Event

The Chair and the Faculty of the Department of Computer Science
invite you and your family to attend... 

Class Day 2018
Departmental Award Ceremony
Monday, June 4, 2018

Light refreshments at 1:30 pm, Ceremony will begin at 2:00 pm 
under the tent in the Friend Center Courtyard.
Immediately following, there will be SEAS Reception in the Friend Lobby at 3:00 pm
Presentation of SEAS Awards
Friend Courtyard 3:15 pm.

Limited space – 4 guests per family

Princeton Research Day is a celebration of the research and creative endeavors by our undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and other nonfaculty researchers.

The campuswide event serves as an opportunity for researchers and artists to share their work with the community and includes research from the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, the arts and humanities. The program features talks, posters, performances, art exhibitions, demonstrations, digital presentations and an awards ceremony for outstanding contributions. The event is free and open to the public.

Princeton Research Day is a collaborative initiative between the offices of the Dean of the College, the Dean of the Faculty, the Dean of the Graduate School and the Dean for Research, with support from the Office of the Provost.

Several students from the Computer Science Department will participate.  For a list of all CS participants, click here.  For the full agenda (viewable in the Guidebook app), click here. 

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.  Please register at link here

Cyber capabilities have introduced new dynamics into national security planning, decision-making and strategy. Yet the uses, defenses and ramifications of these tools remain poorly understood. We hope you join us to learn more about these tools and how they impact national security.

The conference kicks off with a keynote on Thursday, April 19 at 4:30pm in Arthur Lewis Auditorium by J. Michael Daniel, President of the Cyber Threat Alliance and former Special Assistant to President Obama and Cybersecurity Coordinator. On Friday, April 20, we host panels of experts and policymakers to discuss cyber norms and governance, defense, and warfare and terrorism.

Conference Program

8:15-8:45am - Continental Breakfast

8:45-9:00am - Welcome 

Professor Aaron Friedberg, Director, Center for International Security Studies, Princeton University

9-10:00am  -  What You Need to Know about Cyber 

Professor Ed Felten, Director, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

10:15am-11:30am - Cyber Sovereignty or Global Governance?

Professor Niva Elkin-Koren, Director, Haifa Center for Law & Technology, University of Haifa

Cameron F. Kerry, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution

Tim Maurer, Co-Director, Cyber Policy Initiative, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Teddy Nemeroff '01, Senior Advisor, Coordinator for Cyber Issues, U.S. Department of State

Samm Sacks, Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

1:30-2:45pm - Protecting from Cyber Intrusion

Professor Aaron Brantly, Virginia Tech

Julie Steinke, Lead Behavioral Scientist, MITRE Corporation

Kiersten Todt '94, Resident Scholar, Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security, University of Pittsburgh

3:00-4:15pm - Cyber Warfare and Digital Terrorism

COL Andrew Hall, Director, Army Cyber Institute, US Military Academy

Ian Wallace, Co-Director, Cybersecurity Initiative, New America

Professor Gabriel Weimann, University

4:30-5:00pm  - Concluding Remarks

Twice a year, HackPrinceton welcomes 600 developers and designers from across the country to create incredible software and hardware projects. For 36 hours this spring, from March 30 to April 1, we will provide a warm and collaborative environment for you to build out brilliant, innovative, and impactful ideas.

At HackPrinceton, you'll meet fellow hackers, learn new technologies, and work alongside seasoned mentors. We'll have free food, swag, workshops, lecture series, mentorship, prizes, game, free food, and more. Don't have a team, or even an idea? Don't worry! We'll give you the tools to build something incredible.

Whether you’re new to coding/design/hardware or a seasoned hacker, you have a place at HackPrinceton. All we expect is a passion for learning, a willingness to collaborate with people of different backgrounds, and a desire to benefit the world with technology. We'd love to see you here!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the world. AI has amazingly broad applications, and we need people with a comparably broad set of experiences and worldviews working on AI problems. However, there is a distinct lack of diversity of people in the AI community, leading to a lack of diversity of thought. This results in technology biased for certain demographics, needs and values, accruing the benefits of AI to the few instead of the all.

