“How Computer Automation Affects Jobs and Wages” by James Bessen (Lecturer, Boston University School of Law). Hosted in collaboration with the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS) and BU/MIT Technology & Cyberlaw Clinic.
Wed@Hariri March 29, 2017, 3:00-4:30PM, Hariri Institute for Computing, Meet Our Fellows
Junior Faculty Fellow: Jacob Bor, Global Health & Epidemiology (SPH), Graduate Fellows: Sarah Zheng, Operations & Technology Management (QST), Rejita Menon, Physics (CAS)
Thursday March 9, 2017, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room. Please join us for a Lunch & Learn, hosted by JuanRamon Acosta, Principal Cloud Software Architect, Cisco Systems. The Industry Scholars Lunch & Learn is open to BU PhD students and postdocs.
Meet Our Fellows/Research Preview: Shahrooz Zarbafian, PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering (ENG). Meet Our Fellows/Junior Faculty Fellow Presentation: Jacob Groshek, Assistant Professor, Emerging Media Studies (COM). March 15, 2017, 3:00pm-5:00pm, networking and refreshments at 2:45pm.
DSI and CS host joint colloquium on Friday February 24, 2017. Jana Giceva is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, supervised by Gustavo Alonso and co-advised by Timothy Roscoe.
BU Spark! is an initiative for student-centered entrepreneurship and innovation in computing led by Ziba Cranmer. As BU Spark! Director, “Cranmer’s tasks include Creating a supportive community for student innovators and developing programs and activities to serve their needs and raise the visibility of student entrepreneurship at BU.” BU Today spoke with Cranmer to discuss her extensive leadership background in fostering innovation and her future goals for BU Spark!
Meet Our Fellows/Research Preview:Jonathan Hersh, Hariri Graduate Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing; PhD candidate, Economics (CAS)
Meet Our Fellows/Junior Faculty Fellow Presentation: Large-Scale Computation for Materials Science
Sahara Sharifzadeh, Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing; Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering (ENG)
Last fall, the Hariri Institute for Computing launched a redesigned “Meet Our Fellows” series that will showcase the Institute’s 2016 Junior Faculty Fellows as well as the inaugural cohort of Hariri Graduate Student Fellows. Prior to Junior Faculty Fellow presentations, a Graduate Student Fellow will give a 5-minute preview of his or her current research.
On December 6th-7th, the Hariri Institute for Computing hosted the second annual Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) Workshop. Built upon a unique academic, industry, and government partnership, the MOC is comprised of deeply interconnected projects with the same goal: to develop an open, production-quality cloud computing system that enables research and provides leading-edge services for scientific computing. This year’s […]
On December 3rd 2016, The Hariri Institute for Computing hosted BUILDS, Boston University’s (BU) student-run hackerspace, for a local hack day. BUILDS is a unique entity at the University that provides students with all the tools and resources for leading collaborative student tech projects.
The Hariri Institute hosted a student poster session this Wednesday, December 14th from 1-5PM, featuring 35 group projects completed by students enrolled in the “Computational Tools for Data Science” (CS 505) fall course taught by Professor Crovella. Students from CS 505 presented posters describing data-science experiments studies they have conducted.