Brown CS News

Tim Kraska Is The Winner Of The University-Wide Early Career Research Achievement Award

Brown CS community members continue to win noteworthy grants and awards. To read more articles click here.Click the link that follows for more content about Tim KraskaEarlier this year, the Office of the Vice President for Research announced an inaugural awards program during the academic year 2016-2017 to recognize outstanding research achievements of Brown faculty. Five …

Maurice Herlihy Is The Winner Of The University-Wide Research Innovation Award

Brown CS community members continue to win noteworthy grants and awards. To read more articles click here.Click the link that follows for more content about Maurice Herlihy
 Earlier this year, the Office of the Vice President for Research announced an inaugural awards program during the academic year 2016-2017 to recognize outstanding research achievements …

Brown CS Announces Major Achievements In Data Science

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Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Carsten Binnig, DARPA, the Data Science Initiative, Lorenzo De Stefani, Tim Kraska, Sloan fellowships, Tupleware, Eli Upfal, Vizdom, Andy van Dam, and Emanuel Zgraggen.Only a few months after the founding of Brown University's Data Science Initiative (DSI), the Department …

Rodrigo Fonseca And Collaborators Win An NSDI Test Of Time Award

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Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Rodrigo Fonseca.At the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) this week in Boston, Massachusetts, Professor Rodrigo Fonseca of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) and collaborators from University of California San Diego and University of …

Bootstrap Brings The Next Generation The Data Science They'll Need

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Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Bootstrap, Sam Dooman, and Shriram Krishnamurthi."Nationwide, the concept of 'CS for all' has become ubiquitous," says Brown CS Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi, co-director of Bootstrap. "But not all students will become computer scientists. We know already that opportunities to use data will be part of their lives ahead. …

Markell, Picard, And Tipperman Earn KPCB Fellowships, Setting A Brown CS Record

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Click the link that follows for more content related to the KPCB Engineering Fellows Program.The Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB) Engineering Fellows Program is one of technology’s most prestigious fellowships, with only 54 students chosen in 2017 from a pool of 2,000. This year, participation from Brown University's Department of Computer …

Sorawee Porncharoenwase Wins The Randy F. Pausch Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award

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Click the link that follows for more content on the Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award.The Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, given this year to Sorawee Porncharoenwase, recognizes strong achievement from young students and offers them the opportunity to partner with faculty and …

Connor Gramazio Will Give An Invited Talk At OpenVis Conf

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Click the link that follows for more content about Connor Gramazio."There's been great success at democratizing the creation of complex visualization with tools like D3, Vega, ggplot, and Tableau," says PhD candidate Connor Gramazio of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS). "But at the same time, just because we can create …

Shriram Krishnamurthi Will Receive An Honorary Doctorate From Università Della Svizzera Italiana

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For more content about Shriram Krishnamurthi, click here.Only five years ago, Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi of Brown University's Computer Science Department (Brown CS) was the inaugural winner of SIGPLAN's Robin Milner Young Researcher Award. But age comes fast. A needle skips on a record somewhere, the hair of the youthful researcher is …

Caroline Klivans Disproves A 35-Year-Old Conjecture

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Working with colleagues from the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Kansas, Caroline Klivans (a Senior Lecturer in applied mathematics and computer science at Brown University and Associate Director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics) has achieved a rare feat: disproving a conjecture first put forth in 1979.In mathematics, …