Research by Mikhail Breslav and Diane Theriault featured in Science News
Mikhail Breslav and Diane Theriault, both PhD candidates in the Computer Science Department, were in an article about the research they have done as part of AIRFOILS (for Animal-Inspired Robust Flight with Outer and Inner Loop Strategies).
BU Data Science Initiative takes off
At BU, the Data Science Initiative is mining mountains of data to uncover new information and transform our approaches to everything from health care and business to design and communications.
Leo Reyzin and Sharon Goldberg awarded grant from Verisign Labs
Professors Sharon Goldberg and Leo Reyzin received a 25k grant from Verisign Labs to fund the development of NSEC5, a proposed modification of the DNSSEC protocol.
BUILDS team places 2nd and wins $10K at CyberSEED competition
BUILDS traveled to the University of Connecticut to participate in a Software Challenge at the CyberSEED conference, put on by UCONN’s Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation.
SCOPE Project led by Azer Bestavros featured in BU Today
The Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform & Ecosystem (SCOPE) will develop cloud computing–based services and products to solve urban problems ranging from traffic congestion to dirty air with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Sharon Goldberg published in the Communications of ACM magazine
Why is it taking so long to secure internet routing? has been published in Volume 57, Number 10 of Communications of the ACM.
Professor Margrit Betke and PhD Students Danna Gurari, Diane Theriault, and Mehrnoosh Sameki win Best Paper Award
Danna Gurari, Diane Theriault, Mehrnoosh Sameki, and Margrit Betke’s paper, “How to use level set methods to accurately find boundaries of cells in biomedical images? Evaluation of six methods paired with automated and crowdsourced initial contours,” won Best Paper Award for Innovative Idea.
Mark Crovella and Evimaria Terzi awarded NSF grant
Professors Mark Crovella and Evimaria Terzi of the Computer Science Department received a National Science Foundation award entitled “Structural Matrix Completion for Data Mining Applications.”
CS Major Dustin Vandenberg wins a Harold Case Scholarship
Congratulations, Dustin!
Ran Canetti and the MACS project team awarded NSF grant
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program announced a $10 million Frontier grant was awarded to Boston University’s Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project.