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    BU Today Profiles BWWC Partnership with Institute

    January 27, 2017
    Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Boston Women's Workforce Council (BWWC) released a first-of-its-kind gender wage gap report in early January, while at the same time announcing a new partnership that would move the BWWC to the Hariri Institute for Computing. BU Today covered the work of the BWWC and Hariri Institute in developing a secure, multi-party computation platform to analyze propriety payroll data from numerous Boston area companies:
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    BU Today: “Help for Yelp”

    November 9, 2011
    BU Today published a story (by Rich Barlow) on the recent discovery by Institute Member, John Byers, and his collaborators of a significant privacy breach on the popular mobile Yelp.com web site. The article notes that Yelp “is indebted to a BU computer scientist and his colleagues, who uncovered a privacy leak on its site last […]
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    BU Today: Designing an Intelligent Urban Ecosystem

    October 21, 2014
    October 17, 2014 from BU Today BU faculty, with help from business and government partners, will develop cloud computing–based services and products to solve urban problems ranging from traffic congestion to dirty air with a grant from the National Science Foundation(NSF). The effort, called SCOPE (Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform & Ecosystem), will be coordinated by the Hariri […]
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    BU Today: Securing the Cloud

    September 29, 2014
    The Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), a one-of-a-kind marketplace model for customizable public cloud offerings now being built a team of researchers from BU and several other universities, may soon claim another first: a modular cybersecurity system built from smaller, separate functional components, each asserting its own security individually. As a result, the security of the system as […]

  • BU Wins $3 Million NSF Training Grant For Convergent Research in Sustainable Energy Conversion and Storage

    August 21, 2024
    Collaborative award between Hariri Institute's Center for Computational Science (CCS) and the Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) aims to develop the workforce the U.S. energy sector needs to solve complex sustainability challenges at the industrial level By Maureen L. Stanton The development of sustainable energy is one of the most important grand challenges society faces. […]

  • BU’s ENERGIZE Program is recruiting its first cohort of graduate trainees!

    January 27, 2025
    BU PhD students interested in attacking climate change: Apply to the ENERGIZE by 5PM February 21, 2025! Submit applications through the NSF eTap Portal. The ENERGIZE program is a new BU interdisciplinary graduate program aimed at developing the workforce the U.S. energy sector needs to solve complex sustainability challenges at the industrial level. The program offers […]
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    BU, Red Hat & City of Boston Sponsor Co.Lab Workshop for Middle School Girls

    April 20, 2017
    In collaboration with BU and the City of Boston, Red Hat, the world's leader in open source enterprise software, will teach 25 middle school girls the value of collaboration through a three day workshop from April 19th-April 21st. The workshop, held in a Red Hat mobile Co.Lab trailer outside of City Hall Plaza, will teach the girls how to build and code a digital camera. The girls will then venture out to take photos of what collaboration means to them and later share their work.

  • BU-led interdisciplinary research team is developing the first anatomy-aware GenAI model for lung abnormalities

    August 6, 2024
    By Maureen Stanton In 2021, OpenAI launched a GenAI model called DALL-E that captivated the world with its ability to generate an image instantly with a simple text caption. Now GenAI models are poised to transform virtually every industry, particularly healthcare. AI-powered image generators are typically built on foundational models. Using machine learning algorithms, these […]

  • BU-led Interdisciplinary Team Develops Data-driven Strategy for Early Alzheimer’s Assessment

    August 3, 2023
    Collaborating Institutions include University of California San Francisco, Mass General Hospital, and Lahey Hospital and Medical Center By Maureen Stanton and Gina DiGravio Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, afflicting more than six million Americans today. By 2050, this number is projected to rise to nearly 13 million, with one in three seniors […]
  • BU-led Team Takes Second Place at IEEE HOST 2025 Hardware Hacking Competition

    BU-led Team Takes Second Place at IEEE HOST 2025 Hardware Hacking Competition

    May 28, 2025
    Expose Critical Cloud Hardware Vulnerability in Widely Used Technique By Maureen L. Stanton A team from Boston University, in collaboration with researchers at IBM and Red Hat, earned second place at the inaugural hardware hacking competition at the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST). In their demonstration, they exposed a critical […]