CS Ambassadors Organize a Splash Event Unlike Any Other
By Keziah Zimmerman This past Saturday, September 12th, CS Ambassadors hosted CS Splash, the annual club fair for computer science-related groups. The event was, for the first time ever, held on Zoom and nearly 80 participants joined the call. “We’ve been working on Splash since February. It’s one of our biggest events,” said Jack Giunta […]
Professor John Byers Joins DARPA’s ISAT Study Group
By Keziah Zimmerman This past summer, CS Professor John Byers was named to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to work with the Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group. Byers recently attended his first ISAT workshop, which ran from August 17th-20th over Zoom. BU CS caught up with Byers to learn more about […]
BU CS in the Time of COVID-19
by Kayla Chapman Since Tuesday, March 17th, life has been very different for the BU CS community. On that day, Boston University President Robert Brown announced that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Boston University would cease in-person instruction and the remainder of the spring semester would be taught entirely online. This change, while necessary for […]
Spotlight – Sumara Ali
by Kayla Chapman Sumara Ali (CAS ‘20) stumbled upon computer science her sophomore year of high school. She enrolled in AP Computer Science after discovering that it was the only class she and her friends could take together. What Sumara assumed would be a fun course to take with her friends quickly became a […]
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 […]