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Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about the Humans to Robots Laboratory and Stefanie Tellex. From a 16th-century automaton and a metal swan that wowed Mark Twain to present day wonders that care for the elderly and help autistic children develop empathy, a new exhibit ("Robots") at London's Science Museum is one …

Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about rising enrollment in our classes and an increasing number of CS majors.Last semester, for the first time, Computer Science became the most commonly-chosen major at Brown University. 321 sophomores picked CS, exceeding the second most popular major by more than a sixth. This semester, …

Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about CSCI 0030, Tom Doeppner, John Hughes, K-12 CS education, Shriram Krishnamurthi, our community outreach, and Steve Reiss. What is computational thinking, and how should it be taught? Almost three decades after the term was coined, the answer is still being worked out. How …

Click the links that follow for more content about Stefanie Tellex and other Brown CS NSF CAREER Award winners.Three things that we take for granted when collaborating with other humans, perceiving, acting, and communicating, are some of the areas that are most difficult for today's robots. Assistant Professor Stefanie Tellex of Brown University's Department of …

Brown CS community members continue to win noteworthy grants and awards. To read more articles click here.Click the link that follows for more content about Tim KraskaEarlier this year, the Office of the Vice President for Research announced an inaugural awards program during the academic year 2016-2017 to recognize outstanding research achievements of Brown faculty. Five …

Brown CS community members continue to win noteworthy grants and awards. To read more articles click here.Click the link that follows for more content about Maurice Herlihy
 Earlier this year, the Office of the Vice President for Research announced an inaugural awards program during the academic year 2016-2017 to recognize outstanding research achievements …

Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Carsten Binnig, DARPA, the Data Science Initiative, Lorenzo De Stefani, Tim Kraska, Sloan fellowships, Tupleware, Eli Upfal, Vizdom, Andy van Dam, and Emanuel Zgraggen.Only a few months after the founding of Brown University's Data Science Initiative (DSI), the Department …

Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Rodrigo Fonseca.At the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) this week in Boston, Massachusetts, Professor Rodrigo Fonseca of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) and collaborators from University of California San Diego and University of …

Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Bootstrap, Sam Dooman, and Shriram Krishnamurthi."Nationwide, the concept of 'CS for all' has become ubiquitous," says Brown CS Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi, co-director of Bootstrap. "But not all students will become computer scientists. We know already that opportunities to use data will be part of their lives ahead. …