At this spring's Commencement ceremony, held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown CS presented undergraduate diplomas to 295 students. 18.9% of all Brown graduates earned CS degrees this year, up from 17.0% last year. Here are just a few of the places where our newest alums will be working:Ab InitioADPAmazonAmazon RoboticsAmgenAppleAsanaBank of AmericaBlizzard …
by Kevin Stacey (Senior Writer, Physical Sciences) Later this year, the U.S. is expected to switch on the nation’s first exascale supercomputers, which will be capable of performing one quintillion operations per second — many times faster than the fastest supercomputers operating today. It’s a major milestone in scientific …
Brown CS has just announced that it has recognized 22 graduating seniors for their academic accomplishments as well as their service to the department this year. Shira Abramovich, Stephanie Alvarado, Griffin Beels, Matthew Berg, Jessica Dai, Nam Do, Mary Dong, Kevin Du, Giselle Garcia, Symone Houston, Isa Milefchik, Casey Nelson, Amelia O'Halloran, Angel Rodriguez, Dylan Sam, …
The close of the Spring, 2021 semester has brought a number of new honors for Brown CS. Five students earned distinctions for their academic achievement, their dissertations, and their professional and teaching excellence from the Association for Computing Machinery and from the University: Doctoral graduate Cyrus Cousins has received the Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation …
Brown University has just announced a new degree program that provides graduates with a sophisticated technical understanding of cybersecurity and the ability to communicate topics in the field to both technical and non-technical audiences. Offered entirely online, the Master of Science in Cybersecurity allows students worldwide to study at Brown without leaving …
"Dr. Ryder is a high achiever in her research, mentoring and diversity service," notes Professor and Department Head Calvin J. Ribbens of Virginia Tech in his recommendation letter for Brown CS alum Barbara Ryder. "As the first woman at Professor II (an honorific professorial grade above full professor) in the Computer Science …
The Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, given this year to Ross Briden and Zachary Espiritu to support their work with Brown CS Professors Stephen Bach and Roberto Tamassia, respectively, recognizes strong achievement from undergraduate researchers and offers them the opportunity to continue their work over the summer.A generous gift from …
by Kevin Stacey (Senior Writer, Physical Sciences) Proposals to create a national gun registry have long been met with fierce opposition from gun rights advocates. While proponents say a registry would help in tracking guns used in crimes, opponents worry that it would compromise privacy and could be used …
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research and development agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military, has just named Brown CS Professor Theophilus A. Benson to its Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group. His three-year term begins this …