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    U.S. Has a New Chief Data Scientist

    February 25, 2015
    The data age has arrived. From crowd-sourced product reviews to real-time traffic alerts, “big data” has become a regular part of our daily lives. In 2013, researchers estimated that there were about 4 zettabytes of data worldwide: That’s approximately the total volume of information that would be created if every person in the United States […]
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    UK-Based Tech Publisher Highlights Three Hariri Institute Researchers for Their Work Fighting COVID-19

    April 6, 2020
    This week three BU Hariri Institute for Computing researchers were highlighted in an article in Silicon, a UK-based tech publisher. Mayank Varia (Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of RISCS), Ran Canetti (Professor of Computer Science and Director of RISCS), and Ari Tractenberg (Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Cyber Alliance member) […]
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    Understanding and Anticipating Activities

    October 1, 2020
    Last week, Professor Dr. Juergen Gall led a talk about the aspects of video understanding. He began speaking about holistic video understanding, where a video can be categorized by the activity as well as other tags that can describe scenes or attributes of video. He goes on to describe a multi-stage temporal convolutional network, which […]
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    Understanding how AI can be leveraged to improve business outcomes

    February 6, 2020
    Making AI faster, easier, and safer Speaker: Rania Khalaf, Director of AI Platforms and Runtimes at IBM Research When: Tuesday, February 11, 2020, at 11:30am (Lunch and refreshments: 11:30am, Talk: 12:00pm – 1:00pm) Where: Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall Seminar Room - Room 157 Abstract: Artificial intelligence is being infused into applications at […]

  • Unlocking Insights into Tumors’ Defenses

    September 18, 2023
      By Patrick L. Kennedy, College of Engineering A BU team has become the first to measure an important hallmark of cancer in vivo, a step toward better monitoring of tumor progression and treatment response. Biomedical Engineering PhD candidate Sue Zhang with Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate Hadi Nia (BME, MSE) and Mark Grinstaff (BME, Chemistry, […]
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    Upcoming Event: Boston Freedom in Online Communications Day (BFOC)

    February 14, 2013
    The Internet offers great promise for improving the communication capabilities of citizens, but our increasing dependence on networked communications also makes it easier for organizations and governments to control, monitor, and block communications.  The growing trend toward blocking, tampering, or otherwise restricting communications on the Internet calls for improved techniques both for monitoring the state […]
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    Urban Refuge Puts Aid on the Map for Refugees with Help From the Hariri Institute and SAIL

    March 22, 2017
    Urban Refuge, a project by international relations professor Noora A. Lori, is gaining noteworthy attention for its goal giving refugees options to choose and find their own resources on a location tracking map tool. The research project was recently turned into an app with help from Microsoft and has received significant funding and technology support from the Software and Application Innovation Laboratory (SAIL) at the Hariri Institute, which was granted this past January. The project has found a home in both the Hariri Institute and the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies.
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    Urban Refuge: Putting Aid on the Map

    January 27, 2017
    SPRING 2017 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  PI: Noora Lori, International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies The project seeks to create the backend of the Urban Refuge, beta-test and launch the product in Amman in 2017. Urban Refuge is a smartphone application providing refugees with new tools for navigating insecurity and managing crises. Furthermore, Urban Refuge […]

  • Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Tackle Fundamental Cosmological Questions

    February 4, 2025
    Junior Faculty Fellow Spotlight: Dr. Dillon Brout, Cosmologist. Astrophysicist. Data Enthusiast. By Margo Stanton How do we understand dark matter, dark energy, or the history and fate of the Cosmos? These are questions that Hariri Institute Faculty Fellow Dillon Brout seeks to answer through his research. Brout, assistant professor of astronomy and physics, is a […]
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    Using Data to Close the Wage Gap

    July 8, 2016
    The Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University received praise for a project concerning secure multi-party analytics in a recent On Point segment for National Public Radio, titled "Will Data Help Close the Gender Pay Gap?" Tom Ashbrook, host of the popular radio show, interviewed former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Evelyn Murphy, on her current work with […]