Olga Russakovsky’s Princeton Visual AI Lab develops artificial intelligence (AI) systems with new capabilities in computer vision, including automated object detection and image captioning.

Bruce Arden developed foundational computer programming techniques that popularized computing in later decades. He led Princeton from the mainframe era to the personal computer era and was instrumental in creating the computer science department. He died Dec. 8, 2021, at 94. The above ran in the April 10, 1985, issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Photo by Robert P. Matthews.

Professor Mark Braverman is recognized for contributions to computational complexity, information theory, and algorithmic mechanism design. Professor Elad Hazan is recognized for contributions to efficient algorithms for convex and nonconvex optimization. Professor Szymon Rusinkiewicz is recognized for contributions to acquisition, representation, analysis, rendering, and fabrication of 3D models.

When Yuri Pritykin first arrived at Princeton in 2008 as a computer science Ph.D. candidate, he had little interest in studying life sciences. Today as an assistant professor with a foot in both the computer science department and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Pritykin is using math and computer science to solve biology’s biggest mysteries.

Radhika Nagpal, who joins the Computer Science and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty in January 2022, has been recognized by Newsweek as one of “America’s Great Disrupters”. She is recognized for her work on groups of robots to perform tasks too dirty, dull, or dangerous for people to do.

Two Princeton seniors concentrating in computer science have been have been named Schwarzman Scholars for 2022. The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

When Mona Singh was in high school, she spent two summers conducting research in an immunology lab at the nearby University of Alabama at Birmingham. Singh was an excellent student, and her family hoped she would follow in her father’s footsteps and become a medical doctor. She was interested in the questions of biology and medicine that the lab pursued, but her heart wasn’t in it. Deep down, she wanted to become a math professor — not a doctor. “To be honest, I don’t know if I understood what being a math professor really meant,” she said. “I just knew I liked math.”

Researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington have developed an ultracompact camera the size of a coarse grain of salt. The system relies on a technology called a metasurface, which is studded with 1.6 million cylindrical posts and can be produced much like a computer chip. Image courtesy of the researchers

On October 4th shortly before noon Eastern Time, billions of users were unable to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp while the social media giant scrambled to restore services. It was more than five hours before services began to return.

The story of computer science at Princeton goes back well before the founding of the discipline as a freestanding department. In this portion of #E100, we will look at the people, places and milestones that have led to the creation of the campus’ most in-demand major.

A pigeon looks at pictures. The bird knows nothing about heart attacks, nothing about cancer. Yet, trained to classify mammograms and cardiograms, it can outperform doctors.

A team of scientists, led by researchers at Princeton University, have now implicated two genes associated with mammal tooth development to be at the center of the tuskless elephant phenomenon. And one of these genes is connected to the X-chromosome and is lethal to males, while humans who have that same gene mutation exhibit similar teeth defects.