A Look Into A Missing Piece In The Global Digital Divide Puzzle
- Posted by Jesse Polhemus
- on Feb. 28, 2022
My name is Madeline Greenberg and I am the Project Manager for ‘Choreorobotics 0101’ – the first course to be cross-listed across the TAPS and CS departments. I have been organizing the Choreorobotics Initiative at Brown for the past 6 months, corralling teams of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff as we work to develop the course’s curriculum.
Choreorobotics is novel. What that means is that we don’t know what we’re doing. We are each experts, incredibly competent and hard working in various fields including but not limited to choreographics and robotics, but we’re entirely making this up as …
Based on a series of metrics (walking, biking, commuting, safety, and weather), LawnStarter recently ranked Providence the eighth best city in America to live without a car. Brown University's home town beat out Seattle, Chicago, and Philadelphia, among others. The full article is here.For more information, click the link that follows to …
The Providence Journal reports that Los Andes and Bacco, two local favorites, have made Yelp's Top 100 Places to Eat in 2021. Only five other restaurants in New England appeared on the list.You can read the full article here.For more information, click the link that follows to contact Brown CS Communication …
Last spring, Brown CS alum Sky Adams was chosen as the first female director of the award-winning Computer Science Academy at Santa Barbara High School. She’s not one to mince words, either about the challenges of working in K-12 education or the experience of being underrepresented in CS. “The pay …
We're reposting this article with the kind permission of Brown Alumni Magazine, where it first appeared. You can read their full November-December 2020 issue here. Microsoft constantly develops new technology, and Sharon Lo ’16 considers how those creations could wreak havoc upon the world. As a member of Microsoft’s Ethics & Society organization, Lo actually …
“Something about Brown CS influenced me,” says alum Karen Smith Catlin, whose distinctive career path has taken her from working at Brown’s Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) to Vice-President of Engineering at Adobe to a new phase as acclaimed author and speaker on inclusive workspaces. “It’s a …