Professors John Savage and Michael Littman share the news that BrownCS alumnus David Blei '97 has won an ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computer Sciences for his development of powerful modeling techniques to speed information retrieval from large data collections.Michael says, "I'm really excited for David. I got to work with him a little …
Assistant Professor Erik Sudderth of Brown University’s Computer Science Department has just won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his work on Bayesian nonparametric learning for large-scale structure discovery. It’s accompanied by a grant in the expected amount of more than $509,000. He joins multiple previous Brown CS faculty winners, including …
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 robotics open house was hosted by the Brown Robotics Lab on first floor of the CIT Building. Visitors were greeted in …
Postdoctoral Research Associate Iman Hajirasouliha of Brown University’s Computer Science Department and the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) has just received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for his proposal (“Algorithms for constructing ancestral history of deep-sequenced tumors”) on cancer heterogeneity. Iman is the second …
Professor Anna Lysyanskaya was recently interviewed by WPRI's Dan Yorke about the situation in Ukraine. Video of the interview can be found at WPRI's web site .
PR2 KumaThe Brown Bears Robotics Team has been selected for the annual RoboCup@Home robotics competition. The Bears consists of graduate and undergraduate students working with Professor Chad Jenkins, along with Kuma (the PR2 robot) from the Brown Robotics Lab. This year's RoboCup competition will be held in Brazil in July, …
Professor Anna Lysyanskaya recently participated in a Watson Institute panel concerning the current situation in Ukraine. Full details can be found in the Providence Journal article .
Brown University’s Computer Science Department congratulates Professor Anna Lysyanskaya on her appointment to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)’s Advisory Board. She joins BrownCS alumna danah boyd. EPIC is a leading privacy organization, and its Advisory Board is a distinguished group of experts that often contribute to “friend of the …
On Friday and Saturday, February 7 and 8, the Atlantic Council hosted their second annual Cyber 9/12 Student Competition in Washington DC. It is an event designed to give students a taste of the challenges that face White House policy makers when responding to national cybersecurity threats.
Twenty-two teams participated …
Brown University Press Release Media Contact: Kevin Stacey To keep data safe in the cloud, a group of computer scientists suggests doing the Melbourne Shuffle.Yes, that’s a dance move , but it’s also a computer algorithm developed by researchers at Brown University.The computing version of the Melbourne Shuffle aims to hide …