Brown's Office of the Vice President for Research recently announced the 2006 Research Seed Funding Recipients. Associate Professor David Laidlaw is co-PI on "Development and Verification of CTX Imaging for Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Research" which was awarded $100,000. The research team, which also includes zoologists and bioengineers, is collaborating on the …
Mocha (BETA) is a new way to browse Brown's courses online. Created by CS undergrads Dave Pacheco, Daniel Leventhal, Adam Cath, Dave Hirshberg, and Bill Pijewski as an alternative to BOCA (Brown's official Online Course Announcement), Mocha provides much of the functionality of BOCA but with a few additional features …
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized 34 of its members for their contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology. The new ACM Fellows, from some of the world’s leading industries, research labs, and universities made significant advances that are having lasting effects …
Assistant Professors Chad Jenkins and Meinolf Sellmann have been selected to receive one of Brown's highly competitive Salomon Awards. The $30,000 grant will support research projects in time-critical decision making and robot learning from demonstration. Their research in this area will be applied to the robot soccer domain through participation …