Category: Computer Science

Princeton Language and Intelligence initiative pushes the boundaries of large AI models

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By Liz Fuller-Wright A new initiative aims to enhance our fundamental understanding of AI, enable its use in academic disciplines, and examine AI’s safety, policy and ethical implications. The Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI) initiative, Continue Reading →

From Math to Meaning. Artificial intelligence blends algorithms and applications

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By Kevin McElwee Artificial intelligence is already a part of everyday life. It helps us answer questions like “Is this email spam?” It identifies friends in online photographs, selects news stories based on our politics Continue Reading →

Engineering professors named fellows of National Academy of Inventors

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By John Sullivan Two engineering faculty members, Paul Prucnal and Jennifer Rexford, have been named as fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, an honor that recognizes contributions that have an impact on quality of Continue Reading →

Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy and Security

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Author: Brian Kernighan, professor of computer science Publisher: Princeton University Press, January 2017 Computers are everywhere. Some of them are highly visible, in laptops, tablets, cellphones and smart watches. But most are invisible, like those Continue Reading →

Bias in the machine: Internet algorithms reinforce harmful stereotypes

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THE ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE (AI) SYSTEMS that suggest our search terms and otherwise determine what we see online rely on data that can be biased against women and racial and religious groups, according to a study led Continue Reading →

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Armchair victory: Computers that recognize everyday objects

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JIANXIONG XIAO TYPES “CHAIR” INTO GOOGLE’S search engine and watches as hundreds of images populate his screen. He isn’t shopping — he is using the images to teach his computer what a chair looks like. Continue Reading →

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Fierce, Fiercer, Fiercest: Software enables rapid creations

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A NEW SOFTWARE PROGRAM MAKES IT EASY for novices to create computer-based 3-D models using simple instructions such as “make it look scarier.” The software could be useful for building models for 3-D printing and Continue Reading →

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Internet traffic moves smoothly with Pyretic

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AT 60 HUDSON ST. IN LOWER MANHATTAN, a fortress-like building houses one of the Internet’s busiest exchange points. Packets of data zip into the building, are routed to their next destination, and zip out again, Continue Reading →

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Security check: A strategy for verifying software that could prevent bugs

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IN APRIL 2014, INTERNET USERS WERE SHOCKED to learn of the Heartbleed bug, a vulnerability in the open-source software used to encrypt Internet content and passwords. The bug existed for two years before it was Continue Reading →

Computer visions: A selection of research projects in Computer Science

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Princeton’s Department of Computer Science has strong groups in theory, networks/systems, graphics/vision, programming languages, security/policy, machine learning, and computational biology. Find out what the researchers have been up to lately in these stories: Armchair victory: Computers Continue Reading →