Brown CS News

Stefanie Tellex Serves As An Advisor For A New Children's Book About Robots

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Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Stefanie Tellex.If we posit a not-so-distant future where robots are ubiquitous, it stands to reason that we need writers to ground portrayals of them in reality. We say good-bye to crazed androids from pulp magazines who inexplicably try to kidnap beautiful women, and we're equally skeptical of Hollywood depictions …

Amy Greenwald Gives A Keynote Address At Microsoft's Faculty Summit 2017

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Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Amy Greenwald."Humans make hundreds of routine decisions daily," explains Professor Amy Greenwald of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS). "More often than not, the impact of our decisions depends on the decisions of others. As AI progresses, we're offloading more and more of …

Maurice Herlihy Gives A Keynote Address At PODC 2017 (Slides Included Below)

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Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Maurice Herlihy.The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) is perhaps the most prominent international forum on the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks. Its common goal is to improve understanding of the principles underlying …

Eli Upfal Publishes A Much-Expanded Second Edition Of "Probability And Computing"

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Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Eli Upfal.Professor Eli Upfal of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) and Michael Mitzenmacher of Harvard University have just released a significantly larger second edition of their widely-used textbook, Probability and Computing: Randomization and Probabilistic Techniques in Algorithms and …

In Memoriam: Peter Wegner, 1932-2017

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It is with great sadness that we share the news that Peter Wegner, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, passed away this morning following a brief illness. Peter came to Brown almost fifty years ago, in 1969, and we remember him with great respect not just as educator, theorist, historian, and …

John Hughes Becomes Our Associate Chair

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Please click the links that follow for more content about Brown CS growth or John Hughes.The continued expansion of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has brought an important milestone: an Associate Chair will now assist Department Chair Ugur Cetintemel with important duties, and Professor John "Spike" Hughes will be the first to fill the …