Awards

Research by Professor Theophilus Benson of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) and his collaborators has just won one of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF)'s six Applied Networking Research Prizes for 2018. It's also one of only two papers that will be presented at the IRTF Open Meeting during …

The Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB) Engineering Fellows Program is one of technology’s most prestigious fellowships, with only 51 students chosen in 2018 from a pool of almost 3,000. This year, undergraduate students Lauren Ho and Nina Polshakova were selected from Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS), and they join winners from previous …

Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Siddharth Karamcheti, Sorawee Porncharoenwase, and Eric Rosen.  The Computing Research Association (CRA) is a coalition of more than 200 organizations with the mission of enhancing innovation by joining with industry, government and academia to strengthen research and advanced education in computing. Every year, they …

Click the link that follows for more Brown CS content about how our students continue to distinguish themselves at hackathons and competitions nationwide. Over just the past few years, Brown CS students have traversed the country to win prizes at competitions such as HackMIT, CyberSEED, and LinkedIn's Intern Hackday. But for CyberStart, …

by Jack RoswellLast month, over 1000 hackers from across the globe, from Stockholm to San Francisco, gathered at HackMIT. For 24 hours, they worked in teams of no more than four to transform their ideas into reality. Some took a practical approach, making programs to sharpen an image, or websites to …

by Kevin Stacey (Science News Writer, Physical Sciences)The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded four Brown University faculty members with Director’s Fellowships, which are given to the top performers among agency’s Young Faculty Award recipients.David Borton, Amanda Jamieson, George Konidaris and Stefanie Tellex each won Young Faculty Awards …

Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about recent accomplishments of our alums or James Hendler.Brown CS Master's and PhD alum James Hendler, now at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has just returned from the Digital Asset Symposium in New York City, where he received the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)'s …

Click any of the links that follow for more information about Tiffany Chen and recent awards and fellowships that Brown CS students have won.Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS) has made it our mission to create and sustain a diverse and inclusive environment in which all students, faculty, and staff can thrive. …

Click the links that follow for more Brown CS content about Thomas Dickerson and entrepreneurship.Could anything be more valuable to a young startup than expert-led coaching sessions on how to identify opportunities and design business models, or the chance to pitch ideas to industry leaders? Probably not much, but a check for $100,000 might be …

Click the links that follow for more content about Stefanie Tellex and other Brown CS NSF CAREER Award winners.Three things that we take for granted when collaborating with other humans, perceiving, acting, and communicating, are some of the areas that are most difficult for today's robots. Assistant Professor Stefanie Tellex of Brown University's Department of …