Institute news and updates
On Thursday, December 10th a groundbreaking ceremony was held at the site of the new state-of-the-art BU Center for Computing & Data Sciences building. The ceremony took place under a tent at the building’s location at the corner of Commonwealth Ave. and Granby St. About 150 BU faculty, administration, and staff attended the event which […]
Doug Densmore, a Hariri Institute for Computing Fellow and a member of the Steering Committee was quoted in an article in Nature magazine titled “An Operating System for the Biology Lab.” The article focused on technology helping to support early disease detection on the basis of drawing blood. Radix Labs, which is a two-year start-up in Cambridge, MA, developed […]
Cathie Jo Martin, the Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Southern Denmark on October 25, 2019. She gave her speech about “Neoliberalism, Social Investment, and the Fortunes of Low-skill Youth: Literary Memes from the […]
Yesterday, Wen Li, BU Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellow, gave a talk on her research titled “Quantitative Assessment of Earth’s Radiation Belt Electron Dynamics Using Physics-Based and Machine-Learning Approaches.” This talk is part of the Wed@Hariri Talk Series where Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows share their research with the Hariri Institute and Boston University communities. […]
Last week Kristopher Grahame, FBI agent and member of the U.S. Department of Justice in Boston, delivered a talk titled “Disinformation in the Age of Social Media: A Foreign Influence Briefing” to a full house at the Hillel River Room. This talk was put on by BU Information Security and co-sponsored by the Hariri Institute for Computing and […]
Two Hariri Institute Fellows spoke at the Data Science Leadership Summit in Santa Fe, NM this past week. The conference covered new data science initiatives being created at institutions to form academic communities for data science. Information was shared amongst data science colleagues including best practices, similar challenges faced and future opportunities to advance the […]
In celebration of Cyber Awareness Month, BU Research published an article through their page on Medium covering cybersecurity and what we can do to protect ourselves. Over 80% of Americans have smartphones with mobile apps on them and this article outlines how hackers can get into your phone through your apps. The article quoted responses […]
Last Friday, the Hariri Institute for Computing Graduate Student Fellows cohort shared their research in a “lightning talk” format at the Institute. Each fellow had 3 minutes to talk about their projects and take questions from the audience of faculty, staff and affiliated members of the BU community. Each student was also asked, “If your […]
We are delighted to share with the Hariri Institute community and beyond, the appointment of Azer Bestavros as the Inaugural Associate Provost for Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University. Professor Bestavros is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director of BU’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing […]
Yesterday, Allyson Sgro, BU Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellow, gave a talk on her research titled “What Happened and What Should I Do Next: Identifying Algorithms Multicellular Decision Making.” This talk is part of the Wed@Hariri Talk Series where Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows share their research with […]