PI Calin Belta (ENG) works with Co-PI Douglas Densmore (ENG), Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow; Vijay Kuma (UPenn); Ron Weiss (MIT), Director of the MIT Synthetic Biology Center; and members of SRI International earn five-year $4.5M NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Program Frontier award for research on engineering living cells. “Our ultimate goal is to automate the entire process from engineering individual cells […]
Dino Christenson, Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, co-author of “Deus ex Machina: Candidate Web Presence and the Presidential Nomination Campaign” with Smidt and Panagopoulos, won the 2014 PRQ Best Article Award. The article explores the role of the internet in the 2008 Presidential election and documents its role as a new and unique factor that is […]
Orran Krieger, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Project Lead for the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) and Peter Desnoyers, Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, also of the MOC team, co-taught a new Cloud Computing class (EC500/CS591) in Spring 2015. The course achieved several key objectives including workforce training in cloud computing technologies, a model […]
Doug Densmore, an ENG electrical and computer engineering associate professor and a Junior Faculty Fellow with the Hariri Institute for Computing will be one of several core faculty members of the newly launched Biological Design Center (BioDesign Center). The center will tinker in pursuit of cutting-edge questions like these: How do you guide cells to regenerate and build […]
The Global App Initiative, a student run organization at BU, is doing meaningful work developing free mobile apps for non-profits. The Hariri Institute supports this initiative by providing a space for the group to meet monthly. Read more from a BU Today article about the development of the GAI and the non-profits who benefit from […]
Mayor Walsh has supported a project aimed at addressing the gender wage gap in Massachsetts by collecting and analyzing salary information from more than 60 local companies. To correct the record in the Boston Globe article below, while Azer Bestavros proposed the high-level protocol, the details and the software were developed by Andrei Lapets, Kyle Holzinger, and […]
Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on March 4,2015 @ Rm 180 Risk and Default Clustering In Large Financial Networks Konstantinos Spiliopoulos Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics Boston University Abstract: The past several years have made clear the need to better understand the behavior of risk in large interconnected financial […]
Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on February 4,2015 @ Rm 180 Data+Narrative: Data Storytelling with Tableau Public Tara Walker Data Analyst and Mathematician, Tableau Public If you love visual analysis and the intersection of numbers and storytelling, this demonstration by Seattle-based Tableau Public is for you. Join us at the Hariri Institute for Computing on Feb. 4 […]
IDC Smart Cities Research Director Ruthbea Clarke, a BU NSF SCOPE partner, presents 2015 global smart cities predictions webcast, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Smart Cities 2015 Predictions, on Dec 17. [Information Page]
Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on October 1, 2014 @MCS-180 HealthMap and MedWatcher: Big Data and Crowdsourcing for Better Public Health Clark Freifeld Research Software Developer Boston Children’s Hospital Abstract: Traditional public health monitoring and reporting systems are vital to protecting population health, but suffer from delays, under-reporting, and bureaucratic friction. Meanwhile, massive adoption of the Internet and […]