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 …
The themes of collegiality and collaboration were unavoidable as colleagues and friends reflected on the news that Thomas W. Doeppner, Associate Professor (Research) and Vice Chair of the Computer Science Department, had just received Brown University’s President’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Governance. He joins previous winner John Savage of …
Imagine being tasked with designing protective clothing for law enforcement officers. The protective gear needs to be effective at stopping hurled projectiles while not severely restricting the movements of the wearer. To design such armor, it's useful to partition the human body into nearly rigid (lower arm and leg) and highly …
Reached by phone after his recent shared triumph, Professor Maurice Herlihy of Brown University’s Computer Science Department was feeling optimistic: “This is good news for programmers.” The paper that he co-wrote with PhD student Zhiyu Liu (“Well-Structured Futures and Cache Locality”) had just won the Best Paper Award at the …
