The Brown University Department of Computer Science has approximately 42 faculty members and postdoctoral researchers; at the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year, there were 103 undergraduates concentrating in CS.

The department has many research centers and groups including:

• Center for Geometric Computing, which has licensed ID technology to local startup IAM Technology
• Graphics and Visualization Center, a National Science Foundation Science & Technology Center
  • The Center offers outreach programs for underrepresented groups including the Artemis Project, a free 5-week summer program for girls entering 9th grade
• The Brown Computer Graphics Group with two major research efforts:
  • Visualization Research Lab
  • Microsoft Center for Pen-centric Computing, recently funded with $1.2 million from Microsoft
• Brown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing (BLLIP)
• Brown Robotics Group

Other research groups focus on areas such as:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computational Finance
• Computational Geometry
• Data Dissemination
• Graphics
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
• Programming Languages
• Software Visualization
• User Interfaces and Virtual Reality
• Web Agents

Recently funded projects in the department include:

• The Cellarium Project, a computational attempt to reproduce protein folding. Funding includes a $65,000 targeted research seed fund from by the Office of the Vice President for Research.
• "Learning Predictive Motion Vocabularies for Kinematic Tracking and Activity Recognition", with a three-year $380,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research