News
Sep 17, 2012
Data mining in the social-media ecosystem
Raymond Fu, a newly appointed assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, wants to build a better social-media ecosystem, one in which Facebook makes expert friend recommendations and consumer-product suggestions. […]
Aug 29, 2012
Mi Receives NSF Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Ningfang Mi was awarded a $272K NSF grant to develop techniques to handle software and hardware failures of large scale computing systems. Large-scale computing environments such as […]
Aug 28, 2012
Cybersecurity Training
Professors & Associate Deans David Kaeli (ECE) & Agnes Chan (CCS) and Assistant Professor Will Robertson (ECE & CCS) were awarded a $4.5M NSF grant to train the next generation […]
Aug 28, 2012
Northeastern receives $4.5M award to train future cybersecurity workforce
Professors & Associate Deans David Kaeli (ECE) & Agnes Chan (CCS) and Assistant Professor Will Robertson (ECE & CCS) were awarded a $4.5M NSF grant to train the next generation in cybersecurity.
Aug 27, 2012
Promoting Engineering Education
MIE Assistant Professor Andrew Gouldstone and ECE Associate Professor Waleed Meleis were invited to represent Northeastern at the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium. The 2012 Japan-American Frontiers […]
Aug 24, 2012
A small-scale solution with a large-scale impact
Microchips are pervasive in today’s high-tech society, playing integral roles in the inner workings of your cell phone to your Keurig coffee machine. A processing technology called CMOS, or complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor, made […]
Aug 23, 2012
Separating the Good & Bad
ECE & CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda has developed a new software tool called PubCrawl to detect and contain malicious web crawlers without effecting normal browsing capacities. Source: News @ […]
Aug 23, 2012
A new kind of pub crawl
Websites like Facebook, LinkedIn and other social-media networks contain massive amounts of valuable public information. Automated web tools called web crawlers sift through these sites, pulling out information on millions […]