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Graduate Student Spotlight: Greta Rauch By Alex Grzybowski, Hariri Institute for Computing How can we use the technology of the future to understand the interconnectivity of the past? Humans have interacted with each other since the beginning of civilization, and subsequent upgrades in technology have allowed increased connection between many different groups of people. While […]
December 5, 2023 By Margaret Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing In a joint announcement this morning, IBM and Meta launched the AI Alliance, an international community of leading technology developers, researchers, and adopters collaborating to advance open, safe, responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Alliance, housed at the Boston University Hariri Institute for […]
In Education for All? BU political scientist Cathie Jo Martin says education systems continue to be influenced by the ideas of Enlightenment- and Industrial Revolution-Era writers Story by Maureen Stanton and Alex Grzybowski Video by Natalie Williams In her new book, Education for All, Cathie Jo Martin, a Hariri Institute faculty affiliate and BU professor […]
By Brendan Galvin, CISE Staff Sheila Russo, a CISE and Hariri Affiliate Professor (ME, MSE), won a four-year R01 grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH). This grant will support her research on soft robotics, which will enhance the safety and precision of interventional bronchoscopies, specifically addressing cancer biopsies. A lung cancer biopsy entails […]
By Margo Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate Chuanfei Dong received the 2023 HPC Innovation Excellence Award from Hyperion Research, which recognizes achievements made in High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies for business and scientific applications. Dong, an assistant professor of astronomy and electrical and computer engineering at Boston University, was recognized for performing […]
By Alex Grzybowski, Hariri Institute for Computing The Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Alliance announced the opening of the New England Research Cloud (NERC) to general research and education users. The NERC is a production cloud, operated by BU and Harvard Research IT, that supports VMs, containers, S3 storage, and an AI as a service platform. NERC […]
Betke and her team explore this question and win an IEEE IJCB award for their work By Maureen Stanton Before vaccines, millions of children died or endured life-long disabilities from diseases such as polio, diphtheria, measles, and meningitis. Unfortunately, there are still 20.5 million children who are missing lifesaving vaccines globally, 2.1 million more than in […]
By Hariri Institute Staff Thinkers50 has recognized Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate Marshall Van Alstyne, and his co-author Geoff Parker, as among the world’s most influential living management thinkers in its 2023 ranking. Van Alstyne is the Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor in Information Systems at Boston University and a Digital Fellow at the MIT Initiative on […]
By Chloe Wojtanik, Hariri Institute for Computing Over the past year, ChatGPT has become a topic of hot debate, especially in the classroom due to student’s using the software’s work as their own. Whether you support the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) or not, it’s important to have discussions about both the capabilities as […]
Hariri Faculty Affiliate, Assistant Professor Hadi Nia (BME, MSE), and BU Pulmonary Center Director Joseph Mizgerd received a 2023 Rajen Kilachand Fund for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering award to advance development of the crystal rib cage, an innovation developed in the Nia Lab that allows probing real-time lung function at cellular resolution. The […]