Institute news and updates
Through the Hariri Research Awards, the Institute supports a portfolio of ambitious research projects that catalyze interdisciplinary research, each applying computational and data-driven approaches in new ways. By supporting projects in social sciences, humanities, law, business, and medicine – to engineering, computer science, and statistics, the Research Awards advance the Institute’s goal of bringing together and building a community […]
Friday, June 10, 2016 12pm -1 pm Location: PHO 339, 8 St Marys St Prof. Tai Moreshet – Spider Goat: Transactional Memory for Security Abstract: Modern Intel CPUs support the detection and resolution of memory conflicts between multiple threads that access the same data: This is called Transactional Synchronisation Extension (TSX). Hardware-supported TSX technology helps […]
The Hariri Institute congratulates all of the 2016 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) award recipients, especially those funded by the Institute. The Institute recognizes and supports exceptional undergraduates from across the University doing computational research through the UROP Summer Research Awards. This award is granted to individuals using data-driven or computational approaches in conducting research. UROP is designed to […]
On May 24th, the Hariri Institute hosted Rene Baston, Executive Director of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, for a day of discussion on big data trends, BU’s role as a national leader in data science research, and opportunities for innovative collaborations and regional initiatives. Two roundtables brought together individuals from a variety of disciplines, BU […]
Date: Fridays from 12 – 1 pm (beginning June 3rd) Location: Photonics Center Room 339, 8 St. Mary’s Street Sixth Annual Summer Weekly Seminar Series The BU Security Group, sponsored by the Hariri Institute for Computing and Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS) is launching a series of seminars every Friday on the practical elements of security. […]
May 4, 2016 12 noon (with lunch) Physics Research Building, Room 595 3 Cummington Mall Energy and Signal Flow in Biomolecules Professor Gerhard Stock Biomolecular Dynamics, Institute of Physics Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany Abstract: In biomolecules, the transport of heat and vibrational energy occurs within (tens of) picoseconds. The propagation of conformational change in intramolecular […]
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 […]
Date: June 14-17, 2016, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM (daily) Location: Hariri Institute for Computing, Room 180, 111 Cummington Mall XSEDE Summer Boot Camp As a Campus Champion of XSEDE (National Science Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment), BU is a remote site for the 3rd annual XSEDE Summer Boot Camp. This 4-day workshop introduces […]
June 8-10, 2016 MIT Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building E14, LH-633 75 Amherst Street Presented under the auspices of the DIMACS Special Focus on Cryptography as part of the DIMACS/Simons Collaboration in Cryptography and the Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project funded by an NSF Frontier grant. Cryptography for the RAM Model […]
Date: April 26, 2016 from 2:00-5:00pm Location: Hariri Institute for Computing, 111 Cummington Mall, Rm 180 The Hariri Institute is pleased to host the Topics in Data Mechanics and Symmetric Cryptography student poster session, featuring 20 group projects completed by students enrolled in the spring course sections. Students from CS 591 L1 will present posters describing projects in […]