Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) is proud to announce a historic moment: alum Sridhar Ramaswamy's achievements in the field have earned the first Horace Mann Medal for a computer scientist. Dean Peter M. Weber will present the award, given annually to a Brown University Graduate School alum who has made significant …
Less than a year after earning a Sheridan Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship, Paul Valiant of Brown University's Computer Science Department (Brown CS) has been chosen by the graduating senior class to receive the Barrett Hazeltine Citation for his efforts teaching the wildly successful Design and Analysis of Algorithms course each fall. Named for a …
We're immensely proud to be part of Brown and to call Providence home. For more articles on our parent university and our home city and state, click here.The interdisciplinary academic possiblities to having the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) as a next-door neighbor are beyond price, but you know what else is …
We're immensely proud to be part of Brown and to call Providence home. For more articles on our parent university and our home city and state, click here.The grilled pizza? The coffee milk? The food trucks? The fact that we arguably invented the food truck in 1872? (It was a horse-drawn lunch cart.)It's enough …
5-7 PM on Saturday, May 28, 2016
3rd and 4th Floors, CIT
115 Waterman StreetPlease join Brown CS alums, faculty, students, and friends and be sure to include us as part of your Commencement plans! You can find directions to the CIT here. For more information, please contact dept@cs.brown.edu or call 401-863-7600.
A recent article in Humanities discusses a discovery featured in CS Blog last week: a recently rediscovered short film from forty years ago ("Hypertext: an Educational Experiment in English and Computer Science at Brown University") that documents an extraordinary early use of computing to enhance the learning experience of students taking a poetry course in 1976. Professor Andy van …
As the G7 Summit, one of the most important and wide-reaching global conferences for trade, climate change, health, and other issues approaches, Professor John Savage of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has once again found his cybersecurity expertise in demand.Boston Global Forum (BGF), chaired by former governor Michael Dukakis, was founded to …
by Wilson CusackFor my undergraduate thesis, I am building an SMS-based commodity and transport exchange that I am planning to work on full-time in Ghana after graduating. Below is some reflection on my journey to this and the career culture in computer science. BackgroundMy interest in agriculture came when I …
Brown CS undergraduates recently showcased their hard work at the second annual research symposium. A panel of judges viewed their research projects, and the top three were awarded prizes. “This symposium is extraordinary,” said one of the judges, Professor Sorin Istrail. “We are surrounded by a very unique group of …
The YC Fellowship, an experiment from Y Combinator in helping create startups, has just put a Brown University student on the path toward using computing to significantly improve lives on a global scale. Krishna Chaitanya Aluru of the Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) and his collaborators Akshat Goenka (Wharton) and Vamsee Chamakura (IIIT) have …
