Computer Science professor Leo Reyzin has won Best Paper at the Eurocrypt 2017 conference for his paper “Scrypt is Maximally Memory-Hard.” The paper, which was written by Reyzin and Joël Alwen, Binyi Chen, Krzysztof Pietrzak, and Stefano Tessaro, discusses their work on memory-hard function.
In addition to David Boas, faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences, Sargent College, and the College of Engineering will join the center. Director of the Photonics Center, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and a member of the Steering Committee for the Hariri Institute, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, will be among the founding faculty members.
The Institute is pleased to host a Data Science Initiative (DSI) Distinguished Lecture, given by Adam Smith and titled “Privacy, Stability and Generalization.” Tuesday, May 16, 2017; 12:30-1:30pm, lunch served at 12pm. Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room.
Junior Faculty Fellow Dan Li, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environment, is paving the way for study on urban heat islands as important indicators of climate change. As BU Today reports, Li, along with undergraduate Yaofeng Gu (CAS ’17), a student in the Undergraduate Research Opporunities Program (UROP), are testing a new system that will include urban areas in climate change.
The Hariri Institute is pleased to host a student poster session Friday, May 5th from 3-5PM. The event will feature projects completed by students enrolled in the spring iteration of CS 506 (ENG 500), taught by Evimaria Terzi, Associate Professor of Computer Science.
Hosted by the Hariri Institute, students in Lecturer Andrei Lapets’ CS591 Data Mechanics class had the opportunity to share the results of their semester-long work, which focused on real-life faced by Boston residents and organizations. Over 50 students presented posters that answered questions such as how to find the best area to live, what is the correlation between food accessibility and obesity, and what steps to take regarding rising sea levels.
Research Scientist and Co-Director of the Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security (RISCS), Mayank Varia, has been awarded “Best Talk” at the University of Bristol’s Theory and Practice of Multi-Party Computation Workshops. The workshop took place April 3rd-7th at the University of Bristol’s campus in Bristol, England. Varia’s talk, “Design and Deployment of Usable, Scalable, MPC” focused on his work with Hariri Institute faculty and partners at UMass to develop a multi-party computing (MPC) platform that aggregates data input by Boston employers and looks at the pay-gap between their female and male employees.
In collaboration with BU and the City of Boston, Red Hat, the world’s leader in open source enterprise software, will teach 25 middle school girls the value of collaboration through a three day workshop from April 19th-April 21st. The workshop, held in a Red Hat mobile Co.Lab trailer outside of City Hall Plaza, will teach the girls how to build and code a digital camera. The girls will then venture out to take photos of what collaboration means to them and later share their work.
BU Spark! is now accepting applications for in-residence interns for Summer 2017. BU Spark! is an exciting initiative that creates a supportive community for student-centered entrepreneurship in computing as well as a suite of programs, activities, resources, and networks to help and empower students to pursue next-stage development of their ideas, concepts, and creations for innovative computing and data-driven technology. The program is looking for in-residence interns for the 2017 summer season.
BU’s Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) is now accepting applications for Software Engineer Interns for the Fall 2017 semester. Interns at the lab have the opportunity to gain experience working with professional software developers and architects, applying modern software development techniques while following industry best practices.