The 2013 Taulbee Survey published by the Computing Research Association reported the second consecutive year of record doctoral degree production in Computer Science, continued strengthening of undergraduate Computer Science enrollments, and significant investments in Computer Science footprint on campuses across the US and Canada. [Read the Report]
By Tiffany Trader. Published in HPC Wire on April 28, 2014. On Friday, in the Western Massachusetts town of Holyoke, Governor Deval Patrick and officials from industry, government and academia joined together for the official launch of a $3 million capital investment, known as the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project. The public-private initiative will establish a new […]
Written by Adrian Baker, Published in the Daily Free Press on Apr 29, 2014 Boston University has received $3 million in state funding from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in addition to support from technology companies to develop the Massachusetts Open Cloud, the first cloud computing software of its kind. “The MOC is conceived as a marketplace where […]
Michael Bushong, vice president of marketing at Plexxi, announces $1M pledge in support of the MOC. The most powerful innovations in human history are born out of collaboration. And so it is thrilling and deeply satisfying for me to announce Plexxi’s participation in the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project. [Read Article]
Institute Fellow, Sharon Goldberg, was featured as one of the two BU faculty members named as 2013 Sloan Fellow. As a network security researcher, Goldberg studies the global internet, and more specifically, the ways networks worldwide connect to one another. She uses tools from theory (such as cryptography) and networking (such as measurement, modeling, and […]
Institute Director, Azer Bestavros, was appointed as board member of the Cloud Computing Caucus Advisory Group. The Cloud Computing Caucus Advisory Group is a non-profit, non-partisan coalition of technology companies and industry groups focused on educating lawmakers and the public about cloud computing as well as other information technology issues. Members of the Board represent some of […]
Boston University will host the 2014 International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) from March 11 to March 15, 2014.
Hariri Institute Fellow and Computer Science Assistant Professor, Sharon Goldberg, has been selected as one of 126 Alfred P. Sloan scholars for 2014. Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships are given to early-career scientists and scholars “whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders.” Past Sloan Research Fellows have gone […]
In an article entitled “Why It’s So Hard to Figure Out the Sharing Economy’s Winners and Losers”, Emily Badgerof the Atlantic Cities web site discusses the recent research by Institute Fellows Giorgos Zervas and John Byers and their student Davide Proserpio on the “Sharing Economy”. This research is the first to provide empirical evidence that the sharing […]
Research by Institute Fellows Giorgos Zervas and John Byers, and their student Davide Proserpio was the subject of a Boston Globe Sunday article in their “Ideas” section. Craigslist sunk the classified business and Amazon has put bookstores into bankruptcy. Now a trio of researchers at Boston University wants to know- is Airbnb going to make Marriott and […]