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Brown CS Returns To The Grace Hopper Celebration

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Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about diversity and inclusion at Brown CS and the Grace Hopper Celebration.A delegation from Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has had a busy week at the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), an annual event that's become the world's largest gathering …

Brown's Data Science Initiative Is Holding A Launch Event With Roundtables And Keynotes On 9/19

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Brown CS grad students are invited to a launch event ("Empowering Collaboration / Expanding Networks") by Brown University's Data Science Initiative (DSI). It includes there’s lunch, roundtables with data science related research groups and institutes, reception, and a keynote by Andrew Moore, Dean of Computer Science at Carnegie Mason University. Click the …

Stefanie Tellex Serves As An Advisor For A New Children's Book About Robots

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Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Stefanie Tellex.If we posit a not-so-distant future where robots are ubiquitous, it stands to reason that we need writers to ground portrayals of them in reality. We say good-bye to crazed androids from pulp magazines who inexplicably try to kidnap beautiful women, and we're equally skeptical of Hollywood depictions …

Amy Greenwald Gives A Keynote Address At Microsoft's Faculty Summit 2017

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Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Amy Greenwald."Humans make hundreds of routine decisions daily," explains Professor Amy Greenwald of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS). "More often than not, the impact of our decisions depends on the decisions of others. As AI progresses, we're offloading more and more of …

Maurice Herlihy Gives A Keynote Address At PODC 2017 (Slides Included Below)

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Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Maurice Herlihy.The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) is perhaps the most prominent international forum on the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks. Its common goal is to improve understanding of the principles underlying …

Eli Upfal Publishes A Much-Expanded Second Edition Of "Probability And Computing"

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Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Eli Upfal.Professor Eli Upfal of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) and Michael Mitzenmacher of Harvard University have just released a significantly larger second edition of their widely-used textbook, Probability and Computing: Randomization and Probabilistic Techniques in Algorithms and …