GHC 2019 Empowers BU CS Students
By Kayla Chapman 14 Boston University Computer Science (CS) students and three CS staff members landed in Orlando, Florida on October 1, 2019, for a week-long celebration of women in computing at the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC). The annual convention serves as a gathering point for the bright female minds in technology. As the […]
CS Day 2019: Bigger Than Ever
By Kayla Chapman On Wednesday, October 9, 2019, a record-breaking 757 students gathered from all corners of Boston University to celebrate CS Day, an annual event hosted by the Department of Computer Science. The combination career fair, student group showcase, and celebration of all things CS aims to connect the talented students of BU with […]
Professors Leonid Reyzin and Adam Smith Win 2019 IACR Test-of-Time-Award
Boston University Department of Computer Science Professors Leonid Reyzin and Adam Smith, and their colleague Yevgeniy Dodis (NYU), have won the 2019 IACR Test-of-Time Award for their 2004 paper Fuzzy Extractors: How to Generate Strong Keys from Biometrics and Other Noisy Data. In this paper, the researchers introduced “formal definitions and efficient secure techniques for […]
Emily Whiting Named 2019 Sloan Research Fellow
Professor Emily Whiting was named a 2019 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation! Alfred P. Sloan is a not-for-profit foundation that funds research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics. The fellowships, awarded yearly since 1955, honor early-career scholars whose achievements mark them as among the most promising researchers in […]
Sharon Goldberg and Ethan Heilman highlighted in Boston Globe article
The Boston Globe recently published an article on Professor Sharon Goldberg’s new start-up company, Arwen, co-founded with her PhD student Ethan Heilman. Included is some of the article below: “We’re in the early days,” says Arwen CEO Sharon Goldberg. “But let’s go back to 1999 and using credit cards on the Internet. Nobody wanted to […]
Professor Tsourakakis Wins 2018 IEEE ICDM Test-of-Time Award
Boston University Department of Computer Science Assistant Professor Charalampos (Babis) Tsourakakis and his colleague, Professor U Kang (Seoul National University), in collaboration with Professor Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University) have won the 2018 IEEE ICDM Test-of-Time Award for their 2009 paper PEGASUS: A Peta-Scale Graph Mining System – Implementation and Observations. The full award text […]
Researchers from BU and MIT Work to Overcome Algorithmic Bias
Computer Science Professors Adam Smith and Ran Canetti, alongside their CS PhD student Sarah Scheffler (GRS’21), are working with MIT PhD students Aloni Cohen, Nishanth Dikkala, and Govind Ramnarayan to figure out what, if anything, can be done to understand and minimize bias from decision-making systems that depend on computer programs. Their work was recently accepted for publication at […]
Department Goes Green to Achieve Gold
On Wednesday, November 7th, sustainability@BU officially certified the Boston University Department of Computer Science as a Green Department, earning the level of Gold. BU CS is the seventh department at Boston University to earn Green Department Certification, and the first in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Green Office Certification Program, launched in 2011 […]
CAS Professors Use Web Browsing Data to Predict Election Results
From BU Today — As the predictions for the 2016 presidential election remind us, polling the electorate is an imperfect science. Most polls claimed that Hillary Clinton would be our next president—it seemed a foregone conclusion—and most polls were wrong, although many forecasts for the popular vote were very close—off by less than one percentage point. […]
BU CS Students Reflect on Grace Hopper 2018
By Maisie Guzi On September 26, 2018, six Boston University Computer Science (CS) students arrived at the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) in Houston, TX ready for a week full of inspiring speakers, recruiting events, and female empowerment. The annual celebration, designed to bring together women and female-identifying people in computing from around the world, […]