Michael J. Freedman, a professor of computer science, has been awarded this year’s Grace Murray Hopper Award, the Association for Computing Machinery announced May 8.

Jen Rexford, Class of 1991 and chair of Princeton’s computer science department, has seen it all. From tinkering with the first consumer PCs in 1984 to saving the internet as we know it, Jen has been at the forefront of her field during an epoch of extraordinary advancement … and there’s much more to come.

Google’s newest AI lab — located across the street from Princeton University’s Nassau Hall — officially launched on Thursday, May 2, with speeches and research presentations by state and local officials, Google executives, and University executives and students.

Opeyemi, from Nazareth, Pa., is concentrating in computer science. During his time at the University, he has played soccer on the men’s varsity team and has worked extensively with several of the University affinity groups, including serving as a committee member for the Men’s Allied Voices for a Respectful & Inclusive Community Project and as mentorship chair for the Princeton African Student Association.

Edward Felten, the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, is the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy. Felten, who studies the intersection of public policy and information technology, served as a technology adviser at the Federal Trade Commission and the White House during portions of the Obama administration. Felten often blogs at Freedom to Tinker.

Zhandry, who joined the Department of Computer Science in 2016, is confident that the technology, driven by peculiarities of physics like superposition and entanglement, is the wave of future — in which quantum computers will solve complex problems exponentially faster than current computers.

Robert Sedgewick, the William O. Baker ’39 Professor in Computer Science, is the recipient of this year’s Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the Association for Computing Machinery announced today.

Brian Kernighan, a pioneer of early programming languages and software tools and a scholar known for distilling and clarifying complex technical subjects, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mark Braverman, who focuses on core problems of theoretical computer science and applies the results to a broad range of disciplines, has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s highest honor for young researchers, the Alan T. Waterman Award.

The European Symposia on Algorithms (ESA) Test-of-Time Award (ToTA) recognizes excellent papers in algorithms research that were published in the ESA proceedings 19-21 years ago and which are still influential and stimulating for the field today.

For much of the past decade, fierce political battles over the internet have involved concerns that the fastest access would go only to those with the greatest ability to pay. In testimony last week in Washington, however, a Princeton professor said measuring such performance is no longer so simple. On the internet, speed no longer rules.

Sisters Claudia and Laura Roberts, Ph.D. students in computer science at Princeton, are examining how technology affects society.