Institute news and updates
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Refreshments & networking at 2:45 PM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 This fall, the Hariri Institute for Computing is launching a redesigned “Meet Our Fellows” series that will showcase the Institute’s 2016 Junior Faculty Fellows as well as the inaugural cohort of Hariri […]
Hariri Institute Steering Committee member and professor of computer science, Margrit Betke, and Institute Affiliate and associate dean, Stan Sclaroff (CS), have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s program on Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies, a group dedicated to advancing how people learn in technology-rich environments. The project will build on previous NSF […]
The Hariri Institute for Computing congratulates the first cohort of Graduate Student Fellows: The Institute welcomes both Graduate Student Fellows and the professors they will be working closely with on new and ongoing research. The Graduate Student Fellows Program, a new program at the Institute, recognizes outstanding PhD students with the potential to become ambassadors […]
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM on Wednesday, September 28, 2016 Refreshments & networking at 2:45 PM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 This fall, the Hariri Institute for Computing is launching a redesigned “Meet Our Fellows” series that will showcase the Institute’s 2016 Junior Faculty Fellows as well as the inaugural cohort of Hariri […]
The Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University is pleased to announce its 2016 cohort of Junior Faculty Fellows. They are: Jacob Bor, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health (SPH) Jacob Groshek, Assistant Professor, Division of Emerging Media Studies (COM) Lei Guo, Assistant Professor, Division of Emerging Media Studies (COM) Adam Guren, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics (CAS) […]
Thursday, October 13, 2016 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Refreshments to follow Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 The Hariri Institute for Computing will be hosting Mikhail Belkin (Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science, Engineering & Statistics, Ohio State University) for a Data Science Initiative (DSI) Colloquium. Professor Belkin will speak about “Radial Basis Function Networks Unshackled” on Thursday, […]
The Hariri Institute for Computing, in collaboration with the Linguistics Program at Boston University, will be sponsoring the first Linguistics Colloquium of the fall semester. Dr. Qian Hu (BU PhD in Applied Linguistics, 1993; currently Chief Scientist of Speech Technologies and Senior Principal Artificial Intelligence Scientist at the MITRE Corporation) will speak about “Speech Technology & Applications” on Thursday, September […]
As the surveillance industry continues to expose weaknesses in Bitcoin’s security properties, one of most valuable attributes of the system, payment anonymity, has come into question. Led by Hariri Institute Faculty Fellow and computer science professor Sharon Goldberg, a team of BU researchers, including PhD candidate Ethan Heilman, undergraduate student Leen Alshenibr, and postdoc researchers Foteini Baldimtsi and […]
After two years of research activity, the Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform within an Ecosystem (SCOPE) Project has made significant progress in three main research thrusts – end-user services, cross-cutting services and collaborative governance, and capabilities and application interfaces. Additionally, the project has produced broader impact outcomes, such as creating models for collaboration and innovative curricula. The project aims […]
The Hariri Institute for Computing, in collaboration with the Finance Department and Mathematical Finance Program of the Questrom School of Business, will host a one-day conference on recent advances in financial econometrics this fall. The focus of the conference lies on the identification of new risks from financial data. It will include a series of talks from […]