Brown CS is glad to announce that applications are open for the Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, which provides $10,000 annually to support an undergraduate engaged in an intensive faculty-student summer research partnership at Brown CS. The award is available thanks to a generous gift from Brown CS alum Peter …
Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about our Distinguished Lecture Series.Professor Elizabeth Mynatt of Georgia Institute of Technology visited the CIT last week to address Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) and deliver the thirty-fifth lecture in the Distinguished Lecture Series. Using a retrospective of her research projects as a …
by Shriram KrishnamurthiA few months ago, I attended one of the most unusual and interesting events I've attended in my life. Some years ago, the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine created a program to bring together scientists and the entertainment industry, with the hope of connecting media-makers …
What does the future hold at the intersection of machine learning and computational biology? A conversation with the newest member of the Brown CS and Center for Molecular Computational Biology (CCMB) faculty provides an opportunity to ask an expert."I can't tell you whether it'll be five years, ten years, or whenever," says …
An unexamined life may or may not be worth living, but it's clear that Tim Nelson, who has just been promoted to Brown CS Assistant Professor (Research), isn't leading one. In an hour-long interview, his reflections on our field repeatedly evoke the challenges that almost all students face in their early days of CS. His …
Robotics researchers wouldn’t dream of leaving the door unlocked when they leave the lab for night, but a new study shows that research robots are often left exposed in another way: unsecured on the internet.A team of Brown University researchers recently ran a worldwide scan in search of hosts running …
"These are kids who would never have seen a real robotics lab otherwise," says Annalisa Marchessault, Pre-Engineering Instructor at Providence Career and Technical Academy (PCTA), one of New England's premier technical high schools. "Many of them don't even realize the magnitude of what Stefanie has done for them."She's talking about …