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).

Arvind Narayanan, who will be joining Princeton Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in September, was today named a "World's Most Wired Computer Scientist" with a 2500-word article in Wired.com profiling his research on Internet privacy and anonymity.

David M. Brooks*01, the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, won the 2012 ACM's Maurice Wilkes Award. Professor Margaret Martonosi was his thesis adviser in Electrical Engineering.

An article about Professor Sanjeev Arora, winner of the 2011 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, is in this month's issue of Communications of the ACM. The article is entitled "An Influential Theoretician".

Adams and Wu Professors

At the recent USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '12), work by several Princeton researchers and students on Serval, a system for new Internet abstractions and architectures, received an honorable mention for the Community Award given at the conference.