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 ...