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According to The Brown Daily Herald, Brown University is the top producing school of Fulbright U.S. students for the 2024-25 academic year. It's the fifth time Brown has earned the recognition in the past decade. 

 

Brown CS alum Heidi Erwin was recently named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Games category, which recognizes early-career professionals making significant contributions in the gaming industry. Heidi is currently a senior game designer at The New York Times and was the sole designer from her hiring in May, 2021 until August, 2024. She led the design for several games, including Connections and Strands, which now have millions of daily players. 

The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) is an annual event focused on research into new techniques for data management. Last month, CIDR 2025 presented two Test of Time awards for papers published in conference years 2003, 2025, and 2007 that had great impact over the last 20 years. One of them (“The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine”) was the work of two Brown CS faculty members and six alums.

Brown CS faculty member Don Stanford has just delivered his last lecture for the department after more than two decades in the classroom. Some members of our community have known him for a half-century (he earned an MS in Computer Science, Computational and Applied Mathematics from Brown in 1977 after a BA in International Relations in 1972), and few of them will be surprised that Don’s energy and ability to engage with his audience are as strong as ever. 

A new article from The Brown Daily Herald interviews Brown CS faculty member Michael Littman, who has just been appointed as Brown’s first Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, a newly established leadership position with a campus-wide charge to advance, in a responsible manner, Brown’s engagement with AI across its academic missions.

 

CAREER Awards are given in support of outstanding junior faculty teacher-scholars who excel at research, education, and integration of the two within the context of an organizational mission.

In another story from the latest issue of Conduit, our annual magazine, Brown CS doctoral student Jason Xinyu Liu shares how he develops intelligent robots that assist people by executing natural language instructions from humans autonomously and safely.

In another story from the latest issue of Conduit, our annual magazine, Brown CS undergraduate Robayet Hossain talks about his experience working with Brown CS faculty member Nora Ayanian's Automatic Coordination
of Teams (ACT) Lab.

Last year, Brown announced the founding of the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign (CNTR), whose mission is to redefine computer science education, research, and technology to center the needs, problems, and aspirations of all, especially those that technology has left behind.

Over the weekend of October 5, three Brown CS undergraduates, Noah Kim, Sean Kim, and Eric Yoon, won first place in the Healthcare Track at Yale University’s annual hackathon, dubbed YHack, with their personal project fueled by artificial intelligence.