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Read More: Brown CS Community Members Continue To Win Noteworthy Grants And Awards

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Brown CS community members continue to win noteworthy grants and awards. To read more, click on these links: Tim Kraska Is The Winner Of The University-Wide Early Career Research Achievement AwardMaurice Herlihy Is The Winner Of The University-Wide Research Innovation AwardPhilip Klein Wins NSF Grant For Optimization In Planar Graphs And BeyondSorin Istrail Receives NSF Grant …

Read More: Brown CS Students Continue To Innovate

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In Brown's spirit of "usefulness and reptutation", our CS students are leaders in innovation. To read more, click on these links:Brown CS Launches A $10,000,000 Fundraising Campaign For An Undergraduate Teaching Assistant EndowmentGryte Satas Creates Opportunities For Girls To CodeOutstanding Student Work, 2014: Flick, By Gabriel FernandezGenevieve Patterson Helps Organize LDV Vision Summit, …

MongoDB Intern Spotlight Features Benjamin Murphy '18

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MongoDB's Intern Spotlight has just profiled Brown CS student Benjamin Murphy '18, one of the 34 students in their intern program in Engineering and Marketing, which was designed to "transform development and operations" for how the company runs applications.The entire interview is available here.  

Ian Gonsher Featured In MAKE Magazine

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Ian Gonsher, who currently co-teaches CSCI1951-C Designing Humanity Centered Robots with Michael Littman, has just been featured in MAKE magazine. Ian and Michael's course focuses on using iterative design to develop robots for solving tasks that help people, and it appears to have been at least a partial inspiration for …

Read More: Brown CS Alums Continue To Innovate And Pioneer

Brown CS alums who enter the field continue to rank highly as successful innovators and industry pioneers. Click these links to learn more:Brown CS Alum James Hendler Has Been Honored By The Association Of Moving Image ArchivistsBrown CS Alum Aimee Lucido Speaks Out About Industry SexismPedro Felzenszwalb And Alum David Blei Talk About …

Leiserson, Raphael, And Brown CS Colleagues Create A Web App To Help Researchers Explore Cancer Genetics

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by Kevin Stacey (Science News Officer, Physical Sciences)Click here for a quick video introduction to MAGI.Brown University computer scientists have developed a new interactive tool to help researchers and clinicians explore the genetic underpinnings of cancer. The tool — dubbed MAGI, for Mutation Annotation and Genome Interpretation — is an …

"I Had To Hire Henry": The New Yorker Documents A Brown CS Student's "Hacking The Humanities"

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Writing in The New Yorker, Brown University's Elias I. Muhanna, Manning Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, describes the experience of working with "Henry", a Brown CS student who helped him develop an algorithm that could detect different types of rhetorical figures in a large corpus of poetry."Our collaboration," he explains, …