Brown CS News

Ph.D. Student Jeff Rasley Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Computer Science PhD graduate student Jeff Rasley has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a prestigious and highly competitive program.Jeff is broadly interested in networks, distributed systems, and security. His current research is on network profiling of "big data" workloads, which aims to better understand the interaction and performance …

Michael Littman Honored With 2013 AAAI Classic Paper Award

Michael LittmanThe Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) has selected the 1994 paper Acting Optimally in Partially Observable Stochastic Domains by Anthony R. Cassandra, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, and Michael Littman, then a Brown CS graduate student, for a 2013 AAAI Classic Paper Award. This award was established in …

James Hays Named Manning Assistant Professor

The Department is delighted to announce that James Hays will be appointed Manning Assistant Professor of Computer Science effective July 1, 2013. The University’s endowed assistant professorships recognize the achievements of promising junior faculty members. “I am honored to be named a Manning assistant professor. This endowed position will help …

Chad Jenkins Named National Geographic Emerging Explorer

Associate Professor Chad Jenkins has been named a 2013 National Geographic Emerging Explorer. National Geographic's Emerging Explorers Program recognizes and supports the uniquely gifted and inspiring who are at the beginning of a promising career in exploration and whose recent accomplishments show a potential for future breakthroughs.“I am thrilled to …

Yudi Fu and Douglas McErlean CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Honorable Mentions

Yudi Fu and Douglas McErlean received honorable mentions from the 2013 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award program. The program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.Yudi Fu works in Professor Andy van Dam’s Graphics Lab on the …

Jeff Huang Joins the Department as Assistant Professor

The Department is delighted to announce that Jeff Huang will be joining its faculty as assistant professor beginning August 1, 2013.Jeff’s research seeks to understand user interactions to drive new applications at the intersection of human-computer interaction and information retrieval. Jeff expects to receive his Ph.D. in Information Science in …

David Notkin ’77 1955-2013

A recent photo of NotkinNotkin during his time at BrownIt is with heavy hearts that we announce that David Notkin ’77 passed away early this week following a long battle with cancer. He leaves behind his wife Cathy, his children Emma and Akiva, and his sister Debbie. David was a …