A recent article in Humanities discusses a discovery featured in CS Blog last week: a recently rediscovered short film from forty years ago ("Hypertext: an Educational Experiment in English and Computer Science at Brown University") that documents an extraordinary early use of computing to enhance the learning experience of students taking a poetry course in 1976. Professor Andy van …
As the G7 Summit, one of the most important and wide-reaching global conferences for trade, climate change, health, and other issues approaches, Professor John Savage of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has once again found his cybersecurity expertise in demand.Boston Global Forum (BGF), chaired by former governor Michael Dukakis, was founded to …
by Wilson CusackFor my undergraduate thesis, I am building an SMS-based commodity and transport exchange that I am planning to work on full-time in Ghana after graduating. Below is some reflection on my journey to this and the career culture in computer science. BackgroundMy interest in agriculture came when I …
The YC Fellowship, an experiment from Y Combinator in helping create startups, has just put a Brown University student on the path toward using computing to significantly improve lives on a global scale. Krishna Chaitanya Aluru of the Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) and his collaborators Akshat Goenka (Wharton) and Vamsee Chamakura (IIIT) have …
A team that included multiple students from Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has just won the Best Aging in Place Hack award at MIT's Grand Hack 2016. Inspired by a mentor whose mother suffers from Alzheimer's disease, Sven Eberhardt (Brown University postdoc), Youssef Barhomi (Brown University research engineer), Pankaj Gupta (Brown University …
Already being described as "astounding" and "visionary" as it makes its way across the Internet, a short film from forty years ago ("Hypertext: an Educational Experiment in English and Computer Science at Brown University") has just surfaced after being lost for decades. It documents an extraordinary early use of computing to enhance the learning experience …
"The night before school ended," Brown CS alum Lyla Fujiwara writes of the girl's computer camp that she developed for the Peace Corps in Rwanda, "one of my brightest students talked about how she hadn't been interested in her computer studies, but after my class discovered she had a passion for programming. …
"Brown University’s Computer Science program," writes Best Computer Science Degrees, "is considered one of the best programs in the nation for its innovative research and teaching methods." Using a wide selection of criteria, ranging from awards and recognition to research opportunities and innovative programs, they placed Brown CS fifth in …
Today, we begin a project to highlight the wide-ranging and innovative research of our PhD students as they prepare to leave Brown CS. Our first contributor, Ryan Cabeen, discusses his work below. To see other PhD research overviews, click here. What is the structure of the neural circuitry of the brain? How does …
"We want to bring computing to all, but which all do we mean?" ask Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, and Emmanuel Schanzer, co-directors of Bootstrap, one of the nation's leading computer science literacy programs, in a recent BLOG@CACM post. "There’s one natural interpretation —probably the one imagined by most of the general public— which is that 'all' means 'all students.' Unfortunately, …
