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Professor @mpherlihy of @BrownCSDept has won a $65K grant from the @Ethereum Foundation to develop smart contract libraries and protocols to facilitate transactions that span multiple blockchains, known as atomic cross-chain transactions, on public blockchains such as Ethereum.
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The 2022 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing goes to @mpherlihy and collaborators, and it's a hat trick for Maurice! He's thought to be one of only two people in a 23-year history who have received it three times. Learn more about his work: bit.ly/3OAxlzc
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Professor @KathiFisler has been named a @TheOfficialACM Distinguished Member. This grade recognizes members who have achieved important accolades or made a significant impact on the field, as supported by letters from others in the computing community. bit.ly/35E2S14
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Please welcome Suresh Venkatasubramanian (@geomblog), who joins @BrownCSDept and @Brown_DSI as professor this fall! Read a full interview with Suresh at Brown CS News: bit.ly/2VquLFc
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Seny Kamara Keynotes Crypto 2020 With "Crypto For The People" (Recording Available)
"Why am I giving a talk at CRYPTO," asks Professor @senykam of @BrownCSDept, "if I'm not talking about technical things?"
Learn more at: bit.ly/3hevUFy (1 of 4)
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Professor Ellie Pavlick's work with language acquisition and information retrieval has recently won the largest ($6 million) grant in @BrownCSDept history. Learn more at CS News: bit.ly/3aan8W2
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Professor @ms705 of @BrownCSDept has just received a @NSF CAREER Award to investigate new systems that by construction comply with privacy laws such as GDPR, CCPA, CDPA, and COPRA. Learn more at CS News: bit.ly/2N2YnnX
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@BrownCSDept is mourning the loss of University Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Cognitive Science Eugene Charniak, one of our founding faculty members. He passed away on June 13, just a few days after his seventy-seventh birthday. (1 of 3)
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First seen in the pages of Conduit, the annual @BrownCSDept magazine, we're excited to share an extensive look back at Professor Eugene Charniak's work and life as he enters retirement: bit.ly/3HaziNP
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PhD student Lucy Qin of @BrownCSDept has just received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her work in Applied Cryptography.
Learn more at CS News: bit.ly/2x9yydS
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This fall, @MiaoPeihan joins @BrownCSDept as assistant professor. A specialist in cryptography and security with a focus on secure multi-party computation, she’s the latest hire in the CS With Impact campaign, our largest expansion to date. bit.ly/3cmvUpB
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Congratulations, Brown CS Class Of 2020!
It gives us a lot of happiness to share the following celebrations of our 2020 graduates, including a special video from our faculty. We've never been prouder to be part of the @BrownCSDept community.
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Professor @vkemerlis has just won a shared $3.2M ONR grant: "[We use] new methods and tools to reduce the attack surface of deployed binary applications, then take advantage of the reduced surface to secure them by adding a breadth of targeted defenses." bit.ly/2CVF8Dh
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Professor @drsrinathsridha of @BrownCSDept has just received a @NSF CAREER Award to demonstrate that learning from images and videos is a viable path for robots to gain human-like physical abilities. Learn much more about his work at Brown CS News: bit.ly/3ISejQw
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Professor Theophilus Benson of @BrownCSDept has won a @Google Faculty Award and an @NSF grant for improving network performance in emerging regions. Learn more at CS News: bit.ly/2qOzLRa
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In the span of a single year, @BrownCSDept faculty have won 2 of the field's highest distinctions for teaching: Prof. @ShriramKMurthi received the @sigsoft Influential Educator Award + Prof. Andy van Dam the inaugural @SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award buff.ly/2MQWObE
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This week, @BrownUniversity hosts the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM), bringing more than 500 thought leaders to PVD and demonstrating Brown’s continued status as a leading center for RL research and study bit.ly/3thLVm3
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Professor @mlittmancs of Brown CS will join @NSF as division director for information and intelligent systems for the next two years.
