sponsored by the Office of Brown University's 250th Anniversary, the Brown University Center for Computing and Visualization, Brown University Computing and Information Services, and the Brown University Sciences Library; the YURT has been developed with funding from NSFWe are celebrating the opening of Brown's newest virtual reality environment, the YURT (YURT …
Brown University's Department of Computer Science congratulates Professor John Savage and thanks him for his public service at a decisive moment in our state's history. Governor Gina M. Raimondo has just signed an Executive Order establishing Rhode Island's first Cybersecurity Commission, and John will be one of its founding members."We …
by Kevin Stacey (Science News Officer, Physical Sciences) A group of scholars including three Nobel laureates will gather at Brown for a week-long series of talks on the future of their fields and honoring the legacy of computer pioneer and scientific polymath John von Neumann. The “Brown University 250th Anniversary Symposium: …
This year alone, 771 Brown students took introductory CS classes. The rest are probably asking themselves:* What kinds of things can I do with a CS degree?
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Professor Maurice Herlihy of Brown University's Department of Computer Science will be formally inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on October 10, 2015, during a ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Maurice is among 197 new members of the Academy, which includes leading thinkers in science, public affairs, business, …
Two members of Brown University’s Department of Computer Science (Brown CS), Professors Michael Littman and Ben Raphael (also Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology) have received Seed Awards from Brown University’s Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) to help them compete more successfully for large-scale, interdisciplinary, …
by Aaron Gokaslan '18 On April 12, 2015, Brown University students Laura Shea ‘18 (a computer science and math concentrator) and I (also ‘18, a computer science concentrator) came in second place in software at HackPrinceton. Our team, with fellow students Ergeta Muca and Anthony Lobko, designed a website to convert …
"The primary educational focus of undergrads is classes," says Professor James Hays, "but research can also be enormously educational. Research allows undergrads to collaborate with faculty to make new discoveries, to expand the boundaries of computer science, and ultimately to improve people's lives. Research can be intimidating, though – it’s …
Selected by a committee of students, faculty, and administrators, Professor Chad Jenkins of Brown University’s Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has just won the Karen T. Romer Prize for Undergraduate Advising and Mentoring, created in 2004 to recognize and reward two faculty members who have demonstrated extraordinary care in …
"Although rising public anger is welcome, it is misdirected."Timothy Edgar, a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute, turns his attention to the future of intellligence in an article published today by Foreign Affairs. After quickly sketching the current context of increasing public skepticism, Edgar offers an explicit rebuttal of the …
