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    Teaching the Next Generation – Hacking with Holyoke Codes

    March 14, 2016
    Boston University researchers, including Hariri Institute Founding Director, Azer Bestavros, hosted a free, hands-on cybersecurity workshop  at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke, MA on December 12, 2015. The Hacking with Holyoke Codes workshop was attended by over 20 young people who learned about secret codes and cryptography. Both kids and their parents participated […]
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    Team Formation: Algorithms and Practical Applications

    February 1, 2018
    SPRING 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Pl: Evimaria Terzi, Computer Science, CAS Co-Pl: Ziba Cranmer, Spark! The project aims to close the loop between the theory and practice of team-formation by developing the necessary computational concepts and eventual software that will enable the application of the team-recommendation algorithms to a variety of educational scenarios. Doing so will then […]
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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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    TechTalks Magazine Highlights Neuroflight and It’s Use of AI in Drone Flight

    June 17, 2019
    Just this week TechTalks magazine produced a story about artificial intelligence and it’s growing influence on the world of drone flight. A company called Neuroflight has created a system which helps drones maintain stability and balance in changing environmental conditions. Previous technology relied upon mathematical control equations to respond to changes in conditions. Machine learning, […]

  • Telepractice Presents a Challenge to Voice Therapy

    June 24, 2021
    Boston University researchers urge caution when evaluating voice disorders over teleconferencing platforms due to differences in acoustic measurements. BY GINA MANTICA, gmantica@bu.edu Over the past year, people across the world learned how teleconferencing platforms like Zoom can help folks stay connected - playing games with friends, hosting virtual weddings, and even visiting a doctor. But […]
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    Tereasa Brainerd Elected Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

    August 1, 2023
    By Hariri Institute Staff Tereasa Brainerd, professor of astronomy at the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the largest professional organization of astronomers in the USA. Inductions into each class of Fellows is limited to at most 0.5% of the membership in any […]

  • The Boston Women’s Workforce Council Finds a 30% Decline in the Boston Gender Wage Gap

    December 19, 2023
    By Chloe Wojtanik, Hariri Institute for Computing Alongside Boston University’s Hariri Institute, the Boston Women’s Workforce Council (BWWC) unveiled their 2023 Gender and Racial Wage Gap Data Results this month. Excitingly, the BWWC found that the gender wage gap in Greater Boston has declined by 30% – from 30¢ to 21¢. This is the first […]
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    The Charles River Workshop on Private Analysis of Social Networks

    May 7, 2014
    The Charles River Workshop on Private Analysis of Social Networks will take place on Monday, May 19, 2014 from 9 am to 5 pm, at the Hariri Institute, 111 Cummington Mall, Boston University. There will be talks and a discussion session covering different aspects of the challenge of performing and releasing analyses of graph data while protecting personal information. The workshop […]
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    The China Christian Database: An Essential Digital Tool for the Cartography and Prosopography of Christianity in China

    June 10, 2018
    SPRING 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Daryl Ireland, Research Assistant, Professor of Mission What is the Challenge? The study of Christianity in China is often met with the question, “What does Beijing have to do with Jerusalem?” Nationalist historiography and post-colonial theory have tended to relegate Christianity to the status of “foreign,” thus rendering it […]
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    The Coming of Age of Big Data

    February 12, 2012
    "The Age of Big Data" article published in the Sunday Edition of the NYT on 2/12/2012, highlights the increased importance of data analysis in modern curricula -- particularly in disciplines that have not been traditionally quantitative or computational. But more importantly, the article underscores the crucial value of developing a deep understanding of the limitations […]