Brown CS News

Archive – October 2008

Department Among Most Influential Institutions in Middleware Technology

The Department of Computer Science at Brown University was mentioned as one of the seven most influential institutions in the area of middleware technology in a recent issue of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. According to authors Wolfgang Emmerich, Mikio Aoyama and Joe Sventek, “Without researchers laying the …

Pascal Van Hentenryck Receives Doctor Honoris Causa from the Université catholique de Louvain

Pascal Van Hentenryck was recently honored with a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Université catholique de Louvain in recognition of his fundamental contributions to constraint programming, his remarkable scientific and technological impact in the optimization field, as well as the industrial applications of his research. Along with Pascal, the other …

Black, Herlihy, Krishnamurthi, Lysyanskaya, Tamassia and van Dam Awarded Substantial Funding from NSF

The National Science Foundation has recently awarded to Brown University funding in the expected overall amount of $2.2 million for the research projects of six faculty members: Michael Black, Maurice Herlihy, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Anna Lysyanskaya, Roberto Tamassia and Andy van Dam. Michael Black Michael’s project, entitled “Detailed Human Shape and …

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