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    Hariri Institute Sponsors and Hosts 2nd New England Networking and Systems Day

    September 25, 2015
    Sponsored and hosted by the Hariri Institute for Computing, New England Network and Systems Day brings together academics and research scientists from local industry, universities and research labs to discuss recent advances in networking and systems. Following an extremely successful event last year, the 2nd Annual New England Network and Systems Day will be held […]
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    DSI Distinguished Lecture by George Karypis on Big Data Methods, Systems, and Applications

    September 22, 2015
    Please join us on Friday, September 25, 2015 at 11 am for a Data Science Initiative Distinguished Lecture with George Karypis, ADC Chair of the Digital Technology Center and professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.  The lecture will take place at Boston University's Hariri Institute for […]
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    October 2nd – 3rd, 2015 Boston University Digital Humanities 2015 Symposium

    September 16, 2015
    What ARE the digital humanities? How can digital pedagogy change the classroom experience, and revolutionize your scholarship? What skills do you need to make your way in the "digital academy"? JOIN US on 2-3 October 2015 for the inaugural BU Digital Humanities Symposium 2015, an interdisciplinary forum of roundtables (Day 1) and workshops (Day 2) […]
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    Sept 15, 2015 Visioning Workshop: On the Future of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC)

    September 4, 2015
    Dear Computing Scientists/Engineers and Data-driven Researchers, On September 15, 2015, there will be a visioning meeting held at the Westin in Waltham MA to start a discussion on the future of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC).  The program will be organized by Chris Hill (MIT), Hans Johnston (UMASS), and Dave Kaeli (Northeastern). […]
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    [Kirill Korolev] Why is Cancer So Rare?

    September 2, 2015
    3:00 PM on September 30, 2015 @ Room 180 Why is Cancer So Rare? Kirill Korolev Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Physics Department and Graduate Program in Bioinformatics Boston University With an introduction by Karl Ludwig, Department Chair of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences Abstract: The conventional view is that only a handful […]
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    DSI Distinguished Lecture by George Karypis, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

    August 18, 2015
    Friday, September 25, 2015, 11:00am-12:00pm Hariri Institute for Computing, 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Please join us for refreshments at noon Big Data Research: Methods, Systems, and Applications We are in the era of “Big Data”, which is loosely defined as the application of data driven approaches to solve problems arising in a wide-range of domains […]
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    Levantine Ceramics: The Application

    August 13, 2015
    SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Andrea Berlin (Archaeology, College of Arts & Sciences) The project seeks to create a robust, interactive, easy-to-use web application for ceramics of all periods produced and exchanged in the Levant from antiquity through modern times. This application will be both an archive and a tool. Users would be able to […]
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    Exploring Software Assistants for Formal Methods

    August 13, 2015
    SPRING 2011 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Assaf Kfoury (Computer Science, College of Arts & Sciences) As computing technology continues developing, new techniques, infrastructures, tools, and interfaces are advancing dramatically: the collaborative or ``crowd-sourced" assembly of Wikipedia, IBM's Watson question-answering system, ubiquitous palm-sized computing devices with intuitive interfaces, and so on. The user interface design (UID), human-computer […]
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    Power Networks Topology Control Software

    August 12, 2015
    SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  Pablo Ruiz (Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering) and Michael Caramanis (Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering) Electric power systems are often congested, leading to higher power costs (increases of $4-8 billion annually in the US), reliability problems and spillage of available wind and solar generation. With support from DOE ARPA-E, we have […]
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    Securing CMOS Integrated Circuits Using Nano-antenna-Based Optical Watermarks

    August 12, 2015
    SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Ajay Joshi (Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering) Today CMOS integrated circuits (ICs) are pervasively used in practically all consumer electronics, critical defense technologies and municipal support systems such as power and water supply services. At the same time, the supply chain and development cycle of IC chips have […]