Awards

Brown CS alums Deqing Sun ‘13 (currently a research scientist at Google) and Stefan Roth ‘07 (currently a professor of computer science at TU Darmstadt), along with Brown CS adjunct faculty member Michael Black (currently at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems), have won the Longuet-Higgins Prize for their …

In the inaugural Analog Devices Real-Time Sensor Fusion Challenge, sponsored by MassRobotics, teams from Massachusetts and Rhode Island were invited to compete and submit projects that fuse at least two sensor inputs, using the Robot Operating System (ROS) to create a system that provides better context awareness in robots. Brown’s …

Facebook recently announced the recipients of their research awards on privacy-preserving technologies and the role of applied cryptography in a privacy-focused advertising ecosystem.  Out of 164 proposals submitted, Facebook chose 14 winners, which include a Brown CS faculty member and two alums. A third alum was a finalist in the competition.Alum Foteini …

Brown University's Department of Computer Science has just announced that Eleanor Avril, a Brown CS student and one of the four Meta-TAs who coordinate the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant program, has just won the Norman K. Meyrowitz '81 Award. Named for an alum known for his contributions to the department, the award recognizes …

Chosen by an esteemed panel of Brown University faculty, Professor Michael Littman of Brown CS has just been given Brown's Distinguished Research Achievement Award. Now in its fourth year, the Research Achievement Award program is supported by the Office of the President and the Provost to nurture and recognize the extraordinary research …

The International Automated Negotiation Agents Competition (ANAC) is now in its tenth year of bringing together researchers from the negotiation community and spawning novel research in the field of autonomous agent design. Most recently, it was held at the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Macao in August of 2019, and …

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 advance education in computing. Every year, they recognize North American students who show phenomenal research potential with their Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, and in 2020, Brown …

Hoping to encourage young authors to tackle emerging business themes, the Financial Times and McKinsey and Company first awarded the Bracken Bower Prize in 2014. The award is given to the best business book proposal by an author younger than 35, and it's already helped a number of young business writers bring their ideas …

"Two weeks before the OOPSLA 2009 deadline," remembers Brown CS alum Arjun Guha (now Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Shriram declared that it was time to actually write a Flapjax paper. That isn't much time, but since we had so much experience, the system was so …

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)'s International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is believed to be oldest, largest, and perhaps the most prestigious programming competition in the world. An algorithmic programming contest for college students, it requires teams of three to solve real-world problems, fostering collaboration, creativity, innovation, and the ability to …