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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 …

Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about George Konidaris.Imagine a self-driving car zooming down the highway, or a robotic arm welding car parts in a factory. Suddenly, in less than a second, another car swerves in front of it, or a human trips and falls into …

One of the things we hear most often from our alums is that they keenly remember the pressures and uncertainties as they approached Brown graduation and weighed their next step in life.  They want to share the experience that followed with the next generation, and our students who are getting ready to graduate …

by Kevin Stacey (Science News Writer, Physical Sciences)Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Peter Haas, Michael Littman, and Bertram Malle.A group of academic researchers, led by cognitive and computer scientists from Brown University, is teaming up with a cross-functional team from global play and entertainment …