Brown CS Blog

The future of virtual reality, explains Providence's East Side Monthly, is wide open. In this month's issue, Claire Flanagan steps inside the Yurt, Brown University's new 3D virtual reality environment, to look at some of the opportunities it offers and to interview Professor David Laidlaw, leader of the Yurt team. …

Professor Eli Upfal of Brown University's Department of Computer Science and his collaborators, Jerome Sanes of the Department of Neuroscience and Xi Luo of the Department of Biostastistics, have just received a Brown Institute for Brain Science Innovation Award. It supports their recent work ("Advanced Neuroimaging of Functional Connectivity and Networks") with funding aimed at helping launch new, creative …

“As we continue to move forward in this technological age," says Brown CS PhD Candidate Ashley Conard, "you need to couple computer science with what you do.” Last week, Gabriel Pesek of SiliconANGLE interviewed Ashley, an Anita Borg Institute Student Board member who has attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) since …

As VIS 2015 (the premier combined conference for advances in visualization, co-located with the VAST, InfoVis, and SciVis conferences) arrives in Chicago this week, Brown University’s Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) continues its strong level of representation and participation, with a faculty member and a PhD candidate each contributing papers to two …

Learn Python, 6:30-7:30 PM on November 2Waiting at Faunce Arch to meet up with friends, sitting under a tree on Main Green, she's put it in her Calendar app and erased it a dozen times.Learn Python, 6:30-7:30 PM on November 2She knows that just last week, Brown students, faculty, and …

When robots develop feelings, they're probably going to be hurt when they read this article.According to leading artificial intelligence experts, their field is widely misperceived by the general public, perhaps due to movie treatments where vengeful robots decide to turn on their human masters and conquer the planet. In an attempt …

We don't often get a chance to hear faculty members in conversation about the field, their latest research, and even issues that border on the philosophical. ("Do robots perceive our physical environment in the same way that people do?")  Professor Stefanie Tellex of Brown University's Department of Computer Science was interviewed by Software Engineering Daily …

by Kevin Stacey (Science News Officer, Physical Sciences)Last week, the European Court of Justice struck down a 15-year-old agreement that allowed companies to move European citizens’ personal data to servers in the United States. The so-called Safe Harbor agreement had made it possible for American companies to skirt European data …

Their challenge to the robotics world? Help us scan and manipulate one million objects.Last week, John Oberlin, Maria Meier, Tim Kraska, and Stefanie Tellex of Brown University's Computer Science Department were featured on the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)'s Great Innovative Ideas blog for a paper ("Acquiring Object Experiences at Scale") that was one of the winners at …

Writing in today's Brown Daily Herald, Olivia Katcher documents a critical moment in the growth of Bootstrap, a curriculum that helps middle and high school students learn algebra by creating their own video games. Alongside other co-founders of the program, she interviews Brown CS Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi, who shares his hope that a …