Symposium on the COntrol of NEtwork Systems (SCONES)
The Symposium on the Control of Network Systems (SCONES) took place on October 16 & 17, 2017 on the campus of Boston University, in Boston, MA. This event highlighted the increasing role of networks to a plethora of diverse areas, including game theory and distributed optimization, power, multi-agent and robotic, biological, and social networks & […]
Drone Home: New Robotics Lab Gives Researchers and Their ‘Bots Room to Roam
By Sara Elizabeth Cody As an animation technique, motion capture, has been prominently featured in a number of blockbuster films for more than a decade, bringing fictional characters, like Gollum from Lord of the Rings, to life. This same technology is allowing BU researchers study robotics and the relationship between man and machine in the […]
Congratulations to Calin Belta, Inaugural Holder of the Tegan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship
”The Tegan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow honors a mid-career (Associate to early Full Professor) faculty for extraordinary performance and impact in research, teaching and service to the College and profession. The Distinguished Faculty Fellow is an honor awarded to tenured faculty who are on a clear trajectory to extraordinary leadership careers in all dimensions of […]
A Robotic Approach to Engineering Living Cells
$4.5M NSF CPS Frontier Award to Fund BU-Led Project By Mark Dwortzan Researchers have long sought to enable collections of living cells to perform desired tasks that range from decontaminating waterways to growing tissue in the lab, but their efforts have largely relied on trial and error. Now a team of scientists and engineers led […]
Reducing Highway Congestion thru Software
Belta to Co-Lead $1 Million Study Traffic congestion is a waste not only of time, but also of energy and money. In 2011, it caused Americans in metropolitan areas to spend 5.5 billion extra hours on the road and pump 2.9 billion extra gallons of fuel into their gas tanks, with associated costs reaching $121 […]