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    Hariri’s Research Project Received AI servers from IBM

    August 5, 2019
    Earlier this Summer, IBM donated new enterprise AI servers to the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), a sponsored research project at the Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University. The servers were installed at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). Michael Daitzman, Director for the Red Hat Collaboratory at the Hariri Institute said, “The […]
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    Ran Canetti was interviewed by WCVB Channel 5

    July 30, 2019
    Professor Ran Canetti, Computer Science, CAS and the Director of the Center for Reliable Information System and Cyber Security (RISCS) was interviewed by Nicole Estephan of WCVB Channel 5's Chronicle magazine and shared his opinion about the Facebook listening issue on July 22, 2019. When people find out that the ads that appear are normally things […]
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    Language Deprivation and the American Sign Language Lexicon

    July 26, 2019
    Join us on Monday, August 5th at 3:00 PM for a guest talk featuring Naomi Caselli, Assistant Professor of Deaf Studies at BU's Wheelock College of Education & Human Development! Event Details Date: Monday, August 5, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Location: Seminar Room, Hariri Institute for Computing Language Deprivation and the American […]
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    David Coker Receives Funding from the US Department of Energy

    July 24, 2019
    Earlier today David Coker, BU Professor of Chemistry, CAS was awarded funding by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for his work in Quantum Information Science. The DOE announced $37 million in funding for research in materials and chemistry to advance the field of Quantum Information Science (QIS). QIS is an emerging field that exploits […]
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    Spring 2019 Research Incubation Award Recipients

    July 22, 2019
    About the Research Incubation Awards (RIA) The Institute supports a portfolio of ambitious research projects and activities that align with its mission to catalyze new directions and collaborations in interdisciplinary research that applies the computational 3and data-driven approaches. By supporting projects in fields from social sciences, humanities, law, business, and medicine – to engineering, computer science, […]
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    City of Boston Approves New BU Data Sciences Building

    July 12, 2019
    It was announced today that Boston University was approved by the city to build a 17-floor Data Sciences building on Commonwealth Ave (at the corner of Commonwealth Ave and Granby St). KPMB Architects has designed the building to resemble a vertical campus where the Department of Computer Science and the Hariri Institute for Computing will […]
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    SAIL Team Wins at Microsoft-Vivli Datathon

    July 10, 2019
    We are proud to announce that a team representing the Hariri Institute's Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) won the Outstanding Graduate Submission prize at the Microsoft-Vivli Datathon on June 21, 2019. Congratulations to team members Kinan Dak Albab, Megan Fantes, Peter Flockhart, Wyatt Howe, Lucy Qin, and Zack Zhang! Microsoft and Vivli, a global […]
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    BU Hariri Institute Researchers Honored with a Test-of-Time Award at Eurocrypt 2019

    June 18, 2019
    This past month, Boston University Professors Adam Smith (Professor of Computer Science, CAS), Leonid Reyzin (Professor of Computer Science, CAS) and New York University Professor Yevgeniy Dodis (Professor of Computer Science, CIMS) were honored at this year’s Eurocrypt 2019 held in Darmstadt, Germany, with the 2019 IACR Test-Time-Award. The IACR Test-of-Time Award is given yearly […]
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    TechTalks Magazine Highlights Neuroflight and It’s Use of AI in Drone Flight

    June 17, 2019
    Just this week TechTalks magazine produced a story about artificial intelligence and it’s growing influence on the world of drone flight. A company called Neuroflight has created a system which helps drones maintain stability and balance in changing environmental conditions. Previous technology relied upon mathematical control equations to respond to changes in conditions. Machine learning, […]
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    Privacy Amplification with Couplings and Overlapping Mixtures

    June 17, 2019
    Borja Balle, Amazon Research When: Thursday, June 20, 2019 Event Start Time: 1:30 pm Event End Time: 3:00 pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, 111 Cummington Mall, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: Privacy amplification is a key component of many state-of-the-art analyses in differential privacy. Amplification results come under different guises, including amplification by sampling, shuffling […]