Institute news and updates
Last week the Hariri Institute for Computing hosted a virtual town hall-style meeting titled “How Can Computing and Data Science Contribute to Antiracism?” The purpose of the meeting – held in solidarity with the #ShutDownSTEM initiative – was to provide a forum for the Hariri community and beyond to share their viewpoints, reactions, and resources […]
Fireblocks has made a recent advancement in the field of digital financial transactions management. An enterprise-grade platform, Fireblocks, has successfully developed a new algorithm for secured multi-party computation, referred to as MPC-CMP, that would speed up the processing of digital asset transactions. An article in Cision is about a recent advancement made in the field […]
In a recent article in BU Today, two Boston University faculty with active connections to the Hariri Institute for Computing were recognized for their leadership in their areas of focus. In the article, Jean Morrison, BU Provost and chief academic officer was quoted as saying, “They are forging multidisciplinary collaborations to discover solutions for some of […]
Recently an article in BU Today featured the ongoing crisis of housing in this time of COVID-19. Twenty percent of Americans are out of work, but the rent and mortgage are still due at the first of the month. Moreover, only 26 percent of American cities are providing funds to help families stay in their […]
Researchers at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) have been awarded 1.9 million dollars in new funding from the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR), to investigate and study COVID-19. The Brink magazine published an article outlining the activities of the NEIDL in response to this new funding and highlighted the different research teams and […]
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) made an announcement last month of allowing outside researchers to access it’s high speed computing systems to facilitate the process of resolution of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. The blog gives a brief overview on the computing capacity of the state-of-the-art infrastructure that MGHPCC has. It also talks about […]
This week three BU Hariri Institute for Computing researchers were highlighted in an article in Silicon, a UK-based tech publisher. Mayank Varia (Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of RISCS), Ran Canetti (Professor of Computer Science and Director of RISCS), and Ari Tractenberg (Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Cyber Alliance member) […]
As we transition to a virtual environment, the Hariri Institute is committed to bringing together researchers and faculty in an effort to maintain an engaged community. This spring, we look forward to hosting virtual seminars and events. As a staff, we have been trained to organize, host, and execute virtual seminars and workshops of all […]
Recently two research teams with researchers from BU, UC Berkeley, MIT, Microsoft Research, and Caltech were recognized with a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Award. Both projects are part of the DARPA SIEVE program whose mission is to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. The first project, which is for $4M […]
About the Speaker Chris Wright, the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Red Hat, was the Keynote Speaker at the 2020 Open Cloud Workshop, held this past March at the George Sherman Union on the campus of Boston University. Chris’s responsibilities at Red Hat include incubating emerging technologies and developing forward-looking perspectives on […]