Cassandras to Receive IEEE Control Systems Technology Award
By Samantha Gordon (COM’12) and Rachel Harrington This year’s IEEE Control Systems Technology Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to control systems technology, will be awarded to Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE, CISE), at the Conference on Decision and Control. He is being honored for his design and commercial development of the discrete event and hybrid […]
U.S. Army Research Office Awards Paschalidis for Cyber Security Research
August 18th, 2011 As people grow more dependent on computers for everything from accessing their bank accounts to storing sensitive information, cyber security has become an increasingly important research area. At Boston University, Professor Ioannis Paschalidis (ECE) is hoping to improve upon computer data protection by developing an effective way to detect intrusions into private […]
Smarter Parking, Smarter City
By Mark Dwortzan Watch this video on YouTube This “smart parking” scenario may be a click away, thanks to technology that Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE) and systems engineering graduate student Yanfeng Geng are developing. In early August, the research team completed their first live test of a preliminary version of a smart parking system […]
VMware Funds Coskun’s Server Consolidation Research
Energy consumption is a growing problem for data centers and high performance computing (HPC) clusters. Even some of the best methods for saving energy have their flaws. Take the popular method of server consolidation, where resources are shared across multiple applications and virtual CPUs. Without careful optimization, consolidation may result in high temperatures that require […]
BU spinout ByteLight Team Selected for Highland Capital Summer Entrepreneurship Program
The BU ByteLight team of Aaron Ganick, Daniel Ryan, Travis Rich, Schuyler Eldridge & Simon Zhang were selected from a large group of applicants to participate in the Summer@Highland 2011 program! ByteLight was one of the semifinalists in BU’s $50K New Venture Competition, showing great promise for their creation of intelligent, energy efficient lighting and […]
BU Team Wins First Annual Smart Lighting Challenge
Ten teams of students from several colleges came together on Saturday to compete in the first annual Smart Lighting Challenge, held at the Boston University School of Management. The winners of the competition were BU students Connor McEwen (EE’14), Felipe Spinel (SMG’12), Parker Fox (SMG’12) and Ahmad Nawasrah (SMG’12), who showcased their ideas for utilizing […]
Students Compete to Bring Innovation from BU Lab to the Marketplace on April 9
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOSTON (4-4-11) — Engineering and business students from Boston University and two other area colleges will compete in an April 9 contest to devise product strategy for an emerging lighting technology being developed at BU. A panel of judges drawn largely from industry will decide who gets the prize money. The Smart […]
Protecting the Identity in Your Pocket
The same day that Mark Crovella and his computer science colleagues kicked off a symposium last semester to discuss their $3 million, five-year smartphone security project funded by the National Science Foundation, the New York Times published a front-page article about tabloid reporters in London hacking into the mobile devices of English soccer stars and […]
Conference Explores Wide Range of Smart Lighting Applications
When the National Science Foundation Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC) was launched in 2008, one of its main objectives was to create an optical wireless network using LED-based visible light. While this remains a top priority, the Center has since explored several other applications of LED-based lighting systems, including boosting workplace productivity, detecting bio-terror […]
CISE Awards at BU Science & Engineering Day – March 23, 2011
Celebrate CISE Student Research In conjunction with the BU Science & Engineering Symposium on Wed., March 23rd, the Center for Information and Systems Engineering celebrates CISE graduate student research with the 8th annual CISE awards. This year, the CISE First Prize Award ($500) will be given on March 23 at 4 pm by President Brown along […]