Congratulations to the Computer Science Department Class of 2016!

In the Faculty Room of Nassau Hall, Director of the Program in Teacher Preparation Christopher Campisano (left) and Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber (third from right) meet with four outstanding New Jersey secondary school teachers on Commencement Day.

Congratulations to Brent Waters who has received the Grace Murray Hopper Award for the introduction and development of the concepts of attribute-based and functional encryption.

The computer science department will have new 41 AB concentrators in addition to 121 BSE concentrators from the Class of 2018, compared to 28 AB concentrators and 102 BSE concentrators the previous year.

Distinguishing an actual book from a photo of a book seems so simple that we humans don't even think about it. But for a computer, it is another story.

Researchers have found that the "Great Firewall" technology that controls internet traffic entering and leaving China is not merely an apparatus that statically blocks traffic.

Five years ago, the most popular majors for members of the Class of 2011 were economics, politics, history, the Woodrow Wilson School, and operations research and financial engineering. Computer science, which awarded 36 degrees in 2011, wasn’t even close to cracking the top five.

Professor Appel gave a TEDx talk at the local Princeton University TEDx event.

Princeton sophomore Sara Fridovich-Keil and juniors Siddhartha Jayanti and Peter Park have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships, the premier award for outstanding undergraduates interested in careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

Congratulations to Dr. Roya Ensafi who received the Advanced Networking Research Prize at the Internet Engineering Task Force conference in Buenos Aires. Ensafi was recognized for her work on "Examining How the Great Firewall Discovers Hidden Circumvention Servers".

The Association for Computing Machinery’s Council on Women in Computing named Professor Jennifer Rexford the 2016-2017 Athena Lecturer.

Congratulations to Naga Katta, Omid Alipourfard, Professor Jennifer Rexford, and Professor David Walker for receiving Best Paper Award at the Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) in Santa Clara.