Read the full story at Brown CS News: bit.ly/3M1As0D
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2021 brings a new honor for @BrownCSDept Professor Andries "Andy" van Dam, who has just been named a Fellow of the @ComputerHistory Museum for a lifetime of contributions to computer graphics, hypertext, and computer science education: bit.ly/3qKVIxB
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Now a Research Director at @nvidia, @BrownCSDept alum Morgan McGuire (@CasualEffects) has worked on landscape-altering projects such as Call of Duty, Roblox, Skylanders, GPU ray tracing, and the Kindle's E Ink display. bit.ly/3ndz0fE (1 of 2)
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We're very happy to welcome @ms705 (Malte Schwarzkopf), who joins @BrownCSDept as Assistant Professor this fall! You can read a full interview with Malte, including links to his research, at CS News: bit.ly/2ZvJEBR
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New work ("Types for Tables: A Language Design Benchmark") by @BrownCSDept PhD student @LuKuangChen1, Postdoctoral Research Associate Benjamin Greenman, and Professor @ShriramKMurthi has won the annual Editors’ Choice Award for Vol. 6 of <Programming> bit.ly/3uY7JD9
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Congratulations to @BrownCSDept Professor @mlittmancs and his collaborators! Their 1998 paper ("("Planning and acting in partially observable stochastic domains") has just won the @IJCAIconf Classic AIJ Paper Award: bit.ly/3DausiB
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We're happy to announce that pending the anticipated approval of the Corporation of Brown, Amy Greenwald will be promoted to the rank of Full Professor and @senykam will be promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2018: bit.ly/2EVXLv9
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Are you from a historically underrepresented group in computer science and applying to a CS PhD program? @BrownCSDept students will provide extensive mentorship: one-on-one Zoom calls, feedback on your application, and answering all your questions: bit.ly/3kDXZqq
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Congratulations to @senykam , appointed to a National Academy of Sciences committee on Law Enforcement + Encryption: bit.ly/2ejpuEr
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Beginning next fall, @BrownCSDept will make available a number of merit-based, full-tuition scholarships to support our diversity and inclusion goals. All admitted applicants will be automatically considered, with no additional application needed: bit.ly/3IfImCJ
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Today, @BrownCSDept alum Jessica Dai shares the story of @reboot_hq, a publication and a community dedicated to reclaiming techno-optimism for a better collective future. Learn more at CS News: bit.ly/2VeU9gE
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A @WIRED article examines the CRYPTO 2020 keynote by @BrownCSDept Prof. @senykam and the positive response he's received for a critical look at who benefits from cryptography as it currently stands and how it can be used to fight oppression and violence: bit.ly/2YPCfjj
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Congratulations to @BrownCSDept alum @atulbutte , who has been named an American Association for the Advancement of Science (@aaas) Fellow in the Section on Medical Sciences. Learn more at Brown CS News: bit.ly/3osaHkn
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Congratulations to our alum @dmetaxak, joining @Penn in 2022 as an assistant professor in computing and information science and secondary in @AnnenbergPenn! Best wishes for much success from @BrownCSDept.
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Tom Doeppner has just won a Hazeltine Citation for excellence in teaching, guidance, and support. A member of the award committee writes to him, "I have to tell you how much your students appreciate you, and how much of an impact you have made on them." bit.ly/2IJc2Nn
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In a new blog post, @BrownCSDept PhD student @ArchitaAgarwa18 presents work that identifies and formalizes the key problems of end-to-end encrypted distributed databases. (1 of 2)
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In their recently-released list of the 2023 Best Computer Science Schools, College Factual, which provides US government higher educational data to prospective students, has ranked @BrownUniversity fifth among 386 American colleges and universities: bit.ly/3VfM7y4
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Prof. @ms705 of @BrownCSDept wins a Salomon Faculty Research Award to understand where current software abstractions and common practices come into conflict with laws like the GDPR and to develop new computer systems designs that address these problems: bit.ly/3aRbGgW
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This Friday, @mlittmancs of Brown CS won the John McCarthy Award from @IJCAIconf. The award is the top research honor in AI for mid-career scientists.
Read the full story here: cs.brown.edu/news/2022/08/02…
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Congratulations to Evan Cater, winner of the Randy F. Pausch '82 Computer Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award! A $10,000 stipend will support work with @BrownCSDept Professor @mlittmancs on Variational Inference. Learn more about Evan's research: bit.ly/2C0qyLh
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Credit goes to @BrownCSDept faculty member David Laidlaw for spotting Brown CS PhD student (also bassist, composer, and producer) @kweku_ag playing with the Leland Baker Quartet at the Foundation Stage at @NewportJazzFest. Nice work, Kweku!
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@BrownCSDept just gave diplomas to 366 undergrads, 21.8% of all the undergrads who graduated from @BrownUniversity this May. It's a record high number of graduations from a single department or school at Brown and for the 6th year, CS is the most popular concentration on campus.
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Congratulations to @BrownCSDept alum @jennie_rogers_, who has just received tenure as Assistant Professor of Computer Science at @NorthwesternU: users.eecs.northwestern.edu/…. Best wishes for continued success!
