BU College of Engineering receives NEXTCAR grant to develop smart car technology
BU Professor Christos Cassandras leads BU initiative with researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Michigan, and Bosch Corporation. Read the full article through eurekalert.org.
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 […]
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, […]
Pardee Center Hosts BU Conference on Sustainability Research
By Cheryl Stewart The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-sponsored the BU Conference on Sustainability Research on Monday, May 9. Approximately 100 people attended the one-day conference that featured presentations by Boston University faculty with a diverse range of expertise on their research related to sustainability issues (a full list of […]
Faculty Profile-Roberto Tron
By Rachel Riley Mechanical Engineering Professor Roberto Tron received a 300-pound, $30,000 delivery last week: Baxter, a 3-foot tall humanoid robot with two arms and an animated face. Baxter is a practical addition at small and large companies across the U.S., where it can easily be programmed to perform repetitive tasks and assist in manufacturing. […]
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 […]
National Science Foundation Sponsors Workshop on Smart Cities in Arlington, VA
Led and coordinated by Boston University’s Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) Boston University Professor and Head of the Division of Systems Engineering Christos Cassandras was invited by the National Science Foundation to organize and chair a Workshop on Smart Cities, a subject of great national interest and focal point of many recent federal […]
Coskun, Egele Partner with Sandia Labs for HPC Systems Research
By Bhumika Salwan (Questrom ’16) CE Associate Professor Ayse Coskun and Assistant Professor Manuel Egele were awarded $189,000 for their research in data analytics with Sandia National Laboratories for improving energy efficiency and security of high performance computing (HPC) systems. Sandia Labs is one of the nation’s premier science and engineering laboratories for national security, with […]
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 […]