The Boston University Center for Computational Science and Physical Chemistry will be hosting a special joint seminar featuring Professor Paul Champion, Physics Department Chair at Northeastern University. Vibrationally Enhanced Deep Proton Tunneling in Proteins 2:00 PM on February 20, 2015 Physics Research Building, 3 Cummington Mall, Room 595 Abstract: Ground electronic state proton tunneling kinetics have been […]
Wednesdays @Hariri POSTPONED Common Agency and Coordinated Bids in Sponsored Search Auctions Francesco Decarolis Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Boston University Joint work with: Maris Goldmanis (Royal Holloway, University of London) Antonio Penta (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Abstract: As auctions are becoming the main mechanism for selling advertisement space on the […]
Research by Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow Giorgos Zervas (Questrom), Hariri Faculty Fellow John Byers (CAS, CS), and PhD candidate Davide Proserpio (CAS, CS) was prominently featured in a New York Times article on the sharing economy, specifically Airbnb. The research referenced by the NYTimes was recently published as a paper on the subject entitled: “A First […]
Roscoe Giles, Hariri Institute for Computing steering committee member and Boston University professor of computer engineering, will be among those testifying at the Supercomputing and American Technology Leadership hearing on January 28, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Held by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the Subcommittee on Energy of the U.S. House of Representatives, the […]
Mario Teixeira, Hariri Institute for Computing visiting fellow and associate professor at Federal University of Maranhão, has published a book titled, Redes de Computadores: Da Teoria à Prática com NetKit (English translation: Computer Networks: From Theory to Practice using NetKit). Teixeira joined the Institute in March 2014 and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of […]
Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on Febraury 25,2015 @ Rm 180 Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia Samuel Bazzi Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Boston University Abstract: Geographic mobility has been a core feature of the development process throughout history. This paper uses a remarkable policy […]
Under the direction of Sharon Goldberg, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Hariri Institute Fellow, Alison Kendler (CAS ’16) and Isaac Cohen (CAS’16) received Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards for 2016. Kendler is recognized as a Finalist in the Women, PhD-granting Institution category and Cohen received Honorable Mention in the Men, PhD-granting category. Cohen had previously worked with the […]
“When in 2012 a computer learned to recognize cats in YouTube videos and just last month another correctly captioned a photo of “a group of young people playing a game of Frisbee,” artificial intelligence researchers hailed yet more triumphs in “deep learning,” the wildly successful set of algorithms loosely modeled on the way brains grow sensitive to features of […]
December 1, 2014 from StateTech A project team of academia and industry experts is making headway on a multimillion-dollar cloud computing initiative announced by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in April. If all goes as planned, the three-year project, known as the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), will pave the way for cloud consumers to customize infrastructure and […]
Please join us for the next installment of Crypto Day on Friday, December 5, 2014 at Boston University. Location: 111 Cummington Mall Room 180. Parking: There’s a pay lot across the street and 4-hour meters on Bay State Road. Schedule 9:30 – 10:00. Introduction/Coffee 10:00 – 11:00. Yuval Ishai, Technion Circuits Resilient to Additive Attacks, with Applications to Secure Computation […]