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by Kevin Stacey (Science News Officer, Physical Sciences)In the early 1970s, two Brown University professors devised a radical idea for the time. English professor Robert Scholes and computer scientist Andy van Dam wanted to use Brown’s room-sized mainframe computer to teach a course not in physics, engineering or computer science, …

For more CS News and CS Blog articles about the Yurt, please click here."At first," Phoebe Hall writes for Brown Medicine, "the images on the oversized computer monitors where Scott Collins, RT(R)(CT), and Derek Merck, PhD, tap away seem as unremarkable as the surroundings: blurry, black-and-white diagnostic scans that only a …

A recent post on the White House's blog mentions the Charles County (Maryland) Public School District, and their efforts to provide computer science education to all students. One of the key elements of this program is Bootstrap, a computer science literacy curriculum used by 10,000 students in 17 states and five countries whose founders …

Accelerating into its second year of operation, the YURT (Brown University's latest 3D virtual reality environment) is adding another entry to the list of fields that have benefited from its capabilities: embryonic developmental biology. Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR, a local branch of the National Science Foundation's experimental program to stimulate …

This is the story of a student who went to new lengths to include computer science in her education, or a professor who was eager to try different instructional methods, or a field that rewards continuous investigation into the ways that computation can benefit any type of career. Or maybe …

As use of robots becomes widespread, the day is quickly approaching when the average owner, faced with the task of training a robot, may possess little or no programming ability. A team of researchers, including Postdoctoral Researcher James MacGlashan and Professor Michael Littman of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS), have proposed a novel …

Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) is proud to announce a historic moment: alum Sridhar Ramaswamy's achievements in the field have earned the first Horace Mann Medal for a computer scientist. Dean Peter M. Weber will present the award, given annually to a Brown University Graduate School alum who has made significant …

Less than a year after earning a Sheridan Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship, Paul Valiant of Brown University's Computer Science Department (Brown CS) has been chosen by the graduating senior class to receive the Barrett Hazeltine Citation for his efforts teaching the wildly successful Design and Analysis of Algorithms course each fall. Named for a …

We're immensely proud to be part of Brown and to call Providence home. For more articles on our parent university and our home city and state, click here.The interdisciplinary academic possiblities to having the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) as a next-door neighbor are beyond price, but you know what else is …

We're immensely proud to be part of Brown and to call Providence home. For more articles on our parent university and our home city and state, click here.The grilled pizza? The coffee milk? The food trucks? The fact that we arguably invented the food truck in 1872?  (It was a horse-drawn lunch cart.)It's enough …