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 […]
Margrit Betke elected to Senior Member of IEEE
This recognition is bestowed upon members with significant research performance in terms of technical contribution and professional leadership. The IEEE reserves Senior Member status for only 8 percent of its approximately 400,000 members.
Margrit Betke elected to Senior Member of ACM
Margrit Betke has been elected to Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2013. As part of its recognition of excellence, the ACM honors those whose contributions to the computing field have helped make the world better in countless ways.
BUILDS team makes it to the CSAW Capture-the-Flag competition finals
The BU Student ACM BUILDS team has qualified for the finals of NYU-Poly’s CSAW (Cyber-Security Awareness Week) Capture-the-Flag competition, where teams compete to solve challenges relevant to modern computer security. You can find more information about the CSAW CTF competition at NYU-Poly’s website.
BU team wins $1M NSF grant with UMass and UConn for “Smart City” research
A team of faculty from BU ECE and CS, including Azer Bestavros and Assaf Kfoury, has won a new NSF grant to support their research project: A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for the Smart City.
UMass/BU/MIT/NEU Team Wins $1.6M High Performance Computing Infrastructure grant from NSF
A $1.6M multi-university NSF grant has been awarded to support high performance computing research. The grant will fund the purchase of a hybrid computing cluster that will combine high-performance computing CPU power with GPU accelerators. The cluster will be connected by dedicated 10 gigabit optical links to each of the partner universities in a regional […]
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.