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Former Google CEO Schmidt, Peru President Kuczynski to receive top alumni awards .

Princeton University will present its top honors for alumni to Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc., and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, president of Peru.

TIME Magazine's TIME100 artificial intelligence list honors six Princetonians .

The inaugural TIME100 AI list includes a Princeton professor, a current grad student and four alumni.

Video: Coming Back and Moving Forward .

At the largest gathering of black alumni in Princeton's history, emotions overflowed as participants talked about change and planned for progress.

Eric Schmidt ’76 shares AI insights in McCosh 50 book launch conversation for 'Genesis' .

The former Google chairman and CEO urged Princeton undergraduates and graduate students to tackle the “inconceivably large” opportunities and challenges that artificial intelligence presents.

Alumni Day honorees Kuczynski, Schmidt stress solutions for global challenges .

The recipients of Princeton's top alumni awards underscored solutions for the political and technological challenges of today and the future at the University's annual Alumni Day on Saturday, Feb. 25. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, president of Peru, spoke of a new age in Latin America, while Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., was positive about the power of technology to solve societal problems.

Honoring past computer science great, Schmidt looks forward .

Computer science is among the most forward-looking of disciplines, and in an address at Princeton University on Thursday evening, May 10, Eric Schmidt paid tribute to Alan Turing, one of the giants of the field, by looking ahead to an almost unimaginable future.

Video feature: 'Eli Harari: Engineering After Princeton' .

Eli Harari, who earned a Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton in 1973, describes how a successful inventor recognizes a need and changes the world by pushing innovation. In this video profile by engineering alumnus Michael Wood, Harari recalls how his research experience at Princeton influenced his work as founder and chief executive officer of SanDisk Corp.