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Professor Stan Zdonik of Brown University's Department of Computer Science and his co-authors have just won the Very Large Data Base Endowment (VLDB)'s 10-Year Best Paper Award for research ("C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS") originally published in Proceedings of the VLDB in 2005. VLDB is an organization that promotes scholarly work on …

Last week, PhD Candidates Andrew Crotty, Alex Galakatos, and Emanuel Zgraggen; Adjunct Associate Professor Carsten Binnig; and Professor Tim Kraska of Brown University's Computer Science Department were awarded the Best Demo Award at the 41st International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2015) for their recent research ("Vizdom: Interactive Analytics …

MongoDB's Intern Spotlight has just profiled Brown CS student Benjamin Murphy '18, one of the 34 students in their intern program in Engineering and Marketing, which was designed to "transform development and operations" for how the company runs applications.The entire interview is available here.  

Ian Gonsher, who currently co-teaches CSCI1951-C Designing Humanity Centered Robots with Michael Littman, has just been featured in MAKE magazine. Ian and Michael's course focuses on using iterative design to develop robots for solving tasks that help people, and it appears to have been at least a partial inspiration for …

Professors Tim Kraska and Andy van Dam and Adjunct Associate Professor Carsten Binnig of Brown University’s Department of Computer Science have just won a Google Faculty Research Award. Their proposal (“Human-In-the-Loop Data Exploration”) is now one of 113 funded projects chosen from more than 800 proposals received from around the …

At LinkedIn’s 5th Annual Intern Hackday this summer, Brown CS graduate student Christian Mathiesen and his teammates competed against 75 other teams to take first place and bring home the $10,000 grand prize scholarship. Their winning design, “Handoff”, is a Google Chrome extension that allows multiple users to share online …

For more stories on why Brown CS is so great, check out our Praise for Brown CS page here.Brown CS alumni continue to rank highly as industry pioneers. Click here for a list of related stories.CrunchBase has just concluded its first report on female founders of VC-funded companies. Among other findings, …

Brown CS alums who enter the field continue to rank highly as successful innovators and industry pioneers. Click these links to learn more:Brown CS Alum James Hendler Has Been Honored By The Association Of Moving Image ArchivistsBrown CS Alum Aimee Lucido Speaks Out About Industry SexismPedro Felzenszwalb And Alum David Blei Talk About …

by Kevin Stacey (Science News Officer, Physical Sciences)Click here for a quick video introduction to MAGI.Brown University computer scientists have developed a new interactive tool to help researchers and clinicians explore the genetic underpinnings of cancer. The tool — dubbed MAGI, for Mutation Annotation and Genome Interpretation — is an …

Starting in September, 2016, Brown CS graduate Foteini Baldimtsi ScM ’11 PhD ’14 will join George Mason University as an assistant professor of computer science. As one of two new hires specializing in cryptography, she is thrilled to be building a new crypto team. “I am super excited,” she says. “The …