Looking Back At John Savage's First 50 Years At Brown
- Posted by Jesse Polhemus
- on May 24, 2017
Today, a hand-crafted desktop machine with a Max Built logo is one of the CIT’s most familiar sights. They’re all the work of Senior Electronics Technician Max Salvas, who’s retiring next week after spending more than half his life with Brown CS. “Things looked a little different in 1983,” he …
Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about C. Christopher Erway, Alptekin Küpçü, Charalampos Papamanthou, and Roberto Tamassia. Professor Konrad Rieck of Technische Universität Braunschweig has released a list of Influential Security Papers, and research ("Dynamic Provable Data Possession") from Brown CS PhD alums C. Christopher Erway (now Chief Architect at …
Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Thomas Dickerson and entrepreneurship.Could anything be more valuable to a young startup than expert-led coaching sessions on how to identify opportunities and design business models, or the chance to pitch ideas to industry leaders? Probably not much, but a check for $100,000 might be …
Collège de France has invited An Wang Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus Franco Preparata of Brown University to be the keynote speaker at the forthcoming colloquium "Computational Geometry and Topology in the Sciences". The event will be held in Paris on June 6, 2017, and Franco will address the topic of "Computational Geometry: the …
Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about the Humans to Robots Laboratory and Stefanie Tellex. From a 16th-century automaton and a metal swan that wowed Mark Twain to present day wonders that care for the elderly and help autistic children develop empathy, a new exhibit ("Robots") at London's Science Museum is one …
Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about rising enrollment in our classes and an increasing number of CS majors.Last semester, for the first time, Computer Science became the most commonly-chosen major at Brown University. 321 sophomores picked CS, exceeding the second most popular major by more than a sixth. This semester, …
by Eric Metcalf, Brown CS PhD StudentIn many different cases, groundbreaking ideas have come out of collaboration. Often, though, it is difficult to find somebody to work with. To showcase remarkable interdisciplinary work in the hope that students will seek out new collaborations, my partners and I have created Discover, an interdisciplinary project that explores …