The National Science Foundation (NSF) along with the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), announced the winners of their fifth annual International Science and Technology Visualization Challenge. Illustrators, photographers, computer programmers, and graphics specialists from around the world were invited to submit visualizations …
Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck's Book Online Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization ranked highly in Best Sellers in Technology, October 2006–present, as compiled by YBP Library Services http://www.libraryjournal.com/info/CA6446307.html#BSL In its 132nd year of publication, the Library Journal is the oldest and most respected publication covering the library field. Considered to be the “bible” …
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who gave his last lecture at the university this past Tuesday, was featured on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America," Friday, Sept. 21, 2007. Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave a moving lecture before a packed McConomy Auditorium last Tuesday. In his talk, "Really Achieving …
The Brown University computer science department today announced that Assistant Professor Anna Lysyanskaya has been included in the 2007 Technology Review TR35, an honor given each year to 35 innovators in science and technology under the age of 35 whose inventions and research the magazine finds most exciting. Anna’s extraordinary …
On June 15, 2007, Andries van Dam received the degree Doctor of Mathematics, honoris causa from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. The text of Andy's address to the University of Waterloo follows. "Thank you so much, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Professor Tompa, and members of the Faculty of Mathematics, for …
The department is delighted to announce that Stefan Roth has been awarded the Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award for his thesis entitled "High-Order Markov Random Fields for Low-Level Vision". Out of approximately 150 Ph.D. candidates, four were chosen for the prize, one each in the humanities, the life sciences, …
On April 19, 2007, Michael Black, Professor of Computer Science, and his class, CS296-4 Topics in Computer Vision, received commendations from the Henrico County Division of Police, Henrico County Virginia, for their work on analyzing and enhancing surveillance video of a homicide crime scene. The class spent the spring of …
Professor Philip Klein has been selected to receive Brown University's Philip J. Bray Award for Teaching Excellence in the Physical Sciences. One such award is given each year to a current faculty member who is recognized as an exceptional undergraduate teacher.
Ph.D. student Glencora Borradaile has been awarded a National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship. (NSERC is the Canadian equivalent of NSF.) The fellowship is tenurable at any Canadian institution for two years. Glencora's thesis research concerns designing theoretically efficient algorithms for optimization problems in planar graphs. She …
Chad Jenkins, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded a three-year $380,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research. This grant, titled "Learning Predictive Motion Vocabularies for Kinematic Tracking and Activity Recognition", will support Jenkins' neuro-inspired research on learning the basic building blocks of human motion, or motion primitives, …
