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  • AI Emerges as Crucial Component of BU Research and Teaching

    January 25, 2018
    Brian Kulis joined BU in the fall of 2015, bringing his expertise in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to key research and teaching thrusts of the university. An assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the inaugural Levine Career Development Professor, Kulis leverages AI and machine learning to advance the rapidly expanding field of data science.
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    BU Cyber Alliance Hosts 2/5 Seminar, Featuring Paul Ohm (Georgetown)

    January 12, 2018
    Paul Ohm is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He specializes in information privacy, computer crime law, intellectual property, and criminal procedure. He teaches courses in all of these topics and more and he serves as a faculty director for the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown.
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    BU Professors Showcase Research Ranging from Software Development to Big Data

    January 12, 2018
    Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, former Hariri Institute Steering Committee member and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, coordinated the “Shaping the New Human-Technology Frontier: Current Research at BU” event, which brought together 40 professors at the School of Law’s Barristers Hall to foster interactions and offering a unique networking opportunity. The goal for the event was to bring people and professors on campus together who […]
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    Junior Faculty Fellow Alina Ene Receives NSF CAREER Award

    January 10, 2018
    Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow Alina Ene has received the National Science Foundation's prestigious CAREER Award.

  • Appointment of Dr. Adam Smith as Professor of Computer Science through BU Data Science Initiative

    January 10, 2018
    UnivSmith-Adamersity Provost and Chief Academic Officer Jean Morrison recently announced that Boston University's first professorship through the Data Science Initiative has been awarded to Dr. Adam Smith, Professor of Computer Science in the College of Arts & Sciences.
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    Spark! Ventures Demo Day Showcases Student Innovation

    December 21, 2017
    By Kaitlin Barnes An aircraft collision avoidance system and platform for expediting college transfer credits are just two of the 11 original projects presented at the inaugural Spark! Ventures Demo Day.  Over 60 attendees, including project mentors, industry partners, and faculty and staff from CAS, IS&T, CS, CFA, Pardee, and Innovate@BU, joined students for a poster presentation and lightning presentations. […]
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    Institute Fellow Lucy Hutyra part of team awarded NSF Research Traineeship Grant

    December 21, 2017
    Hariri Research Fellow Lucy Hutyra is part of the team of researchers awarded a $3 million, five-year National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) grant to prepare a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists to tackle urgent urban environmental problems through what is hoped will be a model graduate program for other universities.
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    MPC Gains Attention of US Lawmakers

    December 21, 2017
    What began in 2014 as a small, seed-funded research project to assess pay equity in Boston, multi-party computation (MPC) has emerged as a key research thrust of the Hariri Institute for Computing and is drawing significant attention from U.S. policymakers.
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    Nominations for Prospective Graduate Student Fellows Open

    December 18, 2017
    The Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering is now accepting Hariri Graduate Fellow nominations for prospective PhD students.
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    Bestavros Presents on MPC at National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium

    December 11, 2017
    Institute Director Azer Bestavros was a featured presenter at the December 2017 Sackler Colloquium on Modeling and Visualizing Science and Technology Developments.