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Happy 40th to Nancy, the first @BrownCSDept general purpose computer! Tom Doeppner notes that this VAX 11/780 wasn't named until we got our second VAX, Sluggo, in 1982. We also didn't have a building when Nancy arrived, so it was housed until May in the basement of Prince Lab.
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Professor Eli Upfal of @BrownCSDept and collaborators have just received @TheOfficialACM Paris Kanellakis Theory + Practice Award, one of theoretical CS's highest honors and an award that also pays tribute to Eli's predecessor at @BrownUniversity: bit.ly/3hTPrhy
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Apply now! @BrownCSDept Professor Daniel Ritchie and 9 colleagues are launching a summer program for students from HUGs in CS to do original research on AI for computational creativity. 9 weeks: full funding includes travel costs, housing, $6,480 stipend. bit.ly/3ILWt1L
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Please welcome @drsrinathsridha, who joins @BrownCSDept this fall as assistant professor! He’s the newest hire in the multi-year CS With Impact campaign, the largest expansion in our history. Learn about him and his research in an interview at CS News: bit.ly/39gvE5v
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New research (“Using Relational Problems to Teach Property-Based Testing”) by @BrownCSDept PhD student @tenellous and Professors Tim Nelson and @ShriramKMurthi has recently won the annual Editors’ Choice Award for Volume 5 of <Programming>. bit.ly/3iy3FER
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For the second time since the honor’s inauguration last year, @TheOfficialACM @SIGPLAN has presented its Distinguished Educator Award. The winners for 2023 are @BrownCSDept faculty members @KathiFisler and @ShriramKMurthi. Learn more at Brown CS News: go.brown.edu/fisler-krishnam…
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Work on searchable encryption by @senykam is the 35th most-cited security paper since 1981. Learn more at CS Blog: bit.ly/2qZrgAv
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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.
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Last week, Professor @senykam of @BrownCSDept testified at a Congressional hearing, explaining that cryptography solutions to improve consumer financial health can be implemented without endangering privacy: bit.ly/2PjxJnA
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Please welcome @harini824, who joins @BrownCSDept as Assistant Professor next fall! Read a full interview with her at Brown CS News: go.brown.edu/harini-suresh-j…
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Malte Schwarzkopf Receives A Hazeltine Citation For Excellence In Teaching, Guidance, And Support
Faculty member Malte Schwarzkopf has been chosen by Brown’s graduating senior class to receive the Barrett Hazeltine Citation.
Learn more at Brown CS news: bit.ly/3QMPv44
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We're very happy to welcome @stevebach , who joins @BrownCSDept as Assistant Professor this fall! Learn more about him and his research at CS News: bit.ly/2M8XEQx
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Please welcome Milda Zizyte, our newest lecturer! She’s the latest hire in the multi-year CS With Impact campaign, the most significant expansion in @BrownCSDept history. Read our full interview with Milda at CS News: bit.ly/3xshwRv
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Congrats to @BrownCSDept alum @joepolitz for winning a Distinguished Teaching Award from the @UCSanDiego Academic Senate! It honors his creativity, innovative teaching, ability to motivate students to actively seek out knowledge, and extraordinary level of teaching commitment.
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Congratulations to @BrownCSDept alum @CagatayDemiralp, who has just won the 2019 IEEE CG&A Best Paper Award for a paper ("Data2Vis: Automatic Generation of Data Visualizations Using Sequence-to-Sequence Recurrent Neural Networks") co-authored with @vykthur of @FastForwardLabs!
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New research ("On the Expressivity of Markov Reward") by @BrownCSDept alums @dabelcs and @Mark_Ho_, Professor @mlittmancs, and their collaborators has won a @NeurIPSConf Outstanding Paper Award. Learn more at Brown CS News: bit.ly/32VDFhi
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Brown CS is happy to announce that George Konidaris has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (pending the approval of Brown's Corporation), effective as of July 1, 2022. Learn more at Brown CS News: bit.ly/3MZDSCO
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Congratulations to @BrownCSDept PhD alum Esha Ghosh for being chosen as one of 60 participants in Rising Stars, an intensive workshop for women graduate students and postdocs who are interested in pursuing academic careers!
