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.

Professor Sanjeev Arora has won a Graduate Mentoring Award from the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and will be honored during the Graduate School's hooding ceremony on Monday, May 30.

Congratulations to Matt Hibbs, who has received a Graduate School/ APGA Teaching Award for his work as an Assistant in Instruction this semester in CHM/COS/MOL/PHY 233-34. This award is given to recognize and honor those graduate students who have made a significant contribution to undergraduate teaching.

Nir Ailon has been awarded a Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship for the coming year by the Graduate School. This is one of the University's Honorific Fellowships, "awarded in recognition of outstanding performance and professional promise, and represents high commendation from the Graduate School". Nir's adviser is Bernard Chazelle.

Dean Maria Klawe and Zhe Wang were among the recipients of the 2004 “Excellence in Teaching” Award given by the Princeton University Undergraduate Engineering Council on March 30th.

Class of 2007 Open House