The confluence between social forces and computing is a strong undercurrent in Bernard Chazelle's Freshman Seminar titled "What Do Your DNA and Your iPod Have in Common?"

Ken Steiglitz is happy to admit that he is an eBay addict. For starters, his pre-dawn "grazing" on the popular Internet trading site has yielded a trove of ancient bronze coins to add to his personal collection.

The new construction cam page is now live on the Computer Science website.

Alex Halderman has been awarded a Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship by the Graduate School for the 2007-08 academic year.

Congratulations to Lester Mackey for winning the M. Taylor Pyne Prize!

Boaz Barak has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for 2007. These awards enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in science. Barak's research focuses on cryptography and the limits of efficient computation.

A paper by authors George A. Reis, Jonathan Chang, and David I. August was selected as one of IEEE Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences. IEEE Micro's Top Picks issue recognizes papers "most relevant to industry and significant in contribution to the field of computer architecture" in 2006.

Professor Andrew W. Appel buys used Sequoia voting machines at internet auction site; team of students examining them.

Fei-Fei Li '99 joined the Computer Science Department as Assistant Professor on January 1st. Professor Li received her Ph.D from CalTech.

Avi Wigderson, a computer science luminary and our neighbor at the Institute for Advanced Study, will give a series of three public lectures on February 13th, 14th, and 15th (8pm, McCosh 50) on A Wordlview through the Computational Lens.

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) presents an evening of new music.

Professor Ed Felten has joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) board of directors.