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The waves are calling, the blue expanse with its endless opportunities to tinker with oil coolers and hose clamps and heat exchangers, to pull up alongside other sailors at the close of day and be social or not. John is weighing anchor: he’s retiring from Brown after 42 years of teaching, with 32 spent at Brown CS.

The AAAS has elected Brown CS PhD alum Danfeng (Daphne) Yao (now Professor of CS, Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. '56 Faculty Fellow, and CACI Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech) to the rank of Fellow.

Brown CS is happy to announce that with the anticipated approval of Brown’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2026, Robert Y. Lewis has been promoted to Associate Teaching Professor.

Brown CS is happy to announce that with the anticipated approval of Brown’s Corporation and effective as of July 1, 2026, Lorenzo De Stefani has been promoted to Associate Teaching Professor.

No stranger to controversy, AI pioneer Yann LeCun told a capacity crowd that large language models are not the future of AI and that a new approach is needed if machines are to achieve human-like intelligence.

As a tool for researchers, lawmakers, journalists and the public, the CNTR AISLE Portal provides analysis of state- and federal-level AI bills pending across the U.S.

Brown CS alum and Advisory Board member danah boyd has just received a Sloan Research Fellowship, recognizing her as one of the most promising scientific researchers working today, part of the next generation of U.S. and Canadian scientific leaders.

Less than a year after a receiving one of the highest honors in the field of virtual reality, Brown CS alum and former adjunct research faculty member and visiting scholar Joseph J. Laviola Jr. (now Charles N. Millican Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida) has been recognized again.

The event featured participation from more than 400 university students from across the country and 1,000 students from 76 different countries participating virtually. Brown CS concentrators on three separate teams came home with awards.
 

Brown CS is mourning the loss of Professor Emeritus of Computer Science Stanley (Stan) B. Zdonik, Jr., who passed away on February 5 at the age of 78. Stan was a distinguished computer scientist who made pioneering contributions to data management, with especially notable work in object-oriented databases, column-store architectures, and stream processing.