Author: Hariri Institute

Emily Ryan, Institute Junior Fellow, Gives Dec 2, 2015 Meet Our Fellows Talk

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM on Wednesday, Dec 2, 2015 Hariri Institute for Computing, Room 180 Refreshments to follow Modeling the Physics and Performance Issues in Advanced Battery Technologies Emily Ryan Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Division of Materials Science and Engineering With an introduction by Professor […]

Lei Guo: The “Big Data” Challenge in Communication Research, Nov 4, 2015

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 @ Room 180 Hariri Institute for Computing Refreshments to follow The “Big Data” Challenge in Communication Research Lei Guo Assistant Professor, Division of Emerging Media Studies Boston University Abstract: The talk will present an empirical study that investigates and compares two “big data” text analysis methods: […]

Nov 19, 2015 MOC Annual Workshop Hosted by the Hariri Institute for Computing

Thursday, November 19, 2015 8:30 am – 5:30 pm Photonics Center Colloquium Room, 9th floor 8 St Mary’s Street, Boston, MA This event is by invitation only. Seating is limited and registration is required. For more information, contact Linda Grosser at lgrosser@bu.edu. Morning Welcome and MOC Overview The Open Cloud Exchange (OCX) vision of the MOC, where […]

Mapping the City in the Digital Humanities: First Stop Kyoto

FALL 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  Sarah Frederick (Japanese Literature) and Alice Tseng (History of Art and Architecture) This project was a navigable and interactive online guide and database that was useful for undergraduate teaching and for the broader research community on the city of Kyoto that maps references in literature, film, art, fashion, and cinema […]

Lost Worlds and Found Words: A Prehistory of the Digital Humanities

FALL 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  Maurice Lee (English) This project used the digital humanities tool Voyant to track keyword frequencies across a corpus of American and British adventure novels from 1800-1920. The goal was to determine how the spread of quantitative methods influenced the use of numerical terminology and calculative concepts in novelistic traditions that, […]

Mapping Emulation: Titan and Rubens

FALL 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  Jodi Cranston (History of Art and Architecture) The proposed website, “Mapping Titian” (www.mappingtitian.org) aimed to function as an archive and as an interpretative and teaching site by documenting and mapping one of the most fundamental concerns of the discipline of Art History: the interrelationship between an artwork and its changing […]

Literary Lab: Allusions to Groco-Roman Classics in Irish Literature

FALL 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Meg Tyler (Humanities) “Literary Lab: Allusions to the Greco-Roman Classics in Irish Literature” was an extensive database which provided contextualization for references to the Classics in (mostly modern) Irish Literature. The only collection of its kind, the database accepted entries from scholars the world over. It also allowed for a […]

CLIO World Tables: A Global Historical Database

FALL 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE John Gerring (Political Science) Evidence about the past is scattered across archives, published works, and web sites, and often embedded in original-language sources. Consequently, those who wish to tackle historical subjects on a global scale are faced with the daunting prospect of assembling their own data, more or less from […]

Watch the Video: George Karypis’ DSI Distinguished Lecture “Big Data Research” on Sept 25, 2015

The Hariri Institute for Computing hosted a Data Science Initiative Distinguished Lecture “Big Data Research: Methods, Systems and Applications” with George Karypis (University of Minnesota) on Friday, September 25, 2015 Professor Karypis presented an overview of some recent laboratory work that spans various aspects of “Big Data” research including development of new algorithms, runtime systems, […]

Institute Announces 2015 Junior Faculty Fellows

The Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University is pleased to announce the 2015 Junior Faculty Fellows. They are: Leila Agha, Department of Markets, Public Policy and Law Manuel Egele, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Neha Gondal, Department of Sociology Kirill Korolev, Department of Physics Sam Ling, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences Lorenzo […]