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    BU Leaders in MOC and RedHat Help Boston Children’s Hospital Improve Patient Outcomes

    August 24, 2018
    Orran Krieger, BU lead on the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), has seen open cloud services provide advantageous opportunities for companies to innovate and manage at the infrastructure level. While Krieger acknowledges the heavy financial burden of a private cloud on not-for-profit universities, with the cost of purchasing their own equipment being much lower than the large capital investment […]
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    Red Hat Colloquium: “Towards Tail Latency-Aware Caching in Large Web Services,” Daniel S. Berger (CMU)

    August 23, 2018
    Please join us for an RedHat Colloquium featuring Daniel S. Berger, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
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    SAIL Interns Conclude Summer Session with Presentations

    August 22, 2018
    Since 2016, the Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) has offered internship opportunities to BU students to grow their software engineering expertise and solve research challenges across disciplines. SAIL interns and fellows work directly with software engineers and researchers in the space where academia meets application, learning and experimenting with new technologies on projects in […]
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    Bestavros: MPC helps orgs achieve data transparency while maintaining privacy

    August 22, 2018
    Founding Director Azer Bestavros wrote in a <em>Washington Post</em> op-ed that secure multiparty computation can help organizations move past a common impasse they face when they want to be transparent with data for the public good while also maintaining their privacy.
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    BU Leads Efforts Towards Educating Women about Cybersecurity

    August 9, 2018
    Boston University is among the small number of organizations featured in <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> for their efforts to teach young women about computer science- and cybersecurity-related problems.
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    HIC’s Varia Appears on Infosec Video Podcast

    July 30, 2018
    Mayank Varia, a BU cryptography researcher and co-director of the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security, earlier this month served as a guest on the Business Security Weekly video podcast, which is part of a podcast network covering news and issues of interest to information security researchers and professionals. In the episode, Varia […]
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    Red Hat Teams Up with Boston Children’s Hospital, UNICEF

    June 29, 2018
    Red Hat lends a hand with researching imaging data from MRIs through the Mass Open Cloud for the Boston Children's Hospital, working with images stripped of identification. Red Hat Engineering Director and BU Research partnership leader Hugh Brock, however, believes that finding solutions that allow research to work with private data is going to be vital to the future of […]
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    Institute Hosts Department of Microbiology Summer School and Symposium

    June 29, 2018
    The Hariri Institute was pleased to host and co-sponsor the BU Department of Microbiology summer school and symposium for the Computational Immunology of B cells from June 11 through 14. Directed by Tom Kepler, professor of microbiology and director of the BU Immunology Training Program, the course featured faculty and symposium speakers from across the U.S. who are […]
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    More than 60 convene at BU for differential privacy, multi-party computation workshop

    June 13, 2018
    The Differential Privacy Meets Multi-Party Computation (DPMPC) Workshop brought together over 60 attendees from 13 different universities and sparked groundbreaking discussion about differential privacy and multi-party computing. Organized by Ran Canetti, professor of computer science & director of the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security, and Shafi Goldwasser, RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and […]
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    Varia Co-Authors ‘Lawfare’ Article Calling for Truce in Crypto-Wars

    June 11, 2018
    In a piece published in the national security blog Lawfare, BU cryptography researcher Mayank Varia makes the case for a "crypto-armistice" between the government and the technology community as a way to both repair a fractious relationship and increase the likelihood that a viable long-term solution to the privacy versus security debate can be cooperatively […]