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Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) today announces a major milestone for the Touch Art Gallery (TAG) project, one of the most visible recent successes of the department's undergraduate research program. Working under the direction of Professor Andy van Dam, a group of entirely undergraduate researchers in the Graphics …

Without human intuition and our knowledge of goals and prerequisite actions acquired through years of experience, learning new tasks is difficult for robots, and considerable human effort goes into training them. But what if robots could learn from other robots?Will Knight of MIT Technology Review interviews Assistant Professor Stefanie Tellex …

The future of virtual reality, explains Providence's East Side Monthly, is wide open. In this month's issue, Claire Flanagan steps inside the Yurt, Brown University's new 3D virtual reality environment, to look at some of the opportunities it offers and to interview Professor David Laidlaw, leader of the Yurt team. …

Professor Eli Upfal of Brown University's Department of Computer Science and his collaborators, Jerome Sanes of the Department of Neuroscience and Xi Luo of the Department of Biostastistics, have just received a Brown Institute for Brain Science Innovation Award. It supports their recent work ("Advanced Neuroimaging of Functional Connectivity and Networks") with funding aimed at helping launch new, creative …

“As we continue to move forward in this technological age," says Brown CS PhD Candidate Ashley Conard, "you need to couple computer science with what you do.” Last week, Gabriel Pesek of SiliconANGLE interviewed Ashley, an Anita Borg Institute Student Board member who has attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) since …

As VIS 2015 (the premier combined conference for advances in visualization, co-located with the VAST, InfoVis, and SciVis conferences) arrives in Chicago this week, Brown University’s Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) continues its strong level of representation and participation, with a faculty member and a PhD candidate each contributing papers to two …

Learn Python, 6:30-7:30 PM on November 2Waiting at Faunce Arch to meet up with friends, sitting under a tree on Main Green, she's put it in her Calendar app and erased it a dozen times.Learn Python, 6:30-7:30 PM on November 2She knows that just last week, Brown students, faculty, and …

When robots develop feelings, they're probably going to be hurt when they read this article.According to leading artificial intelligence experts, their field is widely misperceived by the general public, perhaps due to movie treatments where vengeful robots decide to turn on their human masters and conquer the planet. In an attempt …

The Department of Computer Science at Brown University seeks applicants for faculty positions in the following areas, broadly construed:robotics, including such diverse applications as manipulation and navigation and human-robot interaction, and such diverse methods as machine learning and computer vision and programming languages; andgraphics, visualization, and interaction, including such diverse …

We don't often get a chance to hear faculty members in conversation about the field, their latest research, and even issues that border on the philosophical. ("Do robots perceive our physical environment in the same way that people do?")  Professor Stefanie Tellex of Brown University's Department of Computer Science was interviewed by Software Engineering Daily …