Speaking before an overflow crowd in Princeton University's Friend Center auditorium, Internet pioneers Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf said that flexibility, both social and technical, has been central to the growth and resilience of the Internet.

Congratulations to David Steurer*10 and Sharon Goldberg*09 on receiving a Sloan Research Fellowships. Goldberg received her PhD in Electical Engineering, however her advisors were Computer Science Professors Jennifer Rexford and Boaz Barak. Goldberg is now an assistant professor at Boston University.

Two members of the engineering faculty, computer science professors Jennifer Rexford and Robert Schapire, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Congratulations to Jean Choi '15, Bonnie Eisenman '14, and Charles Peyser '15 for wining the best poster award for posters they presented at the end of the Fall semester describing their computer science independent work projects.

Computer Science major Katherine Pogrebniak is one of this year’s recipients of a Churchill Scholarship. Awarded by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States, Churchill Scholarships are granted to students wishing to pursue graduate studies in science, mathematics, or engineering with "exceptional academic talent and outstanding achievement".

Ed Felten has been named the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs.

Professor Mark Braverman was one of the recipients of the 2013 Packard Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded to the country's most innovative young scientists and engineers in the first three years of their faculty careers allowing them the flexible funding to freely conduct exploratory research and take risks in their field of study.

Post-doc Laurent Vanbever received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Network Protocols for the paper he co-authored on "Using routers to build logic circuits: How powerful is BGP?"

Professor Ed Felten testified before a hearing of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee on October 1st about the the privacy implications surrounding the collection of metadata by the National Security Agency.

Grace Hopper Celebration. The AIBE Awards are part of the Anita Borg Institute’s mission to “promote the advancement and contributions of women technologists.”

Professor Larry Peterson to receive the 2013 SIGCOMM Award for lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks for his "ground-breaking advances in how networking and distributed systems research is conducted, and major contributions to education." He will present the keynote address at SIGCOMM'13 August in Hong Kong.

Professor Bernard Chazelle was awarded the 2013 SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize at the SIAM Annual Meeting on July 9, 2013 in San Diego, California. The prize is awarded every two years to the authors of the two most outstanding papers published in the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON) in the two calendar years before the year of the award.