Chosen by an esteemed panel of Brown University faculty, Professor Michael Littman of Brown CS has just been given Brown's Distinguished Research Achievement Award. Now in its fourth year, the Research Achievement Award program is supported by the Office of the President and the Provost to nurture and recognize the extraordinary research …
Game playing has long been a subject of fascination within the AI field, and Brown CS Professor Amy Greenwald recently hosted a AAAI Panel, “Advancing AI By Playing Games”, with some of the most influential figures in this specialty. The speakers included Dr. Michael Bowling of the University of Alberta …
The Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, given this year to Casey Nelson and Dylan Sam to support their work with Brown CS Professors R. Iris Bahar and Stephen Bach, respectively, recognizes strong achievement from undergraduate researchers and offers them the opportunity to continue their work …
"High-quality virtual 3D objects," says Professor Daniel Ritchie of Brown CS, "are a critical resource for many academic disciplines, as well as for industries such as CAD and furniture and displays like the Hololens and MagicLeap. Unfortunately, traditional processes for creating new 3D objects are ill-equipped to meet this demand, and …
On December 12, 2019, the 340 students in Brown CS Professor Daniel Ritchie's CS 147 Deep Learning class turned their final project presentations into a full-day mini-conference. Held in Sayles Hall, Deep Learning Day was divided into four sessions, each of which featured projects from 113 presentation groups organized around a small set of …
Brown CS is happy to announce that Jeff Huang has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (pending the approval of Brown's Corporation), effective as of July 1, 2020.Jeff came to Brown in 2013 after receiving his PhD and Master of Science in Information Science from University of Washington at Seattle. He …
Brown CS Professor Theophilus “Theo” Benson has just won the Eurosys Best Student Paper Award for co-authoring the paper, “Efficient and Safe Network Updates with Suffix Causal Consistency” (authored by University of North Carolina Chapel Hill student Shen Liu and also co-authored by UNC Professor Michael Reiter), presented at EuroSys …
The International Automated Negotiation Agents Competition (ANAC) is now in its tenth year of bringing together researchers from the negotiation community and spawning novel research in the field of autonomous agent design. Most recently, it was held at the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Macao in August of 2019, and …
Brown CS alum Feng-Hao Liu, now assistant professor at the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University, has just received an NSF CAREER Award, titled “CAREER: Towards Efficient Cryptography for Next Generation Applications”. The topic of his research, he explains, is homomorphic computation, physical attacks, lattices, and post-quantum cryptography. "I would …