The Boston Globe quotes Azer Bestavros, BU Computer Science Professor and Founding Director of the Hariri Institute, in their article “Around Internet, password fatigue setting in Protection becomes a not-so-secret frustration” E-mail access in particular is a gateway to other sites because it contains so much personal information, and hackers can exploit a that weak link […]
Research by Institute Fellows Giorgos Zervas and John Byers, and their student Davide Proserpio was mentioned in The Economist. A team at Boston University examined hotel revenues in Texas, where Airbnb has grown much faster in some cities (like quirky, left-wing Austin) than others (like Fort Worth, more of a cowboy town). They could not find a significant […]
Wednesdays @Hariri / Meet Our Fellows 3:00 PM on April 23, 2014 @MCS-180 Uncovering the Network Strategies of Interest Groups Dino Christenson Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor and Director of Advanced Programs, Department of Political Science Boston University Abstract: Interest groups use a variety of techniques to influence the political process, among which coalition strategies […]
Wednesdays @Hariri / Meet Our Fellows 3:00 PM on April 23, 2014 @MCS-180 The Transition to BGP Security: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Sharon Goldberg Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department Boston University Abstract: The Internet’s interdomain routing system is notoriously insecure. After more than a decade of effort, we are finally […]
Wednesdays @Hariri / Meet Our Fellows 3:00 PM on April 2, 2014 @MCS-180 Fluigi: Synthetic Biology Based Microfluidic Control Synthesis Douglas Densmore Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Boston University Abstract: One goal of synthetic biology is to design and build genetic circuits in living cells for a range of […]
Enterprises and governments are increasingly drawn to open cloud storage systems as they seek to streamline costs and facilitate better interoperability between IT components. The Massachusetts government recently teamed up with Boston-area research universities to create an open cloud solution, and its move underscores broad organizational interest in deriving more value from big data, often through combinations […]
Fall 2013 Workshop (September 24th and 25th) The science of understanding human behavior, health, and interactions is being transformed by the ability of researchers to collect, analyze, and share data about individuals on a wide scale. However, a major challenge for realizing the full potential of such data science is ensuring the privacy of the […]
SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Andrei Lapets (Hariri Institute Postdoctoral Fellow) Research communities in formal verification and in programming languages have developed many tools for formal reasoning and methods. These tools, however, have typically been difficult to use for students and researchers in other domains. This project focuses on developing and evaluating domain-specific environments that […]
SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Jonathan Appavoo (Dept. of Computer Science), Dr. Ellen Grant (Children’s Hospital and Harvard University) One of the challenges in analyzing radiology data by computer is that it typically takes days to get the results, because the processing is computationally intensive. In a clinical setting, doctors and patients would benefit from […]
SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Lorena Barba (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering), Cris Cecka (Harvard), Hans Johnston (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) This project is a collaboration among investigators at BU, Harvard, and UMass aimed at creating an open and high-performance software infrastructure for a family of hierarchical N-body algorithms. “N- body” is the name given to any problem that involves a […]