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  • Announcing the 2024 Boston University BU-AIRR Award Recipients

    January 14, 2025
    By Maureen Stanton The Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 BU AI Research Resource Program (BU-AIRR) awards. This program aims to enable and seed large-scale AI research at Boston University by funding access to the powerful production cloud resources of the New England Research Cloud (NERC). “AI research […]

  • Announcing the Hariri Institute FY26 Fellowships and FY27 Focused Research Programs

    June 11, 2026
    10 Fellows and 4 Focused Research Programs Awarded The Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to announce its FY26 Fellowship awards and FY27 Focused Research Program (FRP) awards, recognizing researchers advancing innovative work in computing, AI, and computational science and engineering across Boston University. The Institute awarded five Junior Faculty Fellowships (JFFs) and five Graduate […]

  • Announcing Two Focused Research Programs Focused on Health

    May 28, 2021
    The Hariri Institute is excited to announce our next set of Focused Research Programs (FRPs)! These programs are designed to evolve and advance Boston University’s research in computing and data science around areas of strategic importance and emerging opportunity. The Institute facilitates research convergence for these programs by providing support and ‘scaffolding’ for groups to […]

  • App Helps Law Enforcers and Victims Recognize Labor Trafficking

    October 28, 2019
    RESULT (Recognize and Evaluate Signs to Uncover Labor Trafficking) Helps Law Enforcers and Victims Recognize Signs of Labor Trafficking by Asking a Series of Questions Last week Thursday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and Catherine Piedad, a woman exploited for labor as a domestic worker five years ago, spoke at the BU School of Law […]

  • 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.

  • Argyro Karanasiou & Dimitris Pinotsis to Give 11/30 Wed@Hariri Lecture

    November 23, 2016
    In collaboration with Boston University's Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security Group (RISCS), the Hariri Institute for Computing will be hosting Dr. Argyro Karanasiou (Senior Lecturer of Law, Bournemouth University) and Dr. Dimitris Pinotsis (Visiting Research Scientist, MIT) for a Wednesday@Hariri seminar - Emergent Normative and Legal Aspects of Automated Systems: The Intricacies of Machine Learning Algorithms

  • Ari Trachtenberg Interviewed On Tracking Future Cases of COVID-19 with Cell Phones

    April 21, 2020
    Ran Canetti and Mayank Varia, Co-Directors of the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS) and past Hariri Institute fellow, Ari Trachtenberg, have teamed up with researchers from MIT and other universities to develop an app that uses Bluetooth-enabled cell phones to notify a person if they have come into proximity with someone […]

  • Artificial Intelligence Augmented Microscopy:

    Deep Learning Enabled Digital Immuno-Fluorescence Labeling for Intelligent Cell Phenotyping (Aim-Dif)

    June 10, 2018
    FALL 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Lei Tian, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Co-PI: Yi Ji, Assistant Professor, Medicine What is the Challenge? The specific problem we aim to tackle in this project is the fundamental multiplexing limitation in immunofluorescence (IF) microscopy that restricts imaging only a few types of molecular targets on the same biological sample […]

  • Artificial Intelligence Research (AIR) Spring Seminars 2020

    January 27, 2020
    We're proud to announce our speakers for our Spring 2020 AIR Seminars. These experts in the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence will share their research on such topics as, intelligent behavior, visual recognition, and computational vision. Please join us as we learn more from these noted researchers from across the country. Charless Fowlkes – […]

  • Ask the Experts – How Are Data Centers Impacted by Climate Change?

    October 12, 2022
    BY TRISHA BALAN & GINA MANTICA Our digital lives are often removed from the physical world, but with the growing problem of climate change, the physical is beginning to adversely affect the digital. Data centers, the key facilities that house computer systems, are becoming less efficient with changes in global temperatures. Over the summer, the […]