{"id":3441,"date":"2012-10-15T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2020-03-18T16:03:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:03:22","slug":"bu-student-acm-builds-team-makes-it-to-the-csaw-capture-the-flag-competition-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2012\/10\/15\/bu-student-acm-builds-team-makes-it-to-the-csaw-capture-the-flag-competition-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"BUILDS team makes it to the CSAW Capture-the-Flag competition finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BU Student ACM \/ BUILDS team has qualified for the finals of\u00a0NYU-Poly&#8217;s CSAW (Cyber-Security Awareness Week) Capture-the-Flag competition,\u00a0where teams compete to solve challenges relevant to modern computer security.<\/p>\n<p>BUILDS will send a team of four to the finals, which are at NYU-Poly, in\u00a0Brooklyn, from Thursday, 15 November to Saturday, 17 November.\u00a0\u00a0Our team is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allan Wirth\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02015\u00a0\u00a0Computer Science<\/li>\n<li>Danny Cooper\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2013\u00a0\u00a0Computer Science<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Crowell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2013\u00a0\u00a0Computer Engineering<\/li>\n<li>George Silvis, III\u00a0\u00a0 2014\u00a0\u00a0Math\/Ancient Greek\u00a0\u00a0 [Treasurer of BUILDS]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, the following people participated in the qualifying round two\u00a0weeks ago:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Giancarlo Duncan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2013\u00a0\u00a0Computer Science<\/li>\n<li>John-Nicholas Furst\u00a0\u00a02013\u00a0\u00a0Computer Engineering [Secretary of BUILDS]<\/li>\n<li>Avery Gray\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2014\u00a0\u00a0Computer Science<\/li>\n<li>Monica Gribouski\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2013\u00a0\u00a0Computer Science\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [President of BUILDS]<\/li>\n<li>Anthony Inzero\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2013\u00a0\u00a0Computer Science<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Mohn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02014\u00a0\u00a0Mathematics<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Sullivan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02013\u00a0\u00a0Computer Science<\/li>\n<li>Liam Wang\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02013\u00a0\u00a0Computer Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Out of 722 teams that participated in the preliminary round, BUILDS placed 44th,\u00a0and out of the undergraduate teams eligible to qualify, we took 13th. \u00a0We are\u00a0pleased that BUILDS will represent Boston University in this internationally recognized\u00a0competition.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more information about the CSAW CTF competition at NYU-Poly&#8217;s\u00a0website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poly.edu\/csaw2012\">http:\/\/www.poly.edu\/csaw2012<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BU Student ACM BUILDS team has qualified for the finals of NYU-Poly&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poly.edu\/csaw2012\">NYU-Poly&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441"}],"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\/5697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14321,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/14321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}