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Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about C. Christopher Erway, Alptekin Küpçü, Charalampos Papamanthou, and Roberto Tamassia. Professor Konrad Rieck of Technische Universität Braunschweig has released a list of Influential Security Papers, and research ("Dynamic Provable Data Possession") from Brown CS PhD alums C. Christopher Erway (now Chief Architect at …

Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about Seny Kamara. 

Professor Konrad Rieck of Technische Universität Braunschweig has released a list of Influential Security Papers, and research ("Searchable Symmetric Encryption: Improved Definitions and Efficient Constructions") from Professor Seny Kamara of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has …

by Eric Metcalf, Brown CS PhD StudentIn many different cases, groundbreaking ideas have come out of collaboration. Often, though, it is difficult to find somebody to work with. To showcase remarkable interdisciplinary work in the hope that students will seek out new collaborations, my partners and I have created Discover, an interdisciplinary project that explores …

Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Seny Kamara and Charalampos Papamanthou. Professor Konrad Rieck of Technische Universität Braunschweig has just released a list of Influential Security Papers, and research from Brown CS Professor Seny Kamara and alum Charalampos Papamanthou ("Dynamic Searchable Symmetric Encryption"), co-authored with Tom Roeder (now …

For more stories about why Brown CS is one of the best places to study computer science, click here.This year, as part of its 2017 Top Graduate Schools survey, SR Education Group compiled 57,000 student reviews and ratings of over 1,400 colleges into rankings to highlight the top-rated graduate programs. This …

by Luke Camery, Meta-URAGaurav Manek is a deep learning researcher at the Infocomm Research Institute in Singapore. Gaurav graduated from Brown last year after an accelerated bachelor's program in Computer Science. When asked how his research career began, he told Luke and the MURAs that: "I first heard about Professor …

Click the link that follows for more content about Michael Littman.This is one for the record books, but somehow it's escaped widespread notice. It's no secret that Professor John Savage wrote the first textbook on circuit complexity and Professor Andy van Dam co-created the first hypertext system, but few know that the voice of Professor …

Click the links that follow for more content about Alexandra Papoutsaki and other Brown CS alums.In the past ten years, more than 30 Brown CS graduates have taken teaching-focused faculty positions across the country. Often, these are at liberal arts institutions, such as (most recently): Foteini Baldimtsi at George Mason University; Hammurabi Mendes at Davidson …

Click the link that follows for more content on Peter Wegner.At yesterday's faculty meeting, Professor Emeritus Peter Wegner of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) received a recognition award that celebrates his sustained and dedicated work as editor of the Brown University Faculty Bulletin, which began in 1988. The honor follows closely after …

by Kevin Stacey (Science News Officer, Physical Sciences)If someone asks you to hand them a wrench from a table full of different sized wrenches, you’d probably pause and ask, “which one?” Robotics researchers from Brown University have now developed an algorithm that lets robots do the same thing — ask …