Professor Margrit Betke and PhD Students Danna Gurari, Diane Theriault, and Mehrnoosh Sameki win Best Paper Award
Danna Gurari, Diane Theriault, Mehrnoosh Sameki, and Margrit Betke’s paper, “How to use level set methods to accurately find boundaries of cells in biomedical images? Evaluation of six methods paired with automated and crowdsourced initial contours,” won Best Paper Award for Innovative Idea.
Mark Crovella and Evimaria Terzi awarded NSF grant
Professors Mark Crovella and Evimaria Terzi of the Computer Science Department received a National Science Foundation award entitled “Structural Matrix Completion for Data Mining Applications.”
CS Major Dustin Vandenberg wins a Harold Case Scholarship
Congratulations, Dustin!
Ran Canetti and the MACS project team awarded NSF grant
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program announced a $10 million Frontier grant was awarded to Boston University’s Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project.
Margrit Betke awarded NSF grant
Margrit Betke was awarded NSF grant on on crowdsourcing annotations of cell images
Team that includes CS researchers wins the BU Social Entrepreneurship Award
A cross-disciplinary team, including researchers from the BU School of Public Health (SPH), Department of Computer Science, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have won the BU Social Entrepreneurship Award at the BU Tech, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll (TDRR) event yesterday.
Professor Leo Reyzin awarded a $500k grant by NSF
The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $500K to fund Professor Reyzin’s research efforts. The three-year project, titled “Noisy Secrets as Alternatives to Passwords and PKI,” will explore innovative approaches to authentication.
Sharon Goldberg’s paper covered by multiple news outlets
“Loopholes for Circumventing the Constitution: Warrantless Bulk Surveillance on Americans By Collecting Network Traffic Abroad” has been referenced in multiple news articles.
CS 591 E1/ IR 500 D1: Cyber Conflict and Internet Freedom
Computer Science and International Relations are offering a new course in cyber conflict and privacy this Fall.