Brown CS News

Click the links that follow for more news about Daniel Ritchie, Kai Wang, and other recent accomplishments by Brown CS students.

Brown CS PhD student Kai Wang has just received an Adobe Research Fellowship for his research in automating design of structures and layouts. His work currently centers on bridging computer graphics and machine learning ...

Click the links that follow for more news about Nishanth Kumar, previous recipients of honorable mentions for this award, and other recent accomplishments by our students.

The Computing Research Association (CRA) is a coalition of more than 200 organizations with the mission of enhancing innovation by joining with industry, government, and academia to strengthen research ...

Click the links that follow for more news about Brown CS growth and increased enrollment and our UTA program.

Over the past few years, The Brown Daily Herald has published several articles and op-eds about growing enrollment in computer science, including suggestions on how to address the resulting challenges that students face. This morning, Professor ...

Please note that unfortunately, the SIRoS conference planned for March 20 will be postponed to a later date. If you have any questions, please contact hcri@brown.edu.

SIRoS (Societal Implications of Robotics Symposium) 3: Robots Entering Society will be held on March 20, 2020. The article below looks back at SIRoS 1 and 2 ...

Click the links that follow for more news about Carsten Eickhoff, Ellie Pavlick, Daniel Ritchie, Stefanie Tellex, and other recent accomplishments by our faculty.

"There seems to be some kind of magic," says Professor Ellie Pavlick of Brown CS, "that happens in humans' heads that allows us to conjure up a staggering amount of information ...

Among other things, Brown CS history is a treasure trove of stories, and sometimes even the sequence of events that led to a recent symposium is a tale worth telling.

As last year began, Marc Weber ‘84 had hypertext on the brain. The Computer History Museum (CHM) was planning a conference on pioneering inventor Douglas ...

Click the links that follow for more news items about our alums making a difference.

“I’ve never really been interested in technology just for technology’s sake,” explains Brown CS alum Michael Frederickson ‘08, “but rather in using technology to make somebody feel something.” Currently working as a Lead Technical Director at Pixar Animation ...

Click the link that follows for more news about the Executive Master in Cybersecurity program and its alums.

Hoping to encourage young authors to tackle emerging business themes, the Financial Times and McKinsey and Company first awarded the Bracken Bower Prize in 2014. The award is given to the best business book proposal by an ...

Click the links that follow for more news about Shriram Krishnamurthi and other recent accomplishments by our alums and faculty.

"Two weeks before the OOPSLA 2009 deadline," remembers Brown CS alum Arjun Guha (now Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Shriram declared that it was time to actually write a Flapjax ...

Click the links that follow for more news about Rodrigo Fonseca  and how Brown CS students continue to distinguish themselves at hackathons and competitions nationwide. 

The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is believed to be oldest, largest, and perhaps the most prestigious programming competition in the world. An algorithmic programming contest for college students, it ...