Accelerating into its second year of operation, the YURT (Brown University's latest 3D virtual reality environment) is adding another entry to the list of fields that have benefited from its capabilities: embryonic developmental biology. Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR, a local branch of the National Science Foundation's experimental program to stimulate …
This is the story of a student who went to new lengths to include computer science in her education, or a professor who was eager to try different instructional methods, or a field that rewards continuous investigation into the ways that computation can benefit any type of career. Or maybe …
As use of robots becomes widespread, the day is quickly approaching when the average owner, faced with the task of training a robot, may possess little or no programming ability. A team of researchers, including Postdoctoral Researcher James MacGlashan and Professor Michael Littman of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS), have proposed a novel …
Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) is proud to announce a historic moment: alum Sridhar Ramaswamy's achievements in the field have earned the first Horace Mann Medal for a computer scientist. Dean Peter M. Weber will present the award, given annually to a Brown University Graduate School alum who has made significant …
Less than a year after earning a Sheridan Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship, Paul Valiant of Brown University's Computer Science Department (Brown CS) has been chosen by the graduating senior class to receive the Barrett Hazeltine Citation for his efforts teaching the wildly successful Design and Analysis of Algorithms course each fall. Named for a …
We're immensely proud to be part of Brown and to call Providence home. For more articles on our parent university and our home city and state, click here.The interdisciplinary academic possiblities to having the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) as a next-door neighbor are beyond price, but you know what else is …
We're immensely proud to be part of Brown and to call Providence home. For more articles on our parent university and our home city and state, click here.The grilled pizza? The coffee milk? The food trucks? The fact that we arguably invented the food truck in 1872? (It was a horse-drawn lunch cart.)It's enough …
5-7 PM on Saturday, May 28, 2016
3rd and 4th Floors, CIT
115 Waterman StreetPlease join Brown CS alums, faculty, students, and friends and be sure to include us as part of your Commencement plans! You can find directions to the CIT here. For more information, please contact dept@cs.brown.edu or call 401-863-7600.
A recent article in Humanities discusses a discovery featured in CS Blog last week: a recently rediscovered short film from forty years ago ("Hypertext: an Educational Experiment in English and Computer Science at Brown University") that documents an extraordinary early use of computing to enhance the learning experience of students taking a poetry course in 1976. Professor Andy van …
As the G7 Summit, one of the most important and wide-reaching global conferences for trade, climate change, health, and other issues approaches, Professor John Savage of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has once again found his cybersecurity expertise in demand.Boston Global Forum (BGF), chaired by former governor Michael Dukakis, was founded to …