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Professor Sohini Ramachandran of Brown University's Center for Computational Molecular Biology (she also serves as its Director) and Department of Computer Science has just had one of her recent projects, SWIF(r), mentioned in Nature, the multidisciplinary science journal. Originally published ("Localization of adaptive variants in human genomes using averaged one-dependence estimation") in Nature Communications, the research …

In addition to our many other lectures throughout the semester, Brown CS is excited to announce that Professor Robert Tarjan of Princeton University will be delivering the annual Paris C. Kanellakis Memorial Lecture on December 6. This talk comes on the heels of the recent Distinguished Lecture Series (featuring Professor …

The ACM Karlstrom Award is presented annually to outstanding educators in recognition for the advancement of new teaching methodologies and for significant contributions to the development and expansion of  computer science and engineering. Professor Andy van Dam of Brown CS received the award for his impact on shaping the next …

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 …