Brown CS News

For years, the promise or maybe the urgency of "CS for all" was inseparable from the idea that one size of CS fits all, and that computer science is synonymous with programming. Earlier this month, the National Math and Science Institute announced a coalition that includes Bootstrap (a K-12 CS curriculum used worldwide that's directed …

Professor Dawn Song of UC Berkeley visited Brown CS earlier this month to deliver the thirty-seventh lecture ("AI and Security: Lessons, Challenges and Future Directions") in the Distinguished Lecture Series.Described as an innovator and "serial entrepreneur" in Professor Roberto Tamassia's introduction, Song began by setting a historical backdrop of cyberattacks that are increasing in number, financial cost, and …

"We have been exposed to new technologies for centuries," says Professor John Savage of Brown CS, "and every time a new technology is introduced, there are dislocations, unanticipated consequences...in our current situation, we have rushed to computerize so many things without knowing the hazards we were creating that we now have to address …

Out of more than 700 faculty members, two are chosen each year for Brown University's Presidential Faculty Award, and this semester, President Christina Paxson selected Professor Michael Littman of the Department of Computer Science (Brown CS).Established in 2013, the Presidential Faculty Award recognizes members of Brown’s distinguished faculty who are conducting especially important and innovative …

Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi of Brown CS and collaborators have won the annual SIGPLAN Software Award for contributions to the development of the programming language Racket. This award recognizes the development of a software system that has had a significant impact on programming language research and on education, and will be …

VISSOFT 2018, the Sixth IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization, was held last week in Madrid, Spain, and Professor Steven P. Reiss of Brown CS took home the Most Influential Paper Award for research ("The Paradox of Software Visualization") from 2005. In his paper, Steven raises the question of why software …