Hacking to Help the Environment
After scoring in the top ten at the MIT Hackathon and winning the Tufts Hackathon, the BU computer science student “hacking” team of Gowtam Lal, Hiroki Osame, and Roman Zabenko has won Second Place Overall at the Clean Web Hackathon hosted by the City of Boston this weekend.
Distinguished Lecture on May 1st: Cynthia Dwork
Cynthia Dwork of Microsoft Research will give a lecture, “Fairness Through Awareness,” on Wednesday, May 1st. This distinguished lecture will be in the Hariri Institute at 11am. The talk will address fairness in classification, where the goal is
to prevent discrimination against protected population subgroups in classification systems while simultaneously preserving utility for the party carrying out the classification, for example, the advertiser, bank, or admissions committee.
Jonathan Appavoo wins NSF Early Career Award
Jonathan Appavoo has won an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award to
support his research and teaching efforts in operating systems, in
particular his project “Programmable Smart Machines.”
Dr. Ashwin Thangali Wins an Award at Scholars Day
In addition to Ashwin’s successful Ph.D. Thesis Defense yesterday, his poster at Scholars Day was also prize-worthy: he won the “Hariri Award for Innovative Computing Models, Algorithms, and Systems Research”.
IAP Day 2013
Computer Science Research Open House on Friday, March 29, 2013, 9:30AM – 4PM at 111 Cummington Mall, 2nd floor of the MCS Building
Omer Paneth wins Simons Award
The Simons Foundation has awarded CS PhD student, Omer Paneth a Simons Award for Graduate
Students in Theoretical Computer Science.
BU Today: Medicine in the Cloud
“With a grant from the new Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, which was cofounded by BU, Jonathan Appavoo and Ellen Grant have devised algorithms similar in computational complexity to those used in fetal scanning and fed them to a supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory.”
Evimaria Terzi wins NSF Early Career Award
Evimaria Terzi has won an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award to
support her research and teaching efforts in data mining.
BFOC ’13 (Boston Freedom in Online Communications Day)
The main purpose of BFOC is to encourage collaboration between local researchers and practitioners in technology, law, and policy that are working in this area.
BU BUILDS team places 3rd in CSAW Capture-the-Flag competition
BUILDS took third place in the finals for NYU-Poly’s CSAW (Cyber-Security Awareness Week) Capture-the-Flag competition this past weekend. Four members of BUILDS traveled to the finals at NYU-Poly in Brooklyn: Allan Wirth (2015) – Computer Science Danny Cooper (2013) – Computer Science Jeff Crowell (2013) – Computer Engineering George Silvis, III (2014) – Math/Ancient Greek […]