Prof Lincoln opens GPT4 Coding Assistant Trial-Class | Deadline: Nov 10th
Professor Andrea Lincoln has a unique opportunity that is open to all undergraduate students with an interest in building websites or writing python code, regardless of your current skill level. Professor Lincoln is conducting a 9-hour seminar designed to serve as a pilot for a new coding class aimed at leveraging GPT-4’s capabilities. During this […]
Sharon Goldberg and Leo Reyzin release RFC 9381 – Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs)
Congratulations to Sharon Goldberg and Leo Reyzin and their co-authors on the release of RFC 9381 – Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs), a request for comments publication from the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF.) This project has been almost a decade in the making. Sharon explained, “A Verifiable Random Function (VRF) is the public key version of […]
Peter B. Golbus and Sabrina Neuman launch research program aimed at increasing the number of CS PhD candidates from underrepresented groups
BU Computer Science is proud to be one of five inaugural institutional partners selected by the Computing Research Association to participate in the new UR2PhD National Virtual Computing Research Mentor Program. Peter Golbus and Sabrina Neuman are co-directing program at BU. The goals of the program are to “increase the number of undergraduate research opportunities […]
Mark Crovella receives two Collaborative Research NSF Awards
Congratulations to Mark Crovella and his collaborators on their receipt two NSF Collaborative Research Awards. The projects are: Collaborative Research: NeTS: Medium: Large Scale Analysis of Configurations and Management Practices in the Domain Name System Collaborative Research: IMR: MM-1C: Methods for Active Measurement of the Domain Name System Both projects will be collaborations with Mark, […]
Vasia Kalavri receives Computer and Network Systems NFS Award for new project
Congratulations to Vasia Kalavri who was awarded a Computer and Network Systems NSF grant for her project, “”Small: Scaling Graph Machine Learning Workloads on Modern Storage.” Read more about the award here.
Renato Mancuso receives two of three Outstanding Paper Awards at ECRTS 2023
Renato Mancuso was awarded two of the three available Outstanding Paper Awards at the 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems. The awards went to: Memory Latency Distribution-Driven Regulation for Temporal Isolation in MPSoCs (doi) Ahsan Saeed (Robert Bosch GmbH), Denis Hoornaert (Technical University of Munich), Dakshina Dasari (Robert Bosch GmbH), Dirk Ziegenbein (Robert Bosch GmbH), Daniel […]
Vasia Kalavri and Manos Athanassoulis recieve SIGMOD 2023 Distinguished Review Award
Congratulations to Vasia Kalavri and Manos Athanassoulis who recieved SIGMOD 2023 Distinguished Review Award. Read more about the awardees here. The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data is concerned with the principles, techniques and applications of database management systems and data management technology. Our members include software developers, academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, […]
Vasia Kalavri receives 2023 SIGMOD Systems Award
Congratulations to Professor Vasia Kalavri who has received the SIGMOD Systems Award 2023 for her contributions to Apache Flink. Read more about the project and collaborators here. The SIGMOD Systems Award is awarded to an individual or set of individuals to recognize the development of a software or hardware system whose technical contributions have had […]
Margrit Betke, Prakash Ishwar, and collaborators awarded 024 Focused Research Program Award
Congratulations to Margrit Betke, Prakash Ishwar, and their collaborators for their program received a 2024 Focused Research Program Award from the Hariri Institute. The Hariri Institute for Computing’s FRP programs support intensive, faculty-driven efforts in large, multi-disciplinary teams. The FRP mission is to evolve and advance Boston University’s research in computing, computational, and data-driven science and engineering […]
Hariri announces Bryan Plummer as Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow.
Congratulations to Bryan Plummer for being selected as Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow. The Institute awarded six Junior Faculty Fellows and seven Graduate Student Fellows, representing early-career faculty and exemplary doctoral students who are pursuing innovative computationally-driven research with the potential for high impact. Our 2023 cohort of fellows represent a variety of colleges and schools across Boston […]