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December 2, 2024
More checks make AI fairer
Currently, AI engineers evaluate fairness with a single leaderboard number, but research from Princeton Engineering shows that reducing fairness to a single metric could lead to societal harm.
November 14, 2024
Tech policy conference highlighted the need for skilled talent across disciplines
"Tech Policy: The Next Ten Years” brought together significant figures in academia, government and the private sector to explore the agenda for tech policy and the role the United States will play in the global arena.
October 31, 2024
Tracking cell mutations, a new tool reveals how tumors evolve
Researchers at Princeton have created a new tool to track the progression of mutations in cancer cells, showing how tumors evolve over time and in space.
October 29, 2024
Mae Milano, expert in programming languages, joins the faculty
Mae Milano, an expert in programming languages, joined the computer science faculty as an assistant professor in January 2024.
October 15, 2024
Internet researchers reach beyond academia to close major security loophole
For years a potential disaster lurked in the internet’s encryption system, threatening the security of organizations and individuals worldwide. Princeton engineers have now squelched that threat.
October 15, 2024
For AI, secrecy often doesn’t improve security
Researchers at a group of leading universities including Princeton caution that regulating limit access to AI models’ inner workings is likely to do more harm than good.
October 10, 2024
Two Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows join the department
Two Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows join the computer science department.
October 2, 2024
Mapping an entire (fly) brain: A step toward understanding diseases of the human brain
An international team of researchers and gamers, led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung, mapped every neuron and every synaptic connection in an adult fruit fly's brain, building a comprehensive “connectome” that represents a massive step toward understanding the human brain.
September 26, 2024
Five graduate students win Siebel Scholar fellowships
The Siebel Scholars Foundation has awarded fellowships to five Princeton University graduate students in computer science: Kun Woo Cho, Dan Friedman, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Sadhika Malladi, Zirui Wang.
September 18, 2024
Initiative aims to make Princeton a leader in AI accelerated engineering
Princeton University has launched AI for Accelerating Invention, an initiative to achieve faster breakthroughs across engineering disciplines.
August 15, 2024
Brian Kernighan recognized for groundbreaking work on computer programming languages
The Research & Development Council of New Jersey has awarded Brian Kernighan the Science & Technology Medal for his groundbreaking work on computer programming languages.
July 31, 2024
Lydia Liu, an expert on the social impacts of machine learning, has joined the faculty
Lydia Liu, an expert on the social impacts of machine learning, joined the computer science faculty as an assistant professor in January 2024.
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