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    StateTech: A New Smart City Cloud Platform in Boston

    October 23, 2014
    October 15, 2014 from StateTech A new cloud-based smart city system being developed in Boston could be a model for other state and local governments. The project is called SCOPE, and it stands for Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform & Eco-system. Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering is spearheading the […]
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    The Daily Free Press: Smart City: BU Researchers Work to Improve Urban Living

    October 23, 2014
    October 2, 2014 from The Daily Free Press English zoologist and author Desmond Morris once said, “The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.” In Boston, this metaphor certainly holds true thanks to the city’s less-than-savory drivers, messes of traffic around every corner and population of more than 645,900, according to […]
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    BU Today: Designing an Intelligent Urban Ecosystem

    October 21, 2014
    October 17, 2014 from BU Today BU faculty, with help from business and government partners, will develop cloud computing–based services and products to solve urban problems ranging from traffic congestion to dirty air with a grant from the National Science Foundation(NSF). The effort, called SCOPE (Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform & Ecosystem), will be coordinated by the Hariri […]
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    [Grimes & Clark] Data+Narrative: Money and Politics Storytelling with Big Data

    October 15, 2014
    Wednesdays@Hariri  3:00 PM-5:00 PM on October 29, 2014 @MCS-180 Data+Narrative: Money and Politics Storytelling with Big Data SPONSORED BY:  The Boston University College of Communication and the Hariri Institute for Computing *This program is the third event this year in the COM/Hariri Data+Narrative Lecture Series With the November election just weeks away, data masters from […]
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    [Wendy Seltzer] Privacy and the Third Party Doctrine: “They Never Metadata They Wouldn’t Seize”

    October 6, 2014
    Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on October 8, 2014 @MCS-180 Privacy and the Third Party Doctrine: "They Never Metadata They Wouldn't Seize"  Wendy Seltzer Policy Counsel World Wide Web Consortium Abstract: We rely on a mix of technology, law, and norms to maintain our privacy, but often misunderstand the limits of each. The challenges are particularly steep online, […]
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    EE Times: MOC Featured at MIT Cloud Workshop

    October 2, 2014
    Hosted by the Industry-Academia Partnership, the MIT Cloud Workshop on September 29, 2014 highlighted "Open Innovation" initiatives such as IBM’s OpenPower Ecosystem and the Institute-affiliated Massachusetts Open Cloud to an audience of industry experts, academics, and students. Orran Krieger, Research Professor of Computer Science and Faculty Fellow of the Hariri Institute for Computing, presented a talk […]
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    Rewards and Risks of Big Data for Smart Cities

    October 1, 2014
    The inaugural BU Initiative on Cities (IoC) Urban Seminar, The Open City, examined a key question facing urban communities: How can cities take the massive influx of raw data, turn it into knowledge, and turn that knowledge into a better city? Speakers from Boston University, Northeastern University and the City of Boston, explored the ways in […]
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    BU Today: Securing the Cloud

    September 29, 2014
    The Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), a one-of-a-kind marketplace model for customizable public cloud offerings now being built a team of researchers from BU and several other universities, may soon claim another first: a modular cybersecurity system built from smaller, separate functional components, each asserting its own security individually. As a result, the security of the system as […]
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    BU Receives NSF Grant to Develop ‘Smart city’ Cloud Platform

    September 29, 2014
    Boston University's Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering today announced it has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a "smart-city" cloud platform designed to streamline and strengthen multiple municipal functions. Called SCOPE: A Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform & Eco-system, the project is designed to improve transportation, […]
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    [Clark Freifeld] HealthMap and MedWatcher: Big Data and Crowdsourcing for Better Public Health

    September 26, 2014
    Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM on October 1, 2014 @MCS-180 HealthMap and MedWatcher: Big Data and Crowdsourcing for Better Public Health Clark Freifeld Research Software Developer Boston Children's Hospital Abstract: Traditional public health monitoring and reporting systems are vital to protecting population health, but suffer from delays, under-reporting, and bureaucratic friction. Meanwhile, massive adoption of the Internet and […]