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    Ran Canetti Featured in Fireblocks Article Announcing Advancements in MPC Technology

    June 3, 2020
      Fireblocks has made a recent advancement in the field of digital financial transactions management. An enterprise-grade platform, Fireblocks, has successfully developed a new algorithm for secured multi-party computation, referred to as MPC-CMP, that would speed up the processing of digital asset transactions. An article in Cision is about a recent advancement made in the field […]
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    Two BU Faculty with Hariri Institute Connections Promoted

    May 27, 2020
    In a recent article in BU Today, two Boston University faculty with active connections to the Hariri Institute for Computing were recognized for their leadership in their areas of focus. In the article, Jean Morrison, BU Provost and chief academic officer was quoted as saying, “They are forging multidisciplinary collaborations to discover solutions for some of […]
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    Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Studies COVID-19 and It’s Effect on Housing

    May 21, 2020
    Recently an article in BU Today featured the ongoing crisis of housing in this time of COVID-19. Twenty percent of Americans are out of work, but the rent and mortgage are still due at the first of the month. Moreover, only 26 percent of American cities are providing funds to help families stay in their […]
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    Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Leads Team at NEIDL

    May 20, 2020
    Researchers at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) have been awarded 1.9 million dollars in new funding from the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR), to investigate and study COVID-19. The Brink magazine published an article outlining the activities of the NEIDL in response to this new funding and highlighted the different research teams and […]

  • Is Artificial Intelligence A Blessing Or A Curse For The Environment?

    May 19, 2020
    The development of AI is perceived as an environmental concern. As AI continues to grow, so does the energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many scientists, researchers, and developers ore often oblivious or fail to recognize the environmental impact of their AI projects. To shed light on how AI impacts the environment, the publication PC Mag published an article that […]

  • Junior Faculty Fellow Battles With Android’s Malicious Malware

    May 19, 2020
    By Hariri Institute Staff An analysis done on more than a million samples of Android malware prove how malicious apps are developing malware coding that is hard to trace and identify. Despite in-depth research, malware in Android is still a major concern. The biggest challenge that researchers face is dealing with repackaged malware. Gianluca Stringhini, […]
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    MGHPCC Article Highlights Mass Open Cloud Research on COVID-19

    May 14, 2020
    The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) made an announcement last month of allowing outside researchers to access it’s high speed computing systems to facilitate the process of resolution of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. The blog gives a brief overview on the computing capacity of the state-of-the-art infrastructure that MGHPCC has. It also talks about […]

  • Vijaya Kolachalama’s Algorithm Makes Advancements In Alzheimer’s Detection

    May 5, 2020
    Different people have different symptoms, and so it is hard to get a precise diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. It is even harder to predict the likelihood of an individual afflicting the disease. Vijaya Kolachalama, an Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine and Junior Faculty Fellow and Research Fellow at the Hariri Insititute for Computing, was featured […]
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    Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow Defne Abur Wins NIH Grant

    April 30, 2020
    Defne Abur, Doctoral Student in the BU Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences as well as a Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow, has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders (NIH/NIDCD) for her work concentrating on "Motor phenotypes of Parkinson's disease (postural instability […]

  • Ari Trachtenberg Interviewed On Tracking Future Cases of COVID-19 with Cell Phones

    April 21, 2020
    Ran Canetti and Mayank Varia, Co-Directors of the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS) and past Hariri Institute fellow, Ari Trachtenberg, have teamed up with researchers from MIT and other universities to develop an app that uses Bluetooth-enabled cell phones to notify a person if they have come into proximity with someone […]