Author: Hariri Institute

Teaching the Next Generation – Hacking with Holyoke Codes

Boston University researchers, including Hariri Institute Founding Director, Azer Bestavros, hosted a free, hands-on cybersecurity workshop  at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke, MA on December 12, 2015. The Hacking with Holyoke Codes workshop was attended by over 20 young people who learned about secret codes and cryptography. Both kids and their parents participated […]

Hariri Fellow Sharon Goldberg Weighs in on Apple Cybersecurity Case

Sharon Goldberg, a Hariri Institute Faculty Fellow and associate professor of computer science, has serious concerns about the FBI’s request to unlock Apple’s iPhone. Goldberg, a network security expert, sat down with BU Research to discuss the ongoing standoff between Apple and the FBI, as well as its potential to introduce substantial security risks for […]

Hariri Institute Hosts Joe Touch for Talk: An Optical Turing Machine for Network Processing

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Hariri Institute for Computing, Room 180 An Optical Turing Machine for Network Processing (with background on a digital optical Internet router) Joe Touch Director, Postel Center at University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Systems, University of […]

Hariri Institute Director, Azer Bestavros, and Faculty Fellow, Sharon Goldberg, on President Obama’s Cybersecurity Budget Proposals

Budget proposals for the next fiscal year are expected to invest more heavily in research, including studies in the area of cybersecurity, fields in which BU and the Hariri Institute are leading research institutions. Hariri Founding Director, Azer Bestavros, and Hariri Faculty Fellow Sharon Goldberg both expressed their excitement over the proposed increase for cybersecurity […]

Leila Agha, Institute Junior Fellow, Gives Mar 16, 2016 Meet Our Fellows Talk

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Hariri Institute for Computing, Room 180 Refreshments to follow Big Names or Big Ideas: Do Peer Review Committees Select the Best Science Proposals? Leila Agha Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Markets, Public Policy and Law Department, Questrom School of Business With an introduction given by […]

Orran Krieger Gives Keynote Address at NSF Workshop on Software-defined Infrastructure and Software-defined Exchanges

In early February, Orran Krieger, MOC PI, gave a Keynote Address, “A marketplace driven direction for SDI: Towards an “Open Cloud Exchange” at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Workshop on Software-defined Infrastructure and Software-defined Exchanges. The workshop, part of NSF’s “Looking Beyond the Internet” workshop series, explored research opportunities in wireless, network and cloud technology. […]

Hariri Institute to host Azure for Research at BU, 1-Day Class for Researchers and Data Scientists

Friday, March 25, 2016 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Boston University 808 Commonwealth Ave, Room FLR 134 Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Boston University and the Hariri Institute for Computing are pleased to host an Azure for Researchers hands on training, Friday, March 25th 2016 in partnership with Microsoft & Wintellect. This free, 1-day class will be offered through two consecutive sessions […]

Past Junior Fellow, Douglas Densmore, Aims to Advance Synthetic Biology

Douglas Densmore, former Junior Faculty Fellow and current associate professor at Boston University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was granted $10 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund his own “Expeditions in Computing” project. Densmore will lead the Living Computing Project along with the Lincoln Laboratory, a comprehensive effort to quantify synthetic biology using […]

Barbara Shine-Cunningham, Hariri Institute Steering Committee Member, Elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

Barbara Shine-Cunningham, Hariri Institute Steering Committee Member and professor of biomedical engineering, has been elected to the prestigous American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows, which is comprised of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers in the country. She was elected for her outstanding contributions to auditory neuroscience, […]