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    Bestavros: MPC helps orgs achieve data transparency while maintaining privacy

    August 22, 2018
    Founding Director Azer Bestavros wrote in a <em>Washington Post</em> op-ed that secure multiparty computation can help organizations move past a common impasse they face when they want to be transparent with data for the public good while also maintaining their privacy.
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    Big Data: Business Intelligence and Your Privacy

    September 23, 2019
    Presented by the Boston University Alumni Association Featured Speaker: Dr. Azer Bestavros, Warren Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Founding Director of the Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University When: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Event Start Time: 6:00 pm Event End Time: 9:00 pm Where: Convene, 810 Seventh Ave, New York, NY Schedule: 6:00 pm […]
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    Blockchain Neutrality

    February 27, 2020
    Cyber Alliance Speaker Series Speaker: Sam Weinstein, Assistant Professor, Cardozo School of Law, University of California-Berkeley When: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 3:30pm - 5:00pm (Light refreshments before and after the presentation) Where: Boston University, School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Ave, 15th Floor Faculty Lounge Abstract: Blockchain technology is transforming how markets work, and their disruptive potential […]
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    Blurring Structure and Learning for Adaptive Local Recognition

    April 1, 2020
    AIR Distinguished Speaker Series Speaker: Evan Shelhamer, Research Scientist at Adobe, Visiting Researcher at MIT When: Monday, April 6, 2020 Time: 11:00am-12:30pm Abstract: The visual world is vast and varied, but there is nevertheless ubiquitous structure. In this talk, I will focus on incorporating locality and scale structure into deep networks for image-to-image tasks like semantic segmentation. To […]

  • Bobak Nazer Honored with the 2024 Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology

    May 7, 2024
    Bobak Nazer, an associate professor of electrical & computer engineering, received the prestigious Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology (2024).  This university-wide teaching award recognizes innovative use, development or adaptation of technology that yields positive learning outcomes for undergraduate students, and is recognized or adopted by faculty within or […]
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    Border Gateway Protocol and insecurity

    June 4, 2015
    The “three-napkins protocol,” officially known as the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), was intended to be a quick fix, but it still governs how long-haul traffic flows through cyberspace. Yakov Rekhter and Kirk Lougheed created the Border Gateway Protocol in January 1989. While they were sketching their plan on three napkins for routing data across the […]
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    Boston Announces Beta Launch of Open Data Platform

    March 16, 2017
    The City of Boston has launched Open Data to Open Knowledge, which is in beta form and hosted on a platform called Analyze Boston. The City plans on releasing the official platform this spring. In collaboration with the Boston Public Library, the platform will host datasets that will be available to the public for research inquiries and projects. BU has been significantly involved in developing technology and techniques to move the process along in Boston.
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    Boston Globe Cites Goldberg’s Work on Possible NSA Privacy Exploit

    July 10, 2014
    The Boston Globe has a front page article in the Business section citing Sharon Goldberg's work exposing a loophole that could be exploited by NSA to monitor electronic communication by US citizens. A report from researchers at Harvard University and Boston University warns that the National Security Agency could freely monitor the electronic communications of […]
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    Boston Globe Quotes Bestavros on Social Engineering

    April 25, 2014
    The Boston Globe quotes Azer Bestavros, BU Computer Science Professor and Founding Director of the Hariri Institute, in their article "Around Internet, password fatigue setting in Protection becomes a not-so-secret frustration" E-mail access in particular is a gateway to other sites because it contains so much personal information, and hackers can exploit a that weak link […]

  • Boston University Announces Task Force on Convergent Research and Education

    March 17, 2025
    Task force members include Hariri Institute faculty affiliates By Maria Yaitanes Boston University President Melissa Gilliam, MD, announced the launch of the BU Task Force on Convergent Research and Education in a recent memo. Convergent research is a collaborative approach that goes beyond interdisciplinary research to solve specific, complex societal problems that require diverse disciplinary […]