Princeton researchers Chris Monsanto, Josh Reich, Jen Rexford and David Walker, and their collaborator Nate Foster at Cornell, were co-winners of the 2013 USENIX NSDI Community Award for the design and implementation of Pyretic, a new programming language for managing software-defined networks. For more information, see http://www.frenetic-lang.org/pyretic/

Computer Science major Amy Ousterhout was one of three Princeton students to receive a Hertz Fellowship. Amy will continue her research at MIT next year.

Professor Moses Charikar one of three recipients of the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. This award honors specific theoretical accomplishments that significantly affect the practice of computing.

Alumnus Robert Kahn is one of the first ever recipients of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for his "major controbutions to the development of the Internet and the World Wide Web." Kahn, along with Louis Pouzin and Vinton Cerf, developed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP). In 2007 Kahn endowed a chair at Princeton, which is currently held by Professor Larry Peterson.

Fourth year graduate student Jingwan "Cynthia" Lu's, digital stroke stylization research was featured in a Princeton video "Cynthia Lu: The Art of Computer Science"

Katie Stouffer'13 was one of three Princeton students and alum to be awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She will be enrolling in the University of Cambridge for postgraduate study this fall in the field of medical research. "I want to try and apply [the computer science concept of machine learning] to medical problems," Stouffer said.

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.