Brown CS News

Archive – June 2002

Seven Receive PhDs

Seven people from this department received PhD degrees at last month's graduation ceremonies. They are: Michael Benjamin, `Interval Programming: A Multi-Objective Optimization Model for Motion Planning in Autonomous Vehicles' (advisor: Leslie Kaelbling). Mike is now a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Ocean Engineering at MIT. Stina Bridgeman, `Techniques and …

New Chair for CS

We're delighted to announce that, with Tom Dean stepping down, Eli Upfal has agreed to take over as Chair of this department effective July 1, 2002. Eli joined the department in 1997 from the Weizmann Institute and IBM Almaden Research Center. As Chair since 1997, Tom's contributions to the department …

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