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    Identifying the Casual Impact of Network Structure: A Randomized Experiment on Twitter

    August 12, 2015
    SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Dylan Walker (Information Systems, Questrom School of Business) Our day-to-day activities have become increasingly embedded in the digital realm, with online social networks spreading information between individuals at a massive scale, surpassing geographic constraints and social boundaries. While the digitization of our interactions has unquestionable relevance to social, economic and behavioral […]
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    Identifying Novel Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries with Materials Informatics

    August 12, 2015
    SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Emily Ryan (Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering)  The development of integrated computational materials engineering methods is a critical aspect of the Materials Genome Initiative, which aims to reduce development time for advanced materials. The transformation of materials development from a trial and error experimental process to an integrated computational and […]
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    Ninja Game: Optimizing Neuroplasticity through Speech-driven Gameplay

    August 12, 2015
    SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Cara Stepp (Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering) There are a host of speech disorders that can benefit from improved treatments, but limited understanding of what those treatments should look like. We know from basic neuroscience that more practice and more engaging practice is the key […]
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    Participation and Learning in the Sharing Economy: An Empirical Study of Early Adopters

    August 12, 2015
    SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Georgios Zervas (Marketing, Questrom School of Business)  This research is an empirical study of the mechanisms underlying consumer engagement in the sharing economy. As decentralized peer-to-peer markets continue to emerge as plausible alternative suppliers of goods and services, researchers seek to answer the following questions through data analysis: a) what […]
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    Efficient Likelihood Estimators for Multivariate Jump-Diffusions

    August 12, 2015
    SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Gustavo Schwenkler (Finance, Questrom School of Business)  Financial markets regularly experience large shocks. From the great depression to the recent financial crisis - most financial market crises are characterized by large unexpected losses. These losses may affect corporations and governments in negative ways, reducing economic growth and increasing unemployment. This imposes real costs on society. It […]
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    Recruiting Subjects for Online Surveys: Facebook versus Mechanical Turk

    August 12, 2015
    SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  Dino Christenson (Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences) and Taylor Boas (Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences) Many fields of study, from public health to psychology to political science, increasingly use online surveys as a research method. This project constitutes the first head-to-head comparison of convenience samples of […]
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    Problematic Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Finally Gets Attention

    August 11, 2015
    “When we’ve been talking BGP in the past, all the events that caused damage were misconfigurations. In the past two years, it’s actually gotten malicious,” says Sharon Goldberg, an associate professor of computer science at Boston University. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), one of the most insecure parts of Internet infrastructure, has been long overlooked by security […]
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    CCS Seminar Features David Hutchinson, “Modelling Quantum Systems – Highlights from the Dodd-Walls Centre, New Zealand’s new national Centre of Research Excellence”

    August 3, 2015
    The Boston University Center for Computational Science will be hosting a seminar featuring Professor David Hutchinson from University of Otago,  Dunedin, New Zealand . Modelling Quantum Systems - Highlights from the Dodd-Walls Centre, New Zealand's new national Centre of Research Excellence 12:00 PM on August 5th, 2015 Physics Research Building, 3 Cummington Mall, Room 595 Abstract: After a decade […]
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    Hariri Institute Director Azer Bestavros Confers with Federal Officials on Cybersecurity

    July 23, 2015
    On July 8, Hariri Institute Director Azer Bestavros briefed Department of Defense (DOD) and Homeland Security (DHS) officials on several cybersecurity projects now in progress at BU, including the Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS), a $10 million, five-year, National Science Foundation–funded project to help develop information systems with several layers of security measures, and  Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), a computing cloud Hariri is developing […]
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    Computational Modeling of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

    July 8, 2015
    SPRING 2013 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE  James Galagan (Biomedical Engineering and Microbiology, College of Engineering) The goal of this project was to develop predictive models of the complete regulatory and metabolic networks of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). The aim is to use these models to computationally study the molecular programs that enable MTB to cause human disease in […]