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    The Cult of the Internet

    March 11, 2020
    Dr. Mary Anne Franks, Professor of Law & Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, University of Miami School of Law When:  Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 03:30 pm – 05:00 pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing Seminar Room MCS 157 111 Cummington Mall Abstract: It is no coincidence that the Internet is effectively controlled by a handful of multi-billion-dollar […]
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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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    The Global Structure of the Heliosphere with a Realistic Time-Dependent Solar Wind

    June 11, 2018
    Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Merav Opher, Associate Professor, Astronomy  Co-PI: Charalampos Tsourakakis, Assistant Professor, Computer Science  The Challenge The heliosphere is subject to changes in the intensity of solar winds. The challenge, however, is to determine the structure of the heliosphere in real-time to track even the smallest changes in its structure since like all other uncertainties, […]

  • The Heat Divide: Mapping America’s Unequal Burden of Heat

    May 22, 2025
    BU Study Maps Climate Change, Demographics, and Disaster Risk, Providing Actionable Insights By Maeve Smillie and Maureen Stanton By mid-century, the U.S. will be a much hotter place. Heatwaves will last longer, summer temperatures will soar, and the number of dangerously hot days will rise sharply—especially in the US South. But not everyone will feel […]
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    The Levantine Ceramics Project: Phase II

    July 8, 2015
    SPRING 2013 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Andrea Berlin (Archaeology, College of Arts and Sciences) In the field of archaeology we are drowning in data, and that creates an unusual problem. In most fields, more data is a good thing. In theory that’s true for archaeology as well. In practice, however, keeping up with ever-increasing amounts of […]
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    The Physics of Climate Change – How Earth’s “greening” affects temperature

    December 8, 2020
    Many people hear the term “greener earth” and envision flourishing rainforests. But former Junior Faculty Fellow Dan Li hears this phrase and pictures mathematical equations. Li and colleagues use computational models to understand the role that physics plays in climate change so that they can propose effective mitigation strategies. Their article, recently published in Science […]
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    The Relationship between Cult and the Natural Landscape in Ancient Greece

    January 27, 2017
    SPRING 2017 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  PI: Andrea Berlin, Archaeology, CAS The project aims to develop a model that interrogates the visual and spatial relationships between Greek sanctuaries and the natural landscape. The major innovation of project is the plan to collate, preserve, and present data in an online, interactive platform so that future users can […]
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    Think Computationally or…

    December 3, 2011
    A fascinating view of the difference between those who are taught to "program" and those who are taught to just "use" a program. For students taught to use programs rather than to create them, “their bigger problem is that their entire orientation to computing will be from the perspective of users. When a kid is […]

  • Three Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliates Receive NSF CAREER Awards

    June 25, 2023
    By Maureen Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliates Renato Mancuso (CAS, Computer Science), Hadi Nia (ENG, Biomedical Engineering), and Alyssa Pierson (ENG, Mechanical Engineering) have each received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. These NSF grants are among the most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic […]
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    Three-Fold Funding Towards Smarter, Secure Networks

    November 22, 2021
    Assistant Professor Alan Liu [Faculty Affiliate of the Hariri Institute] may be new to the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, but he has hit the ground running, winning support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for three related projects aimed at utilizing what he terms “the power of programmability in the network for secure, […]