Brown's Office of the Vice President for Research recently announced the 2006 Research Seed Funding Recipients.

Associate Professor David Laidlaw is co-PI on "Development and Verification of CTX Imaging for Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Research" which was awarded $100,000.

The research team, which also includes zoologists and bioengineers, is collaborating on the development of “CTX,” a new biomedical imaging technology for dynamic visualization of bones and joints in motion. With this advanced technology researchers will be able to look inside living humans and animals and see their skeletons moving in 3D. This new technology will find broad application ...

Mocha (BETA) is a new way to browse Brown's courses online. Created by CS undergrads Dave Pacheco, Daniel Leventhal, Adam Cath, Dave Hirshberg, and Bill Pijewski as an alternative to BOCA (Brown's official Online Course Announcement), Mocha provides much of the functionality of BOCA but with a few additional features such as power search options, bookmarkable search results and a "shopping cart" that can be downloaded to a number of calendar programs.

Mocha is not supported or endorsed by Brown University in any way, and it is extremely unofficial. While the data in Mocha is periodically ...

Assistant Professors Chad Jenkins and Meinolf Sellmann have been selected to receive one of Brown's highly competitive Salomon Awards. The $30,000 grant will support research projects in time-critical decision making and robot learning from demonstration. Their research in this area will be applied to the robot soccer domain through participation in the Robocup competition this summer. This work will increase the accessibility of controlling robots to greater numbers of people through developing methods for learning basic robot skills from human demonstration. These skills are the basis for research into time-critical optimization to allow robots to reason as close ...

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized 34 of its members for their contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology. The new ACM Fellows, from some of the world’s leading industries, research labs, and universities made significant advances that are having lasting effects on the lives of citizens throughout the world.

Brown Computer Science garnered two Fellows this year. Professor Maurice Herlihy was recognized for his contributions to distributed and parallel systems and Professor and Department Chair Eli Upfal for his contributions to parallel and stochastic networks.

ACM will formally recognize the ...