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    Institute Inaugural Symposium Featured on BU Today

    April 17, 2012
    The symposium which will be held on Saturday, April 21, 2012, at the Photonics Center, will stress the importance of computational thinking and the transformative nature of computational approaches in not just physical and life sciences, but also in the social sciences and even the arts. Free and open to the public, the symposium is the first […]
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    Media Abuzz with New Marketing Research Results by Institute Fellow

    April 16, 2012
    Could a Groupon deal ruin your business's reputation online? This is how a Huffington Post article started its discussion of the most recernt findings by Institute Fellow and Computer Science Professor John Byers, his student Giorgos Zervas (now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale), and his collaborator Professor Michael Mitzenmacher of Harvard University. These new findings, made public in February, […]
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    White House Announces Big Data Initiative

    April 1, 2012
    On Thursday, March 29, the Obama Administration unveiled details about its Big Data R&D Initiative, committing more than $200 million in new funding through six agencies and departments to improve “our ability to extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data.” The effort, spearheaded by the White House Office of Science […]
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    Computational Thinking: Styles May Differ, But the Need is Evident

    April 1, 2012
    The New York Times published an article entitled "Computer Science for the rest of us", in which the multiple styles of how to teach "Computational Thinking" were discussed. According to Jeannette Wing, former Head of the NSF CISE Directorate and Chair of CMU's CS Department: “Computational thinking is a fundamental skill for everyone, not just […]
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    Institute-Sponsored BU Team Earns Judges’ Highest Scores at SC’11

    April 1, 2012
    Boston University’s Student Cluster Challenge (SCC) team was one of eight teams participating in a competition -- held at the Supercomputing Convention (SC11) -- to design a computer hardware and software network to demonstrate sustained performance in a series of science and engineering challenges. The BU team received the judges’ highest score but was edged out for […]
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    Wanted: Experts in Computing for Computational Science

    March 20, 2012
    The world is building more and more supercomputers, and collecting more and more data to analyze with them. But there is a serious shortage of people with the right skills in computing and computational science and engineering to use them: "With the world’s fastest computers capable of processing quadrillions of calculations per second and the […]
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    Institute Fellows Receive NSF CAREER Awards

    March 16, 2012
    Two Institute Fellows -- Assistant professor Lorena Barba of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Assistant Professor  Ayse Coskun of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering -- have received prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation in recognition of their outstanding research and teaching achievements. Professor Coskun is a Junior Faculty Fellow […]
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    Institute Co-Sponsors NSF Middle East Cybertrust Workshop

    March 13, 2012
    The US/Mideast Workshop on Trustworthiness in Emerging Distributed Systems and Networks will bring together leading US and Mideast scientists pursuing research at the nexus of a number of computer science areas (from distributed systems and networking to cryptography and formal methods), with the goal of spurring future collaborative projects and activities. A grant to Boston […]
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    Institute Junior Fellows Featured on BU Today

    March 1, 2012
    Studying how mice use their whiskers to explore their surroundings. Hunting eventual treatments for epilepsy. Analyzing your privacy protections on Facebook. These have been the work of some of the newly named junior faculty fellows of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering. This is how BU Today's main article […]
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    Hariri Science & Engineering Symposium Awards

    February 26, 2012
    The Hariri Science Day Awards are given annually to graduate students participating in the BU day-long Science & Engineering Research Symposium. Two $1,000 awards will be given (each split $500 for the student and $500 for the advisor) in recognition of research that exemplifies the power from adopting a computational approach in science and engineering. […]