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What if your plants could become “unplanted” and autonomously roam around a room, offering new configurations to the space? What if you could hold a scrolling digital sign up high in your hand at a demonstration, amplifying your message for justice? What if you could give someone a hug from the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education at a seldom-seen scale, affecting students and teachers around the world and triggering a learning crisis. In response, next week's Futures Forum on Learning will bring together leaders in global education and edtech virtually to discuss critical areas of need and opportunity. At 7 PM …

Brandon J. Woodard, a Brown CS doctoral student advised by Professor David H. Laidlaw, has just won the NASA RI Space Grant Fellowship for 2020-2021, which provides stipend support for young researchers working toward their Master's or PhD degrees in a NASA-related field of study. Given by the NASA Rhode Island Space Grant …

Brown CS alums Deqing Sun ‘13 (currently a research scientist at Google) and Stefan Roth ‘07 (currently a professor of computer science at TU Darmstadt), along with Brown CS adjunct faculty member Michael Black (currently at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems), have won the Longuet-Higgins Prize for their …

In recent years, software defined networking has exploded in popularity as programmers have made a concerted effort to move the control plane (which handles traffic sent to a device or generated on the device) to a logically centralized machine. This development has led to breakneck innovation in the field of computer …

Held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference is a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences in all aspects of data management. This year, Brown CS students, faculty, and …

In the inaugural Analog Devices Real-Time Sensor Fusion Challenge, sponsored by MassRobotics, teams from Massachusetts and Rhode Island were invited to compete and submit projects that fuse at least two sensor inputs, using the Robot Operating System (ROS) to create a system that provides better context awareness in robots. Brown’s …

Facebook recently announced the recipients of their research awards on privacy-preserving technologies and the role of applied cryptography in a privacy-focused advertising ecosystem.  Out of 164 proposals submitted, Facebook chose 14 winners, which include a Brown CS faculty member and two alums. A third alum was a finalist in the competition.Alum Foteini …