Brown CS News

Professor Stefanie Tellex of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has just received an Early Career Research Achievement Award from Brown's Office of the Vice President for Research. Inaugurated last year, the Awards are given in three areas (Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Physical Sciences; and Life Sciences …

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has recently made "computational thinking" part of its curriculum for all students, and last month, they held the Teaching Computational Thinking Workshop to begin addressing questions about how the subject can and should be integrated into scientific and engineering programs.As one of two keynote speakers (the other was …

"People learn at different speeds and use different methods to reinforce what they are learning," writes Vinton G. Cerf in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM. Looking for pedagogy that breaks with tradition, the Internet pioneer finds inspiration in Bootstrap, a K-12 CS curriculum used worldwide that's directed by Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, and Emmanuel …

Click the link that follows for more news items about Shriram Krishnamurthi.This week, Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) caps off a busy season of international lectures by delivering a Colloqium d'Informatique ("Curriculum Design as an Engineering Problem") at Sorbonne Université in Paris. The lecture series, …

Click the link that follows for more information about our undergraduate research program.For decades, we've heard from our undergrads that the chance to perform cutting-edge research is one of the primary reasons why they chose Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS). Far from the clerical duties or errand-running that some have …

Click the links that follow for more news items about Theophilus Benson, George Konidaris, and Richard B. Salomon Faculty Awards.Less than a year after Professor Theophilus (Theo) Benson's arrival at Brown University’s Computer Science Department (Brown CS), and less than two after Professor George Konidaris joined the Brown CS faculty, they've each received a Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research …

Research by Professor Theophilus Benson of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) and his collaborators has just won one of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF)'s six Applied Networking Research Prizes for 2018. It's also one of only two papers that will be presented at the IRTF Open Meeting during …

In the ongoing effort to bring diversity and inclusion to the field of computer science, it was one step backward and then at least two in a profoundly positive direction. When the world's largest gathering of security experts, RSA Conference, announced this year's speaker list last week, many attendees were …

The Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB) Engineering Fellows Program is one of technology’s most prestigious fellowships, with only 51 students chosen in 2018 from a pool of almost 3,000. This year, undergraduate students Lauren Ho and Nina Polshakova were selected from Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS), and they join winners from previous …

Click the links that follow for more Brown CS news items about Amy Greenwald and Seny Kamara.Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) is happy to announce that pending the anticipated approval of the Corporation of Brown, Amy Greenwald will be promoted to the rank of Full Professor and Seny Kamara will …