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    Think Computationally or…

    December 3, 2011
    A fascinating view of the difference between those who are taught to “program” and those who are taught to just “use” a program. For students taught to use programs rather than to create them, “their bigger problem is that their entire orientation to computing will be from the perspective of users. When a kid is […]
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    Google Award to Support Network Research

    December 3, 2011
    Professors Evimaria Terzi and Azer Bestavros of the BU Department of Computer Science have been selected to receive a Google Faculty Research Award in support of  their research on "Generalized Centrality Measures with Applications to Information Networks." Prof. Bestavros is the Founding Director of the Hariri Institute, and Prof. Terzi is a member of the Institute. In this […]
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    BU Today: “Help for Yelp”

    November 9, 2011
    BU Today published a story (by Rich Barlow) on the recent discovery by Institute Member, John Byers, and his collaborators of a significant privacy breach on the popular mobile Yelp.com web site. The article notes that Yelp "is indebted to a BU computer scientist and his colleagues, who uncovered a privacy leak on its site last […]
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    Byers and Collaborators Identify Significant Yelp.com Privacy Breach

    November 2, 2011
    Working with colleagues Michael Mitzenmacher and Giorgos Zervas at Harvard, Hariri Institute member and BU Computer Science professor John Byers identified a large-scale privacy vulnerability at Yelp.com that was leaking private records of Yelp subscribers to users of their mobile site, m.yelp.com.  According to Professor Byers, "millions of user records were vulnerable and may have […]
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    Institute Hosts First Charles River Crypto Day

    November 1, 2011
    The first Charles River Crypto Day will be held on Friday, December 2, 2011, from  9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m at Boston University's Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Sciences Engineering, at 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored and hosted by the Hariri Institute, this inaugural […]
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    Institute Hosts 2nd Charles River Crypto Day

    October 30, 2011
    The 2nd Annual Charles River Crypto Day will be held on Friday, November 30th, 2011, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m at Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Sciences Engineering, at 111 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored and hosted by the […]
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    Win Treese Joins Institute as Associate Director

    October 27, 2011
    G. Winfield (Win) Treese joined the Hariri Institute as its Associate Director in October 2011, bringing a unique mix of talents and experiences, given his work in technical consulting, startups, industrial research, and academia. Win holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986) and an S.M. in Computer Science from Harvard University (1992). Win was […]
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    Institute Hosts GPU@BU Workshop

    October 27, 2011
    The Institute is co-sponsoring and hosting the Second GPU@BU Workshop, which will be held on November 8-9, 2011. This two-day workshop, with participation from guests and speakers from the Greater Boston area and beyond, will feature a research symposium on the first day, and a tutorial on CUDA programming for NVIDIA GPUs on the second day. Confirmed speakers on the […]
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    Institute as an Example of “Generosity From Afar”

    September 23, 2011
    In a BU Today article on the record-breaking Kilachand gift to Honors College, the significance and importance of donations by international alumni were highlighted, including the generous gift from Bahaa Hariri in support of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. In the article, the Hariri Institute Founding Director, Azer […]
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    BU Research Underscores Impact of Groupon on Reputation

    September 12, 2011
    John Byers, Georgios Zervas, and their collaborator at Harvard University, Michael Mitzenmacher published a paperon arXiv.org last week, which showed statistically significant influence on reputation on Yelp for merchants who use Groupon deals: Yelp ratings go down by 10% and reviews from deal seekers are 20% more negative than average, but number of reviews surges significantly. The paper got […]