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    Institute to Co-sponsor Linguistics Colloquium: Qian Hu, “Speech Technology & Applications”

    September 13, 2016
    The Hariri Institute for Computing, in collaboration with the Linguistics Program at Boston University, will be sponsoring the first Linguistics Colloquium of the fall semester. Dr. Qian Hu (BU PhD in Applied Linguistics, 1993; currently Chief Scientist of Speech Technologies and Senior Principal Artificial Intelligence Scientist at the MITRE Corporation) will speak about “Speech Technology & Applications” on Thursday, September […]
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    Institute Fellow Sharon Goldberg Designs Anonymous Bitcoin Payment System

    September 2, 2016
    As the surveillance industry continues to expose weaknesses in Bitcoin's security properties, one of most valuable attributes of the system, payment anonymity, has come into question. Led by Hariri Institute Faculty Fellow and computer science professor Sharon Goldberg, a team of BU researchers, including PhD candidate Ethan Heilman, undergraduate student Leen Alshenibr, and postdoc researchers Foteini Baldimtsi and […]
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    SCOPE Project Releases 2016 Annual Report

    August 17, 2016
    After two years of research activity, the Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform within an Ecosystem (SCOPE) Project has made significant progress in three main research thrusts - end-user services, cross-cutting services and collaborative governance, and capabilities and application interfaces. Additionally, the project has produced broader impact outcomes, such as creating models for collaboration and innovative curricula. The project aims […]
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    Institute to co-sponsor BU Econometrics Conference

    August 1, 2016
    The Hariri Institute for Computing, in collaboration with the Finance Department and Mathematical Finance Program of the Questrom School of Business, will host a one-day conference on recent advances in financial econometrics this fall. The focus of the conference lies on the identification of new risks from financial data. It will include a series of talks from […]
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    Institute Director Presents on Multi-Party Computation at Harvard

    July 13, 2016
    Hariri Institute Founding Director, Azer Bestavros, presented at Harvard University as part of the 2016 Dataverse Community Meeting. The privacy workshop component of the annual meeting, titled "Managing Privacy in Research Data Repositories," focuses on tools that help to open repositories currently addressing sensitive or private data, and was held at Harvard Medical School on July 13th. Bestavros participated […]
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    Institute Steering Committee Member Talks Exascale Computing

    July 11, 2016
    Hariri Institute Steering Committee member, Roscoe Giles, recently spoke to BU Today about his work on exascale computing technology and its ability to "solve new problems or old problems in new ways." Giles, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, previously served as a member and chairman of the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing […]
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    Using Data to Close the Wage Gap

    July 8, 2016
    The Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University received praise for a project concerning secure multi-party analytics in a recent On Point segment for National Public Radio, titled "Will Data Help Close the Gender Pay Gap?" Tom Ashbrook, host of the popular radio show, interviewed former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Evelyn Murphy, on her current work with […]

  • Addressing the Roots of Internet Insecurity

    July 6, 2016
    It's no secret that today's policymakers are grappling with technical realities in an effort to develop comprehensive laws and policies that address innovation as well as concern for privacy and security. Now more than ever, understanding cybersecurity and the causes of internet insecurity are critical to lawmakers. As Hariri Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Computer Science Sharon […]
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    SAIL works with MED Campus Researchers to Create DASH App for e-Health

    June 30, 2016
    As chronic disease management becomes a growing concern for the medical industry, practitioners, patients, and payers are actively seeking new tools to drive down costs and improve treatment efficacy. One of the recent projects developed by BU’s Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) is an app called Dietary Approaches to Stopping Hypertension (DASH). DASH is a mobile application designed to […]
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    Institute Hosts GENI Workshop for Researchers

    June 25, 2016
    How do we provide researchers with large-scale cyberinfrastructures that are both programmable and adaptable to a variety of research needs? When research interests require cyberinfrastructures that are so complex a single university cannot develop and maintain one on its own, projects such as the National Science Foundation’s GENI step in. GENI (Global Environment for Network […]