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Computer Engineering

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NSF CAREER Awards

Meet BU’s Newest NSF CAREER Award Winners

August 5, 2020

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Antiracism

Striking Out Racist Terminology in Engineering

July 16, 2020

Using photolysis—a process by which molecules are broken down by light—BU engineers found they could temporarily weaken MRSA’s defenses enough to make it vulnerable again to several conventional antibiotics

Antibiotic Resistance

Why Phototherapy Will Be the Next Frontier in Combating Antibiotic Resistance

May 21, 2020

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Return to Campus Labs

BU Unveils First Phase of Campuswide Research Recovery Plan

May 6, 2020

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Contact Tracing

Contact Tracing App Warns of COVID-19 Exposure while Protecting Privacy

April 15, 2020

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Autonomous Vehicles

Aerial Drones Get Schooled in Navigation by Moths

January 16, 2020

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 (M87) and its shadow. The shadow of the black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape

Research that Rocks

12 Breakthroughs That Wowed Us in 2019

December 19, 2019

Roscoe Giles in a congressional hearing room after testifying before congress.

Computing

Roscoe Giles Named AAAS Fellow

November 26, 2019

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Accolades

Meet BU’s Six CAREER Award Recipients

October 22, 2019

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Cybersecurity

How Fitbits, Other Bluetooth Devices Make Us Vulnerable to Tracking

July 17, 2019

Brian Walsh of the Boston University Center for Space Physics works on the LEXI x-ray imager in his lab

Space Sciences

A BU X-ray Instrument Is Heading to the Moon

July 2, 2019

BU optics engineer, Siddharth Ramachandran, named 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow by DOD

Accolades

Siddharth Ramachandran

May 2, 2019

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Robotics

How to Make Self-Driving Vehicles Smarter, Bolder

April 16, 2019

illustration secure multiparty computation

Data Science

What Is Secure Multiparty Computation?

February 27, 2019

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Computer Science

These Are the Top Cybersecurity Threats to Watch

February 8, 2019

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Computer Science

BU Experts on Why Patch Fixes Won’t Stop Massive Data Breaches

December 10, 2018

Photo of Lei Guo, from left, Prakash Ishwar, Derry Wijaya, and Margrit Betke in front of computer monitors.

Computer Science

What If You Could Manage Information Overload?

November 27, 2018

Saenko on a bench

Computer Science

Making Artificial Intelligence Intelligible

November 1, 2018

Douglas Densmore holds award

Engineering

Densmore Named Top-Five Innovator by Design Automation Conference

October 11, 2017

Team 8’s Richard Nesbit (from left), Fritz Jolivain, and Brett Moretzky demonstrating the Groove Gloves.

Engineering

Engineering to the Rescue

May 10, 2017

Engineering to the Rescue