on software and hardware projects, all while competing for thousands of dollars in prizes.

JIANXIONG XIAO TYPES “CHAIR” INTO GOOGLE’S search engine and watches as hundreds of images populate his screen. He isn’t shopping — he is using the images to teach his computer what a chair looks like.

The Hertz Foundation's Fall/Winter newsletter features a Q&A with Computer Science alum Kay and Amy Ousterhout. The Ousterhouts were the first pair of sisters to be named Hertz Fellows in the history of the fellowship. Kay gratuated Princeton class of 2011 and now studies computer science at University of California, Berkeley. Amy, Princeton class of 2013, is now studying computer science at MIT.

Kevin Wayne, the Phillip Y. Goldman Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, has been selected as a Distinguished Educator by the Association for Computing Machinery, the international scientific/professional society for computer science.

One is building a practical tool to measure privacy and tracking on the Web; another is pursuing theoretical work on information complexity. Selected as five of the top computer science students at Princeton, this year's Siebel Scholars are pursuing a wide range of research questions of vital interest in industry and academia.

The specter of a faceless system collecting data from Web users and compiling personal profiles has raised alarms among privacy advocates worldwide. Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University, founded the Web Transparency and Accountability Project (WebTAP) at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) to address difficult questions related to Internet privacy.

David Durst'15, April Liang'15 and Evan Strasnick'15 are the winners of the 2014 Accenture Prize, given by Princeton University to recognize academic excellence in Computer Science through the end of Junior year. Presenting the awards is Fred Molineux'89 of Accenture, Ltd.

Professor Jennifer Rexford has been appointed to Open Networking Foundation's Board of Directors. Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the adoption of open Software-Defined Networking.

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.