Azer Bestavros to Lead BU’s Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences
Azer Bestavros, who gained international prominence as the founding director of BU’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, has been named associate provost for computing and data sciences, a new role that will lead the University’s efforts in the highly competitive and fast-growing field. He will lead the new Faculty […]
Azer Bestavros, Bonnie Costello Latest Warren Distinguished Professors
BU’s highest faculty honor goes to computer networking expert, poetry scholar Azer Bestavros and Bonnie Costello are the newest William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professors. Both College of Arts & Sciences professors, Bestavros, in computer science, and Costello, in English, are recipients of the highest honor bestowed by the University on senior faculty members actively involved […]
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 […]
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, […]
Computational Thinking Breaks a Logjam
Hariri Institute helps address Boston’s male-female pay gap By: Rich Barlow After confidentiality concerns stalled Boston’s gender pay initiative, computer scientist Azer Bestavros proposed an algorithm that solved the problem. Marty Walsh had a problem. Boston’s mayor wanted to address pay disparities between men and women, publicizing, as a first step, the average gap in […]
CISE Faculty on Provost’s Faculty Hiring Initiative in Data Science
From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer. Data Science, the methodical study of the generalizable and scalable extraction of knowledge from data, has emerged as a key enabler of transformative disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. Data Science incorporates varying elements and builds on techniques and theories from many basic engineering and science fields […]
Designing an Intelligent Urban Ecosystem
BU leads collaboration to make public services “smarter” by Rich Barlow (BU Today) BU faculty, with help from business and government partners, 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). The effort, called SCOPE (Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform […]