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July 31, 2020
Redefining the college visit with Adora
Adora is a personalized, digital college visit platform created by a group of Princeton undergraduate students. As entrepreneurship continues to thrive on campus, Adora made history as the first Princeton-student-led company to have the University as its first revenue-producing customer. Raya Ward, Princeton Class of 2021 and Head of User Experience for Adora, shares her team’s story, from the early stages of ideation to the final months before launch, while adapting to the pandemic.
July 22, 2020
Virtual Commitment and Connection: Service and Computer Science
For the third year in a row, Princeton University undergraduate students are helping to teach a version of Princeton’s computer science course, COS 126, at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez (UPRM) in collaboration with Dr. Alan Kaplan, from Princeton’s Department of Computer Science.
July 13, 2020
Faculty recognized on the "Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching"
Faculty recognized on the "Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching
June 26, 2020
New radar allows cars to spot hazards around corners
Using radar commonly deployed to track speeders and fastballs, researchers have developed an automated system that will allow cars to peer around corners and spot oncoming traffic and pedestrians.
June 23, 2020
Lauren von Berg, Class of 2020, publishes research from PEI internship studying Antarctic sea ice
Lauren von Berg, who received her bachelor’s degree in computer science on June 2, is first author of a peer-reviewed paper based on her Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) internship studying the role of Antarctic sea ice in regulating the growth of the tiny algae known as phytoplankton.
June 22, 2020
Design allows computer engineers to mix systems to boost performance
Computers are renowned for flexibility, running everything from game consoles to stock exchanges. But at the level of computation, most computers rely on arrays of identical processors called cores. Now, a team at Princeton University has built a hardware platform that allows different kinds of computer cores to fit together, allowing designers to customize systems in new ways.
June 10, 2020
Princeton Researchers win PLDI 2020 Distinguished Paper Award
Congratulations to PhD student Anders Miltner, and coauthors Saswat Padhi (UCLA), Professor Todd Millstein (UCLA), and Professor David Walker for their paper entitled "Data-driven inference of representation invariants," which won a PLDI 2020 distinguished paper award.
June 3, 2020
Jia Deng and Zachary Kincaid recipients of SEAS's Junior Faculty awards
The School of Engineering and Applied Science is honoring six assistant professors for early-career excellence in research and teaching. Among them are Assistant Professors Jia Deng and Zachary Kincaid. They will each receive $50,000 to support their research.
June 1, 2020
Congratulations to the Department of Computer Science Class of 2020!
On Monday, June 1, 2020, the Computer Science department held its first virtual Class Day award ceremony online. Those honored are listed below.
May 29, 2020
CRA-WP presents the 2020 Anita Borg Early Career Award to Olga Russakovsky
Olga Russakovsky has been selected for the 2020 Anita Borg Early Career Award by the Computing Research Association-Widening Participation (CRA-WP).
May 27, 2020
Princeton’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter honors Wyatt Lloyd with teaching award
The Princeton University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa is giving one of two annual awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching to Wyatt Lloyd, assistant professor of computer science.
May 26, 2020
COS senior Preeti Iyer awarded the Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal
Princeton senior Preeti Iyer has been honored for her service to the Class of 2020 and to the University, receiving the Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal, which recognizes the senior who, in the judgment of the student’s classmates, has done the most for Princeton.
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