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Condé Nast Traveler has just ranked Providence as America's eighth Best College Town for People Who Aren't in College. The full story is available here. photo by Will Hart, used under Creative Commons

Writing for Lawfare, Timothy Edgar, a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute, offers an astute and even at times humorous analysis of the implications that the recent Yates v. United States decision has for national security surveillance. The article is available here.

Michael Chang, a junior at Brown University concentrating in computer engineering, has just been selected for the Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB) Fellows Program, one of technology’s most prestigious fellowships. He’ll be spending the summer working for Shape Security, a firm that creates dynamic security architecture to defend web …

Working with colleagues from the University of Southampton and National Information and Communications Technology Australia (NICTA), Victor Naroditskiy PhD '09 has published findings that reveal a downside to crowdsourcing, particularly when competition is involved.Beginning with the discovery that the openness of crowdsourcing makes it vulnerable to malicious behavior, the researchers …

Brown University’s Computer Science Department (Brown CS) congratulates Professor Ugur Cetintemel, who has won the "IEEE Data Engineering (ICDE) 2015 Influential Paper Award". The award honors the authors of the paper deemed most influential from ten years ago. The award celebrates the ICDE 2005 paper "One Size Fits All": An …

Writing for Communications of the ACM, Esther Shein has just interviewed Shriram Krishnamurthi among several programming language experts on the subject of Python as an introduction to coding. Going beyond some of the remarks made by his fellow interviewees, Shriram not only offers an analysis of Python's weaknesses (limited support …

Following up on her recent Providence Journal editorial on computer security and privacy, Anna Lysyanskaya will be appearing again on WPRI as a guest of Dan Yorke State of Mind.  To watch, tune in at 7:30 PM on February 23 on the following channels: myRITV on channel 64-2 over the air, …

In the "Smart News in East Side Education" section of their latest issue, East Side Monthly recognized PhD candidate Gryte Satas for her leadership with the local chapter of Girls Who Code, a national organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology and engineering by equipping girls with skills …

"My goal is for computers to understand images as humans do," says Assistant Professor James Hays of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS), "and for computers to use this understanding to help people interact with and create imagery in new ways."Hays has just been named an Alfred P. …

Community outreach connects Brown CS students to the Providence area. For more articles on how Brown CS students inspire and lead members of the greater Providence community click here.Brown CS is proud to lend financial support to the FLAME Conference, Brown's first feminist conference for Rhode Island high school students.FLAME …