Congratulations to Professor Zeev Dvir, recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 2013. "The Sloan Research Fellows represent the next generation of leaders in the natural sciences, economics, and mathematics."

Edward W. Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Prof. Felten is Director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy. Professor Felten was recognized "For contributions to security of computer systems, and for impact on public policy."

Professor Kai Li's paper with Paul Hudak of Yale, "Memory Coherence in Shared Virtual Memory Systems" (ACM TOCS, 1989) was given an ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award.

Recent Ph.D. recipient Minlan Yu*11 and current graduate student Nanxi Kang were both recognized at last month's SIGCOMM 2012 conference held in Helsinki, Finland.

Winners of the Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in discrete mathematics were awarded yesterday at ISMP 2012 in Berlin. Professor Sanjeev Arora along with Professors Satish Rao and Umesh V. Vazirani of Berkeley won for their paper Expander flows, geometric embeddings and graph partitioning(JACM 2009).

Princeton had quite a showing at the USENIX Security Symposium last week in Bellevue, Washington.

Professor Sanjeev Arora was one of the professors recognized by the School of Engineering for outstanding teaching in the fall 2011 semester for COS 522.

The Spirit of Princeton Award honors undergraduates for their positive contributions to campus life who have demonstrated strong commitment to the undergraduate experience through dedicated efforts with student organizations, athletics, community service, religious life, residential life and the arts.

Emily Lancaster received the Tau Beta Pi Prize for her significant contribution to the School of Engineering. Brandon Podmayersky Brandon Podmayersky received the The James Hayes-Edgar Palmer Prize in Engineering. He is also a two-time winner of the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence and a winner of the Quin Morton '36 Writing Seminar Essay Prize.

Google executive Eric Schmidt discusses the future of technology as part of a a three-day conference in honor of the centennial of the birth of Alan Turing, the father of computer science.

Christopher Beck has just been awarded the Simons Foundation Fellowship in Theoretical Computer Science. This is a two year award. Chris's adviser is Sanjeev Arora, and he is working on lower bounds for time and space.

The Simons Foundation selected 21 mathematicians, theoretical physicists, and theoretical computer scientists as Simons Investigators for 2012, the inaugural year of the program.