A three member team from Princeton, freshman John Pardon and seniors David Costanzo (Computer Science) and Amirali Modir Shanechi (EE) , was one of 100 teams which competed in the World Finals of the prestigious ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, 2008, in Banff, Canada.

Umar Syed (adviser: Rob Schapire) was awarded the Wallace Fellowship in Engineering for 2008-09. This award is one of the University's Honorific Fellowships, awarded to students in their final year of study. The Honorifics recognize outstanding performance in graduate study and professional promise. Congratulations!

A paper by authors Matthew Bridges, Neil Vachharajani, Yun Zhang, Tom Jablin, and David I. August was selected as one of IEEE Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences.

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra is one of 17 winners of the Digital Media and Learning Competition, which awards funds to projects that use digital media in innovative ways for formal and informal learning.

Each year, ACM SIGPLAN gives an award to a paper written 10 years earlier at the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL).

How good are undergrads from Princeton's Computer Science Department? When it comes to solving the hardest problems, they can beat just about anyone.

Congratulations to Rachel Sealfon who has been selected as one of two winners of the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award 2008.

Congratulations to Ed Felten for being named a 2007 ACM Fellow. His citation reads "for contributions to security and the public policy of information technology."

Congratulations to Josh Herbach and Zach Devito for receiving the 2008 Accenture Prize.

Congratulations to Princeton CS undergraduate students for a great performance at the Greater New York regionals of the 32nd ACM International Programming Contest http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has named Boaz Barak, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton, one of 20 new recipients of Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering.

Michael Freedman joins the Computer Science Department as Assistant Professor on September 1st. Professor Freedman received his Ph.D from NYU.