Professor David Laidlaw of Brown University's Department of Computer Science has just been interviewed by Maria Konnikova of the Atlantic, who questioned prominent scientists, psychologists, engineers, and developers on the rapid changes occurring in virtual reality and the possibilities that the field offers. Alongside such colleagues as Henry Fuchs of the University of North Carolina at …
MongoDB's Intern Spotlight has just profiled Brown CS student Benjamin Murphy '18, one of the 34 students in their intern program in Engineering and Marketing, which was designed to "transform development and operations" for how the company runs applications.The entire interview is available here.
Ian Gonsher, who currently co-teaches CSCI1951-C Designing Humanity Centered Robots with Michael Littman, has just been featured in MAKE magazine. Ian and Michael's course focuses on using iterative design to develop robots for solving tasks that help people, and it appears to have been at least a partial inspiration for …
At LinkedIn’s 5th Annual Intern Hackday this summer, Brown CS graduate student Christian Mathiesen and his teammates competed against 75 other teams to take first place and bring home the $10,000 grand prize scholarship. Their winning design, “Handoff”, is a Google Chrome extension that allows multiple users to share online …
For more stories on why Brown CS is so great, check out our Praise for Brown CS page here.Brown CS alumni continue to rank highly as industry pioneers. Click here for a list of related stories.CrunchBase has just concluded its first report on female founders of VC-funded companies. Among other findings, …
Brown CS alums who enter the field continue to rank highly as successful innovators and industry pioneers. Click these links to learn more:Brown CS Alum James Hendler Has Been Honored By The Association Of Moving Image ArchivistsBrown CS Alum Aimee Lucido Speaks Out About Industry SexismPedro Felzenszwalb And Alum David Blei Talk About …
by Kevin Stacey (Science News Officer, Physical Sciences)Click here for a quick video introduction to MAGI.Brown University computer scientists have developed a new interactive tool to help researchers and clinicians explore the genetic underpinnings of cancer. The tool — dubbed MAGI, for Mutation Annotation and Genome Interpretation — is an …
Starting in September, 2016, Brown CS graduate Foteini Baldimtsi ScM ’11 PhD ’14 will join George Mason University as an assistant professor of computer science. As one of two new hires specializing in cryptography, she is thrilled to be building a new crypto team. “I am super excited,” she says. “The …
Writing in The New Yorker, Brown University's Elias I. Muhanna, Manning Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, describes the experience of working with "Henry", a Brown CS student who helped him develop an algorithm that could detect different types of rhetorical figures in a large corpus of poetry."Our collaboration," he explains, …
Recent work by PhD candidate David Abel, Professor Stefanie Tellex, and other members of the Tellex lab has attracted recent attention from such media outlets as MIT Technology Review, Smithsonian SmartNews, Big Think, and Business Insider. Their algorithm (originally described here on CS News) uses the video game Minecraft to …
