Brown CS Blog

Twenty-five years later, the video for Michael Jackson's "Black or White" evokes powerful nostalgia. Now made poignant by the singer's untimely death, the directness and optimism of the lyrics is characteristic of an early-1990's America that had seen the toppling of the Berlin Wall just two years before: "I said if you're thinkin' of …

Tiffany Chen, a Brown CS undergraduate student, has just been named a Changemaker Fellow by Social Enterprise Greenhouse (SEG) in Providence, RI. She was honored at a ceremony held on October 5, 2016, at SEG’s co-working space, the SEG Hub, along with nine other recipients of the Changemaker Fellowship.The Changemaker Fellowship is …

by Luke Camery, Meta-URAThe inaugural Brown CS Research Open House brought together eleven faculty members and over one hundred undergrads to demo projects, discuss the latest research innovations, and form partnerships that will shape their careers. Students flooded the Robotics Lab to start the evening's journey that would take them …

As our doctoral students develop expertise and establish themselves in their research areas, a significant marker of achievement is to be invited to review papers for leading conferences. A premier forum for computer security and electronic privacy, the 38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S+P), will be held from May 22-24, 2017, and two students from …

The recent distributed denial-of-service attacks that affected some of the most popular web sites in America was remarkable not just for its scope (Reddit, Netflix, Twitter, and many other sites were brought down) but for its methodology. The ploy used malicious code to exploit millions of Internet-enabled cameras and DVR players, turning …

For more stories on why we love calling Providence home, check out our Praise for Providence page here.Providence’s Oberlin restaurant is one of the top ten best new restaurants in America according to Bon Appetit. Chef Benjamin Sukle and his wife Heidi opened the restaurant in January of 2016 at …

Brown CS professor Stefanie Tellex was one of the featured speakers at MIT’s recent EmTech conference. MIT’s annual conference highlights invention and new developments in engineering and technology. Stefanie spoke about her work creating robots that can talk to each other and teach each other, which was deemed one of …

Brown CS students continue to distinguish themselves at hackathons nationwide. To read more on this topic, click here.At many hackathons, teams assemble according to shared interests among people who have just met. It's part of the appeal. But sometimes, you just want to hack with people that you already love working with. …

Last month, Professor Eli Upfal, the Rush C. Hawkins Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, and his research group received a generous gift from Two Sigma Investments. Two Sigma is a New York City-based systematic investment manager, founded with the goal of applying cutting-edge technology to the data-rich world of finance. Their investment strategies employ a variety of technological methods, including …