Leonid Levin wins ACM SIGACT, IEEE-CS Knuth Prize
The 2012 Knuth Prize will be presented to Leonid Levin for his visionary research in complexity, cryptography, and information theory, including the discovery of NP-completeness. Read more.
Evimaria Terzi receives NSF grant for data-mining research
The $500K grant will support research on “Entity Selection and Ranking for Data Mining Applications.” Read more.
Nir Bitansky and Omer Paneth to receive Best Student Paper Award at FOCS 2012
Nir Bitansky and Omer Paneth will receive the Machtey (Best Student Paper) Award at the Foundations of Computer Science conference for their paper “From the Impossibility of Obfuscation to a New Non-Black-Box Simulation Technique.”
Ran Canetti wins NSF grant for research on cryptographic algorithms and protocols
The $480K NSF grant will support research on “New Directions in Cryptography: Non-Black-Box Techniques against Non-Black-Box Attacks.” Read more.
Profs. Bestavros and Reyzin interviewed in BU Today story on Computational Thinking
Training in Computational Thinking is an essential part of liberal arts education in the Information Age. Read more in the BU Today story.
CS doctoral student wins a BU Science & Engineering Research Symposium Award
Haohan Zhu received the Hariri Award for Innovative Computing Models, Algorithms, and Systems, for the research project A Generic Framework for “Efficient and Effective Subsequence Retrieval.”
Dave Sullivan wins Neu Family Award for Excellence in Teaching
CS Lecturer receives teaching award in College of Arts and Sciences.
David House (CAS ’10): The making of a cyber-libertarian
CS alum defends Bradley Manning, sues the government.