We're delighted to announce that we've received a gift of 15 Tablet PCs and associated software from Microsoft Research. These will be set up in a Tablet PC lab for undergraduate education, which will be used by Andy van Dam's ReMarkable Texts project and Tom Doeppner's Electronic Student Notebook project. Staff members Loring Holden, Tim Miller, and Bob Zeleznik and undergrad Yotam Gingold are participating in the former; grad students Roberto Almanza and Qiang Ye and ugrads Albert Huang, Ulises Ortiz, Luke Peng, and Chris Wells are participating in the latter.

The Tablets will make their ...

Now it can be told! Come June, work will begin to renovate the third floor of Brown’s CIT building to let the Computer Science Department expand into it (we’re currently housed in the fourth and fifth floors). We’ve been growing steadily over the past few years in faculty and graduate students both. Indeed, in recent years we’ve had to ration our faculty visitors stringently in order to offer them any kind of office space at all. The prospect of more room to move about, more freedom to invite sabbatical-wandering colleagues as visitors, and the ability to ...

We’re impressed and intrigued to learn from Selim Tezel (M.Sc. ’02) that one of the computer-generated images in his Brown master's project, “Traveling Salesman's Sketchpad” (TSSP 1.0), is on view at Manifest 2003, a juried digital visual arts festival (part of the international Boston Cyberarts Festival). The opening reception is Thursday, April 10, 5:30-7:30, Copley Society of Art, 158 Newbury St., Boston (near Copley Station on the Green Line). The exhibition will be at the Copley Society until May 10; Selim says, “Your presence (real or virtual), needless to say, will be greatly ...

David Laidlaw has just been awarded a prestigious Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship for 2003-04. These fellowships are awarded to junior non-tenured members of the faculty either to recognize significant accomplishments in innovative teaching or for curricular improvements. They may also facilitate the preparation of new contributions to the undergraduate curriculum. The recipient of a Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship receives one semester "leave on special assignment" at full compensation, including retirement contributions.

In his nomination of David for this honor, chair Eli Upfal stressed his contributions and devotion to undergraduate education. In particular, he pointed to David's innovative ...

We’re happy to announce that two CS Department members have received this year’s Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Awards.

Prof. Amy Greenwald will work with Prof. Pedro Dal Bo of Economics on "The Power of Advice: Experimental Evidence on Correlated Equilibria”. Correlated equilibria generalize Nash equilibria by relaxing the assumption of independence to allow correlations in behavior. An everyday example of a correlated equilibrium is a traffic light: if a driver arrives at a traffic light and observes a red (green) signal, then drivers arriving in the perpendicular direction will observe a green (red) signal; thus, stopping ...

We're delighted to announce that Leah Pearlman, a Brown junior and candidate for the Sc.B. in Computer Science, has been awarded a Microsoft scholarship for next year. This scholarship covers 100% of the 2003-04 tuition and also includes a 12-week salaried summer intership at Microsoft in Redmond, WA. Competition for these scholarships was based on the applicant's GPA, response to essay questions, interest in the software industry and financial need. Thank you, Microsoft, for providing these scholarships and congratulations, Leah, for winning it!