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One of the things we hear most often from our alums is that they keenly remember the pressures and uncertainties as they approached Brown graduation and weighed their next step in life.  They want to share the experience that followed with the next generation, and our students who are getting ready to graduate …

by Kevin Stacey (Science News Writer, Physical Sciences)Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Peter Haas, Michael Littman, and Bertram Malle.A group of academic researchers, led by cognitive and computer scientists from Brown University, is teaming up with a cross-functional team from global play and entertainment …

by Kevin Stacey (Science News Writer, Physical Sciences)The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded four Brown University faculty members with Director’s Fellowships, which are given to the top performers among agency’s Young Faculty Award recipients.David Borton, Amanda Jamieson, George Konidaris and Stefanie Tellex each won Young Faculty Awards …

Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about diversity and inclusion at Brown CS and the Grace Hopper Celebration.A delegation from Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has had a busy week at the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), an annual event that's become the world's largest gathering …

Brown CS grad students are invited to a launch event ("Empowering Collaboration / Expanding Networks") by Brown University's Data Science Initiative (DSI). It includes there’s lunch, roundtables with data science related research groups and institutes, reception, and a keynote by Andrew Moore, Dean of Computer Science at Carnegie Mason University. Click the …

Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Stefanie Tellex.If we posit a not-so-distant future where robots are ubiquitous, it stands to reason that we need writers to ground portrayals of them in reality. We say good-bye to crazed androids from pulp magazines who inexplicably try to kidnap beautiful women, and we're equally skeptical of Hollywood depictions …

Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Amy Greenwald."Humans make hundreds of routine decisions daily," explains Professor Amy Greenwald of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS). "More often than not, the impact of our decisions depends on the decisions of others. As AI progresses, we're offloading more and more of …