BU and Red Hat Forge $5 Million Partnership
From BU Today: Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise software, is joining in a five-year-long partnership with Boston University, an arrangement aimed at advancing research into emerging and translational technologies, such as cloud computing and big data platforms. The collaboration, celebrated Monday evening at a dinner at the home of Robert […]
Why have we trusted our lives to zeros and ones? Prof. Goldberg featured in BU 2016 Annual Report
Professor Sharon Goldberg and her team’s research was featured in the 2016 Boston University Annual Report, looking at some of the big questions the University sought to tackle in 2016. Below is an excerpt from the article: At a cybersecurity briefing on Capitol Hill last spring hosted by Boston University Provost and Chief Academic Officer […]
Electronic Mirror – Rich West part of a team designing next-generation body motion tracker
CAS Computer Science Professor Rich West is highlighted in a recent BU Research article. The following is a quoted passage: Sheryl Grace is no Bobby Orr. But growing up in northern Ohio—“a place where things froze,” she says—Grace, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Boston University College of Engineering (ENG), spent plenty of […]
Terriers at Grace Hopper
Students and faculty from CAS Computer Science and ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering are representing Boston University at the 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. GHC is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. It is produced by the Anita Borg Institute and presented in partnership with ACM.
BU CS students excel at HackUMass
Over Columbus day weekend, students representing BUILDS and MakeBU competed at the fourth annual HackUMass. Two of the students, Rooday Raveendran and Kevin Liang, both freshmen in Computer Science, placed in the top eight as finalists in addition to winning the most funny/creative/playful project. Their project, Qrator, allowed users to log in via Spotify and […]
New CS students turn out in force!
This past Thursday evening we held our kick-off event for new CS majors and minors to usher in the new academic year. Over 80 students joined us to hear presentations from Professor Wayne Snyder, and representatives from all of our student groups. Those who attended heard from BUILDS, Women in Computer Science, MakeBU, BostonHacks, and the Global […]
TumbleBit – New Paper Designs Anonymous Bitcoin Payment System
Professor Sharon Goldberg, Computer Science Students, and Researchers Design Anonymous Bitcoin Payment System One reason for Bitcoin’s initial popularity was the perception of anonymity. Today, however, a vibrant blockchain surveillance industry has demonstrated weaknesses in Bitcoin’s anonymity properties. A new market of anonymity-enhancing services has therefore emerged, promising to mix bitcoins in a manner that […]
Professor Betke receives new NSF Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies grant
Computer Science Professors Margrit Betke (PI) and Stan Sclaroff (Co-PI) were recently awarded a grant from the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies Program at the National Science Foundation. The program aims at advancing how people learn in technology-rich environments. The NSF project will integrate prior work from two NSF-sponsored projects on (i) advanced computer vision […]
BU Computer Science welcomes new faculty
The Department of Computer Science proudly welcomes our newest faculty members This accomplished group has been hired as part of Boston University’s overall plan to increase the Computer Science faculty size by 50% within a five-year time frame. Dr. Alina Ene Alina earned her PhD in 2013 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She focuses […]
Forbes highlights BU in attracting more women to CS
Forbes magazine recently published an article titled “Attracting More Women to Study STEM in a World Full of Geek Dude Stereotypes.” Professor Mark Crovella, Chair of BU’s Department of Computer Science, is quoted: BU’s computer science department changed the introductory courses to “show students, it’s not just about programs.” This past semester, the percentage of […]