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As the world revisits issues of government surveillance and cybersecurity in the wake of the Paris attacks, Timothy Edgar, a Visiting Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute, has been interviewed by regional and national radio stations. His interview with Louisiana-based WWL is available here.His interview on NPR's "To The Point" program is …

The Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), held this year in San Diego, is one of the most prominent conferences on the subject of human cooperation, computation, and crowdsourcing, and Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS)  made a strong showing this year. Two different groups of students and faculty have been declared Best …

Francophones will be interested in a recent interview with Timothy Edgar, a Visiting Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute. La Presse, Canada's second-largest French-language newspaper, sought him out on the topics of Edward Snowden, government surveillance, and privacy. You can read the full article here. For more information, click the link that follows …

Today's edition of the New York Times includes an article by Scott Shane ("After Paris Attacks, C.I.A. Director Rekindles Debate Over Surveillance") reviewing recent developments in the discussion regarding limits on government surveillance. In it, Timothy Edgar, a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institue, offers comments alongside several colleagues and prominent public figures.The full …

MIT Technology Review has just reported on Brown CS PhD student John Oberlin and Assistant Professor Stefanie Tellex's work on robot object manipulation. The entire article is available here. You can also watch their "Bandit-based Adaptation for Robotic Grasping" video by clicking the image above and read their paper here. 

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Today's edition of the Brown Daily Herald contains a feature by Hattie Xu on the launch of the fundraising campaign for the Brown CS Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Endowment, featuring comments from Associate Professor (Research), Vice Chair, and Director of Undergraduate Studies Tom Doeppner, several undergraduate teaching assistants, and three alums. The entire article is available here.For …

Campus Technology has just reported on the newly-launched TAG (Touch Art Gallery, one of the most visible recent successes of the Brown CS undergraduate research program) collaboration with the Nobel Museum and Nobel Media to create state-of-the-art museum experiences. The entire article is available here.  

Brown University's Department of Computer Science is happy to announce that Assistant Professor Tim Kraska, Adjunct Associate Professor Carsten Binnig, Professor and Department Chair Ugur Cetintemel, and Professor Eli Upfal will contribute to the large-scale collaborative effort known as the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub. Tim will serve on the organization's Advisory Group (Academic) …

Crain's reports today that Brown CS alum Michael Horn '97 has just won a $400,000 National Science Foundation grant for a project that uses songs, games, and storybooks to bring computer science education into environments where children are likely not expecting to learn programming, such as museums and homes."We discovered," he says, "even …

Want to find food, collaborate on a song, or send secure, anonymous messages? There's a Brown CS-developed app for that. Today's issue of the Brown Daily Herald notes soaring Brown CS enrollment (over the last five years, our number of degrees awarded has risen by over 200 percent) and highlights four students who …