{"id":16807,"date":"2022-11-06T21:18:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?p=16807"},"modified":"2023-07-31T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:50:27","slug":"bu-cs-professor-awarded-wang-professorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2022\/11\/06\/bu-cs-professor-awarded-wang-professorship\/","title":{"rendered":"BU CS Professor Awarded Wang Professorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ran Canetti, professor of Computer Science at Boston University, has just been awarded the Wang Professorship. <span>The Wang Professorship is a university-level endowed professorship award given to a faculty member who is a distinguished scholar and teacher in the natural sciences, mathematics, computer science, or engineering. This award recognizes Ran\u2019s profound impact on cryptography and deep connections to the computer industry.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-8718740968916930863p1\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><span>The Wang Professorship was established in 1988<span class=\"m_-8718740968916930863apple-converted-space\">, and the former\u00a0<\/span>chairholder was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Grossberg\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Grossberg&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1667873194085000&amp;usg=AOvVaw34UvN607tadpuwhw4iuWIk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professor Stephen Grossberg<\/a>\u00a0(until 2019)<span class=\"m_-8718740968916930863apple-converted-space\">.<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-8718740968916930863p2\"><span><u><\/u>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran Canetti, professor of Computer Science at Boston University, has just been awarded the Wang Professorship. The Wang Professorship is a university-level endowed professorship award given to a faculty member who is a distinguished scholar and teacher in the natural sciences, mathematics, computer science, or engineering. This award recognizes Ran\u2019s profound impact on cryptography and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16834,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807\/revisions\/16834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}