Brown CS News

“In recent years, many techniques have been developed to improve the performance and efficiency of data center networks,” writes Professor Theophilus “Theo” Benson of Brown CS, as he explains the significance of his most recent paper on Deep Learning. This paper was recently recognized by ACM SIGCOMM, and was a …

We're proud to announce that a team of four members from the Brown University Executive Master in Cybersecurity (EMCS) Class of 2019 won first place in the policy category at CSAW’18, the world’s largest student-led hacking and security competition. The New York University Tandon School of Engineering hosted the policy …

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Network performance has been one of Brown CS Professor Theophilus "Theo" Benson's core interests for years. And network performance in emerging regions, he says, is particularly interesting because it requires us to question assumptions about what works and what doesn't: "We can't just transplant network protocols designed for massive tech companies to developing …

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Professor Sohini Ramachandran of Brown University's Center for Computational Molecular Biology (she also serves as its Director) and Department of Computer Science has just had one of her recent projects, SWIF(r), mentioned in Nature, the multidisciplinary science journal. Originally published ("Localization of adaptive variants in human genomes using averaged one-dependence estimation") in Nature Communications, the research …

In addition to our many other lectures throughout the semester, Brown CS is excited to announce that Professor Robert Tarjan of Princeton University will be delivering the annual Paris C. Kanellakis Memorial Lecture on December 6. This talk comes on the heels of the recent Distinguished Lecture Series (featuring Professor …

The ACM Karlstrom Award is presented annually to outstanding educators in recognition for the advancement of new teaching methodologies and for significant contributions to the development and expansion of  computer science and engineering. Professor Andy van Dam of Brown CS received the award for his impact on shaping the next …

For years, the promise or maybe the urgency of "CS for all" was inseparable from the idea that one size of CS fits all, and that computer science is synonymous with programming. Earlier this month, the National Math and Science Institute announced a coalition that includes Bootstrap (a K-12 CS curriculum used worldwide that's directed …