As the latest step in a career that’s ranged from the Marine Corps to the Department of Energy to serving as Federal Cybersecurity Lead and Senior Cybersecurity Advisor to the White House’s Federal Chief Information Officer, Brown CS Master of Science in Cybersecurity alum Nicholas (Nick) M. Andersen has taken on a prominent new role.
Will artificial intelligence cure disease or hasten environmental disaster, free us from drudgery or drown us in slop? What’s next for AI, and what role does Brown have to play? With nuance, in depth, with a bit of humor and without a lot of hype, Michael Littman would like to tell you all about it.
Our new issue is here! This year's cover story takes a look at the future of AI at Brown and beyond with Michael Littman, Brown's inaugural Associate Provost for Artificial Intelligence, as your guide. Other stories highlight student research and entrepreneurship, including responsible AI, a visit to a startup school, and an online game that explores our understanding of language. Finally, we offer detailed retrospectives as we bid farewell to Kathy Kirman Billings, Tom Doeppner, Steve Reiss, Don Stanford, and Stan Zdonik. Best wishes for a healthy and happy holiday season!
Vasilis received a Top Reviewer Award and the group’s paper (“PickleBall: Secure Deserialization of Pickle-based Machine Learning Models”) received one of five Distinguished Artifact Awards.
Brown CS faculty members Serena Booth and Suresh Venkatasubramanian have just been appointed to co-chair the AI and Algorithms Subcommittee, whose recent work includes responses to government RFIs, techbriefs, and statements on chatbot use.
ARIA, a Brown-based research consortium supported by a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation, welcomed scientists from across the U.S. to kick off a five-year program with a launch event in Providence.
This year’s lecture was delivered by Claire Mathieu, a former Brown CS faculty member who currently serves as research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Computer Science at Université Paris-Cité (France).
In a testament to Brown Visual Computing’s almost sixty-year tradition of research excellence and leadership, members of the Brown CS community co-authored five of the conference’s accepted papers.
Brown CS is again partnering with Google Research to offer exploreCSR: Socially-Responsible Artificial Intelligence, a semester-long immersive research experience program for undergraduate students.
Brown CS is glad to announce that applications are open for the Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, which provides $13,350 annually to support an undergraduate engaged in an intensive faculty-student summer research partnership with the Department of Computer Science.
