News
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 data centers and cloud computing are becoming the core computing infrastructure, making the availability of such services extremely critical. However, these environments are increasingly vulnerable […]
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 in cybersecurity. Source: News @ Northeastern
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
Water Powered Energy
The Ocean Renewable Power Company is using the designs for the Helical Turbine invented by MIE Professor Emeritus Alexander Gorlov to create a giant tidal powered turbine generator in Maine. Gorlov's Helical Turbine represents an alternative approach to hydroelectric power. The turbine harnesses the kinetic energy of moving water. Instead of relying on dams, Gorlov's […]
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 of Engineering was held October 29-31, 2012, at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California. Sixty of the most promising engineers under the age of 45 from […]
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 microchips economically feasible in the 1980s, said Sivasubramanian Somu, a research scientist in Northeastern’s Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing. A critical element in any microchip is something […]
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 @ Northeastern
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 of people in order to tailor search results and create targeted ads or other marketable content. But what happens when “the bad guys” employ web crawlers? […]