Brown CS Blog

Today's edition of the New York Times includes an article by Scott Shane ("After Paris Attacks, C.I.A. Director Rekindles Debate Over Surveillance") reviewing recent developments in the discussion regarding limits on government surveillance. In it, Timothy Edgar, a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institue, offers comments alongside several colleagues and prominent public figures.The full …

MIT Technology Review has just reported on Brown CS PhD student John Oberlin and Assistant Professor Stefanie Tellex's work on robot object manipulation. The entire article is available here. You can also watch their "Bandit-based Adaptation for Robotic Grasping" video by clicking the image above and read their paper here. 

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Today's edition of the Brown Daily Herald contains a feature by Hattie Xu on the launch of the fundraising campaign for the Brown CS Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Endowment, featuring comments from Associate Professor (Research), Vice Chair, and Director of Undergraduate Studies Tom Doeppner, several undergraduate teaching assistants, and three alums. The entire article is available here.For …

Campus Technology has just reported on the newly-launched TAG (Touch Art Gallery, one of the most visible recent successes of the Brown CS undergraduate research program) collaboration with the Nobel Museum and Nobel Media to create state-of-the-art museum experiences. The entire article is available here.  

Crain's reports today that Brown CS alum Michael Horn '97 has just won a $400,000 National Science Foundation grant for a project that uses songs, games, and storybooks to bring computer science education into environments where children are likely not expecting to learn programming, such as museums and homes."We discovered," he says, "even …

Want to find food, collaborate on a song, or send secure, anonymous messages? There's a Brown CS-developed app for that. Today's issue of the Brown Daily Herald notes soaring Brown CS enrollment (over the last five years, our number of degrees awarded has risen by over 200 percent) and highlights four students who …

Brown CS students continue to distinguish themselves at hackathons nationwide. To read more on this topic, click here.Recently, two teams from Brown University’s Department of Computer Science extended Brown’s reputation for cybersecurity excellence in a competition at the University of Connecticut, winning prizes for the second consecutive year. CyberSEED features competitive cybersecurity challenges for students …

Media coverage of robotics tends to be a bit one-sided, and we've been flooded with images of robots that perform effortlessly because they've been designed and trained for a specific task: cleaning a floor, kicking a basketball, even running like a dog. The idea that a brand new, cutting-edge robot would …

Following shortly after his recent contributions to seismic monitoring and nuclear non-prolifereation, Professor Erik Sudderth of Brown University's Department of Computer Science and his collaborators have developed graph algorithms that use remote sensing data to predict where landslides are most likely to occur. Their work was published in the Journal of …

"My biggest concern at the moment," Brown CS Professor Michael Littman says, "is that we as a society find a way of valuing people not just for the work they do." He was recently featured alongside other colleagues in an MSN article on job automation, and his response steps outside the usual …