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"Parametric mechanisms," says Professor Amy Greenwald of Brown CS, "are multiagent systems inhabited by strategic agents, with knobs that can be adjusted to achieve specific goals.  For example, a network designer might seek a design that minimizes congestion assuming selfish agents."In a recent Research Keynote Series address ("Learning Equilibria in Simulation-Based …

Brown CS is happy to announce that Stefanie Tellex has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure, effective as of July 1, 2019. "This achievement," she says, "could not have happened without my amazing students and collaborators. I'm privileged to work with some of the best people in the world, and my research success …

The Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC) is an International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) conference that focuses on paradigms, approaches, and techniques used to conceptualize, define, and provide solutions to natural cryptographic problems and computer security concerns. With a single author paper from 2008 ("Incrementally Verifiable Computation or Proofs of …

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Master's student Evangelia Anna (Lilika) Markatou of MIT and Professor Roberto Tamassia of Brown CS have just won the Best Paper Award for research ("Full Database Reconstruction with Access and Search Pattern Leakage") presented at the International Security Conference (ISC). They also co-wrote a second paper ("Mitigation Techniques for Attacks on 1-Dimensional …

Just don't tell Yia-Yia that you've been eating someone else's baklava for months...Local favorite, Aleppo Sweets, was one of 50 nominees for Bon Appétit's "Hot 10: America’s Best New Restaurants of 2019”. Founded by refugees of the Syrian civil war, the restaurant, which serves eight varieties of baklava as well as …

Brown CS alums are often known for the diversity of their career paths and pursuing multidisciplinary work, and Aimee Lucido is no exception. A former software engineer and continuing crossword puzzle creator (she's been featured five times by The New York Times), she's recently finished a middle grade novel, Emmy in the Key of …