Brown CS News

Every year, Brown University's Graduate School presents the Master's Award for Professional Excellence to recognize outstanding student contributions that influence or contribute to the field or profession. This year, Brown's School of Professional Studies is proud to note that the new winner, David Aaron, is a member of the Executive Master in …

Each year, Brown University's Dean of the Faculty recognizes Brown faculty members with five excellence awards. Three are reserved for colleagues in other disciplines, but one of the remaining two awards is open to all assistant professors and lecturers, and the other is available to faculty in all of the physical sciences. This year, …

"We're moving," says Professor Theophilus "Theo" Benson of Brown University's Department of Computer Science, "into a new generation of software-defined infrastructure that incorporates virtualized network functions, 5th-generation cellular networks and advanced wireless communication technologies, and edge computing. Software-defined networking, or SDN, is a key enabling technology facilitating that transition. It's going to play …

After successfully defending his doctoral thesis last month, PhD candidate Justin Pombrio of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has a new honor to look back on as he plans his next move. Out of approximately 400 Brown graduate students with instruction-related appointments, he was one of only four to …

Professor Stefanie Tellex of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has just received an Early Career Research Achievement Award from Brown's Office of the Vice President for Research. Inaugurated last year, the Awards are given in three areas (Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Physical Sciences; and Life Sciences …

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has recently made "computational thinking" part of its curriculum for all students, and last month, they held the Teaching Computational Thinking Workshop to begin addressing questions about how the subject can and should be integrated into scientific and engineering programs.As one of two keynote speakers (the other was …

"People learn at different speeds and use different methods to reinforce what they are learning," writes Vinton G. Cerf in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM. Looking for pedagogy that breaks with tradition, the Internet pioneer finds inspiration in Bootstrap, a K-12 CS curriculum used worldwide that's directed by Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, and Emmanuel …

Click the link that follows for more news items about Shriram Krishnamurthi.This week, Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) caps off a busy season of international lectures by delivering a Colloqium d'Informatique ("Curriculum Design as an Engineering Problem") at Sorbonne Université in Paris. The lecture series, …

Click the link that follows for more information about our undergraduate research program.For decades, we've heard from our undergrads that the chance to perform cutting-edge research is one of the primary reasons why they chose Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS). Far from the clerical duties or errand-running that some have …

Click the links that follow for more news items about Theophilus Benson, George Konidaris, and Richard B. Salomon Faculty Awards.Less than a year after Professor Theophilus (Theo) Benson's arrival at Brown University’s Computer Science Department (Brown CS), and less than two after Professor George Konidaris joined the Brown CS faculty, they've each received a Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research …