Institute Junior Fellow and Computer Science Professor Sharon Goldberg was interviewed by Janet Wu of WCVB TV about the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision that Police can’t search cellphones without a warrant.
Among last year’s graduates who accepted employment offers three months after Commencement, a plurality, 21 percent, went into technology and science, versus 16 percent in financial services, according to Questrom’s Feld Career Center. BU Today spoke about the tech migration with Williams, author of Uncontrolled Risk: Lessons of Lehman Brothers and How Systemic Risk Can […]
“Will the future of cloud IAAS and PAAS innovation be dominated (and also limited) by a few large vertically integrated cloud providers?” The recently announced Massachusetts Open Cloud Project (MOC) is founded on the premise that innovation will be limited largely to cloud providers who tend to design their own hardware and develop their own […]
Computer Science Professor and Institute Executive Steering Committee Member Ran Canetti has been selected as a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. The International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) selected four fellows for its 2014 IACR Fellows Program. This award, accorded to only very few cryptographers worldwide who serve as “model citizens” of the cryptologic community, […]
Numerous regional cyber leaders convened at Hanscom Air Force Base May 28 to discuss, and sometimes debate, the merits and challenges of secure cloud computing. Organized by the Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC) and hosted by leaders at Hanscom, the event fostered vigorous discussion about the most efficient and secure ways to store and protect […]
We are excited to announce that Boston University has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Research for academic years 2014-2021. [Read the Letter]
With Massachusetts pledging $3 million in state support, BU leaders in April announced plans for development of a path-breaking computing cloud that could spur economic growth and technology innovation. The plan calls for hosting the MOC at the MGHPCC data center, where it would tap the computational power of BU and its MOC partners, who […]
Founded nearly two decades ago at Boston University, Scholars Day is a graduate student research symposium that focuses on science, engineering, arts, humanities, and social science research. The Institute recognized two outstanding individuals based on the specific criteria of research that advances the science of computing inspired by challenges in arts and sciences, engineering, and […]
How much does an “open” cloud cost? The Massachusetts state government is willing to invest $3 million in Boston University’s (BU) concept of a truly open cloud, one the institution hopes will spur positive change marketwide. Can this initiative really compete with offerings from big providers like Amazon, Google and IBM, or is it just another […]
On May 15, 2014, Orran Krieger (Lead Investigator of the MOC project) co-presented the concept and plans for the Massachusetts Open Cloud at the OpenStack Summit, which was held in Atlanta May 14-16, 2014. The MOC is a new, non-profit public cloud created in Massachusetts. It will be the product of collaboration between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, five […]