Author: Hariri Institute

Hariri Institute Sponsors and Hosts 2nd New England Networking and Systems Day

Sponsored and hosted by the Hariri Institute for Computing, New England Network and Systems Day brings together academics and research scientists from local industry, universities and research labs to discuss recent advances in networking and systems. Following an extremely successful event last year, the 2nd Annual New England Network and Systems Day will be held […]

DSI Distinguished Lecture by George Karypis on Big Data Methods, Systems, and Applications

Please join us on Friday, September 25, 2015 at 11 am for a Data Science Initiative Distinguished Lecture with George Karypis, ADC Chair of the Digital Technology Center and professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.  The lecture will take place at Boston University’s Hariri Institute for […]

October 2nd – 3rd, 2015 Boston University Digital Humanities 2015 Symposium

What ARE the digital humanities? How can digital pedagogy change the classroom experience, and revolutionize your scholarship? What skills do you need to make your way in the “digital academy”? JOIN US on 2-3 October 2015 for the inaugural BU Digital Humanities Symposium 2015, an interdisciplinary forum of roundtables (Day 1) and workshops (Day 2) […]

Computational Modeling of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

SPRING 2013 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  James Galagan (Biomedical Engineering and Microbiology, College of Engineering) The goal of this project was to develop predictive models of the complete regulatory and metabolic networks of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). The aim is to use these models to computationally study the molecular programs that enable MTB to cause human disease in […]

Health Care at the Intersection of Economics and Computer Science

SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Benjamin Lubin (Information Systems, Quaestorum School of Business) and Keith Marzilli Ericson (Markets, Public Policy, and Law, Quaestorum School of Business) The operation of the health care system in the United States is extraordinarily complex, with many interactions among patients, doctors, insurers, governments, and other parties. This complexity also generates an extraordinary […]

Identifying Experts and Effective Teams of Experts

SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  Evimaria Terzi (Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences) and Nachiketa Sahoo (Information Systems, Questrom School of Business) In many settings, individuals form teams and work together in order to complete a project. For example, within companies groups of employees perform tasks collectively in groups. Similarly, scientists merged their skills […]

The Levantine Ceramics Project: Phase II

SPRING 2013 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Andrea Berlin (Archaeology, College of Arts and Sciences) In the field of archaeology we are drowning in data, and that creates an unusual problem. In most fields, more data is a good thing. In theory that’s true for archaeology as well. In practice, however, keeping up with ever-increasing amounts of […]

Privacy Year

SPRING 2013 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Sharon Goldberg, Ran Canetti, Leonid Reyzin (Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences) The Privacy Year, funded by HIC, RISCS, Penn State, and Harvard’s CRCS, brought three top data privacy researchers, Kobbi Nissim, Sofya Raskhodnikova, and Adam Smith, to BU for AY 2013-14. The main focus was research about data […]

To Tweet or to Yelp: Accountability and Choice in Online Consumer Feedback

SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE John Byers (Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences) This work studied the interplay between consumers and an emerging class of firms that generate economic value in whole or in part by enabling users to share their experiences through comments, reviews and online feedback, notably Yelp, Twitter, TripAdvisor and Airbnb. […]