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After an unmatched eight years as @BrownCSDept Department Chair, Professor Ugur Çetintemel stepped down at the end of June, with Professor Roberto Tamassia now succeeding him. “It has been an extraordinary experience and an honor,” Ugur tells us. bit.ly/3LJCHa5
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We've maxed out attendance in a new Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies class from @mpherlihy -- one of a very few courses dealing with the subject nationwide, particularly from a scientific perspective. It had to be capped at 60 students. Learn more: bit.ly/2BBjbuy
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Congratulations to Brown CS alum Jason Pacheco, who has just joined the Department of Computer Science at University of Arizona as assistant professor!
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Congratulations to @BrownCSDept alum @CagatayDemiralp, co-author of work ("Investigating Perceptual Biases in Icon Arrays") that received a Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at @acm_chi 2022! Learn more here: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2022…
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Our own @ShriramKMurthi will co-lead the @CACMmag Research Highlights (CACM-RH) Editorial Board, 25 thought leaders from academia and industry tasked with publishing the most important and interesting CS research of recent years: bit.ly/2Dxm80z
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Prof. George Konidaris of @BrownCSDept + collaborators Leslie Pack Kaelbling + Tomás Lozano-Pérez of @MIT won the IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Award for their 2018 work, "From Skills to Symbols: Learning Symbolic Representations for Abstract High-Level Planning" bit.ly/3ieHZfe
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Professor @DotTheophilus of @BrownCSDept has just been named to the @DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group. His three-year term begins this summer. Learn more at CS News: bit.ly/3ejYxSY
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We're happy to announce that @jeff__huang of @BrownCSDept has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (pending the approval of Brown's Corporation), effective as of July 1, 2020. Learn more about Jeff and his research at CS News: bit.ly/3cOYhbt
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Please welcome @jesu9 (Chen Sun), who joins @BrownCSDept as a visiting assistant professor. (He becomes a full assistant professor next July.) He’s the newest hire in the CS With Impact campaign, the largest expansion in our history. Read a full interview: bit.ly/2EC7iYW
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Theophilus Benson has won a @NSF CAREER Award to create tools to maintain highly available, resilient networks, meeting the needs of SDN with a novel paradigm that advocates overcoming software "bugs" by transforming bug-triggering inputs into "safe" ones bit.ly/2JLYz3C
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Brown has recognized our faculty with two Excellence in Teaching Awards: Professor @mlittmancs won the Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Physical Sciences, and Paul Valiant won the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching. bit.ly/2IewB3l
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Professor @senykam of Brown CS talks with @arstechnica about the dangers of a new Department of Justice proposal that would give law enforcement officials with warrants access to encrypted digital devices: bit.ly/2G8in3M
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We're happy to announce that Stefanie Tellex of @BrownCSDept has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure, effective as of July 1. "This achievement," she says, "could not have happened without my amazing students and collaborators..." bit.ly/31dE1te (1 of 2)
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Professor Andy van Dam of @BrownCSDept reaches the 25-year anniversary of his Karlstrom Award win. Learn more at CS News: bit.ly/2Rpw3Zo
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Congratulations to @BrownCSDept PhD student @zkytony (Kaiyu Zheng) and Professors George Konidaris and @StefanieTellex, winners of the IROS RoboCup Best Paper Award! Learn more about their work at Brown CS News: bit.ly/37euxql
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Shuffler, new software from @vkemerlis , prevents cyber-attacks by continuously rearranging code: bit.ly/2ggLk0u
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Not to be missed: Professor Andy van Dam of @BrownCSDept not just giving a retrospective of 6 technical visions and the visionaries who have inspired him over the last 50 years, but doing so with the help of his workgroup's latest hypermedia information management system, Dash.
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Professor George Konidaris of @BrownCSDept has just been awarded the Karen T. Romer Prize for Undergraduate Advising and Mentoring for his extraordinary care in attending to the academic and personal needs of undergraduate students. Learn more at CS News: bit.ly/3coFPb5
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Eleanor Avril, a @BrownCSDept student and one of the Meta-TAs who coordinate the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant program, has just won the Norman K. Meyrowitz '81 Award. Named for an alum, it recognizes exceptionally meritorious service to the department: bit.ly/35zAAk2
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In a newly-reprinted article from the December, 2022 issue of Conduit, the @BrownCSDept annual magazine, Carmen Boyan describes the "unexpected phenomenon" of finding five women colleagues when interning with Professor Ritambhara Singh: bit.ly/3iJ1IrV
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The @BrownCSDept Class of 2020 is 297 undergraduate students, our highest total ever, as well as 89 Master's students and eight PhDs. 39% of the undergraduates are women, a figure that's almost twice the national average. Learn more at CS News: bit.ly/3cbjI50
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Brown CS students are improving Brown once again. Congrats to Chelse-Amoy Steele, just elected president of the Ugrad Council of Students!
