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Brown University Hosts Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC), Delights Scientists, Industry, And Children

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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. The Brown University Humans To Robots Lab, headed by Professor Stefanie Tellex, hosted the 2014 Northeast Robotics Colloquium last week. Drones that …

Brown Rated #3 In USA For Software Developers At Startups

Brown University was recently rated the country's third-best school for software developers at startups by LinkedIn.Their methodology was to identify the top startups where software developers are choosing to work, then find people on LinkedIn who work as software developers and determine where they went to school. LinkedIn then cross-referenced …

Chad Jenkins And His Team Help Develop NASA Software

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by Kevin Stacey (Science News Officer, Physical Sciences)A group of computer scientists from Brown were at the Johnson Space Center in Houston recently for a week-long marathon of intensive coding to build new software for the Robonaut 2 and other NASA robots. The coding marathon, known in the computer science …

Abstracts Needed By 10/1 For NE Networking + Systems Day

Organizers of the 1st Annual New England Network and Systems Day are soliciting abstracts for lightning talks. Talk abstracts from students on recent/ongoing research are particularly encouraged.

The event will be held on Friday, October 24, 2014, from 9:30 am to 4 pm at Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for …

Renovations Present And Future Enhance The CIT

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All the hugging that's been going on in the CIT's first floor atrium is probably just classmates reconnecting after a summer apart, but maybe the welcoming new environment is helping put smiles on people's faces? Patient inhabitants of the building have noticed renovation occurring in almost every corner: the entryway, …

Stefanie Tellex Wins Best Paper Award (Video Of Her Talk Below)

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Professor Stefanie Tellex of Brown University’s Computer Science Department (Brown CS) has just won the Best Paper Award at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Conference, widely considered the top single-track conference in robotics. Her paper, “Asking for Help using Inverse Semantics”, was co-authored with Ross Knepper of MIT, Adrian …