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"Technological advancements have led to a proliferation of machine learning systems to assist humans in a wide range of tasks," writes Professor R. Iris Bahar of Brown CS. "However, we are still far from accurate, reliable, and resource-efficient operations for many of these systems. Despite the strengths of convolutional neural …

by Jessica DaiI caught the CS bug much like many others at Brown: through the games and brightly-colored pixels of the 15-16 sequence. I was enthralled by knowing there was a direct link between lines of code I had typed and the animations on my screen, but still, I had …

Learnable.ai, co-founded by Brown CS alum Guan "Royal" Wang, is a human-centered artificial intelligence (AI) company. Originating from the Harvard Innovation Lab, it provides fully-automated grading AI for K-12 subjects, application programming interfaces for optical character recognition, AI-driven financial products, and other personalized services. Last month, it was named a Technology Pioneer by the …

Milda Zizyte has just joined Brown CS as our newest lecturer. She’s the latest hire in the multi-year CS With Impact campaign, the most significant expansion in Brown CS history. Asked about her heroes in life, she says, “It’s kind of a cliché but also not – I’m inspired by …

by Kevin Stacey (Senior Writer, Physical Sciences) The Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is one of the most prestigious awards in theoretical computing — and it’s named for a renowned Brown University professor who was killed in a tragic airplane …