“Ordinary people are being empowered,” says Professor Michael Littman of Brown University’s Department of Computer Science, “in a way that makes the experts unnecessary.” Coming from a thought leader whose research is helping create household gadgets that can be programmed in a user-friendly and natural way, it's not an unusual statement. Except in this …
"When things go wrong in today’s systems," writes Brown CS PhD student Jonathan Mace, "it can be difficult to answer questions about causes of failures, uncover dependencies between components, or understand performance or resource usage." Very few things are going wrong for Jonathan at the moment, nor is his recent performance difficult …
At Brown CS, we pride ourselves on the valuable work that our alums do and their interest in sharing their discoveries and insights with other members of our community. We're happy to hear from our alums Ardra Hren, Alex Kleiman, and Adam Leventhal, who are at Delphix, a company that helps provide "Data …
Rising cinematically in glory beside the Brihadeeswarar Temple of Thanjavur, Barcelona's Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, and the Kansai ryokans: the Carrie Tower, the Independent Man, and the Big Blue Bug? After ranking Providence with global peers in its "52 Places to Go in 2016", the New York Times might agree. "This cobblestone-lined capital," …
We're immensely proud to be part of Brown and to call Providence home. For more articles on our parent university and our home city, click here.Destination Tips lists Providence, RI as the number one city to raise children in America. Its safe neighborhoods, historic attractions, and fun zoo are just a few …
We're immensely proud to be part of Brown and to call Providence home. For more articles on our parent university and our home city, click here.Our hometown, Providence, RI has just been listed as one of the best cities to found a startup.According to DataFox, the key to Providence’s success is specializing around …
In addition to advancing the field at a local and national level, Brown CS community members have a global impact on education and research. For more articles on Brown CS around the world click here.The second World Internet Conference, organized by Chinese officials to discuss Internet issues and policy, was held this …
For more CS News and CS Blog articles about the Yurt, please click here."It’s a whole new world at Brown," writes Jenny Currier of Motif after visiting the Yurt, "a virtual world ready to be utilized by inquiring minds. Anyone who can benefit from such technology is encouraged to get in touch, …
The latest issue of Brown Alumni Monthly shares the story of Brown CS alum Scott Anderson, an Oscar winner, computer graphics animator, visual effects supervisor, special effects director, screenwriter, producer, and short film director. He has gone back and forth between lower-budget independent films and big-name studios and created the company Digital Sandbox …
Former Brown CS student Dylan Field is the co-founder of Figma, which he launched with alum Evan Wallace '12. It's a tool that he hopes will transform the way teams collaborate in designing user interfaces. Figma automatically saves projects to the cloud with every change, allowing groups to make comments, edit design features, and review past versions, all …
