Brown CS News

Andy van Dam Has Been Named A Computer History Museum Fellow

2021 brings a new honor for Brown CS Professor Andries "Andy" van Dam, who has just been named a Fellow of the Computer History Museum (CHM) for a lifetime of contributions to computer graphics, hypertext, and education. Located in Mountain View, California, CHM presents stories and artifacts of the information age and explores the computing …

Bach, Çetintemel, Tellex, And Collaborators Win OVPR Seed Awards

Professors Stephen Bach, Stefanie Tellex, and Ugur Çetintemel of Brown CS, along with their Brown University collaborators below, have just received Seed Awards from Brown's Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) to help them compete more successfully for large-scale, interdisciplinary, multi-investigator grants. They join numerous previous Brown CS recipients of OVPR Seed Awards, including (most …

Malte Schwarzkopf Wins An NSF CAREER Award For Privacy-Compliant Web Services By Construction

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"Today's web services" says Professor Malte Schwarzkopf of Brown CS, "often store and process sensitive personal data without sufficient attention to data privacy. Privacy laws like the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the proposed United States Consumer Data Privacy Act (CDPA) and Consumer Online Privacy …

An Alum-Led Nonprofit Donates Monitors To Providence Teachers And Honors Andy van Dam

by Kevin Stacey (Senior Writer, Physical Sciences) Thanks to a nonprofit founded by a Brown graduate and alums affiliated with the University’s computer science department, more than 400 public school teachers in Providence will soon get a second computer monitor to help with remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. The donation …

Bawabe, Kumar, Sam, And Walke Receive CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honors

The Computing Research Association (CRA) is a coalition of more than 200 organizations with the mission of enhancing innovation by joining with industry, government, and academia to strengthen research and advance education in computing. Every year, they recognize North American students who show phenomenal research potential with their Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, and in 2021, Brown …

George Konidaris And Collaborators Win The IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Award

Presented annually, the IJCAI-JAIR Award is given to an outstanding paper published in The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research in the preceding five calendar years. Today, Professor George Konidaris of Brown CS and his collaborators, Leslie Pack Kaelbling of MIT (formerly a Brown CS faculty member) and Tomás Lozano-Pérez of MIT, received the award for their 2018 paper, …

Sridhar Ramaswamy Gives The 20th Annual Kanellakis Memorial Lecture

The Paris C. Kanellakis Memorial Lecture, a 20-year tradition, honors Paris Kanellakis, a distinguished computer scientist who was an esteemed and beloved member of the Brown CS community. Paris came to Brown in 1981 and became a full professor in 1990. His research area was theoretical computer science, with emphasis on the principles of database systems, …