Brown CS News

Archive – October 2002

Robot photographer debuts at the Ritz

Bill Smart (PhD '02) and Cindy Grimm (PhD '96) Make the News From the October 27, 2002 St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Meet Lewis, the world's first robotic photographer, a machine that may take pictures better than you do. The 300-pound, trash-can-sized robot rolls around a room, detects faces and takes photographs …

Another Football Championship for Computer Science

On Sunday, October 20, the all-graduate-student football team won the 2002 High-Intensity Intramural Flag-Football Championship. Over half the team is a member of the Computer Science Department. This is the team's second consecutive championship. Both this year's and last year's final games were against the fraternity Thete, and in each …

Another ITR grant

Steve Reiss and Shriram Krishnamurthi have just been awarded an NSF ITR grant, making a total of nine of these prestigious awards in the CS department. This grant, entitled 'Consistent software evolution,' provides $450,000 in funding and will last for three years. The authors say of their project, 'Software is …

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