Network performance has been one of Brown CS Professor Theophilus "Theo" Benson's core interests for years. And network performance in emerging regions, he says, is particularly interesting because it requires us to question assumptions about what works and what doesn't: "We can't just transplant network protocols designed for massive tech companies to developing …
The ACM Karlstrom Award is presented annually to outstanding educators in recognition for the advancement of new teaching methodologies and for significant contributions to the development and expansion of computer science and engineering. Professor Andy van Dam of Brown CS received the award for his impact on shaping the next …
Out of more than 700 faculty members, two are chosen each year for Brown University's Presidential Faculty Award, and this semester, President Christina Paxson selected Professor Michael Littman of the Department of Computer Science (Brown CS).Established in 2013, the Presidential Faculty Award recognizes members of Brown’s distinguished faculty who are conducting especially important and innovative …
Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi of Brown CS and collaborators have won the annual SIGPLAN Software Award for contributions to the development of the programming language Racket. This award recognizes the development of a software system that has had a significant impact on programming language research and on education, and will be …
VISSOFT 2018, the Sixth IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization, was held last week in Madrid, Spain, and Professor Steven P. Reiss of Brown CS took home the Most Influential Paper Award for research ("The Paradox of Software Visualization") from 2005. In his paper, Steven raises the question of why software …
SIGGRAPH, a special interest group for the Association for Computing Machinery, is one of the world’s largest communities of researchers, artists, developers, and filmmakers dedicated to the advancement of computer graphics and interactive techniques. Their Awards Committee has recently announced that Professor Andy van Dam of Brown University’s Department of …
Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has made it our mission to create and sustain a diverse and inclusive environment in which all students, faculty, and staff can thrive. Few things are more meaningful than to see our female students become known leaders and role models in the field, and Brown CS …
The Very Large Databases (VLDB) Conference, one of the most prominent venues for research and development results in the field of database management, will be held in Rio de Janeiro this year, from August 27 to August 31. It's still a month away, but the Awards Committee has already announced …
PhD alum Justin Pombrio and Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) have received the PLDI 2018 Distinguished Artifact Award. PLDI (the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation) is a leading forum in the field of programming languages and programming systems research, and the award …
