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December 11, 2017
Aarti Gupta named ACM Fellow
Professor Aarti Gupta, who joined the Department of Computer Science as a full professor in 2015, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, considered the world’s preeminent computing society.
November 29, 2017
Matt Weinberg uses algorithmic mechanism design to keep websites credible, in spite of their users
Matt Weinberg, who joined the Computer Science Department early in 2017 as an assistant professor, believes the solution lies in algorithmic mechanism design, that is, ensuring that systems of all kinds — not just dating sites but such widely varied processes as auctions, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and crowdsourcing — remain credible and accurate even when users may try to exploit them for their own purposes.
November 14, 2017
Margaret Martonosi sketches a path for a new type of computing
As new devices move quantum computing closer to practical use, the journal Nature recently asked Princeton computer scientist Margaret Martonosi and two colleagues to assess the state of software needed to exploit this powerful computational approach. Read the full story here.
November 10, 2017
TEDxBoston Speaker - Barbara Engelhardt
Professor Barbara Engelhardt was part of the TEDxBoston 2017 event Revolutionary Ideas: Advancing Our Machines which took place on October 16, 2017.
November 9, 2017
Dr. Robert S. Fish of the Princeton CS faculty, is 2018 President-elect of the IEEE Standards Association
As 2018 president elect Robert Fish will serve as IEEE-SA president in 2019, bringing his long list of previous IEEE-SA leadership roles including serving as a member of the IEEE-SA Board of Governors and as Chair of IEEE-SA’s Global Committee.
November 8, 2017
Prof. Margaret Martonosi among the recipients of the 2017 ACM SenSys Test of Time Award
Congratulations to Prof. Margaret Martonosi (CS) and Prof. Steve Lyon (EE) along with EE PhD alums Pei Zhang and Chris Sadler, who were awarded the 2017 ACM SenSys Test of Time award for their 2004 paper entitled “Hardware Design Experiences in ZebraNet”.
November 2, 2017
Panel: Biotech, data science promise better NJ health and business growth
Companies and academic institutions of New Jersey have a unique opportunity to solve health care problems and grow new businesses at the intersection of biotechnology and data science, a panel of leaders from industry and academia concluded at a conference convened by Princeton University on Oct. 25.
October 26, 2017
Computer Science Celebrates 2018 Siebel Scholars
Princeton Students gathered to celebrate the 2018 Siebel Scholar Award winners. The Siebel Scholars program acknowledges leadership, academic achievement, and the collaborative search for solutions to the world's most critical issues.
October 20, 2017
Prof. Martonosi organized a statement on diversity at the MICRO-50 Conference
Professor Margaret Martonosi, co-chair of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women (CRA-W), organized a statement on diversity at the MICRO-50 Conference.
October 20, 2017
Nora Willett Awarded Best Paper at UIST
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Nora Willett who received the Best Paper award for her work Triggering Artwork Swaps for Live Animation at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
October 16, 2017
Scientists demonstrate path to linking the genome to healthy tissues and disease
Barbara Engelhardt, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton, is a principal investigator with the GTEx Consortium, an international group of researchers studying the diversity of genetic roles in maintaining human tissues. Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy
October 9, 2017
Singer, Russakovsky, Lloyd Join Computer Science Faculty
Yoram Singer, a senior Google research scientist, will join the Computer Science Department this fall as a full professor, deepening the department’s expertise and research in machine learning, perception and related areas. Two new assistant professors — Olga Russakovsky and Wyatt Lloyd — will extend the department’s knowledge and skills in visual artificial intelligence and distributed systems.
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