The National Science Foundation has granted CAREER awards, its most prestigious grants for scientists early in their careers, to three Princeton faculty members, Craig Arnold, Benjamin Sudakov and Olga Troyanskaya.

David Blei joined the Computer Science Department as Assistant Professor on January 1st.

Frances Spalding has been awarded a two year Microsoft Research Fellowship beginning in Fall 2006. Her research area is programming language design and verification and her recent work is on development of a high-level assertion language for specifying and automatically checking properties of data structures.

EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING’ AWARDS

Forging ties between technologists and public policy experts, Princeton is creating a research center to address societal issues, such as privacy and security.

Congratulations to the 15 students who participated in the 30th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest on November 20.

This year's winner of the Accenture Award is Joseph K. Bradley, a BSE student in the class of 2006. Joseph's independent work has involved theoretical analysis of a new machine learning algorithm designed for handling datasets so large that they cannot fit into the memory of an ordinary computer, and an experimental study to determine how well it works in practice.

Perry Cook and Dan Trueman, Assistant Professor of Music, have assembled the orchestra as a freshman seminar this semester.

Perry Cook, a 2005 Conservatory of Music Alumni Achievement Award winner at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is the first person in the university’s history to receive alumni achievement awards from two academic units.Perry Cook, a 2005 Conservatory of Music Alumni Achievement Award winner at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is the first person in the university’s history to receive alumni achievement awards from two academic units.

Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates visited the Computer Science Department on Friday, October 14, 2005 and met with CS faculty members.

PICASso Talk -- Erich Schmidt

Elena Nabieva wins Best Student Paper Award at ISMB 2005.