BUILDS Qualifies for Capture-the-Flag competition
BUILDS has qualified for the finals of NYU-Poly’s CSAW (Cyber-Security Awareness Week) Capture-the-Flag competition, an event in which teams from across the world compete to solve computer security challenges.
2013 Distinguished Alum Talk and Award Presentation
Prof. Eric Nyberg of CMU will give a talk on Friday, September 27th and will receive the 2013 CS Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Danna Gurari selected to attend the Global Young Scientists Summit
Danna Gurari, a current PhD student in Computer Science, has been selected to attend the Global Young Scientists Summit organized by the Singapore National Research Foundation.
New Faculty Search
The department is accepting applications. Visit this page for further details.
Paul Maritz gives $300K for CCI
BU’s Cloud Computing Initiative has received a gift of $300K from Paul Maritz.
Azer Bestavros quoted in BU Today article on joining edX
Azer Bestavros, who co-chairs BU’s council exploring technology and education, says the online platform edX is a perfect fit for the University. Read more
BU WiCS club awarded NCWIT Symantec Seed Fund grant
The BU Women in Computer Science group has won a Symantec Student Seed
Fund grant from the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT).
Read more.
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.”