Brown CS News

In his newly-released third book, The Alignment Problem, Brown CS alum Brian Christian returns to the intersection of computer science with human ethics and thought. Already winning praise from experts such as Cathy O'Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction, it focuses on the consequences of allowing machine learning systems an increasing power to …

Brown CS is glad to announce that applications are open for the Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, which provides $10,000 annually to support an undergraduate engaged in an intensive faculty-student summer research partnership with the Department of Computer Science. The award is available thanks to a …

The Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) have announced a new Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for 2020 that recognizes the significant disruption to the academic job search caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and aims to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience for recent and soon-to-be PhD graduates …

“A mechanism is essentially a game,” says Professor Amy Greenwald of Brown CS, “and the mechanism design problem is to design a game such that strategic play leads to a desirable outcome.”In a recent Keynote address ("Learning Equilibria in Simulation-Based Games ... and the Ensuing Empirical Design of Mechanisms") at …

Two students from Brown University, Andrea Greene-Horace and Yanling He, have just received the CrowdStrike Foundation's NextGen Scholarship, which supports the development of the next generation of talent and leadership in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. No more than six of these scholarships are given each year, and Brown students have received …

“The most successful computer vision algorithms of the last few years,” says Chen Sun, “were all built on top of supervised deep learning, where big data and powerful computing devices are the key factors. I’m interested in making machines perceive and learn more naturally, like humans.” Currently a staff research …

by Kevin Stacey (Senior Writer, Physical Sciences)Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to a Brown University professor, a high-flying new robotics curriculum is coming to high schools across Rhode Island. The curriculum teaches students the basics of robotics in the process of building and programming their own …