Author Archive for: cgc@bu.edu
Entries by Christos Cassandras
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
Team led by Theodora Brisimi wins Prize at 2014 IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge competition
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Boston University Receives National Science Foundation Funding to Develop “Smart City” Cloud Platform
Boston University receives NSF grant to develop A Smart City Cloud Platform
Cassandras Named Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Professor Christos G. Cassandras (ECE, SE) and Professor John Baillieul (ME, ECE, SE) have been selected as Distinguished Professors of Engineering, a title to be held throughout their careers at Boston University. These prominent faculty were selected based on their outstanding service to the College, teaching aptitude, as well as making a demonstrable difference in […]
Cassandras Delivers 2014 Distinguished Scholar Lecture
For 30 years, Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE) has solved countless complex problems by translating them into simpler terms and then applying optimization, computer simulation and other tools of the systems engineering trade. A pioneer in the field of discrete event dynamic systems analysis, used extensively in the development and operation of manufacturing, transportation, communications and […]
