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    Roscoe Giles, of the Hariri Leadership Team, To Testify on Supercomputing in Washington, D.C.

    January 22, 2015
    Roscoe Giles, Hariri Institute for Computing steering committee member and Boston University professor of computer engineering, will be among those testifying at the Supercomputing and American Technology Leadership hearing on January 28, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Held by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the Subcommittee on Energy of the U.S. House of Representatives, the […]
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    Mario Teixeira, Hariri Visiting Fellow, Publishes Book on Computer Networks

    January 22, 2015
      Mario Teixeira, Hariri Institute for Computing visiting fellow and associate professor at Federal University of Maranhão, has published a book titled, Redes de Computadores: Da Teoria à Prática com NetKit (English translation: Computer Networks: From Theory to Practice using NetKit). Teixeira joined the Institute in March 2014 and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of […]
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    [Samuel Bazzi] Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia

    January 21, 2015
    Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on Febraury 25,2015 @ Rm 180 Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia Samuel Bazzi Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Boston University Abstract: Geographic mobility has been a core feature of the development process throughout history. This paper uses a remarkable policy […]
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    Sharon Goldberg’s Undergraduate Students Win CRA Research Awards

    January 18, 2015
    Under the direction of Sharon Goldberg, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Hariri Institute Fellow, Alison Kendler (CAS '16) and Isaac Cohen (CAS'16) received Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards for 2016. Kendler is recognized as a Finalist in the Women, PhD-granting Institution category and Cohen received Honorable Mention in the Men, PhD-granting category. Cohen had previously worked with the […]
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    [Tara Walker] Data+Narrative: Data Storytelling with Tableau Public

    January 16, 2015
    Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on February 4,2015 @ Rm 180 Data+Narrative: Data Storytelling with Tableau Public Tara Walker Data Analyst and Mathematician, Tableau Public If you love visual analysis and the intersection of numbers and storytelling, this demonstration by Seattle-based Tableau Public is for you. Join us at the Hariri Institute for Computing on Feb. 4 […]
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    Faculty Positions in Data Science

    January 10, 2015
    Given the rapid expansion and evident impact of Data Science, Boston University (BU) is embarking on a three-year plan to strengthen its existing base of talented faculty who conduct research in core data-science fields. Through the Provost’s Data Science Faculty Search initiative, BU will provide positions and funding to recruit six new faculty members, complementing […]
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    BU Data Science Initiative Takes Off

    January 10, 2015
    Launched in the summer of 2014 by University Provost Jean Morrison, Boston University’s Data Science Initiative (DSI) seeks both to leverage BU’s existing strengths and further expand its capacity to compete and lead in the Big Data revolution. Data is the currency of discovery and innovation in almost every scientific and professional endeavor. At BU, […]
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    IDC, a BU NSF SCOPE Partner, Presents Global Smart Cities 2015 Predictions

    December 12, 2014
    IDC Smart Cities Research Director Ruthbea Clarke, a BU NSF SCOPE partner, presents 2015 global smart cities predictions webcast, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Smart Cities 2015 Predictions, on Dec 17.   [Information Page]
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    Institute Fellow on the Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos

    December 8, 2014
    "When in 2012 a computer learned to recognize cats in YouTube videos and just last month another correctly captioned a photo of “a group of young people playing a game of Frisbee,” artificial intelligence researchers hailed yet more triumphs in “deep learning,” the wildly successful set of algorithms loosely modeled on the way brains grow sensitive to features of […]
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    StateTech: Why the Massachusetts Open-Cloud Project Is a Big Deal

    December 2, 2014
    December 1, 2014 from StateTech A project team of academia and industry experts is making headway on a multimillion-dollar cloud computing initiative announced by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in April. If all goes as planned, the three-year project, known as the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), will pave the way for cloud consumers to customize infrastructure and […]