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    BU Launches New Collaboration with Honda Research Institute

    May 17, 2017
    The Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to announce a new research collaboration between Boston University and the Honda Research Institute (HRI), a Honda R&D subsidiary, that will address these evolving information security needs. Facilitated through the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS), the collaboration brings together BU faculty and students with HRI scientists and engineers around topics of interest that include data privacy, consumer personalization, and user control.
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    BU Leaders in MOC and RedHat Help Boston Children’s Hospital Improve Patient Outcomes

    August 24, 2018
    Orran Krieger, BU lead on the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), has seen open cloud services provide advantageous opportunities for companies to innovate and manage at the infrastructure level. While Krieger acknowledges the heavy financial burden of a private cloud on not-for-profit universities, with the cost of purchasing their own equipment being much lower than the large capital investment […]
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    BU Leads Efforts Towards Educating Women about Cybersecurity

    August 9, 2018
    Boston University is among the small number of organizations featured in <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> for their efforts to teach young women about computer science- and cybersecurity-related problems.
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    BU Life Science Researchers including Hariri Fellow Win $1 Million Award

    October 15, 2019
    This year, the first Kilachand Fund Awards were given to three research project teams. The Rajen Kilachand Fund for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering was created when Rajen Kilachand gifted Boston University with $115 million in 2018, $100 million of which went to establishing an endowment dedicated to interdisciplinary research and finding solutions to the problems […]
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    BU Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar: Accountability, Ethics, and Algorithms

    March 1, 2018
    Thursday, March 15, 4:00 PM – 3:30 PM Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering 610 Commonwealth Avenue Ethics and law are implicated in efforts to make the design and implementation of algorithms accountable. Philosophical questions arise at the start: how do the notions of responsibility, jurisdiction, accountability, bias, abuse, and authority figure in a […]
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    BU Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar: Open Access and Research into History: Issues of Copyright

    February 10, 2018
    Tuesday February 20, 2018, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering 610 Commonwealth Avenue Casey Westerman, Archivist for the Institute for Advanced Study, will discuss some of the complex issues raised by the recent case of Kurt Gödel’s “Max Phil” notebooks. These fifteen notebooks, composed by Gödel in Gabelsberger shorthand […]
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    BU Professors Showcase Research Ranging from Software Development to Big Data

    January 12, 2018
    Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, former Hariri Institute Steering Committee member and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, coordinated the “Shaping the New Human-Technology Frontier: Current Research at BU” event, which brought together 40 professors at the School of Law’s Barristers Hall to foster interactions and offering a unique networking opportunity. The goal for the event was to bring people and professors on campus together who […]
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    BU Receives NSF Funding to Develop “Smart City” Cloud Platform (Press Release)

    September 23, 2014
    Boston University Receives National Science Foundation Funding to Develop “Smart City” Cloud Platform in News Releases September 23rd, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 23, 2014 CONTACT:    Kira Jastive, 617-358-1240 or kjastive@bu.edu (Boston) – Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering today announced it has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop […]
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    BU Receives NSF Grant to Develop ‘Smart city’ Cloud Platform

    September 29, 2014
    Boston University's Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering today announced it has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a "smart-city" cloud platform designed to streamline and strengthen multiple municipal functions. Called SCOPE: A Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform & Eco-system, the project is designed to improve transportation, […]
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    BU Research Magazine Highlights a Hariri Institute Research Team’s Work in Machine Learning.

    November 13, 2018
    This past September 2018 a Data Science Faculty Fellow, Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow, and a past Hariri Fellow were highlighted in an article in BU Research magazine for their work developing a machine that can measure public sentiment about a given topic or event online. Where did this all start? It began with a talk […]