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Assistant Professor Stefanie Tellex of the Computer Science Department has just received a Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award from Brown University’s Office of the Vice-President for Research. She joins multiple previous winners from the Department, including Rodrigo Fonseca, Ugur Cetintemel, and John Jannotti. The award, given annually, was established …

Assistant Professor Paul Valiant of the Department of Computer Science has been named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in one of the oldest and most competitive fellowship programs in the country. He joins multiple Sloan Research Fellows in the Department, including recent winners Ben Raphael and Chad Jenkins. The …

Leela Senthil Nathan has just been awarded an honorable mention in the 2014 Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award program. She joins the Department of Computer Science’s Yudi Fu and Douglas McErlean, who received honorable mention last year. The program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities …

Pedro Felzenszwalb, Associate Professor of Engineering and Computer Science, has been selected to receive a 2014 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society.  Felzenszwalb will be honored “for the deformable parts model method of detecting objects in images and video.”The IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award is given for outstanding …

The core of computer vision is concentrated on learning how to automatically recognise things that humans are already awesome at recognising (dogs, cats, sail boats, handwriting, etc.). Humans can recognise these things in approximately 0.3 seconds -- you can recognize a Jack Russell before you can even think the words …

Timothy EdgarAn Op-Ed piece by Tim Edgar was published in The Guardian on January 17, 2014. Dr. Edgar is a Visiting Faculty Fellow in the Watson Institute and is teaching CSCI1951B (Viral Citizens or Subjects? The Global Battle Over Governing Your Internet) this semester.

Data is the new soil of business and (soon) at the core of essentially all domains from material science to healthcare. The possibilities are sheer endless. In 2007 the Wired Magazine got even so far and predicted "The End of Science: The quest of knowledge used to begin with grand theories. Now …

A group of Brown CS and RISD students are hosting Hack@Brown, the first annual Brown University hackathon January 24-25 in Alumnae Hall! 250 students from Brown/RISD and other schools in the northeast plus engineers from Dropbox, Google, Venmo (and more) will form teams and build a project in 24 hours. Teams …

In Spring 2014 Shriram Krishnamurthi and I will be co-teaching a new course called Logic for Hackers. The course will showcase the surprising power that logical techniques such as SAT-solving, model-checking, and automated model-finding lend to developing reliable software.Students are often introduced to logic only from a theoretical perspective, and …