Computational Thinking Breaks a Logjam
Azer Bestavros, along with Andrei Lapets and two undergraduates, Kyle Holzinger (CAS 16′) and Eric Dunton (Cas 15′), have created software that shows pay disparities between men and women in Massachusetts. The project was commissioned by the late Mayor Thomas Menino and has continued with the support of Mayor Marty Walsh.
“Bestavros, a College of Arts and Sciences computer science professor, who proposed an ingeniously simple algorithm from computer science that will allow the city to calculate those industry pay averages, by gender, from a total of 60 participating employers, without any daylight shining on an individual company’s proprietary information. BU students and a Hariri colleague developed software to perform the algorithm.”