Event date: September 18, 2014 5:30-6:45 PM ET Location: Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave Description: The first annual Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family College of Arts & Sciences Lecture will feature Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow and CS Assistant Professor Sharon Goldberg. The lecture is about “Advancing the Human Condition: An Agenda for Research and Education” and will feature a panel of […]
Boston University and University of Pittsburg researchers are utilizing Big Data to find urban walking paths that factor in both distance and safety. Esther Galbrun, a postdoc at BU working with Hariri Faculty Fellow Evimaria Terzi of the Computer Science Department, presented a paper titled “Safe Navigation in Urban Environments” at the 3rd International Workshop on […]
The 1st Annual New England Network and Systems Day will be held on Friday, October 24th, 2014, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m at Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Sciences Engineering. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored and hosted by the Hariri Institute, the New England Network […]
This summer, the Hariri Institute participated in the Research Science Institute (RSI), a residential summer enrichment program for high school juniors who show extraordinary potential in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). The program is a rigorous six-week introduction to aspects of scientific research, from formal coursework to design, execution, and analysis of experiments. […]
BU Researchers on Team to Move Cybersecurity from Theory to Practice Article appeared on BU Today 08.01.2014 By Art Jahnke The Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), a one-of-a-kind marketplace model for customizable public cloud offerings now being built a team of researchers from BU and several other universities, may soon claim another first: a modular cybersecurity system built from […]
Pankaj Mehta, Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Physics, has been selected as a 2014 Simons Investigator in Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems. This program invites nominations from institutions in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. Awardees are recognized as outstanding theoretical scientists who will receive long-term research support from the Simons Foundation. […]
A cross-disciplinary team, including researchers from the BU School of Public Health, Department of Computer Science, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering were awarded the BU Social Entrepreneurship Award at the BU Tech, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll (TDRR) event on July 15, 2014 for their project titled, “Project SEARCH: Scanning Ears for Child […]
Mark Crovella, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science and member of the Hariri Institute Executive Steering Committee was given the Boston University 2014 Innovator of the Year award. “Professor Crovella is an entrepreneurial scientist, whose inventions have been licensed to two start-up companies,” said Waters. “His accomplishments in the past year include ten peer-reviewed […]
Today, the cloud infrastructure market is dominated by several big companies – Amazon, Google and Microsoft — but a public/business/academia partnership called the Massachusetts Open Cloud project is hoping to change that by creating an open computing marketplace where you can negotiate whatever services you need from multiple infrastructure vendors. Peter Desnoyers, a professor at Northeastern University who helped […]
Loopholes that NSA can exploit to conduct largely unrestrained surveillance on Americans by collecting their network traffic “abroad” have been the focus of a recent study by Institute Junior Fellow, Sharon Goldberg, in collaboration with Axel Arnbak of Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Quoting that study: International communications intercepted on U.S. soil are […]