2024 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award Recipients
By Ken Rudolph, Hariri Institute The Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University has announced the recipients of its 2024 Research Incubation Awards. Twelve new and renewed research projects received nearly $2 million in funding to support research in topics ranging from reconfigurable hardware to homomorphic encryption, energy efficiency, and training models for autonomous vehicles. This […]
New England Research Cloud’s Affordable Production Cloud Services Now Available to General Research and Education Users
By Alex Grzybowski, Hariri Institute for Computing The Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Alliance announced the opening of the New England Research Cloud (NERC) to general research and education users. The NERC is a production cloud, operated by BU and Harvard Research IT, that supports VMs, containers, S3 storage, and an AI as a service platform. NERC […]
Hariri Institute publishes FY23 Annual Report
By Hariri Institute Staff The Hariri Institute is pleased to announce the release of our FY23 Annual Report! The report highlights the many significant and impactful accomplishments of our multidisciplinary community, consisting of 400 faculty affiliates and including thought leaders, problem solvers, scholars, and pioneers. They are leveraging the full power of computing, computational, and […]
Research in AI for Automotive and Distributed Systems Wins Recognition
By Hariri Institute Staff Papers from two projects which previously received Red Hat Collaboratory awards have been recognized for excellence at preeminent research conferences. Scalable distributed systems “SREP: out-of-band sync of transaction pools for large-scale blockchains” won the Best Paper award at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC). The conference itself […]
Smart Technology: Open Source and Equitable
Faculty Spotlight: Christos Cassandras By Margo Stanton, Hariri Institute of Computing Between 2012 and 2017, the number of car accidents in Boston rose by 33%. Depending on the year, 25% to 31% of all reported accidents in Boston resulted in non-fatal injuries. Christos Cassandras, a distinguished professor of engineering and head of the division of […]
SAIL’s first blockchain project will bring digitized, mechanized agriculture to underdeveloped populations
BY WILL J TOMLINSON, Ph.D. Africa is home to 60% of the world’s arable land, with 900 million hectares suitable for agricultural activities. However, many small holder farmers lack the machinery they need to plow their fields. As a result, most farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa plow their crops by hand. Enter Hello Tractor: a firm […]
Maximizing Impact through the Data Privacy Collaborative
Analyzing sensitive data without revealing private information is crucial for extracting valuable insights on workplace inequalities, transportation policies, health care outcomes, and more. Researchers are harnessing the power of big data while maintaining privacy through the new Data Privacy Collaborative at the Hariri Institute to maximize their societal impact. The Collaborative, led by Mayank Varia, aims to foster cooperation […]