Corporate Partners Day 2015
The BU Computer Science Corporate Partners Research Open House is an excellent opportunity to get a concrete feel for the research profile of the Computer Science Department at Boston University. Corporate Partners Day 2015 is on Friday, March 20th, 12:30pm – 5pm.
Aaron Stevens featured on BU’s STEM Education Initiatives Website
Aaron Stevens has “flipped” his CS 108 classroom to better balance the material he has to cover with the class hours per semester.
Workshop on Recent Trends in Computer Vision – March 2nd
A day-long workshop featuring 30 talks by computer vision researchers, covering a broad range of topics.
More information is available on the Event Website
Research by Georgios Zervas, Davide Proserpio, and John Byers covered in NYTimes
Professors John Byers (CAS Computer Science) and Georgios Zervas (SMG), as well as PhD candidate Davide Proserpio (CAS Computer Science) are featured in the New York Times about their research on the sharing economy, specifically Airbnb.
Research by Mikhail Breslav and Diane Theriault featured in Science News
Mikhail Breslav and Diane Theriault, both PhD candidates in the Computer Science Department, were in an article about the research they have done as part of AIRFOILS (for Animal-Inspired Robust Flight with Outer and Inner Loop Strategies).
BU Data Science Initiative takes off
At BU, the Data Science Initiative is mining mountains of data to uncover new information and transform our approaches to everything from health care and business to design and communications.
Leo Reyzin and Sharon Goldberg awarded grant from Verisign Labs
Professors Sharon Goldberg and Leo Reyzin received a 25k grant from Verisign Labs to fund the development of NSEC5, a proposed modification of the DNSSEC protocol.
BUILDS team places 2nd and wins $10K at CyberSEED competition
BUILDS traveled to the University of Connecticut to participate in a Software Challenge at the CyberSEED conference, put on by UCONN’s Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation.
SCOPE Project led by Azer Bestavros featured in BU Today
The Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform & Ecosystem (SCOPE) will develop cloud computing–based services and products to solve urban problems ranging from traffic congestion to dirty air with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Sharon Goldberg published in the Communications of ACM magazine
Why is it taking so long to secure internet routing? has been published in Volume 57, Number 10 of Communications of the ACM.