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by Charlotte Whatley and Emily Wu Full Stack at Brown (FSAB), Brown University’s software engineering club, hosted its very first virtual hackathon, Hack@Home, on October 9-12, 2020.Hack@Home brought together over 300 high schoolers and college students over a four-day weekend of hacking. The event combined all the best aspects of a …

From creating a computer camp for girls in Rwanda to founding a company that uses machine learning to produce 3D models based on satellite photos, maps, and laser scans, Brown CS alums are known for career paths that often take them far beyond Silicon Valley, with a particular focus on CS education …

“We’re facing a tipping point in terms of global cybersecurity and privacy, as a result of the pandemic forcing everybody out of the streets and their offices and into their home offices and online,” says Timothy Edgar, Brown CS Visiting Fellow in International Studies and Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for …

What if your plants could become “unplanted” and autonomously roam around a room, offering new configurations to the space? What if you could hold a scrolling digital sign up high in your hand at a demonstration, amplifying your message for justice? What if you could give someone a hug from the …

Akhil Bagaria is a Brown CS doctoral student working with Professor George Konidaris.  In the blog post here, he shares research that will be presented at ICLR this week. Akhil is interested in how artificially intelligent agents can solve complex real-world problems with minimal human intervention and knowledge. His paper …

On December 12, 2019, the 340 students in Brown CS Professor Daniel Ritchie's CS 147 Deep Learning class turned their final project presentations into a full-day mini-conference. Held in Sayles Hall, Deep Learning Day was divided into four sessions, each of which featured projects from 113 presentation groups organized around a small set of …

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