Maurice Herlihy has been awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Natural Sciences and Engineering Lecturing Fellowship for the upcoming 2010-2011 academic year. He will be visiting the Technion in Haifa, Israel, working on multiprocessor synchronization.

Maurice said, "The advent of multicore architectures has made this a particularly exciting time to be working on concurrency, and I look forward to establishing new collaborations."

Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored ...

Pascal Van Hentenryck received the Philip J. Bray Award for Teaching Excellence in the Physical Sciences. In addition to the recognition of his achievements, Pascal will receive a professional development fund of $2,000 for each of two years.

The award was presented at the 2010 University Awards Ceremony, co-sponsored by the Dean of the Faculty, the Dean of the Graduate School, the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, and Computing & Information Services, Brown University. In announcing the award, Rajiv Vohra, Dean of the Faculty, noted Pascal’s “profound and sustained impact on undergraduate education in computer science ...

The Artemis Project, the departmental outreach program led by Amy Greenwald, recently received $15,000 from Microsoft Research and The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) via the NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund.

Artemis is a five-week summer day camp for high school girls in the Providence area that provides an introduction to computer science and technology. The learning process includes a range of both educational and confidence-building activities. Participants attend lectures from women scientists and other potential role models from both academia and industry. Artemis is provided at no cost to the participants, who come from predominately low-income ...