Researchers from Boston University’s Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative (AIR), housed at the Hariri Institute, attempt to understand how computers make decisions once they have been programmed to learn. Kate Saenko, an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at BU, takes a look into how computers programmed with artificial intelligence gather information and go about […]
The Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy, which partners with the Hariri Institute for Computing to form the Digital Health Initiative (DHI), will host the next event in their Nexus Series on October 17, 2018, titled: A Tale of Two (or More) Datasets: Multiparty Computing for Health Care Research and Beyond. The seminar will feature […]
The U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking issued its bipartisan report in September 2017 and unanimously found that technological developments are changing the way data analysis can be performed, particularly in terms of privacy protections and security. Insights gained from these developments make it possible to improve informed government decision-making and statistic generation. In particular, secure multi-party […]
Founding Director Azer Bestavros wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that secure multiparty computation can help organizations move past a common impasse they face when they want to be transparent with data for the public good while also maintaining their privacy.
Mayank Varia, a BU cryptography researcher and co-director of the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security, earlier this month served as a guest on the Business Security Weekly video podcast, which is part of a podcast network covering news and issues of interest to information security researchers and professionals. In the episode, Varia […]
Shermak, an entrepreneur and accomplished angel investor, will be focused on recruiting more employers to the Council’s 100% Talent Compact, a pledge that more than 220 Boston-area companies have taken to close the gender wage gap.
Red Hat lends a hand with researching imaging data from MRIs through the Mass Open Cloud for the Boston Children’s Hospital, working with images stripped of identification. Red Hat Engineering Director and BU Research partnership leader Hugh Brock, however, believes that finding solutions that allow research to work with private data is going to be vital to the future of […]
The Hariri Institute was pleased to host and co-sponsor the BU Department of Microbiology summer school and symposium for the Computational Immunology of B cells from June 11 through 14. Directed by Tom Kepler, professor of microbiology and director of the BU Immunology Training Program, the course featured faculty and symposium speakers from across the U.S. who are […]
The Differential Privacy Meets Multi-Party Computation (DPMPC) Workshop brought together over 60 attendees from 13 different universities and sparked groundbreaking discussion about differential privacy and multi-party computing. Organized by Ran Canetti, professor of computer science & director of the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security, and Shafi Goldwasser, RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and […]
In a piece published in the national security blog Lawfare, BU cryptography researcher Mayank Varia makes the case for a “crypto-armistice” between the government and the technology community as a way to both repair a fractious relationship and increase the likelihood that a viable long-term solution to the privacy versus security debate can be cooperatively […]