The Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University received praise for a project concerning secure multi-party analytics in a recent On Point segment for National Public Radio, titled “Will Data Help Close the Gender Pay Gap?” Tom Ashbrook, host of the popular radio show, interviewed former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Evelyn Murphy, on her current work with […]
It’s no secret that today’s policymakers are grappling with technical realities in an effort to develop comprehensive laws and policies that address innovation as well as concern for privacy and security. Now more than ever, understanding cybersecurity and the causes of internet insecurity are critical to lawmakers. As Hariri Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Computer Science Sharon […]
As chronic disease management becomes a growing concern for the medical industry, practitioners, patients, and payers are actively seeking new tools to drive down costs and improve treatment efficacy. One of the recent projects developed by BU’s Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) is an app called Dietary Approaches to Stopping Hypertension (DASH). DASH is a mobile application designed to […]
How do we provide researchers with large-scale cyberinfrastructures that are both programmable and adaptable to a variety of research needs? When research interests require cyberinfrastructures that are so complex a single university cannot develop and maintain one on its own, projects such as the National Science Foundation’s GENI step in. GENI (Global Environment for Network […]
During the last three weeks of April, over 1,000 teams participated in a multi-round online computer security competition for middle and high school students at Phillips Academy (Andover, MA). Co-sponsored by the Hariri Institute for Computing, Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project, and Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project, Phillips Academy Capture the Flag (PACTF) is a cyber-security […]
Computer science and computational thinking provide a variety of tools and techniques for facilitating data collection, delivery, processing, and interpretation in application areas like urban informatics and distributed systems. In a spring 2016 computer science course, Data Mechanics for Pervasive Systems and Urban Applications, CS Lecturer and Hariri Institute Director of Research Development, Andrei Lapets, worked […]
University Provost, Jean Morrison, kicked off today’s Capitol Hill cybersecurity briefing by framing internet insecurity as a challenge that sits at the intersection of policy, education, and research. The panel, titled “The Other 95%: The Unsecure Internet You Don’t Know About,” featured panelists Sharon Goldberg, Hariri Faculty Fellow and associate professor of computer science; Joseph Hall, Chief Technologist […]
The Hariri Graduate Fellows Program, a new program at the Institute, recognizes outstanding PhD students with the potential to become ambassadors for the entire Boston University computing, computational, and data-driven research community. This honor is given to continuing PhD students who have distinguished themselves during their time at Boston University by attaining significant achievements in computational […]
Through the Hariri Research Awards, the Institute supports a portfolio of ambitious research projects that catalyze interdisciplinary research, each applying computational and data-driven approaches in new ways. By supporting projects in social sciences, humanities, law, business, and medicine – to engineering, computer science, and statistics, the Research Awards advance the Institute’s goal of bringing together and building a community […]
Friday, June 10, 2016 12pm -1 pm Location: PHO 339, 8 St Marys St Prof. Tai Moreshet – Spider Goat: Transactional Memory for Security Abstract: Modern Intel CPUs support the detection and resolution of memory conflicts between multiple threads that access the same data: This is called Transactional Synchronisation Extension (TSX). Hardware-supported TSX technology helps […]