During the last three weeks of April, over 1,000 teams participated in a multi-round online computer security competition for middle and high school students at Phillips Academy (Andover, MA). Co-sponsored by the Hariri Institute for Computing, Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project, and Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project, Phillips Academy Capture the Flag (PACTF) is a cyber-security […]
On April 28, 72 students from the second run of the Cloud Computing Course co-taught by MOC PIs Orran Krieger, Boston University and Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University presented demos at the Hariri Institute for Computing. During the event, which was attended by industry mentors, MOC partners and members of the BU community, teams presented project […]
On March 31, Orran Krieger, MOC PI, presented at Intel’s Cloud Day 2016. His talk, Massachusetts Open Cloud, provided an overview of the project and its vision. The talk was preceded by an Intel Chip Chat interview, Driving Innovation and Exploration with the Massachusetts Open Cloud (Intel Chip Chat 454). Intel is a Core Industry Partner of […]
In early February, Orran Krieger, MOC PI, gave a Keynote Address, “A marketplace driven direction for SDI: Towards an “Open Cloud Exchange” at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Workshop on Software-defined Infrastructure and Software-defined Exchanges. The workshop, part of NSF’s “Looking Beyond the Internet” workshop series, explored research opportunities in wireless, network and cloud technology. […]
On November 19th, the Hariri Institute for Computing hosted the first-annual Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) Workshop. The MOC is a new public cloud, designed and implemented in Massachusetts as the first “Open Cloud eXchange” (OCX), a new marketplace for innovation in providing cloud services. The workshop drew more than 100 participants representing the Core Partners […]
Thursday, November 19, 2015 8:00 am – 5:30 pm Photonics Center Colloquium Room, 9th floor 8 St Mary’s Street, Boston, MA Agenda 8:00 Breakfast 8:30 Welcome, Gloria Waters, Boston University MOC Vision, Orran Krieger, Boston University Experiences Turning Vision into Reality, Piyanai Saowarattitada, Boston University 9:00 Micro-talks I: Year One Development Our First Production Environment, […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 27, 2015 CONTACT: Kira Jastive, 617-358-1240, kjastive@bu.edu (Boston) – The Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering at Boston University (BU) today announced the core industry partnerships for the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC). Led by BU, the MOC is a collaborative effort that also involves Harvard University, the […]
Thursday, November 19, 2015 8:30 am – 5:30 pm Photonics Center Colloquium Room, 9th floor 8 St Mary’s Street, Boston, MA This event is by invitation only. Seating is limited and registration is required. For more information, contact Linda Grosser at lgrosser@bu.edu. Morning Welcome and MOC Overview The Open Cloud Exchange (OCX) vision of the MOC, where […]
Boston University (BU) students displayed novel “Smart Cities” apps in the “DevNet Zone for IoT,” hosted by Cisco at its annual Cisco Live! event held in San Diego on June 10-11. The BU apps provide visualizations of mobile device positions on interactive maps of both indoor facilities and aerial/satellite imagery by combining signals acquired from disparate “things” including Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons, Internet routers, and GPS. Students who contributed […]
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 […]