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Next week, Brown CS is looking forward to perhaps its strongest ever presence at this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. Among other highlights, Professor Anna Lysyanskaya is going to be delivering a lecture (“Authorized but Anonymous: Taking Charge of your …

by Kevin Stacey (Science News Writer, Physical Sciences)A curriculum that helps middle and high school students learn algebra by creating their own video games is getting a $1.5-million boost from the National Science Foundation.The curriculum, called Bootstrap, is a 10-week classroom module in which each student programs her own working game …

Brown University’s Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has made its strongest showing to date at the 25th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2015), earning two of the most significant honors in the field of computer operating systems.Professor Maurice Herlihy (and his collaborator, J. …

Brown University Computer Science (Brown CS) PhD Candidate Jonathan Mace, Ryan Roelke '15 (now at Vertica), and Brown CS Assistant Professor Rodrigo Fonseca have just received one of three Best Paper Awards at the 25th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2015), currently being held …

Selected by past program chairs from leading Operating Systems conferences, past Weiser and Turing Award winners from the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGOPS (Special Interest Group on Operating Systems) community, and more, Professor Maurice Herlihy of Brown University’s Department of Computer Science (and his collaborator, J. Eliot B. Moss of …

by Kevin Stacey (Science News Officer, Physical Sciences)Around 300 Brown and RISD students gathered last weekend for the inaugural Startup@Brown conference. The two-day event aimed to bring students together with a distinguished group of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and business leaders to learn the ins and outs of the startup world.Attendees went to workshops …

Brown CS alums continue to rank highly as industry pioneers. Click here for a list of related stories.Prospects for Brown University graduates in the technology sector continue to be extremely positive: today's issue of the Brown Daily Herald cites Google and Microsoft, followed by IBM, Stanford University, Harvard University, and others, as the top two employers of …

Using hypertext for a poetry course in 1974? Only if you were at Brown University, and you would have had Andy van Dam to thank.In a recent article on the digitization of punched cards used to track early National Endowment for the Humanities applications and grants, Time provides a photo of the card for …

Enrollment in Brown Computer Science’s core introductory courses is continuing to accelerate year after year:In the past year alone, CS 015 (Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Computer Science) has seen 20% growth, arriving at a record-setting 391 students.At this time four years ago, CS 017 (CS: An Integrated Introduction) had …

As enrollment in Brown CS courses continues to accelerate, a few statistics help give a sense of the tremendous year-on-year growth:One in six Brown undergraduates took a CS course last year. This year, it's one in five.Not only have total enrollments increased by 990 students in the past four years, …