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BY: GINA MANTICA In today’s virtual world, equal access to online resources is more important than ever before. But online texts aren’t available in all 7,000 languages, and most machine translation programs are limited to Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and several European languages. Researchers from Boston University and Institut Teknologi Bandung developed an innovative method to […]
Census data is hugely consequential, determining how electoral district boundaries are redrawn and how many Congressional representatives each state gets. The 2020 Census uses differential privacy to protect personal information, but some states have opposed the change because the method will affect redistricting. A group of data privacy experts, including three researchers from the Hariri […]
$20 million grant enables an ecosystem of education, research, and technology to scale the open hybrid cloud BY GINA MANTICA, gmantica@bu.edu Boston University (BU) and Red Hat announced a $20 million renewal and expansion of their partnership at Red Hat Summit 2021 to drive new talent, processes, and innovations for the open hybrid cloud. Over […]
BY: NATALIE GOLD Si Wu’s diverse academic background, from physics to data journalism, provides her with an innovative lens for studying political science as a PhD student at Boston University and a Graduate Student Fellow at the Hariri Institute. As an undergraduate student, Wu pursued a degree in Physics. But she realized physics research was […]
BY: GINA MANTICA Social science that uses qualitative research methods is ideal for understanding complex social and political processes that contribute to pressing societal issues. But this type of research is limited by the time-consuming process of manually collecting and analyzing qualitative data. To address this problem, sociologists at Boston University (BU) and the University […]
BY: NATALIE GOLD Environmental and sustainability research has become more important as the world experiences the effects of climate change. Data science and computational tools allow researchers to create models that analyze these effects. On March 31, 2021, researchers from across Boston University (BU) were given the opportunity to share how computational tools play a […]
BY: NATALIE GOLD It is essential that people have access to quality healthcare and treatment. Unfortunately, racial, ethnic, and gender biases are found throughout healthcare. Socioeconomic factors, like food availability or the affordability of housing, also play a big role in people’s health. To ensure that everyone has equal access to good treatment and care, […]
BY: NATALIE GOLD Sustainable living has become even more important, as the effects of climate change are felt by people all over the world. Scientists are working to understand climate change, its effects, and what can be done to combat the crisis. Data science and computational tools play a major role in finding ways to […]
BY: GINA MANTICA Drones can learn to fly on their own thanks to machine learning. But drones trained with current machine learning algorithms sometimes move erratically or use up a lot of energy, preventing them from traveling long distances. Kate Saenko, Co-Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative at the Hariri Institute for Computing, worked […]
BY: NATALIE GOLD Hasini Weerathunge has a strong background in industry—from working in the London Stock Exchange to conducting research at SYNERGEN Technology Labs. Now, as a Graduate Student Fellow at Boston University’s Hariri Institute for Computing, she is studying how Parkinson’s disease affects speech production processes in the brain. Originally from Sri Lanka, Weerathunge […]