ByteLight Solves Indoor GPS Mapping Problem With LED Lighting
By Gina Clifford – https://geekmom.com/2013/01/bytelight-indoor-mapping/ “We’ve taken something that’s been around since Edison and turned it into a way of transmitting information.” -Dan Ryan, CTO of ByteLight Dan Ryan and Aaron Ganick, both Electrical Engineers, met at Boston University as undergrads. They became quick friends as they continued to bump into each other in class […]
CISE Student, Vatche Ishakian et Al. Win Best Paper Award at USENIX Intl. Conf on Midddleware.
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Faculty Search – Division of Systems Engineering
The Division of Systems Engineering (SE) and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at Boston University (BU) are seeking candidates for several anticipated faculty positions with possible joint appointments. All areas and ranks will be considered. The Division is particularly interested in entry level candidates with active research (a) in optimization and machine […]
Better Data Management, Lower Healthcare Costs
By Rachel Harrington Today, people with chronic conditions like diabetes are benefiting from real-time monitoring devices like miniaturized implants, home monitoring equipment, and smartphone applications. Unfortunately, even though tracking a person’s symptoms and vitals has improved, hospitals and their medical teams are not ready to benefit from possessing so much personalized health data. Boston University’s […]
Nerd Girls – Presidential Award to ENG alum for Mentoring Young Women
By Mark Dwortzen When Karen Panetta graduated from the College of Engineering more than 25 years ago, she recognized two obstacles blocking young women from pursuing and completing undergraduate studies in engineering: a dearth of role models and an abundance of negative media portrayals of engineers as socially inept eggheads. So within a few years […]
New Research Could Help Trace Source of Bioterror Agents
By Mark Dwortzen Now an interdisciplinary team of systems engineers, computer scientists, microbiologists and biochemists—including Boston University researchers (Professor Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, SE) and Associate Professor Daniel Segrè (Biology, BME, Bioinformatics), as well as the University of Texas and Harvard University—seeks to establish clear links between bacterial cells’ growth conditions and their resulting composition by […]
BU Shares $1.6M High Performance Computing Infrastructure Grant
A $1.6M multi-university NSF grant has been awarded to support high-performance computing research. The grant will fund the purchase of a hybrid computing cluster that will combine high-performance computing CPU power with GPU accelerators. The cluster will be connected by dedicated 10 gigabit optical links to each of the partner universities in a regional consortium […]
Thomas Little Appointed Associate Dean for Educational Initiatives
By Mark Dwortzan Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen has appointed Professor Thomas D.C. Little (ECE, SE) as the College of Engineering’s associate dean for Educational Initiatives. Little will be responsible for overseeing, implementing, catalyzing and designing new and existing College-wide and cross-college or school educational initiatives that involve innovation in curriculum design or course delivery in […]
Boston Traffic App is on Tap
By Michael B. Farrell What’s the best way to fix Boston’s notoriously bad traffic? How about an app? That’s what six IBM engineers worked on for three weeks this month in City Hall as part of IBM’s Smarter Cities Challenge, which awarded Boston and 32 other cities around the world each with $400,000 worth of […]
Systems Science: Shaping Society’s Future – Summary news article
CISE Symposium Celebrates Organization’s First Ten Years For the past 10 years, the Boston University Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) has served as an interdisciplinary research and education center advancing leading-edge concepts and practical applications involving the modeling, design, analysis, and management of complex systems. During that period, CISE has seen its faculty—drawn […]