Two graduates of Princeton CS, Lester Mackey and David Weiss, were on a leading team for the $1M NetFlix competition. The goal of the competition is to significantly improve on NetFlix's algorithm for recommending movies to their users.

Professor Larry Peterson has been named the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award "for ground-breaking contributions to the design, implementation, and deployment of networked software systems."

Professor Andrew Appel '81 has been appointed as the new Chair of the Department of Computer Science, effective July 1, 2009.

In the true spirit of interdisciplinary research, Computer Science Dept Assistant Professor Fei-Fei Li and Psychology Department postdoc Dr. Marius Peelen and Professor Sabine Kastner have co-published a Nature paper, titled "Neural mechanisms of rapid natural scene categorization in human visual cortex".

Siddhartha Sen receives Google Fellowship in Fault Tolerant Computing.

Sanjeev Arora will receive an Excellence in Teaching Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for COS 521-Fall 2008.

Office of Naval Research Announces 2009 Young Investigator Award Recipients.

Pai and colleagues' HashCache technology named one of Technology Review's Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2009.

Princeton researchers work with Google to make Internet more transparent.

Congratulations to Sanjeev Arora, Perry Cook, and Jennifer Rexford for being named a 2008 ACM Fellow. The ACM Fellows Program recognizes and honors outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology.

Bernard Chazelle wins the Best Paper Award at the 2009 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA09) for his work on "Natural Algorithms," which is about the algorithms used by birds to fly in flocks.

In September 2008, ACM SIGPLAN, the ACM chapter dedicated to programming languages and compilers, nominated five research papers for consideration as "research highlights" to appear in Communications of the ACM.