Abbas Attarwala wins the 2020 Gitner Award
BU CS’s own Abbas Attarwala has been selected to receive the 2020 Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching and Technology. “This award recognizes the faculty member or team that best exemplifies innovation in teaching through the use, development, or adaptation of technology. The award celebrates innovation that results in positive learning […]
BU CS invites applications for new faculty members
Boston University Computer Science has openings for two tenure-track assistant professorships beginning July 1, 2020. Areas in which our searches are particularly focused are data-centric computing, machine learning, robotics, human-computer interaction, and graphics. However applications in all areas of computer science are welcome and will be carefully considered. The Department is in the midst […]
BU Establishing New Data Sciences Faculty Unit
From BU Today: With BU planning to build a state-of-the-art Center for Computing & Data Sciences at the heart of its Commonwealth Avenue campus, President Robert A. Brown and Provost Jean Morrison announced this week they will propose to the Board of Trustees to create a novel collaborative, interdisciplinary faculty unit that will further strengthen […]
Sharon Goldberg and Ethan Heilman highlighted in Boston Globe article
The Boston Globe recently published an article on Professor Sharon Goldberg’s new start-up company, Arwen, co-founded with her PhD student Ethan Heilman. Included is some of the article below: “We’re in the early days,” says Arwen CEO Sharon Goldberg. “But let’s go back to 1999 and using credit cards on the Internet. Nobody wanted to […]
Groundbreaking collaboration among BU researchers rewarded with $1 million NSF grant
From BU Today: What If You Could Manage Information Overload? Between news articles, tweets, Facebook memes, online videos, Reddit threads, and all the other media sources that we routinely tap into, it seems impossible these days to be informed without being overloaded or to stay connected without getting hopelessly tangled up. But what if there […]
BU Announces New Data Sciences Center
Boston University’s President Robert Brown announced that the University plans to build a new 17-story building on Commonwealth Avenue that houses the new Data Sciences Center. In an effort to become one of the nation’s leading interdisciplinary research institutions, the new structure will house the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, […]
John Byers named Interim Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Mathematical & Computational Sciences
On Monday Sept. 17, BU CS Professor Stan Sclaroff, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, informed the College community that he has selected BU CS Professor John Byers to serve as Interim Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Mathematical & Computational Sciences. Congratulations John! The full official notification is below:
John Byers and Fahad Dogar (Tufts) awarded new NSF grant
We are excited to announce BU CS Professor John Byers and his colleague Fahad Dogar (Tufts University) have been awarded a new $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant titled NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Revisiting Network QoS in the Cloud-based Era.
BU Team Awarded $1,000,000 NSF Grant to Analyze Public Communication
We are excited to announce that BU Researchers have been awarded $1,000,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their proposal titled BIGDATA: IA: Multiplatform, Multilingual, and Multimodal Tools for Analyzing Public Communication in over 100 Languages. The interdisciplinary group is led by BU CS Professor Margrit Betke, and includes Derry Wijaya (BU CS Assistant Professor), […]
Red Hat hosts 32 BU interns at the cutting edge
From BU Today – As a computer science major, Chloe Kaubisch was already looking for a tech internship last November when an opportunity surfaced at the Boston office of Red Hat. She knew the fast-growing company was the leading provider of open-source enterprise software, but what sealed it for her was the chance to work on ChRIS Research […]