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Articles by Jesse Polhemus

Alumnus David Blei '97 Wins ACM Award

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Professors John Savage and Michael Littman share the news that BrownCS alumnus David Blei '97 has won an ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computer Sciences for his development of powerful modeling techniques to speed information retrieval from large data collections.Michael says, "I'm really excited for David. I got to work with him a little …

"Melbourne Shuffle" Secures Cloud Data

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Brown University Press Release Media Contact: Kevin Stacey To keep data safe in the cloud, a group of computer scientists suggests doing the Melbourne Shuffle.Yes, that’s a dance move , but it’s also a computer algorithm developed by researchers at Brown University.The computing version of the Melbourne Shuffle aims to hide …

Zhiyu Liu and Maurice Herlihy Win Best Paper Award

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Reached by phone after his recent shared triumph, Professor Maurice Herlihy of Brown University’s Computer Science Department was feeling optimistic: “This is good news for programmers.” The paper that he co-wrote with PhD student Zhiyu Liu (“Well-Structured Futures and Cache Locality”) had just won the Best Paper Award at the …

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