Professor Leo Reyzin Wins Best Paper Award at Eurocrypt 2017
Leo Reyzin, together with collaborators at IST Austria and UC Santa Barbara, received a Best Paper Award from the Eurocrypt 2017 conference for his work “Scrypt is Maximally Memory-Hard.” (http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/989) The paper solves a problem that has been open since 2009: does there exist a function with maximal memory hardness? A function is memory-hard if […]
Mark Crovella and BU CS alumnus Anukool Lakhina highlighted in Science Coalition report
Guavus, Inc., founded by BU CS alumnus Anukool Lakhina (CAS’01, GRS’01,’07) and Professor Mark Crovella, is featured in a report on the benefits of federally funded research that was released yesterday by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Science Coalition. The report, American-Made Innovation Sparking Economic Growth, documents the ways that this company and others are bringing to […]
Abbas Attarwala Changing Computer Science Learning
In a recent BU Educational Technology article, Professor Abbas Attarwala describes how he has been using novel and creative methods in his teaching. It’s quite interesting and inspiring! From the article: “I like my classrooms to be interactive and I try and make the learning experience of my students nonlinear,” says Attarwala. “I do use […]
Trustee’s Gift Ignites Student Entrepreneurship
BU Spark! connects technology ideas with expertise, funding From BU Today: BU students have a new way to get their great ideas off their hard drives and into the world. Created with $1 million gift from the Mullen Family Foundation and based at the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, […]
Tackling the Wage Gap with Code
From BU Today: Payroll data for 112,600 area employees reveals that women working in greater Boston make just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, according to a new report from the Boston Women’s Workforce Council. That calculation was made possible by researchers at BU’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science […]
BU and Red Hat Forge $5 Million Partnership
From BU Today: Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise software, is joining in a five-year-long partnership with Boston University, an arrangement aimed at advancing research into emerging and translational technologies, such as cloud computing and big data platforms. The collaboration, celebrated Monday evening at a dinner at the home of Robert […]
Why have we trusted our lives to zeros and ones? Prof. Goldberg featured in BU 2016 Annual Report
Professor Sharon Goldberg and her team’s research was featured in the 2016 Boston University Annual Report, looking at some of the big questions the University sought to tackle in 2016. Below is an excerpt from the article: At a cybersecurity briefing on Capitol Hill last spring hosted by Boston University Provost and Chief Academic Officer […]
Electronic Mirror – Rich West part of a team designing next-generation body motion tracker
CAS Computer Science Professor Rich West is highlighted in a recent BU Research article. The following is a quoted passage: Sheryl Grace is no Bobby Orr. But growing up in northern Ohio—“a place where things froze,” she says—Grace, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Boston University College of Engineering (ENG), spent plenty of […]
CS PhD Student Wenxin Feng Wins ALS Assistive Technology Challenge
BU Computer Science PhD student Wenxin Feng belongs to one of two teams that won the international ALS Assistive Technology Challenge by the ALS Association and Price4Life. The $400,000 award was given last week in a ceremony in Dublin, Ireland. Wenxin’s team was praised for developing “unique and innovative technologies” and having the “promising potential for offering life altering communication solutions […]
Associate Dean Stan Sclaroff named Fellow with IAPR and IEEE
Stanley Sclaroff, who serves as Associate Dean of the Faculty for Mathematical and Computational Sciences and Professor with the Department of Computer Science, has been named a Fellow with both the International Association of Pattern Recognition and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The IAPR is an association of non-profit, scientific, and professional organizations with […]