BU-led Team Takes Second Place at IEEE HOST 2025 Hardware Hacking Competition
Expose Critical Cloud Hardware Vulnerability in Widely Used Technique By Maureen L. Stanton A team from Boston University, in collaboration with researchers at IBM and Red Hat, earned second place at the inaugural hardware hacking competition at the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST). In their demonstration, they exposed a critical […]
2024 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award Recipients
By Ken Rudolph, Hariri Institute The Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University has announced the recipients of its 2024 Research Incubation Awards. Twelve new and renewed research projects received nearly $2 million in funding to support research in topics ranging from reconfigurable hardware to homomorphic encryption, energy efficiency, and training models for autonomous vehicles. This […]
Hariri Institute publishes FY23 Annual Report
By Hariri Institute Staff The Hariri Institute is pleased to announce the release of our FY23 Annual Report! The report highlights the many significant and impactful accomplishments of our multidisciplinary community, consisting of 400 faculty affiliates and including thought leaders, problem solvers, scholars, and pioneers. They are leveraging the full power of computing, computational, and […]
Research in AI for Automotive and Distributed Systems Wins Recognition
By Hariri Institute Staff Papers from two projects which previously received Red Hat Collaboratory awards have been recognized for excellence at preeminent research conferences. Scalable distributed systems “SREP: out-of-band sync of transaction pools for large-scale blockchains” won the Best Paper award at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC). The conference itself […]
Smart Technology: Open Source and Equitable
Faculty Spotlight: Christos Cassandras By Margo Stanton, Hariri Institute of Computing Between 2012 and 2017, the number of car accidents in Boston rose by 33%. Depending on the year, 25% to 31% of all reported accidents in Boston resulted in non-fatal injuries. Christos Cassandras, a distinguished professor of engineering and head of the division of […]
2023 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Awards Recipients
The Boston University (BU) Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering: Red Hat Collaboratory is excited to announce the 2023 recipients of the Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award! The Red Hat Collaboratory is an innovative partnership between Boston University and Red Hat aimed at advancing research in the areas of […]
Red Hat VP Chris Wright Speaks at the 2020 Open Cloud Workshop
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 […]
Understanding how AI can be leveraged to improve business outcomes
Making AI faster, easier, and safer Speaker: Rania Khalaf, Director of AI Platforms and Runtimes at IBM Research When: Tuesday, February 11, 2020, at 11:30am (Lunch and refreshments: 11:30am, Talk: 12:00pm – 1:00pm) Where: Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall Seminar Room – Room 157 Abstract: Artificial intelligence is being infused into applications at […]
Red Hat Awarded NSF Grant for Developing the Open Cloud Testbed
In a recent announcement by Red Hat Inc., a team of collaborative researchers from Boston University, Northeastern University, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Red Hat Inc. has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems for the development of a national cloud testbed called the Open Cloud […]
Hariri’s Research Project Received AI servers from IBM
Earlier this Summer, IBM donated new enterprise AI servers to the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), a sponsored research project at the Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University. The servers were installed at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). Michael Daitzman, Director for the Red Hat Collaboratory at the Hariri Institute said, “The […]