Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about C. Christopher Erway, Alptekin Küpçü, Seny Kamara, and Roberto Tamassia. Looking at Professor Konrad Rieck of Technische Universität Braunschweig's list of Influential Security Papers, Brown CS research in the field has clearly withstood the test of time. The list ranks papers published at the four top-tier security conferences, …
“SIRoS 1 was when the question really struck me,” remembers HCRI Co-Director, Professor Michael Littman of Brown CS. “How do we keep the value of humans, of people, from declining? We’ve known for a long time that we’re at an inflection point, and the first SIRoS really drove the point …
Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Seny Kamara and Tarik Moataz.Security breach by security breach, data leak by data leak, digital privacy is becoming a household phrase, but for many people, putting a four-digit passcode on their smart phone is the extent of their security measures. Just this week, researchers …
Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Shriram Krishnamurthi.Only a few months after joining the Editorial Board of the Research Highlights section of Communications of the ACM (CACM-RH), Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has been asked to co-Chair the group. CACM-RH is devoted to publishing the most …
It’s half past noon in CIT 368 on May 18, 2017. After fourteen years of Senior Lecturer Barbara Meier’s computer animation classes at Brown, after months of focused effort, we have something very new, a first: Toymaker, a seven-minute animated short.Every seat is full, and much of the floor. The …
Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Vasileios Kemerlis.Bloating, or adding unnecessary functionality to software that damages its performance or ease of use, probably started very soon after the first program was written. For most of us, the reaction is mostly frustration: we only want to make …
Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Seny Kamara.It's still a hypothetical, but easy to imagine: high school students and their families, about to take on thousands of dollars in loans and nervous about how the money will be spent, turn to a national database that …
Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Peter Haas, Michael Littman, and Bertram Malle.The Associated Press describes it as "an interaction in which the human is needed": researchers from Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) and Humanity-Centered Robotics Initative (HCRI) have partnered with entertainment leader Hasbro to create a robotic …
by Kevin Stacey (Science News Writer, Physical Sciences)Even as autonomous robots get better at doing things on their own, there will still be plenty of circumstances where humans might need to step in and take control. New software developed by Brown University computer scientists enables users to control robots remotely …
Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about the Paris C. Kanellakis Memorial Lecture.The Paris C. Kanellakis Memorial Lecture, a seventeen-year tradition at Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS), honors Paris Kanellakis, a distinguished computer scientist who was an esteemed and beloved member of the Brown CS …
