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It’s tempting, Adriana explains, to think that generative models will absorb the challenge of these complex, highly constrained spaces without the need for explicit optimization, but she argues the opposite: optimization is not merely still relevant, it’s becoming more powerful.

Brown CS community members are returning from the event with five accepted papers, and the work spans research areas ranging from activism to data maintenance to AI and mental health.

Brown CS is glad to announce that applications are open for the Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, which provides $15,000 annually to support an undergraduate engaged in an intensive faculty-student summer research partnership with the Department of Computer Science. 

It focuses on transformorphic computing, a fundamentally new approach to automatically and correctly improving widely deployed systems without burdening their users and with strong guarantees about their behavior. 

In her solo paper, written when Kathi was a faculty member at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, she returns to and makes progress on Soloway’s Rainfall problem, often used to assess student programming skills in introductory courses. 

The ultimate goal is to produce new systems that enable practitioners to focus solely on creating and improving the accuracy of modern AI systems, without having to worry about details related to efficient execution and resource management.

Patrick was part of team White Space Explorer, which was awarded First Place Team. Lyndee was part of team 5-Star Formula, which was awarded Third Place Team.
 

Serena has joined the third cohort of researchers whose mission is to understand the adoption of artificial intelligence across economies, industries, and communities.

The need is clear: AI is rapidly permeating journalism, increasing dependency on a few Big Tech companies who control much of the infrastructure underpinning commercial AI. Many in the industry have raised alarms about what this means for editorial independence, labor, and the long-term viability of journalism itself.

The Brown Systems research group has broken their own record with four accepted papers. One of these won both a Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award and a Best Artifact Award and another was a Best Paper Award Runner-Up.