Pascal Van Hentenryck received the Philip J. Bray Award for Teaching Excellence in the Physical Sciences. In addition to the recognition of his achievements, Pascal will receive a professional development fund of $2,000 for each of two years. The award was presented at the 2010 University Awards Ceremony, co-sponsored by …
The colorful areas are where two sea urchin species' genetic coding match. By Richard C. Lewis The screen of computer science graduate student Ryan Tarpine’s laptop looks like a scene from the movie The Matrix. Columns of brightly colored dots and dashes cascade down the screen, connecting at intervals with …
Ben Raphael was recently awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the oldest and most competitive fellowship programs in the United States. Ben's remarkable work developing novel computational and mathematical approaches to problems in biology, especially cancer genomics and comparative genomics, led to his inclusion in this elite group. …
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently elevated Tom Dean to Fellow for his development of dynamic Bayes networks and anytime algorithms. Tom is currently a staff research scientist at Google, Mountain View, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science here at Brown. He is known in AI for his …
Brown University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have established a concurrent computational biology degree program. Students who complete the program will receive concurrent degrees from NUS and Brown: a bachelor’s degree in computational biology from NUS and a master’s degree in computer science with a special designation in …
A group of Brown students have worked for three years on Flapjax, a new programming language built atop JavaScript. Their work was recognized with the Best Student Paper award at The International Conference on Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2009) in Orlando, Florida. The Flapjax group includes …
The Center for Computational Molecular Biology and the Department of Computer Science are delighted to announce the new PhD program in Computational Molecular Biology. Applications for admission into this program are being accepted now. Current courses supporting the degree are in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, Biological Sciences, and Chemistry. …
The National Science Foundation awarded a research grant to Ugur Cetintemel and Stan Zdonik, in the anticipated amount of $500,000, for the automatic design of next-generation database systems. Advanced database systems are being designed to support complex processing of big data, integrate novel hardware such as solid-state storage, and operate …
The Artemis Project, an outreach program designed to encourage young women from local public schools to pursue careers in computer science, recently received funding from the National Science Foundation. Founded in 1995, Artemis is a five-week summer program in which its participants - female rising ninth graders - are exposed …
John Savage has been selected to serve as a 2009 Jefferson Science Fellow for the U.S. State Department, where he will work on cyber related issues for one year. Fellows remain on call as science advisers to the State Department for an additional five years. The prestigious Jefferson Science Fellows …
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