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Andy van Dam is saying good-bye in style to @siggraph, a conference that he’s been attending regularly for a half-century. One of his fellow speakers will be James D. Foley, Andy's original co-author for "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice". go.brown.edu/AndyAtSIGGRAPH5…
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In an email to the @BrownCSDept community on December 10, Department Chair Ugur Çetintemel announced that AStaff member Lauren Clarke will become the new Brown CS Department Manager, effective as of January 1, 2022. Congratulations, Lauren! Learn more: bit.ly/323Z33R
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"The best thing I did at @BrownUniversity to prepare me for my career was..." In a @BrownCSDept panel, alums provided insight into what their jobs are actually like, gave advice on the job search process, and shared thoughts on the most useful aspects of their Brown education.
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Congratulations to Brown CS PhD alum Hannah Quay-de la Vallee! She's just signed on as a technologist with the Center for Democracy and Technology, a think tank for technology-related privacy and security concerns, especially focused on the rights of individuals.
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Starting tomorrow, tune in to White House Chronicle on 200 local stations (7:30 PM on WSBE in RI) to watch a wide-ranging "Big Idea" interview with @senykam on new technological developments, cryptography, algorithmic bias, and more. Find your station: bit.ly/2TKJyEh
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At a U.S. Senate hearing on March 8, @BrownUniversity computer scientist @geomblog urged members of Congress to be proactive about artificial intelligence and establish guidelines and protections so AI-based systems are developed and deployed responsibly: bit.ly/3Fb2g1L
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A team from @BrownCSDept (Master's student Shamay Samuel and alum Enrique Areyan Viqueira, coached by Professor @serdar_kadioglu) has taken Third Place at the thirteenth AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition. Learn more at Brown CS News: bit.ly/3AsPSFu
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Professor @ShriramKMurthi of @BrownCSDept and collaborators have won the SIGPLAN Software Award for work on the development of Racket. Learn more at CS News: bit.ly/2QKToED
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Brown CS alum Feng-Hao Liu, now assistant professor at the College of Engineering and Computer Science at @FloridaAtlantic , has just received an NSF CAREER Award, titled “CAREER: Towards Efficient Cryptography for Next Generation Applications” bit.ly/37R4gsJ
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PhD alum Justin Pombrio and Professor @ShriramKMurthi of @BrownCSDept CS) have received the @PLDI 2018 Distinguished Artifact Award
for work with inferring rule types for syntactic sugar. Learn more (download the artifact, read the paper) at CS News: bit.ly/2L0PoAB
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After completing postdoctoral work at @ETH_en, Ellis Hershkowitz will return to @BrownCSDept in Fall, 2023 as assistant professor. He's the most recent hire in the multi-year CS With Impact campaign, the largest expansion in our history. Read an interview: bit.ly/3cMDutp
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We're very excited to welcome @dougwoos , who joins @BrownCSDept as lecturer next semester! Learn more about him in a new interview at CS News: bit.ly/2Prx8A8
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In the past decade, >30 of our grads have taken faculty positions nationwide: now @AlexandraPap at Pomona College! bit.ly/2mFaHKU
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Seny's words are the start to a very atypical keynote that was shaped by his experience of being Black, an immigrant, an applied cryptographer, and in particular, an outsider: one of perhaps only two or three Black cryptographers in the world. bit.ly/3hevUFy (4 of 4)
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Professor @s_ramach 's of the @BrownUniversity Center for Computational Molecular Biology (she also serves as its Director) and @BrownCSDept has just had one of her recent projects, SWIF(r), mentioned in @nature , the multidisciplinary science journal: bit.ly/2qMHleP
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Five Brown CS students and alums, @jessicadai_, Arman Maesumi, @sparr_ml, Seiji Shaw, and Benjamin Spiegel, received @NSF Graduate Research Fellowships last month for their research in computer science.
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Professor George Konidaris of @BrownCSDept has won @BrownUniversity's Salomon Award, which he'll use to design and implement RLang, a domain-specific declarative programming language designed to express anything that a human may wish to tell an RL agent: bit.ly/3Nq36cT
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A lack of diverse speakers at RSA 2018 has provoked the creation of OUR Security Advocates (OURSA), a competing conference with a diverse set of speakers, including Professor @senykam of Brown University's Department of Computer Science (Brown CS): bit.ly/2p9IVGp
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