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  • “Visual Question Answering and Beyond”

    October 30, 2018
    Aishwarya Agrawal, Georgia Tech Wednesday, October 31, 2018 11:30am – 12:30pm in MCS 148 Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall Boston, MA 02215 Abstract: In this talk, I will present our work on Visual Question Answering (VQA) — I will provide a brief overview of the VQA task, dataset and baseline models, as well as, […]

  • $1.1 Million Awarded to Joint Study on Impacts of Data Centers in Norway’s Clean Energy Transition

    July 13, 2023
    As Norway strives to position itself as a hub for global digital infrastructure—building data centers for cloud storage and processing—questions about the benefits and tradeoffs of digitalization are being brought to the forefront of its sustainability policy. Now, through a government-backed initiative, the Research Council of Norway has awarded more than $1.1 million in funding […]

  • $3M Awarded to Launch the Massachusetts Open Cloud @ BU

    April 25, 2014
    GOVERNOR PATRICK ANNOUNCES FUNDING TO LAUNCH MASSACHUSETTS OPEN CLOUD PROJECT, CELEBRATES RELEASE OF 2014 MASS BIG DATA REPORT State’s first big data industry status report finds 3,000 new Big Data jobs in Massachusetts over the course of the next year HOLYOKE – Friday, April 25, 2014 – Governor Deval Patrick today announced a $3 million […]

  • 10/27 “Cities of Tomorrow” ITIF event in Washington, D.C. to feature Institute Director [Live-stream Available]

    October 26, 2016
    Azer Bestavros, Hariri Institute Founding Director and Professor of Computer Science, served as a panelist at "The Cities of Tomorrow: How Research and Innovation Can Help Address the U.S. Infrastructure Crises" event, held in Washington, D.C. on October 27th. Hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the event discussed research and innovation that has the potential to advance federal policies for smart and connected communities.

  • 11/15 “Shaping the New Human-Technology Frontier: Current Research at BU” hosted by Steering Committee Member Shinn-Cunningham

    November 16, 2016
    4:00 PM – 6:00 PM on Wednesday, November 15, 2016; LAW Barristers; 765 Commonwealth Avenue Hosted by Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, ENG and Hariri Institute Steering Committee Member - Shaping the New Human-Technology Frontier: Current Research at BU [Research on Tap: Meet, Greet, and Learn Series]

  • 2011 MGHPCC Seed Funding for HPC Research

    July 25, 2011
    The Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Consortium issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for its 2011 Seed Funding Program for collaborative HPC research. This program provides funding to develop novel collaborative research activities addressing significant and challenging problems at the forefront of high-performance technical computing. Proposals should include some strategy for a follow-on that might attract external funding after the initial […]

  • 2016 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Award Recipients Announced

    June 1, 2016
    The Hariri Institute congratulates all of the 2016 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) award recipients, especially those funded by the Institute. The Institute recognizes and supports exceptional undergraduates from across the University doing computational research through the UROP Summer Research Awards. This award is granted to individuals using data-driven or computational approaches in conducting research.  UROP is designed to […]

  • 2019 Junior Faculty Fellows Welcomed at Luncheon

    October 17, 2019
    On October 11, 2019, the Hariri Institute for Computing hosted the Junior Faculty Fellows Award Luncheon to celebrate and welcome the ninth cohort of Junior Faculty Fellows. The event was held at the Hotel Commonwealth and was attended by the newest JFFs, former fellows and faculty. The event was hosted by Professor Azer Bestavros, Founding […]

  • 2020 Junior Faculty Fellow: Emma Lejeune awarded Career Development Professorship

    September 22, 2020
    We are thrilled to announce that our 2020 Junior Faculty Fellow, Emma Lejeune just received the David R. Dalton Career Development Professorship. Emma is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering. She received her doctorate and master’s in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University and her bachelor’s degree from Cornell […]

  • 2021 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award Recipients

    December 15, 2021
    The Boston University (BU) Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering: Red Hat Collaboratory is excited to announce the first recipients of the Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award! Through BU and Red Hat’s expanded partnership, the Red Hat Collaboratory seeks to create more trustworthy, reliable, scalable, self-operating, distributed, heterogeneous compute […]