Author: Hariri Institute

MBA Grads “Shunning Finance for Tech”

Among last year’s graduates who accepted employment offers three months after Commencement, a plurality, 21 percent, went into technology and science, versus 16 percent in financial services, according to Questrom’s Feld Career Center. BU Today spoke about the tech migration with Williams, author of Uncontrolled Risk: Lessons of Lehman Brothers and How Systemic Risk Can […]

Discussion: The Future of Cloud Innovation

“Will the future of cloud IAAS and PAAS innovation be dominated (and also limited) by a few large vertically integrated cloud providers?” The recently announced Massachusetts Open Cloud Project (MOC) is founded on the premise that innovation will be limited largely to cloud providers who tend to design their own hardware and develop their own […]

Institute ESC Member, Ran Canetti, Selected as a Fellow of IACR

Computer Science Professor and Institute Executive Steering Committee Member Ran Canetti has been selected as a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. The International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) selected four fellows for its 2014 IACR Fellows Program. This award, accorded to only very few cryptographers worldwide who serve as “model citizens” of the cryptologic community, […]

U.S. Air Force: Leading Cyber Minds Converge at Hanscom

Numerous regional cyber leaders convened at Hanscom Air Force Base May 28 to discuss, and sometimes debate, the merits and challenges of secure cloud computing. Organized by the Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC) and hosted by leaders at Hanscom, the event fostered vigorous discussion about the most efficient and secure ways to store and protect […]

Bostonia: MOC Pioneering a Cloud Mall

With Massachusetts pledging $3 million in state support, BU leaders in April announced plans for development of a path-breaking computing cloud that could spur economic growth and technology innovation. The plan calls for hosting the MOC at the MGHPCC data center, where it would tap the computational power of BU and its MOC partners, who […]

Office of the Provost Announces 2014 Scholars Day Winners

Founded nearly two decades ago at Boston University, Scholars Day is a graduate student research symposium that focuses on science, engineering, arts, humanities, and social science research. The Institute recognized two outstanding individuals based on the specific criteria of research that advances the science of computing inspired by challenges in arts and sciences, engineering, and […]

Cloud Testing or Cloud Transformation?

How much does an “open” cloud cost? The Massachusetts state government is willing to invest $3 million in Boston University’s (BU) concept of a truly open cloud, one the institution hopes will spur positive change marketwide. Can this initiative really compete with offerings from big providers like Amazon, Google and IBM, or is it just another […]

MOC Featured at OpenStack Summit

On May 15, 2014, Orran Krieger (Lead Investigator of the MOC project) co-presented  the concept and plans for the Massachusetts Open Cloud at the OpenStack Summit, which was held in Atlanta May 14-16, 2014. The MOC is a new, non-profit public cloud created in Massachusetts. It will be the product of collaboration between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, five […]