FACULTY AWARD: Arora wins ACM-Infosys Foundation Award

Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University's Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor in Computer Science, has been awarded the 2011 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award for work that brings new understanding to the ability to compute approximate solutions to a famous group of mathematical problems. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society. The ACM-Infosys Foundation Award recognizes contributions by scientists and system developers to innovation that exemplifies the greatest recent achievements in computing.