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    Hariri Institute ESC Member, Mark Crovella, Named BU 2014 Innovator of the Year

    July 16, 2014
    Mark Crovella, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science and member of the Hariri Institute Executive Steering Committee was given the Boston University 2014 Innovator of the Year award. “Professor Crovella is an entrepreneurial scientist, whose inventions have been licensed to two start-up companies,” said Waters.  “His accomplishments in the past year include ten peer-reviewed […]
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    Boston Globe Cites Goldberg’s Work on Possible NSA Privacy Exploit

    July 10, 2014
    The Boston Globe has a front page article in the Business section citing Sharon Goldberg's work exposing a loophole that could be exploited by NSA to monitor electronic communication by US citizens. A report from researchers at Harvard University and Boston University warns that the National Security Agency could freely monitor the electronic communications of […]
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    TechCrunch: MOC Project Hopes To Create Ad-Hoc Infrastructure Marketplace

    July 3, 2014
    Today, the cloud infrastructure market is dominated by several big companies – Amazon, Google and Microsoft — but a public/business/academia partnership called the Massachusetts Open Cloud project is hoping to change that by creating an open computing marketplace where you can negotiate whatever services you need from multiple infrastructure vendors. Peter Desnoyers, a professor at Northeastern University who helped […]
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    Research by Institute Fellow Exposes Surveillance Loopholes

    July 2, 2014
    Loopholes that NSA can exploit to conduct largely unrestrained surveillance on Americans by collecting their network traffic "abroad" have been the focus of a recent study by Institute Junior Fellow, Sharon Goldberg, in collaboration with Axel Arnbak of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.   Quoting that study: International communications intercepted on U.S. soil are […]
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    Goldberg Comments on Cellphone Privacy Ruling on WCVB TV

    June 26, 2014
    Institute Junior Fellow and Computer Science Professor Sharon Goldberg was interviewed by Janet Wu of WCVB TV about the Supreme Court's unanimous decision that Police can't search cellphones without a warrant.
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    MBA Grads “Shunning Finance for Tech”

    June 24, 2014
    Among last year’s graduates who accepted employment offers three months after Commencement, a plurality, 21 percent, went into technology and science, versus 16 percent in financial services, according to Questrom’s Feld Career Center. BU Today spoke about the tech migration with Williams, author of Uncontrolled Risk: Lessons of Lehman Brothers and How Systemic Risk Can […]
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    Discussion: The Future of Cloud Innovation

    June 12, 2014
    "Will the future of cloud IAAS and PAAS innovation be dominated (and also limited) by a few large vertically integrated cloud providers?" The recently announced Massachusetts Open Cloud Project (MOC) is founded on the premise that innovation will be limited largely to cloud providers who tend to design their own hardware and develop their own […]
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    Institute ESC Member, Ran Canetti, Selected as a Fellow of IACR

    June 2, 2014
    Computer Science Professor and Institute Executive Steering Committee Member Ran Canetti has been selected as a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. The International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) selected four fellows for its 2014 IACR Fellows Program. This award, accorded to only very few cryptographers worldwide who serve as "model citizens" of the cryptologic community, […]
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    U.S. Air Force: Leading Cyber Minds Converge at Hanscom

    June 2, 2014
    Numerous regional cyber leaders convened at Hanscom Air Force Base May 28 to discuss, and sometimes debate, the merits and challenges of secure cloud computing. Organized by the Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC) and hosted by leaders at Hanscom, the event fostered vigorous discussion about the most efficient and secure ways to store and protect […]
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    Boston University Designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence

    June 2, 2014
    We are excited to announce that Boston University has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Research for academic years 2014-2021. [Read the Letter]