Computer Science

Princeton has been at the forefront of computing since Alan Turing, Alonzo Church, and John von Neumann were among its residents. The department, now in a period of major growth, has strong groups in artificial intelligence and machine learning, theory, programming languages, graphics and vision, systems and networking, computer architecture, computational biology and neuroscience, security, privacy, and information technology policy.

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A hand points at a photo depicting a diverse group of people smiling together. Other elements in this artists' illustration include a curly bracket used in computer code, a large reddish circle with graph paper texture, and three question marks in boxes. — Princeton’s Department of Computer Science is teaching practical ethics in its technical courses. Photo illustration by Bumper DeJesus

Learning to use computing skills, ethically

Webs of neurons connected in space. — Scientists co-led by Princeton University’s Sebastian Seung have mapped the visual centers of a mouse brain, revealing the largest and most detailed look to date at the internal wiring of mammalian perception. Image by Tyler Sloan, Quorumetrix Studio

For the first time, scientists map the half-billion connections that allow mice to see

Teaching awards honor excellence within and beyond the classroom

Founding partners unveil NJ AI Hub as center for innovation

Two simulated robots move a green block to a blue box — By eliminating feedback, researchers at Princeton have found a reinforcement learning approach that encourages AI agents to explore. Using this strategy, the robots found various ways to complete the assigned tasks. Video courtesy of the researchers

Without feedback, AI systems learn to explore

A new way of seeing, a new way of computing

May 23

1:30 pm

Computer Science Department Reunion Event

Parastoo Abtahi

Ryan P. Adams

Andrew Appel

Sanjeev Arora

David August

Mark Braverman

Bernard Chazelle

Danqi Chen Portrait

Danqi Chen

Tri Dao Portrait

Tri Dao

Jia Deng

Adji Bousso Dieng

Robert Dondero Jr.

Zeev Dvir

Benjamin Eysenbach portrait

Benjamin Eysenbach

Adam Finkelstein

Robert Fish

Ruth Fong

Michael Freedman

Tom Griffiths

portrait of Aarti Gupta

Aarti Gupta

Elad Hazan

Felix Heide

Portrait of Peter Henderson

Peter Henderson

Kyle Jamieson

Alan Kaplan

Brian Kernighan

Zachary Kincaid

Gillat Kol

Aleksandra Korolova

Portrait of Pravesh Kothari

Pravesh Kothari

Amit Levy

Kai Li

Xiaoyan Li

Lydia Liu portrait

Lydia Liu

Wyatt Lloyd

Alex Lombardi portrait

Alex Lombardi

Portrait of Margaret Martonosi

Margaret Martonosi

Jonathan Mayer

Portrait of Mae Milano — Mae Milano

Mae Milano

Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Christopher Moretti

Radhika Nagpal

Karthik Narasimhan

Arvind Narayanan

Ravi Netravali

Pedro Paredes

Iasonas Petras

Yuri Pritykin

Vikram Ramaswamy portrait

Vikram Ramaswamy

Ben Raphael portrait

Ben Raphael

Ran Raz

Jennifer Rexford

Szymon Rusinkiewicz

Olga Russakovsky

Sebastian Seung

Mona Singh

Jaswinder Singh

Robert Tarjan

Olga Troyanskaya

David Walker

Kevin Wayne portrait

Kevin Wayne

Matt Weinberg

Huacheng Yu

Ellen Zhong