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    BUSec Seminar – Prof. Tai Moreshet & Aanchal Malhotra

    June 10, 2016
    Friday, June 10, 2016 12pm -1 pm Location: PHO 339, 8 St Marys St Prof. Tai Moreshet – Spider Goat: Transactional Memory for Security Abstract: Modern Intel CPUs support the detection and resolution of memory conflicts between multiple threads that access the same data: This is called Transactional Synchronisation Extension (TSX). Hardware-supported TSX technology helps […]
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    BUSec Summer Weekly Seminar Series

    May 24, 2016
    Date: Fridays from 12 - 1 pm (beginning June 3rd) Location: Photonics Center Room 339, 8 St. Mary's Street Sixth Annual Summer Weekly Seminar Series The BU Security Group, sponsored by the Hariri Institute for Computing and Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS) is launching a series of seminars every Friday on the practical elements of security. […]

  • BU’s EVAL Collaborative Names Amira Learning Winner of Inaugural EVAL EdTech Evaluation Challenge

    March 3, 2026
    Advancing Evidence-Based Literacy Reform in Massachusetts As Massachusetts considers landmark literacy legislation requiring schools to adopt evidence-based reading instruction, Boston University’s Evidence-Based AI in Learning (EVAL) Industry Collaborative today announced Amira Learning as the winner of its inaugural EVAL EdTech Evaluation Challenge. The challenge was a national competition that identified AI-powered K–12 educational tools with […]
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    BU’s Faculty To serve on Advisory Committee for The Federal Government

    August 3, 2020
      The federal data strategy is used by the Federal Government to create a 10-year vision on how to accelerate the use of data to support their mission, promote democracy and serve the public while using security measures to protect privacy and confidentiality. The federal data strategy focuses on establishing an integrated data infrastructure with […]
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    BWWC Hosts 100% Talent Compact Data Training with Mayor Walsh

    July 26, 2017
    On July 18th, 2017, the BWWC celebrated the progress that the 100% Talent Compact has made over the past year and looked ahead to the upcoming 2017 data collection process, which will take place this September. This data collection process is made possible by researchers at BU’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, who have designed a secure way for companies to report the data anonymously.
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    Byers and Collaborators Identify Significant Yelp.com Privacy Breach

    November 2, 2011
    Working with colleagues Michael Mitzenmacher and Giorgos Zervas at Harvard, Hariri Institute member and BU Computer Science professor John Byers identified a large-scale privacy vulnerability at Yelp.com that was leaking private records of Yelp subscribers to users of their mobile site, m.yelp.com.  According to Professor Byers, "millions of user records were vulnerable and may have […]

  • Byte by byte: Using data science to study human behavior

    May 4, 2022
    BY: ALEX JOHNSON A popular thought experiment pushes people to consider the ethics of redirecting a trolley to hit a single person that is at the wrong place at the wrong time in order to avoid hitting five workers that the trolley is barreling toward. This puzzle has been debated for decades, but now researchers […]
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    Call for 2014 Hariri Institute Research Proposals

    February 20, 2014
    In pursuit of the Hariri Institute’s mission to catalyze and propel collaborative, interdisciplinary research through the use of computational and data-driven approaches, the Institute supports a portfolio of ambitious computational research projects, as well as forward-looking educational and outreach initiatives at Boston University. In line with this mission, we are pleased to announce the Call […]
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    Call for Applications – Digital Humanities Seminar, Fall 2016

    March 31, 2016
    The Digital Humanities seminar is part of a new Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) jointly sponsored by the CAS Dean’s office, BU Center for the Humanities, Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Research, and Office of the Associate Provost for Research. We invite applications for an experimental seminar, meeting weekly during the Fall 2016 semester, devoted […]
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    Call for Cyberwar “Peacekeepers” Force

    January 27, 2012
    Its mission? To create "a world class cyberwarrior force", and to develop cyberspace as an "active domain". Recruits will be trained using cyber challenge scenarios, for what is widely acknowledged as setting the cyber threat apart is not just its scale but its unpredictable and all-pervasive nature, posing a risk to critical national infrastructure such […]