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    Internet Use Affects Memory

    September 4, 2011
    “The Internet has become our primary external storage system […] Human memory is adapting to new communications technology.” [Article from New York Times]
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    Institute Co-Sponsors BU Student Cluster at SC ’11

    September 3, 2011
    The Student Cluster Competition (part of SuperComputing'11) is an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited national competition, featuring teams from various universities who compete to harness the incredible power of current-generation cluster hardware. In a real-time challenge, teams of six students build a small cluster of their own design on the SC […]
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    Institute Co-Sponsors Computing Camp for High School Girls at BU

    July 27, 2011
    The Artemis Project is a five-week summer program directed by undergraduate women at Boston University. Founded in 1996 at Brown University, Artemis introduces rising 9th and 10th grade girls to computer science, targeting them at the critical age when the disparity between males and females in the sciences becomes most pronounced. [Read More from BU […]

  • 2011 MGHPCC Seed Funding for HPC Research

    July 25, 2011
    The Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Consortium issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for its 2011 Seed Funding Program for collaborative HPC research. This program provides funding to develop novel collaborative research activities addressing significant and challenging problems at the forefront of high-performance technical computing. Proposals should include some strategy for a follow-on that might attract external funding after the initial […]
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    Institute Hosts New England Faculty Summit on Cyber Security

    July 25, 2011
    The Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering at Boston University organized and hosted a one-day summit for leading faculty members in New England institutions to discuss the possibility (and next steps) for setting up a regional academic consortium on Cyber Security research and education. The meeting, which was held on June 28, 2011, […]
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    Construction Underway for Institute’s First Home

    June 10, 2011
    Construction of a first home for the Institute is under way on the East-side of the MCS building at 111 Cummington Street, at the crossroads of the cognate units and departments along the Cummington corridor, including Mathematics and Statistics, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioinformatics, Center for Computational Science, among others. The Institute's first home, which is […]
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    Erdos and Ghamari Win Inaugural Hariri Science Day Awards

    March 27, 2011
    On March 23rd, Boston University held the BU Science Day 2011 Symposium, with participation from over 180 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Out of a total of 60 considered, two posters were selected for the inaugural Hariri BU Science Day Awards,  exemplifying the power from adopting a computational approach in science and engineering. Dora Erdos won the Hariri […]
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    Brain Rhythms and Audition Mini Symposium

    March 23, 2011
    In collaboration with the Center for Biodynamics, on April 14th, 2011, the Institute is hosting a Mini Symposium on "Brain Rhythms and Audition”. The event will take place at the Conservative Chapel in the Hillel House at Boston University, and will feature the following presentations: “Multiple gamma rhythms and the rate vs. Temporal code dilemma”, Dr. Miles […]
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    Hariri BU Science Day Awards

    March 1, 2011
    The Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering announces two new BU Science Day awards. These awards will be given annually to graduate students participating in the BU Science and Engineering Day, whose research exemplifies the power from adopting a computational approach in science and engineering. Two $1,000 awards will be given (each split $500 […]
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    Bahaa Hariri Pledges $15M for New Computing Institute

    February 23, 2011
    The Rafik Hariri Institute for Computational Science and Engineering will not only propel discovery and innovation through the use of state-of-the-art computational approaches, but also will catalyze advances in the science of computing inspired by challenges from a multitude of disciplines. The institute’s affiliated faculty will collaborate on research and educational initiatives targeting four broad application-based “clusters”: […]