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The Department of Computer Science at Brown University seeks applicants for faculty positions in the following areas, broadly construed:robotics, including such diverse applications as manipulation and navigation and human-robot interaction, and such diverse methods as machine learning and computer vision and programming languages; andgraphics, visualization, and interaction, including such diverse …

Practitioners in fields as diverse as education, leadership development, communication, and process improvement are likely to share one of the key elements of Stefanie Tellex's recent research: feedback is essential. Stefanie, a faculty member of Brown University's Department of Computer Science, has just won a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) …

Few things are less abstract than an earthquake or more important than nuclear non-proliferation, and one of the top awards in Bayesian analysis highlights how complex statistical models can be used to solve problems that go far beyond theory. The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA, which sponsors leading journals …

Brown University’s Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has made its strongest showing to date at the 25th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2015), earning two of the most significant honors in the field of computer operating systems.Professor Maurice Herlihy (and his collaborator, J. …

Brown University Computer Science (Brown CS) PhD Candidate Jonathan Mace, Ryan Roelke '15 (now at Vertica), and Brown CS Assistant Professor Rodrigo Fonseca have just received one of three Best Paper Awards at the 25th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2015), currently being held …

Selected by past program chairs from leading Operating Systems conferences, past Weiser and Turing Award winners from the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGOPS (Special Interest Group on Operating Systems) community, and more, Professor Maurice Herlihy of Brown University’s Department of Computer Science (and his collaborator, J. Eliot B. Moss of …

Using hypertext for a poetry course in 1974? Only if you were at Brown University, and you would have had Andy van Dam to thank.In a recent article on the digitization of punched cards used to track early National Endowment for the Humanities applications and grants, Time provides a photo of the card for …

Enrollment in Brown Computer Science’s core introductory courses is continuing to accelerate year after year:In the past year alone, CS 015 (Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Computer Science) has seen 20% growth, arriving at a record-setting 391 students.At this time four years ago, CS 017 (CS: An Integrated Introduction) had …

As enrollment in Brown CS courses continues to accelerate, a few statistics help give a sense of the tremendous year-on-year growth:One in six Brown undergraduates took a CS course last year. This year, it's one in five.Not only have total enrollments increased by 990 students in the past four years, …

The Tech Fair is back!  Brown Computer Science's Industry Partner Program, in conjunction with the CareerLAB, is hosting our second annual event on September 29, 2015, from 12-4 PM in Sayles Hall and the Main Green. Brown CS has a long history of matching our students with industry leaders, startup companies, and everything in between -- we're …