by Rujul Singh“I’ve learned that sometimes you really can change the world by just putting your ideas out in an academic publication,” laughs Brown CS PhD alum Morgan McGuire ‘06, “and sometimes you have be the one who believes in them enough to drive them towards realization yourself.” In his …
by Charlotte Whatley and Emily Wu Full Stack at Brown (FSAB), Brown University’s software engineering club, hosted its very first virtual hackathon, Hack@Home, on October 9-12, 2020.Hack@Home brought together over 300 high schoolers and college students over a four-day weekend of hacking. The event combined all the best aspects of a …
In his newly-released third book, The Alignment Problem, Brown CS alum Brian Christian returns to the intersection of computer science with human ethics and thought. Already winning praise from experts such as Cathy O'Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction, it focuses on the consequences of allowing machine learning systems an increasing power to …
From creating a computer camp for girls in Rwanda to founding a company that uses machine learning to produce 3D models based on satellite photos, maps, and laser scans, Brown CS alums are known for career paths that often take them far beyond Silicon Valley, with a particular focus on CS education …
Brown CS is glad to announce that applications are open for the Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, which provides $10,000 annually to support an undergraduate engaged in an intensive faculty-student summer research partnership with the Department of Computer Science. The award is available thanks to a …
“We’re facing a tipping point in terms of global cybersecurity and privacy, as a result of the pandemic forcing everybody out of the streets and their offices and into their home offices and online,” says Timothy Edgar, Brown CS Visiting Fellow in International Studies and Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for …
The Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) have announced a new Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for 2020 that recognizes the significant disruption to the academic job search caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and aims to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience for recent and soon-to-be PhD graduates …
“A mechanism is essentially a game,” says Professor Amy Greenwald of Brown CS, “and the mechanism design problem is to design a game such that strategic play leads to a desirable outcome.”In a recent Keynote address ("Learning Equilibria in Simulation-Based Games ... and the Ensuing Empirical Design of Mechanisms") at …