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    Clinical Elastic High Performance Computing

    June 18, 2012
    SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Jonathan Appavoo (Dept. of Computer Science), Dr. Ellen Grant (Children’s Hospital and Harvard University) One of the challenges in analyzing radiology data by computer is that it typically takes days to get the results, because the processing is computationally intensive. In a clinical setting, doctors and patients would benefit from […]
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    CLIO World Tables: A Global Historical Database

    October 8, 2015
    FALL 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE John Gerring (Political Science) Evidence about the past is scattered across archives, published works, and web sites, and often embedded in original-language sources. Consequently, those who wish to tackle historical subjects on a global scale are faced with the daunting prospect of assembling their own data, more or less from […]
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    Cloud Computing Initiative Advances Research Model through Industry Engagement

    July 13, 2017
    More and more, the services and applications we use for communication, security, storage, analytics, and just about every other technological need are based in the cloud. For most users, that’s a vague term meaning “not housed locally.” For the researchers and engineers working with the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project and Red Hat Collaboratory, both hosted at Boston University, it’s a world of opportunity.
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    Cloud Testing or Cloud Transformation?

    May 16, 2014
    How much does an "open” cloud cost? The Massachusetts state government is willing to invest $3 million in Boston University's (BU) concept of a truly open cloud, one the institution hopes will spur positive change marketwide. Can this initiative really compete with offerings from big providers like Amazon, Google and IBM, or is it just another […]
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    Collaboration Awarded an NSF Grant of $5M to Create New Cloud Computing Testbed

    October 23, 2019
    Last month the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a significant grant to a team of researchers from Boston University, Northeastern University and UMass Amherst. The grant will support the development of a testbed for new cloud computing platforms that will enable data science research to expand and explore new areas of interest. The total award […]
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    Comprehending Why Medical AI Is Perceived As A Concern Amongst The Public

    February 6, 2020
    Today, medical AI can perform with expert-level accuracy and deliver cost-effective healthcare at scale. Nevertheless, across real and hypothetical choices, and a host of medical domains spanning prevention to diagnosis to treatment, we find that people resist replacing humans with AI healthcare providers.
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    Computation and the Next Boom

    January 31, 2012
    In an op-ed piece in the January 30 Wall Street Journal, Mark Mills and Julio Ottino write about "The Coming Tech-led Boom" in the 21st century. They begin: In January 1912, the United States emerged from a two-year recession. Nineteen more followed—along with a century of phenomenal economic growth. Americans in real terms are 700% […]
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    Computational Approaches to Surgical Decision-Making

    April 26, 2019
    WEDNESDAYS @HARIRI Jacob Nudel, General Surgery Resident at the Boston Medical Center and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy When: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Event Start Time: 3:00 pm Event End Time: 4:30 pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: Obesity and its associated diseases […]
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    Computational Methods to Measure and Mitigate Weaponized Online Information

    December 2, 2019
    Wed@Hariri: Meet Our Fellows Series Gianluca Stringhini, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENG When: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Networking and refreshments 3:30pm-3:45pm, talk 3:45pm-5:00pm Where: Photonics Building, 8 St. Mary's Street, Room PHO 339 Abstract: The Web has redefined the way in which malicious activities such as online harassment, disinformation, and radicalization are carried out. To […]
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    Computational Modeling of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

    July 8, 2015
    SPRING 2013 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  James Galagan (Biomedical Engineering and Microbiology, College of Engineering) The goal of this project was to develop predictive models of the complete regulatory and metabolic networks of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). The aim is to use these models to computationally study the molecular programs that enable MTB to cause human disease in […]