Congratulations to SE/CISE students at the Toyota Next Generation Mobility Challenge at BU
Toyota sponsored a “Next Generation Mobility Challenge” on February 4, 2017 at Boston University. There were 15 area competitions, nationwide similar to the one held at BU. On the Boston University campus, graduate student contestants competed to solve the challenge: “How might we leverage mobility solutions to better provide equity and access to socially vulnerable […]
CISE Industry Roundtable, John-Nicholas Furst
CISE welcomed John-Nicholas Furst, Hardware Engineer at Akamai Technologies, to the 1st Spring 2017 Industry Roundtable. Furst began his career at Akamai after graduating from Boston University in 2013. At Akamai, Furst created the firmware that runs Akamai’s network switches, responsible for delivering tens of terabits of web-content daily to end users all over the […]
BBC News: Tomorrow’s Cities
BBC News covered how technology is transforming our urban environments.Christos Cassandras is quoted in this BBC Technology post.
Is Your Computer Sexist?
By Rich Below It may say “boss” is a man’s job, BU and Microsoft researchers discover It had to happen. In an era when the nation’s president-elect has been routinely criticized for his sexist remarks about women, BU researchers, working with Microsoft colleagues, have discovered your computer itself may be sexist. Or rather, they’ve discovered […]
SAIL: A Resource from Literature to Medicine – Hariri Institute lab puts computer expertise to work for researchers
By Joel Brown Cathie Jo Martin had a problem. The College of Arts & Sciences professor of political science wanted to compare British and Danish cultural attitudes toward education through the prism of classic literature. She needed to collect and distill data on word use in hundreds of novels written in two languages. But a […]
An Internet of Cars
By Sara Cody Drivers who commute in and out of Boston — deemed as one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic — has experienced the misery of rush hour. Now, Professor Christos Cassandras (SE, ECE) is part of a research group aiming to ease commuting, and the resulting air pollution, by developing efficient, smart […]
Thinking about Smart Cities
BU, other experts confer in a Washington forum While proponents of smart cities differ about the details of what exactly makes a smart city smart, they all agree on one thing: life is better in a smart city. It’s safer, greener, less congested, cleaner, and more cost- and energy-efficient. From the streets to municipal services, […]
CISE & SE Support Students Attending Grace Hopper Celebration
By Christina Polyzos For the 3rd year, CISE and the Division of Systems Engineering (SE), supported four systems engineering female students, Yue Joyce Zhang, Xinmiao Sun, Tingting Xu, and Sepideh Pourazarm who attended the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing conference held on October 19-21, in Houston Texas. Pourazarm (advisor: Christos Cassandras), has […]
Dean Lutchen Appointed to NSF Engineering Advisory Panel
By Michael G. Seele Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen has been appointed to the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for Engineering, a panel of a dozen leaders from academia and industry that provides advice and recommendations on support for research, education and related activities to the agency’s Directorate for Engineering. “The NSF […]
Congratulations: Xin, Starobinski and Noubir for Best Paper Award
Liangxiao Xin, David Starobinski and Guevara Noubir were awarded “Best Paper” for their paper “Cascading DoS Attacks on Wi-Fi Networks,”at the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2016). Liangxiao Xin is a third-year PhD student in Systems Engineering and David Starobinski is a professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Systems Engineering at […]