Princeton University researchers will push the limits of data science by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning across the research spectrum in an interdisciplinary pilot project made possible through a major gift from Schmidt Futures.

The logical place to start would be to peruse books and guides that relate the adventures of other people who have done it, to learn from their experiences (including their missteps). With that knowledge, you might follow someone else’s lead, create your own unique experience, or, for that matter, scrap the whole idea.

Edward Felten has worked at the intersection of computer science and policy, fighting to retain, the “freedom to tinker” amongst other things. “Freedom to Tinker” is also the name of his influential blog, which contains research and expert commentary on digital technologies in public life.

Gillat Kol and Wyatt Lloyd, both assistant professors of computer science at Princeton, have been awarded 2019 Sloan Fellowships, out of just 16 awarded nationwide in computer science by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation “in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.”

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announces the selection of 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers as the recipients of the 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships. The fellowships, awarded yearly since 1955, honor early-career scholars whose achievements mark them as among the most promising researchers in their fields.

The Wilson School announced the 12 students named to the 2019 cohort of Scholars in Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI) on Tuesday, Feb. 12.

Ge Wang *08 co-founded the mobile music company Smule, whose apps have reached more than 200 million users. Now he’s a professor at Stanford in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.

Sixteen Princeton University students traveled to Washington, D.C., during fall 2018 to learn more about the intersection between technology and policymaking.

The National Academy of Sciences announced today that Thomas Griffiths has received one of the two Troland Research Awards issued this year “for his research into how people and machines make decisions.” The Troland awards recognize unusual achievement by young investigators (defined as no older than 40) working within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology.

Levy, who joined the CS department in 2018 as an assistant professor after earning his doctorate from Stanford, is interested in distributed systems, operating systems, security, privacy, and programming languages, but his current goal is to improve the security and reliability of the small electronic devices that we’re carrying around these days as the Internet of Things explodes into all aspects of everyday life.

Congrats to PhD student Raghuvansh Saxena (advised by Assistant Professor Gillat Kol) and Katherine Ye '16 (now at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science) for winning a 2019 Microsoft PhD Fellowship!

The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital by CS professor emeritus Ken Steiglitz sheds light on the genesis of the digital idea and shows how it transformed civilization.