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    Institute Fellow Dino Christenson Receives 2014 PRQ Award

    May 7, 2015
    Dino Christenson, Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, co-author of “Deus ex Machina: Candidate Web Presence and the Presidential Nomination Campaign” with Smidt and Panagopoulos, won the 2014 PRQ Best Article Award. The article explores the role of the internet in the 2008 Presidential election and documents its role as a new and unique factor that is […]
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    MOC-based Cloud Computing Course Concludes with Project Demos

    May 6, 2015
    Orran Krieger, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Project Lead for the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC)  and Peter Desnoyers, Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, also of the MOC team, co-taught a new Cloud Computing class (EC500/CS591) in Spring 2015. The course achieved several key objectives including workforce training in cloud computing technologies, a model […]
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    Densmore, Hariri Junior Fellow, Joins Expert Team in New Biological Design Center

    May 5, 2015
    Doug Densmore, an ENG electrical and computer engineering associate professor and a Junior Faculty Fellow with the Hariri Institute for Computing  will be one of several core faculty members of the newly launched Biological Design Center (BioDesign Center). The center will tinker in pursuit of cutting-edge questions like these: How do you guide cells to regenerate and build […]
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    Safeguarding the Internet and Defending Civil Rights

    April 28, 2015
    BU Today highlights Sharon Goldberg, Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Fellow and CAS Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who explains how information makes its way around the internet, securely and insecurely. Goldberg partners with Leonid Reyzin, a CAS Professor of Computer Science, and director of RISCS at the Hariri Institute, to address how a flaw […]
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    Institute Helps Address Boston’s Male-Female Pay Gap

    April 27, 2015
    BU Today highlights a unique project undertaken by Hariri Institute Director Azer Bestavros, Postdoctoral Fellow Andrei Lapets, and undergraduate students Kyle Holzinger (CAS’16) and Eric Dunton (CAS’15). With the use of algorithms and software, they tackle the controversial gender wage gap by helping Boston uncover gender wage discrepancies. [Read more]  
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    Global App Initiative Helps the Non-profit Community

    April 15, 2015
    The Global App Initiative, a student run organization at BU, is doing meaningful work developing free mobile apps for non-profits. The Hariri Institute supports this initiative by providing a space for the group to meet monthly. Read more from a BU Today article about the development of the GAI and the non-profits who benefit from […]
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    Institute Develops Multi-party Computation Software for Pay-equity Project

    April 8, 2015
    Mayor Walsh has supported a project aimed at addressing the gender wage gap in Massachsetts by collecting and analyzing salary information from more than 60 local companies. To correct the record in the Boston Globe article below, while Azer Bestavros proposed the high-level protocol, the details and the software were developed by Andrei Lapets, Kyle Holzinger, and […]
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    [Gustavo Schwenkler] Simulated Likelihood Estimators for Discretely Observed Jump-Diffusions

    March 31, 2015
    Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on April 15, 2015 @ Rm 180 Simulated Likelihood Estimators for Discretely Observed Jump-Diffusions Gustavo Schwenkler Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor of Finance, Questrom School of Business Boston University With an introduction by Marcel Rindisbacher, Associate Professor of Finance and Chairman, Questrom School of Business Abstract: This paper develops […]
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    [Georgios Zervas] Do-Not-Track and the Economics of Third-Party Advertising

    March 26, 2015
    Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on April 8, 2015 @ Rm 180 Do-Not-Track and the Economics of Third-Party Advertising Georgios Zervas Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor of Marketing, Questrom School of Business Boston University Abstract: Retailers regularly target users with online ads based on their web browsing activity, benefiting both the retailers, who can […]
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    [Ksenia Bravaya] Temporary Anions: Gateway States for Electron Transfer and Chemical Damage

    March 23, 2015
    Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 - 4:00 PM on April 1,2015 @ Rm 180 Temporary Anions: Gateway States for Electron Transfer and Chemical Damage Ksenia Bravaya Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry Boston University Abstract: The ability of molecules to efficiently capture electrons is utilized in many biological electron transfer processes, including photosynthesis, in photovoltaic devices, […]