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Entries by Christos Cassandras
$900k NSF Grant to Predict Heart Disease, Diabetes Using Machine Learning
Researchers from the College of Engineering and Boston Medical Center (BMC) will use a three-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and pilot a health informatics system to predict patients at risk of heart disease or diabetes, and enable early intervention and personalized treatment. Click here to read more.
NEXTCAR $3.3M grant to develop smart car technology and an Internet of Cars
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BBC News – Tomorrow’s cities
Real-time alterations to the red-and-green cycle can cut congestion time by up to 50% and make a city drive much more agreeable, says Prof Christos Cassandras, a smart cities expert from Boston University, who helped develop the system. “We have all been in the situation where we keep getting stuck behind red light after red […]
BU, Tsinghua partner for MS in Systems Engineering
Under a new dual degree program, graduates from Beijing’s Tsinghua University, one of China’s top universities, will be able to get a master’s degree in systems engineering at the College of Engineering. Under the agreement signed by President Robert A. Brown and Tsinghua President Qiu Yong on May 6, students who have earned a bachelor […]
Cassandras Chairs NSF Workshop on Smart Cities
Boston University Professor and Head of the Division of Systems Engineering Christos Cassandras was invited by the National Science Foundation to organize and chair a Workshop on Smart Cities, a subject of great national interest and focal point of many recent federal and local government activities. Read more
