Open-source framework to make generative AI more reproducible, secure, and accessible across higher education By Maureen Stanton Boston University’s Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) at the Hariri Institute has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to address a growing challenge in higher education: how to move from experimentation with […]
BY WILL J TOMLINSON, Ph.D. Africa is home to 60% of the world’s arable land, with 900 million hectares suitable for agricultural activities. However, many small holder farmers lack the machinery they need to plow their fields. As a result, most farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa plow their crops by hand. Enter Hello Tractor: a firm […]
BY GINA MANTICA Will J. Tomlinson will lead faculty members into a new era of research convergence. As Director of the Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL), Tomlinson will elevate SAIL’s software development within and beyond Boston University. He will develop a diverse, resilient culture that researchers leverage to advance their projects and deploy their […]
BY GINA MANTICA To study how the brain works in the real world rather than the lab, researchers are creating wearable devices that obtain a complete picture of the brain’s activity in real time. But the complex data collected by researchers needs to be stored, organized, and shared in a way that allows for more […]
BY GINA MANTICA Not only do authors contribute their art to society, but many writers also influence public policy through their works. Authors talk about poverty in novels, poems and plays and these narratives gives us glimpses about how culture matters to solutions to social problems. But reading through hundreds of books from multiple countries […]
BY: GINA MANTICA Social science that uses qualitative research methods is ideal for understanding complex social and political processes that contribute to pressing societal issues. But this type of research is limited by the time-consuming process of manually collecting and analyzing qualitative data. To address this problem, sociologists at Boston University (BU) and the University […]
Frederick, who started off as SAIL’s first employee in 2015, comes to this new position after having worked as a Senior Software Engineer since 2016. Frederick contributions to the growth and to the success of SAIL are numerous; his promotion is a mere affirmation of his demonstrated leadership of the SAIL team. Also, Frederick has […]
Led by Boston University professor Jonathan Jay, the “Shape-Up” team was awarded the “EveryTown for Gun Safety” Prize by MIT Solve, an initiative of MIT, with $100K funding. The team is 1 of the 32 new Solver teams and was selected from a pool of nearly 1,400 applications from over 100 countries. MIT Solve aims to advance […]
Yesterday afternoon, Erica Walker, Researcher, Environmental Health, BU School of Public Health and Nika Elugardo, Massachusetts State Representative, 15th District gave a talk titled “Technology, Community Activism, and Public Health: Using NoiseScore to Address Community Noise Issues.” held at the Hariri Institute for Computing. The 2-hour seminar started with an introduction from Azer Bestavros, Warren Distinguished […]
The Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) at the Hariri Institute for Computing works with researchers across Boston University to develop and incorporate computational tools that advance data-driven research. This summer, the SAIL team deployed NoiseScore 2.0, a mobile application that allows community residents to document and visualize their ever-changing environmental soundscape. This project […]