CS Blog

Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about how more and more Brown University students are majoring in CS and enrolling in our classes.

A recent article in the Brown Daily Herald notes that Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has reached some significant milestones. Last spring, not including ...

Brown CS has seven different introductory courses in computer science. If you're not sure which one to choose, take a look at:

• this flowchart 
• this guide
• these videos (Part 1 and Part 2)

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Mad pursuit, wild ecstasy, all breathing human passion! (And that's just our donut selection.) Boston.com shares a list of 100 things to do in Rhode Island.

The image above is © 2017 by John Cook and used with permission through a ...

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One of the biggest challenges to robots working autonomously is their lack of intuition. For example, in a task like grasping, intuition gives humans the ability to look at an object and instantly make sound judgments about its fragility, shape ...

Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Bootstrap, Kathi Fisler, and Shriram Krishnamurthi.

July 16-21 is CSPdWeek, five days aimed at providing much-needed professional development for America's growing CS Educator Community, and Bootstrap (a CS literacy curriculum used worldwide that's directed by Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, and Emmanuel Schanzer ...

by Kevin Stacey (Science News Writer, Physical Sciences)

A new system based on research by Brown University computer scientists makes robots better at following spoken instructions, no matter how abstract or specific those instructions may be. The development, which was presented this week at the Robotics: Science and Systems 2017 conference in Boston, is a ...

Click the links that follow for more content on artificial intelligence (AI) research at Brown CS, and the Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative (HCRI)

The Societal Implications of Robotics Symposium 2, sponsored by Brown’s Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative, is a unique day-long event featuring presentations and panels by more than 20 experts. The symposium highlights ...

Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Charalampos Papamanthou and NSF CAREER Awards.

Brown CS PhD alum Charalampos Papamanthou, now Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, is back in the news. Recently recognized for work that was the tenth-most-cited security research for 2012 and the fourth-highest-ranking paper from 2009, he's ...

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Brown CS Master's and PhD alum James Hendler, now at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has just returned from the Digital Asset Symposium in New York City, where he received the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA ...

Click the links that follow for more content on artificial intelligence (AI) research at Brown CS, the Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative (HCRI), and Bertram Malle.

Tagging photos and identifying spam? Relatively straightforward tasks for artificial intelligence. Understanding the intricacies of human social and moral norms in all their shades of grey? Much harder. DARPA has ...