Department (in the) News

2006

• [2006.02.02] Leo Reyzin talks about identity theft in BU Today

2005

• [2005.12.21] Leo Reyzin awarded prestigious NSF CAREER Award
• [2005.12.15] Department Holiday Party Held at The Castle
• [2005.10.13] Wayne Snyder featured in DFP article
• [2005.10.12] NSA officers and technical directors visit CS @ BU
• [2005.10.04] Rich West quoted in DFP article on Open Source
• [2005.10.01] Bestavros and Matta awarded NSF CyberTrust Award to study exploits of network dynamics
• [2005.09.30] Networking research highlighted in BU research magazine
• [2005.09.01] Byers and Bestavros awarded NSF NeTS Award to study network embeddings
• [2005.08.31] Stan Sclaroff and students secure best paper at ICDAR'05
• [2005.08.15] BU Approves Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security (RISCS) Center
• [2005.08.01] Leonid Levin's NP completeness results featured in French science magazine
• [2005.06.06] Azer Bestavros interviewed by CIO Magazine on CS enrollments
• [2005.05.22] Congratulations Class of 2005!
• [2005.05.15] Michelle Paquette (GRS'05) featured in Arts and Sciences Magazine
• [2005.04.30] John Byers awarded tenure and promotion
• [2005.03.29] Angshuman Bagchi wins President's Award at BU Science & Technology Day
• [2005.03.22] Department holds its 2005 IAP Research Day
• [2005.03.02] Margrit Betke featured in 2004 BU Research Magazine
• [2005.01.31] Margrit Betke featured on pages of the Daily Free Press
• [2005.01.31] Christos Faloutsos Delivers last of the Department's 20th Anniversary Talks
• [2005.01.24] Margrit Betke is one of two academics in list of "Top 10 Women to Watch" in New England
• [2005.01.06] Stan Sclaroff named Senior Member of the IEEE

2004

• [2004.12.15] Department Holiday Party Held at The Castle
• [2004.12.14] WING holds its 2004 Workshop with Ion Stoica of UC Berkeley delivering its annual lecture
• [2004.09.20] Rohit Parikh delivers 20th Anniversary Lecture on Logic of Knowledge and Social Software
• [2004.06.01] Collaboration between CS and Chemistry highlighted in 2004 BU Research Brief
• [2004.05.20] Vassilis Athisos and Jef Considine are winners of 2004 REA Award
• [2004.05.16] Harry Lewis delivers 2004 CS Convocation speech
• [2004.05.16] Congratulations Class of 2004!
• [2004.05.05] Diane Hirsh, Seth Roby, and Mark Saia elected to Phi Beta Kappa for academic achievements
• [2004.05.02] Department wins major DoEd GAANN Award
• [2004.04.26] Shafi Goldwasser delivers 20th Anniversary Lecture on Huge Random Object Generation
• [2004.04.22] Margrit Betke awarded tenure and promotion
• [2004.04.12] Margaret Wright delivers 20th Anniversary Lecture on Interior-Point Revolution
• [2004.03.22] Azer Bestavros selected as Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE, Computer Society
• [2004.03.17] Department holds its 2004 IAP Research Day
• [2004.03.15] ICDE'04 Best paper award goes to work by Kollios and Byers and their students
• [2004.03.08] Leonid Levin awarded the 2004 Klomogorov Medal
• [2004.01.10] BU WING group to host IEEE Workshop on Wireless Services and Applications
• [2004.01.09] BU Bridge reports on recent joint CS/Biology NSF ITR Grant

2003

• [2003.12.09] Department Holiday Party Held at The Castle
• [2003.12.16] WING holds its 2003 Workshop with Jon Crowcroft of Cambridge delivering its annual lecture
• [2003.12.15] Jon Crowcroft delivers 20th Anniversary Lecture on Scalable Ubiquitous Computing
• [2003.12.08] Albert Meyer delivers 20th Anniversary Lecture on Computability and Scheme
• [2003.12.01] Research by CS/Biology Faculty on Bats featured in Arts & Sciences Alumni Magazine
• [2003.11.24] Bruce Maggs delivers 20th Anniversary Lecture on Experimenting with CDNs
• [2003.11.03] Takeo Kanade delivers 20th Anniversary Lecture on Multi-Camera Video Computing
• [2003.10.28] Leonid Levin to deliver the 2004 Klomogorov Lecture2004
• [2003.10.27] Michael Rabin presents hyperencryption results at BUCS 20th Anniversary Lecture Series
• [2003.10.14] Diane Hirsh (CAS'04) wins Lubee Award for Outstanding Presentation by a Student
• [2003.09.17] Margrit Betke's lung cancer detection techniques featured in 2003 BU Research Brief
• [2003.09.10] Vision research by CS faculty leverages BU ecosystem project  funded by $2.4M ITR grant 
• [2003.09.08] Steve Homer secures $500K NSF ITR Award in collaboration with BU Chemistry Faculty
• [2003.09.01] Research Excellence Awards for 2003 Announced
• [2003.07.10] Reyzin and Itkis secure $400K NSF Trusted Computing Award
• [2003.06.30] Teng secures $500K NSF ITR Award to study Smooth Analysis of Algorithms
• [2003.05.30] Video Game Creator Consortium Launched
• [2003.05.27] MIT Technology Review reports on Teng and Spielman's Work
• [2003.05.19] Leonid Levin and collaborators receive prestigious SIAM award
• [2003.05.18] J Allard of Microsoft delivers 2003 CS Convocation speech
• [2003.05.18] Congratulations Class of 2003!
• [2003.05.17] J Allard (BA'1991) receives CAS Distinguished Alumni Award
• [2003.05.16] Department honors service of Abdelsalam Heddaya
• [2003.04.30] Dick Karp initiates the BU/CS 20th Anniversary Colloquium Series
• [2003.04.25] Ibrahim Matta awarded tenure and promotion
• [2003.04.13] Bill Rainford (BA'03) featured in Boston Globe Article on Internships
• [2003.04.11] Leo Reyzin featured in interview with BU Bridge on cryptographic security
• [2003.04.10] Rebecca Norlander (BA'91) to lead a Women in CS day at BU
• [2003.04.07] BU/CS startup company to streamline electronic data storage
• [2003.03.27] Department holds its 2003 IAP Career Day
• [2003.03.26] J Allard (BU/CS class of 1991) featured in the Spring 2003 issue of Bostonia Magazine
• [2003.03.25] Stephen Crampton wins the Chancellor Award in BU 2003 Science and Technology Day
• [2003.03.24] Sensorium laboratory and projects web site goes live!
• [2003.03.06] Department holds its 2003 IAP Research Day
• [2003.02.27] BU Daily Free Press: "Computer Science still popular"
• [2003.02.01] NSF-sponsored iBench Initiative Launched
• [2003.01.15] Plans for a Special 20th Anniversary Colloquium Series are Underway

