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  • IBM and Meta launch the AI Alliance with MOC Alliance as a Founding Member

    December 5, 2023
    By Margaret Stanton The MOC Alliance at the Boston University Hariri Institute has become a founding member of the AI Alliance, an international community of leading technology developers, researchers, and adopters collaborating to advance open, safe, responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI). The aim of the AI Alliance is to foster an open community and enable developers […]

  • How Dickens and other Authors Shaped Attitudes to Education—With Lasting Impacts

    December 5, 2023
    In Education for All? BU political scientist Cathie Jo Martin says education systems continue to be influenced by the ideas of Enlightenment- and Industrial Revolution-Era writers  Story by Maureen Stanton and Alex Grzybowski Video by Natalie Williams In her new book, Education for All, Cathie Jo Martin, a Hariri Institute faculty affiliate and BU professor […]

  • Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment: Russo’s R01 Grant Allows for Promising Research Path

    December 1, 2023
    By Brendan Galvin, CISE Staff Sheila Russo, a CISE and Hariri Affiliate Professor (ME, MSE), won a four-year R01 grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH). This grant will support her research on soft robotics, which will enhance the safety and precision of interventional bronchoscopies, specifically addressing cancer biopsies. A lung cancer biopsy entails […]

  • Chuanfei Dong Receives 2023 HPC Innovation Excellence Award

    December 1, 2023
    By Margo Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate Chuanfei Dong received the 2023 HPC Innovation Excellence Award from Hyperion Research, which recognizes achievements made in High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies for business and scientific applications.  Dong, an assistant professor of astronomy and electrical and computer engineering at Boston University, was recognized for performing […]

  • New England Research Cloud’s Affordable Production Cloud Services Now Available to General Research and Education Users

    November 28, 2023
    By Alex Grzybowski, Hariri Institute for Computing The Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Alliance announced the opening of the New England Research Cloud (NERC) to general research and education users. The NERC is a production cloud, operated by BU and Harvard Research IT, that supports VMs, containers, S3 storage, and an AI as a service platform. NERC […]
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    Can an AI Model Learn the Changing Appearance of an Ear as a Baby Grows?

    November 12, 2023
    By Maureen L. Stanton Before vaccines, millions of children died or endured life-long disabilities from diseases such as polio, diphtheria, measles, and meningitis. Unfortunately, there are still 20.5 million children who are missing lifesaving vaccines globally, 2.1 million more than in 2019, according to the World Health Organization.  Childhood immunizations are carefully timed to be […]

  • Marshall Van Alstyne Recognized as One of the World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers

    November 10, 2023
    By Hariri Institute Staff Thinkers50 has recognized Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate Marshall Van Alstyne, and his co-author Geoff Parker, as among the world’s most influential living management thinkers in its 2023 ranking. Van Alstyne is the Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor in Information Systems at Boston University and a Digital Fellow at the MIT Initiative on […]

  • Implications of Generative AI (ChatGPT) in Education

    October 18, 2023
    By Chloe Wojtanik, Hariri Institute for Computing Over the past year, ChatGPT has become a topic of hot debate, especially in the classroom due to student’s using the software’s work as their own. Whether you support the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) or not, it’s important to have discussions about both the capabilities as […]

  • Nia and Mizgerd Receive Kilachand Fund Award To Advance Crystal Rib Cage

    October 13, 2023
      Hariri Faculty Affiliate, Assistant Professor Hadi Nia (BME, MSE), and BU Pulmonary Center Director Joseph Mizgerd received a 2023 Rajen Kilachand Fund for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering award to advance development of the crystal rib cage, an innovation developed in the Nia Lab that allows probing real-time lung function at cellular resolution. The […]

  • GSF Spotlight: Eddie Ruiz, Genetics & Genomics PhD student

    October 6, 2023
    Applying experimental and computational methods to improve systematic understanding of tissue and tumor biology By Chloe Wojtanik, Hariri Institute for Computing When Edward C. (“Eddie”)  Ruiz, a third-year Genetics & Genomics PhD student, was asked to share what he’s most excited to accomplish during his time at the Hariri Institute, he simply said with a […]