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    Next Installment of Charles River Crypto Day on December 5th

    November 20, 2014
    Please join us for the next installment of Crypto Day on Friday, December 5, 2014 at Boston University. Location: 111 Cummington Mall Room 180. Parking: There’s a pay lot across the street and 4-hour meters on Bay State Road. Schedule 9:30 – 10:00. Introduction/Coffee 10:00 – 11:00. Yuval Ishai, Technion Circuits Resilient to Additive Attacks, with Applications to Secure Computation […]
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    [Taylor Boas] Sampling Social Media: Using Facebook to Recruit Online Survey Respondents

    November 17, 2014
    Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on December 3, 2014 @MCS-180 Sampling Social Media: Using Facebook to Recruit Online Survey Respondents Taylor Boas Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Boston University Abstract: Online surveys are attractive to many social scientists due to their relatively low cost and the ease and reliability with […]
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    Election Data: One Picture is Worth…

    November 14, 2014
    Tech professionals who work at election offices have pretty full calendars these days; but Albert Grimes, CIO at the Massachusetts Office of Campaign & Political Finance, took time out of his busy schedule to chat about how the office handles the flood of political contribution data that comes in shortly before Election Day. Grimes spoke at […]
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    BU Expanding Its Ranks of Data Scientists

    November 10, 2014
    November 10 2014 from BU today BU plans to hire up to six data scientists—the intellectual miners extracting applicable information from the mountains of Big Data—over the next three years Data scientists use mathematical models to analyze voluminous data and draw knowledge from it that can be used in a variety of applications, from health […]
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    Institute Announces 2014 Junior Faculty Fellows

    November 4, 2014
    The Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University is pleased to announce its fourth cohort of Junior Faculty Fellows. They are: Samuel Bazzi, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Ksenia Bravaya, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry Emily Ryan, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Gustavo Schwenkler, Assistant Professor, Department of Finance Cara Stepp, Assistant Professor, Department […]
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    TripAdvisor to Personalize Data for Travelers

    November 3, 2014
    Azer Bestavros, Institute Founding Director and professor of computer science, was quoted in a Boston Globe article discussing TripAdvisor's decision to personalize travel recommendations for its users: Amazon Inc. pioneered personalized searches more than a decade ago, and now “it’s hard to find a website that doesn’t do it,” said Azer Bestavros, director of the […]
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    Hariri “Storytelling with Data” Event Draws Crowds and Attention

    November 1, 2014
    ComputerWorld Editor, Sharon Machlis, commented on the Hariri Institute "Storytelling with Data" talk by Albert Grimes, CIO at the Massachusetts Office of Campaign & Political Finance, in which he discussed how his office handles the flood of political contribution data that comes in shortly before Election Day. The event attracted a large and diverse audience from the College […]
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    Institute Announces Job Opportunities for SAIL

    November 1, 2014
    Join the newly launching Software and Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) at the Hariri Institute for Computing in support of computing and computational research activities across various disciplines at Boston University.  With SAIL, you will be given the opportunity to work with faculty to transform research artifacts into well-documented, publicly available production applications and platforms that […]
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    Bostonia: Travels with Titan

    October 30, 2014
    Art historian Jodi Cranston and her students developed an interactive guide to the work of the master painter Titan. Cranston, a CAS professor of Renaissance art and Institute Faculty Fellow, and a team of students from the CAS history of art and architecture department created this work with support from the Institute and the Kress Foundation. […]
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    [Pankaj Mehta] Statistical Inference and Feature Selection in Complex Datasets

    October 29, 2014
    Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on November 5, 2014 @MCS-180 Statistical Inference and Feature Selection in Complex Datasets Pankaj Mehta Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Assistant Professor, Physics Department Boston University Abstract: Feature selection, identifying a subset of variables that are relevant for predicting a response, is an important and challenging component of many methods in […]