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.

David Blei is a Dept of Defense recipient and Michael Freedman is a National Science Foundation recipient.

David Blei is a Dept of Defense recipient and Michael Freedman is a National Science Foundation recipient.

Mark Braverman, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has been named a Turing Research Fellow by the 'The Turing Centenary Research Project - Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics', supported by a major grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Prof. Braverman's main interests lie in the theory of computation and its applications in the natural and social sciences.

Graduate student Anirudh Badam and Professor Vivek Pai have been working on exploiting solid-state disk (SSD) to expand the addressable memory that programs can use; they developed a hybrid memory allocator called SSDAlloc. Today, Fusion-io announced their Extended Memory technology resulting from a collaboration with Badam and Pai.

Professor Zeev Dvir received the Dénes König Prize in recognition of his paper "On the size of Kakeya sets in finite fields," Journal of the American Mathematical Society 20 (4): 1093-1097 (2009).