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    Faculty Fellow Sharon Goldberg Briefs Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus

    June 16, 2016
    University Provost, Jean Morrison, kicked off today’s Capitol Hill cybersecurity briefing by framing internet insecurity as a challenge that sits at the intersection of policy, education, and research. The panel, titled “The Other 95%: The Unsecure Internet You Don’t Know About,” featured panelists Sharon Goldberg, Hariri Faculty Fellow and associate professor of computer science; Joseph Hall, Chief Technologist […]
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    Institute Announces 2016 Hariri Graduate Fellows

    June 14, 2016
    The Hariri Graduate Fellows Program, a new program at the Institute, recognizes outstanding PhD students with the potential to become ambassadors for the entire Boston University computing, computational, and data-driven research community. This honor is given to continuing PhD students who have distinguished themselves during their time at Boston University by attaining significant achievements in computational […]
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    Institute Announces Seven Hariri Research Awards

    June 10, 2016
    Through the Hariri Research Awards, the Institute supports a portfolio of ambitious research projects that catalyze interdisciplinary research, each applying computational and data-driven approaches in new ways. By supporting projects in social sciences, humanities, law, business, and medicine – to engineering, computer science, and statistics, the Research Awards advance the Institute’s goal of bringing together and building a community […]
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    BUSec Seminar – Prof. Tai Moreshet & Aanchal Malhotra

    June 10, 2016
    Friday, June 10, 2016 12pm -1 pm Location: PHO 339, 8 St Marys St Prof. Tai Moreshet - Spider Goat: Transactional Memory for Security Abstract: Modern Intel CPUs support the detection and resolution of memory conflicts between multiple threads that access the same data: This is called Transactional Synchronisation Extension (TSX). Hardware-supported TSX technology helps […]
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    Statistically Principled and Scalable Computational Tools for Transforming Research

    June 1, 2016
    SPRING 2016 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  PI: Lei Guo (Emerging Media Studies, COM) Co-PIs: Prakash Ishwar (Electrical & Computer Engineering, ENG), Margrit Betke (Computer Science, CAS) Collaborators: Jacob Groshek (Emerging Media Studies, COM), Dino Christenson (Political Science, CAS) This research is part of an ongoing project that is exploring reliable and valid methods to analyze large-scale […]
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    Imagine All the People: The Origins of Education Reform and the Life Trajectories of Low-Skill Youth

    June 1, 2016
    SPRING 2016 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  PI: Cathie Jo Martin (Political Science, CAS) This project uses computational linguistics to evaluate the cultural origins of diverse models of education reform – standards-setting versus social investment – and their implications for socioeconomic inequality. National standards to ensure uniform educational opportunities, in fact, increase the drop-out rates of low-skill […]

  • An Ongoing Streaming Sample Twitter Collection and Analysis Toolkit

    June 1, 2016
    SPRING 2016 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  PI: Jacob Groshek (Emerging Media Studies, COM) Collaborators: Manuel Egele (Electrical & Computer Engineering, ENG) This project seeks to develop alternative and robust collection, storage, and analysis capabilities to perform research based on communications sent via Twitter. Twitter is one of the most popular and frequently used online social networks […]
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    Enabling High Fidelity Imaging and Quantification of Tissue Mechanical Properties in Vivo through Access to Sophisticated Inverse Problem Solvers

    June 1, 2016
    SPRING 2016 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  PI: Paul Barbone (Mechanical Engineering, ENG) This project aims to bring new imaging capabilities, enabled by high-performance computing, to a wide cadre of biomedical researchers through a Biomechanical Imaging Science Gateway (BIG@BU) web portal. The BIG@BU Gateway will provide public access to advanced software to solve inverse problems in Biomechanical […]
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    Graph-Based Approaches to Record Linkage in Large Datasets

    June 1, 2016
    SPRING 2016 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  PI: Jacob Bor (Global Health, SPH) Collaborators: George Kollios (Computer Science, CAS), Katia Oleinik (IS&T), Lorenzo Orecchia (Computer Science, CAS) This project will develop, implement, validate, and publish graph-based methods for probabilistic record linkage. Researchers will investigate different approaches to integrating information contained in the network structure of the data […]

  • 2016 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Award Recipients Announced

    June 1, 2016
    The Hariri Institute congratulates all of the 2016 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) award recipients, especially those funded by the Institute. The Institute recognizes and supports exceptional undergraduates from across the University doing computational research through the UROP Summer Research Awards. This award is granted to individuals using data-driven or computational approaches in conducting research.  UROP is designed to […]