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    BU Cyber Alliance to host 3/12 Seminar, Featuring Alexandra Wood (Harvard)

    February 6, 2018
    The BU Cyber Alliance is pleased to host Alexandra Wood (Harvard) for a seminar, titled "Bridging Privacy Definitions: Differential Privacy and Privacy Concepts from Law and Policy."

  • BU Dark Matter Researcher Wins Award to Drive “Extraordinary Contributions” to Experimental Physics

    August 23, 2023
    Dark matter might be one of the most important substances in the universe—the glue that stops stars flying away from each other and ripping galaxies apart. It’s also one of the most mysterious. It’s proven so stubbornly hard to see that researchers can only guess at its existence. Boston University physicist and Hariri Institute faculty […]
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    BU Data Science Initiative Takes Off

    January 10, 2015
    Launched in the summer of 2014 by University Provost Jean Morrison, Boston University’s Data Science Initiative (DSI) seeks both to leverage BU’s existing strengths and further expand its capacity to compete and lead in the Big Data revolution. Data is the currency of discovery and innovation in almost every scientific and professional endeavor. At BU, […]

  • BU ENG Researcher Wenchao Li Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

    March 12, 2024
    By Maureen Stanton Wenchao Li, an ENG assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering with affiliate appointments in systems engineering and computer science, has won a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).  Li’s research sits at the intersection of formal methods and machine learning, with a focus on […]
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    BU Expanding Its Ranks of Data Scientists

    November 10, 2014
    November 10 2014 from BU today BU plans to hire up to six data scientists—the intellectual miners extracting applicable information from the mountains of Big Data—over the next three years Data scientists use mathematical models to analyze voluminous data and draw knowledge from it that can be used in a variety of applications, from health […]
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    BU Faculty comment on various implications of the pandemic on non-COVID-19 trials

    November 9, 2020
    The course of clinical trials research has been impacted to varying extents by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hariri Institute for Computing, Department of Biostatistics (SPH), the Statistics Program, and Department of Mathematics and Statistics (CAS) at Boston University have organized an event where BU Statistic faculty will have the opportunity to comment on various implications […]
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    BU Hariri Institute Researchers Honored with a Test-of-Time Award at Eurocrypt 2019

    June 18, 2019
    This past month, Boston University Professors Adam Smith (Professor of Computer Science, CAS), Leonid Reyzin (Professor of Computer Science, CAS) and New York University Professor Yevgeniy Dodis (Professor of Computer Science, CIMS) were honored at this year’s Eurocrypt 2019 held in Darmstadt, Germany, with the 2019 IACR Test-Time-Award. The IACR Test-of-Time Award is given yearly […]
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    BU Helps BPS Solve its Latest Problem: Getting Students to School On Time

    April 3, 2017
    On Saturday April 1st, the Boston Public School system invited local companies, schools, individuals, and others to a hackathon-like seminar. Where a hackathon generally gives participants 24-48 hours to solve a problem, BPS is giving participants up to two months to solve its newest problem- their bus routes.

  • BU Interdisciplinary Team Wins DOE Grant for Biopreparedness Research

    September 11, 2023
    By Chloe Patel, Hariri Institute for Computing Boston University researchers affiliated with the Hariri Institute, College of Engineering, and School of Public Health, have received a subaward from a $12 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant awarded to a coalition of DOE National Laboratories led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). This funding, […]
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    BU Joins Leading Online Course Platform edX

    May 21, 2013
    05.21.2013 By Rich Barlow (from BU Today) Azer Bestavros, who co-chairs BU's council exploring technology and education, says the online platform edX is a perfect fit for the University. Photo by Vernon Doucette BU has joined edX, the Harvard-and-MIT-led online learning platform that shares the University’s commitment to using technology’s benefits for students on campus […]