Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on December 3, 2014 @MCS-180 Sampling Social Media: Using Facebook to Recruit Online Survey Respondents Taylor Boas Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Boston University Abstract: Online surveys are attractive to many social scientists due to their relatively low cost and the ease and reliability with […]
Tech professionals who work at election offices have pretty full calendars these days; but Albert Grimes, CIO at the Massachusetts Office of Campaign & Political Finance, took time out of his busy schedule to chat about how the office handles the flood of political contribution data that comes in shortly before Election Day. Grimes spoke at […]
November 10 2014 from BU today BU plans to hire up to six data scientists—the intellectual miners extracting applicable information from the mountains of Big Data—over the next three years Data scientists use mathematical models to analyze voluminous data and draw knowledge from it that can be used in a variety of applications, from health […]
The Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University is pleased to announce its fourth cohort of Junior Faculty Fellows. They are: Samuel Bazzi, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Ksenia Bravaya, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry Emily Ryan, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Gustavo Schwenkler, Assistant Professor, Department of Finance Cara Stepp, Assistant Professor, Department […]
Azer Bestavros, Institute Founding Director and professor of computer science, was quoted in a Boston Globe article discussing TripAdvisor’s decision to personalize travel recommendations for its users: Amazon Inc. pioneered personalized searches more than a decade ago, and now “it’s hard to find a website that doesn’t do it,” said Azer Bestavros, director of the […]
Join the newly launching Software and Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) at the Hariri Institute for Computing in support of computing and computational research activities across various disciplines at Boston University. With SAIL, you will be given the opportunity to work with faculty to transform research artifacts into well-documented, publicly available production applications and platforms that […]
Art historian Jodi Cranston and her students developed an interactive guide to the work of the master painter Titan. Cranston, a CAS professor of Renaissance art and Institute Faculty Fellow, and a team of students from the CAS history of art and architecture department created this work with support from the Institute and the Kress Foundation. […]
Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on November 5, 2014 @MCS-180 Statistical Inference and Feature Selection in Complex Datasets Pankaj Mehta Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Physics Department Boston University Abstract: Feature selection, identifying a subset of variables that are relevant for predicting a response, is an important and challenging component of many methods in […]
October 15, 2014 from StateTech A new cloud-based smart city system being developed in Boston could be a model for other state and local governments. The project is called SCOPE, and it stands for Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform & Eco-system. Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering is spearheading the […]
October 2, 2014 from The Daily Free Press English zoologist and author Desmond Morris once said, “The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.” In Boston, this metaphor certainly holds true thanks to the city’s less-than-savory drivers, messes of traffic around every corner and population of more than 645,900, according to […]