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    Cryptographic Keys and Self-Incrimination

    February 26, 2012
    The Fifth Amendment states that no person “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” This is not to say that physical evidence such as diaries and other documents are not admissible in court against their authors. Quite the contrary, such evidence is not only admissible, but over the years […]
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    Institute Announces Process for Research Funding

    February 26, 2012
    In line with its mission to catalyze and propel collaborative, computational and data-driven interdisciplinary research at Boston University, the Hariri Institute is pleased to announce a new process for selecting and funding creative, interdisciplinary research projects. The process is designed to be fairly lightweight, imposing minimal overhead on proposing investigators, while ensuring that the proposal process acts […]
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    The Coming of Age of Big Data

    February 12, 2012
    "The Age of Big Data" article published in the Sunday Edition of the NYT on 2/12/2012, highlights the increased importance of data analysis in modern curricula -- particularly in disciplines that have not been traditionally quantitative or computational. But more importantly, the article underscores the crucial value of developing a deep understanding of the limitations […]
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    Computation and the Next Boom

    January 31, 2012
    In an op-ed piece in the January 30 Wall Street Journal, Mark Mills and Julio Ottino write about "The Coming Tech-led Boom" in the 21st century. They begin: In January 1912, the United States emerged from a two-year recession. Nineteen more followed—along with a century of phenomenal economic growth. Americans in real terms are 700% […]
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    Nominations Open for 2012/13 Junior Faculty Fellows

    January 27, 2012
    UPDATE: Nominations for the 2012/13 class of Junior Faculty Fellows is now closed. Check back in early 2013 for the next round of nominations, or contact Win Treese for more information. The Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering is now accepting nominations for the 2012/13 class of Junior Faculty Fellows. […]
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    SocialRent: Apartment Hunting Just Got More Social

    January 27, 2012
    While most students ventured home to spend time with their families over the holiday break, James Zar, 20, and a band of Boston University classmates slaved away for weeks, locked in a Brighton basement, creating a solution to the strenuous apartment hunting process. [Read More from Metro Boston]
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    Call for Cyberwar “Peacekeepers” Force

    January 27, 2012
    Its mission? To create "a world class cyberwarrior force", and to develop cyberspace as an "active domain". Recruits will be trained using cyber challenge scenarios, for what is widely acknowledged as setting the cyber threat apart is not just its scale but its unpredictable and all-pervasive nature, posing a risk to critical national infrastructure such […]
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    MGHPCC Awards Seed Grants to Institute Members

    January 25, 2012
    Three research projects involving several Hariri Institute members have recently received “seed grants” for projects related to the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). MGHPCC is a groundbreaking collaboration of five of the state’s most research-intensive universities—Boston University, MIT, Harvard, Northeastern University, and the University of Massachusetts—along with both state government and private industry, in the […]
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    Hariri Institute Announces 2011 Junior Faculty Fellows

    January 24, 2012
    The Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering at Boston University is pleased to announce its inaugural set of Junior Faculty Fellows. They are: Jonathan Appavoo, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Ayse Coskun, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Mark Kramer, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics […]
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    Institute Role Highlighted in BU Research Magazine

    December 3, 2011
    The 2011 edition of Research at Boston University featured an article entitled "Across the Board" highlighting the role of the Institute in advancing computational research at BU. The article included examples of computational research projects by a number of Institute members that exemplify the diversity of disciplines and methodologies underlying these projects. [Read the complete article]