2002

• [2002.12.10] Department Holiday party held at BU atop the Photonics building
• [2002.12.04] Department hosts the 4th Real-Time Linux Workshop
• [2002.11.15] Department hosts Belmont Brownie Troop 19-19
• [2002.11.13] Leonid Levin identifies and closes a loophole in Gödel completeness theorem
• [2002.10.23] CS Department research featured in an article on Internet fractal properties
• [2002.10.20] Department Fall'02 party held at the Crovellas' residence
• [2002.10.02] BU Daily Free Press student newspaper reports on CS Department funding
• [2002.09.28] Department recent successes featured in cover story of BU Bridge
• [2002.07.22] Bestavros/Kfoury land a $1.7M ITR award on dependable Internet programming
• [2002.07.19] Department secures a $1.8M NSF award to acquire a sensor network infrastructure
• [2002.07.15] Scott Russell named NPSC Research Fellow
• [2002.05.19] Robert Popp from DARPA (BA/MA'92) delivers 2002 CS Convocation speech
• [2002.05.16] Department Spring'02 party held at the Homers' residence
• [2002.04.22] NSF cites Shanghua Teng's research as one of the most influential in 2001/02
• [2002.04.15] Wayne Snyder wins 2002 College Prize for Excellence in Advising
• [2002.04.09] Distributed Routing patent awarded based on research done by CS Faculty and students
• [2002.03.26] Harrison Hong wins the Provost Award in BU 2002 Science and Technology Day
• [2002.02.22] Department holds its first IAP Research Day
• [2002.01.31] George Kollios is recipient of NSF CAREER Award

2001

• [2001.12.19] Department Holiday party held at the BU Castle
• [2001.10.31] Shanghua Teng to join the CS Department Faculty in January 2002
• [2001.10.09] Computing Alumni Network Initiative Launched
• [2001.09.20] NSF-funded Internet Traffic Managers Project Launched
• [2001.09.15] Workshop on Internet and Networking research at BU to be held October 8, 2001
• [2001.09.10] New Industry Talk Series Launched as part of IAP Initiative
• [2001.09.01] Privacy Experts David Martin and Richard Smith join the CS Department
• [2001.08.01] Leonid Reyzin and Hongwei Xi join the CS Department Faculty
• [2001.07.15] Anna Karpovsky named NPSC Research Fellow
• [2001.06.20] Boston University hosts the 6th International Web Caching Workshop
• [2001.04.24] Web Server Scheduling patent awarded based on research done by CS Faculty
• [2001.04.01] Department awarded prestigious GAANN fellowships from US Dept of Education
• [2001.03.14] Shudong Jin is named IBM Research Fellow
• [2001.02.15] John Byers is recipient of NSF CAREER Award
• [2001.01.12] Stan Sclaroff awarded tenure and promotion

2000

• [2000.12.26] Web Caching patent awarded based on research done by CS Faculty and students
• [2000.12.16] Margrit Betke is recipient of NSF CAREER Award
• [2000.09.26] Web Site for Applied Crypto and e-Security (ACeS) Group Launched
• [2000.09.05] Margrit Betke, George Kollios, and Rich West join the CS Department Faculty
• [2000.08.15] Workshop on Internet and Networking research at BU to be held October 10, 2000
• [2000.08.01] Azer Bestavros named new Chair of the CS Department
• [2000.07.04] Web site for Web and InterNetworking Group (WING) Launched
• [2000.06.30] NSF-Funded MASS Research Project Launched
• [2000.01.29] Mark Crovella awarded tenure and promotion
• [2000.01.21] New Facility will Aid in Understanding Sign Language and Human Movement

1999

• [1999.01.06] John Byers joins the CS Department Faculty
• [1999.10.22] BU fund is Midwife to Computer Science Department Faculty Spin-Off
• [1999.09.07] Gene Itkis and Ibrahim Matta join the CS Department Faculty
• [1999.08.30] BU/NSF Workshop on Internet Measurement Instrumentation and Characterization held at BU

1998

• [1998.11.02] Department Spin-Off is Named as a Finalist at NetWorld & Interop 
• [1998.09.11] Fruits of Faculty Research Cultivated by Venture Capital
• [1998.02.05] Azer Bestavros awarded tenure and promotion

1997

• [1997.04.18] BU Researchers Help Develop New Internet Software

1996

• [1996.01.25] CS Alumna Alicia Cannon Mullen Among Top 100 Women in Computing