Recent graduate Subhash Khot has been awarded an honorable mention in this year's ACM Doctoral Dissertation competition. His dissertation, New Techniques for Probabilistically Checkable Proofs and Inapproximability Results, was completed under the guidance of his adviser, Sanjeev Arora. Here is the news release.

Andrew C. Yao is elected as AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of his work on information, computing and communication.

PICASso, Program in Integrative Information, Computer and Application Sciences, offers a new graduate course called Computational Methods and Their Applications Across Disciplines, together with a whole set of cross-department, interdisciplinary research and educational activities.

David Walker and Szymon Rusinkiewicz are selected as Alfred P. Sloan Fellows.

Princeton researchers honored at IEEE FOCS 2003. Bo Brinkman and Asst. Prof. Moses Charikar received the best paper award and our recent graduate Subhash Khot received the Machtey award for best student paper.

K is for Kernighan.

Fall Industrial Affiliates Meeting is on Thursday, October 2nd.

We welcome back faculty, staff, graduate students, visitors, and their families as we begin another year.

We are very pleased to announce our newest faculty members: Nicholas Pippenger and Olga Troyanskaya - welcome to you both!

Larry Peterson is a co-founder of PlanetLab, an academic/industrial consortium to experiment global computer network designed to help shape the future generation of the Internet.

Congratulations to Sanjeev Arora; he has been awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award in Computer Sciences and Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.

Congratulations to Ding Liu, who has been awarded the George Van Ness Lothrop Fellowship in Engineering for 2003-04 by the Graduate School.