The solution to the problem has to start with education. This coming summer, the Princeton Computer Science Department, the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, and the AI4ALL foundation are starting a summer camp to teach AI to high school students from underrepresented groups. The Princeton AI4ALL camp will run for 3 weeks, from  July 22nd - August 11, 2018. It will target rising 11th graders from racial/ethnic groups dramatically underrepresented in AI: Black, Hispanic/Latino/Latina, and Native American.

At this meeting, we will discuss the history of this initiative, describe what has been planned so far, and map out a plan going forward. There are lots of ways for you to become involved -- in paid and unpaid positions, in spring and summer, in teaching and research, in roles that require AI expertise and in roles that are most administrative in nature. The camp relies on undergraduate & graduate students, postdocs, researchers, faculty and staff working together to create an educational, memorable and inspirational experience for the high schoolers. We want to teach them basic AI concepts, showcase the broad range of AI applications, walk them through some of the AI policy issues, and instill in them the confidence that they too can become the future AI leaders. We need YOU to make this happen. 

Details: The last event of 2017 will focus on mentoring. We'll begin with a short talk followed by small group discussions.

Food for thought before the meeting: What have you accomplished in 2017 that you're particularly proud of? (No, stop your mind before you start thinking of all the things you hadn't quite done perfectly. Really focus on one thing you ROCKED. And beam with pride.)

As always, open to graduate students, post docs and faculty of all genders!

 

The Chair and the Faculty of the

Department of Computer Science

Invite you and your family to attend

Class Day 2017

Departmental Award Ceremony

Monday, June 5, 2017

Light refreshments at 1:30 pm 

Ceremony will begin at 2 pm

under the tent in the Friend Center Courtyard

Immediately following, there will be SEAS Reception

in the Friend Lobby at 3PM

Presentation of SEAS Awards

Friend Courtyard 3:15 PM

  

Limited space – 4 guests per family

Princeton ACM/IEEE- CS Chapters

The following "computer science in education" talk is part of our celebration of Computer Science Education Week (December 7-13, http://csedweek.org).

Colleges and universities need a good "introduction to computer science" for their students.  What should we teach and how should we teach it?  How should we use technology in an introductory course?

This talk describes a introductory computer science course at Princeton University.  The course has been under development for 25 years.  It is the highest-enrolled course at Princeton, attracting two-thirds of all students, preparing them all for further study in computer science (nearly 40% of all Princeton students are taking a CS course at any point in time).  The content is broad and deep, building on a solid foundation in programming to address fundamental issues in theoretical computer science and to also provide an overview of computer architecture, all in the context of interesting applications in science, engineering, and commerce.  The course is currently using a new textbook, extensive online content, and studio-produced lecture videos.

Robert Sedgewick is the founding chair and the William O. Baker Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton and a member of the board of directors of Adobe Systems.  His research interests revolve around algorithm design, including mathematical techniques for the analysis of algorithms.  Prof. Sedgwick is the author of the very popular textbook "Algorithms, Fourth Edition" and other books on algorithms that have been best-sellers for decades.

On-line meeting notice:  http://PrincetonACM.acm.org/meetings/mtg1512.pdf

All ACM / IEEE-CS meetings are open to the public. Students and their parents are welcome.  There is no admission charge.
Refreshments at 7:30pm

Hello Princeton women in Computer Science,

International Women's Day is in March and Google invites you to celebrate early next week!  We will be hosting an IWD luncheon that will include discussion, prizes, and a panel of Princetonian alumnae Googlers.

Chat about the awesomeness of women in tech!  And lunch and swag certainly don't hurt :)

Please RSVP here <http://goo.gl/ATXwTd> if you plan to attend - we hope that you will be able to join us.

Dropbox's photo-sharing app Carousel's hottest new feature helps users free up space on their phone so they have room to download the latest iOS update or take more selfies. Kat Busch, an engineer at Dropbox and the creator of the feature, will talk about its design. The talk will cover Dropbox's Camera Uploads architecture (which has uploaded billions of photos) and how Carousel builds on that architecture to intelligently and safely clear space on users' phones.

We will have Dropbox Swag and lots of food. Please RSVP so we know how much to order!

We're also hiring software engineers for internships and full time positions! Feel free to bring your resume with you or to email it to caroline@dropbox.com if you're interested!