Brown CS News

A recent Brown Daily Herald article provides the story behind a new online replica of the Brown University campus. A joint effort between Brown Esports and Geopipe, it's already providing a valuable service to prospective students during the COVID-19 crisis.Thomas Dickerson, a Brown CS alum, is a co-founder of Geopipe, which builds …

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Chosen by an esteemed panel of Brown University faculty, Professor Michael Littman of Brown CS has just been given Brown's Distinguished Research Achievement Award. Now in its fourth year, the Research Achievement Award program is supported by the Office of the President and the Provost to nurture and recognize the extraordinary research …

Game playing has long been a subject of fascination within the AI field, and Brown CS Professor Amy Greenwald recently hosted a AAAI Panel, “Advancing AI By Playing Games”, with some of the most influential figures in this specialty. The speakers included Dr. Michael Bowling of the University of Alberta …

The Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, given this year to Casey Nelson and Dylan Sam to support their work with Brown CS Professors R. Iris Bahar and Stephen Bach, respectively, recognizes strong achievement from undergraduate researchers and offers them the opportunity to continue their work …

"High-quality virtual 3D objects," says Professor Daniel Ritchie of Brown CS, "are a critical resource for many academic disciplines, as well as for industries such as CAD and furniture and displays like the Hololens and MagicLeap. Unfortunately, traditional processes for creating new 3D objects are ill-equipped to meet this demand, and …

Brown CS is happy to announce that Jeff Huang has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (pending the approval of Brown's Corporation), effective as of July 1, 2020.Jeff came to Brown in 2013 after receiving his PhD and Master of Science in Information Science from University of Washington at Seattle. He …

Brown CS Professor Theophilus “Theo” Benson has just won the Eurosys  Best Student Paper Award for co-authoring the paper, “Efficient and Safe Network Updates with Suffix Causal Consistency” (authored by University of North Carolina Chapel Hill student Shen Liu and also co-authored by UNC Professor Michael Reiter), presented at EuroSys …