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    Junior Fellow Doug Densmore Selected for Frontiers in Engineering Program

    July 17, 2013
    Every year the National Academy of Engineering brings together an emerging set of engineering leaders in its “Frontiers of Engineering” program. Doug Densmore, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at BU, and a Junior Faculty Fellow of the Hariri Institute, was one of 81 engineers selected for this year’s symposium. Prof. Densmore, a leader […]
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    CS Competencies and K12 Education

    June 20, 2013
    Massachusetts lawmakers are debating a proposal that would mandate computer science classes in all Massachusetts public schools. The plan would integrate computer skills into the state’s public school curriculum and standardized tests starting as early as the eighth grade. As part of the coverage of this story, Institute Director, Azer Bestavros, was asked by a […]
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    Institute Fellow on “Programming Life” Panel

    June 10, 2013
    Institute Junior Fellow, Doug Densmore, participates in a Discover Magazine panel on "Programming Life: The Revolutionary Potential of Synthetic Biology". The panel was held at the Stanley Hall Auditorium, University of California at Berkeley, on March 25, 2013. Just as today’s engineers design integrated circuits based on the known physical properties of materials and use them […]
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    Institute Focus on Privacy and Big Data in the News

    June 10, 2013
    In its coverage of the NSA "spying" news on June 7th, Janet Wu of WCVB TV Channel 5 interviewed Azer Bestavros and Win Treese to get their opinions on what (if anything) should be a concern for US citizens.
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    Institute Hosts Computational Immunology Workshop

    June 1, 2013
    From June 10th to June 14th, 2013, the Hariri Institute hosted the Summer School on Quantitative Systems Immunology, a national workshop organized by the Center for Computational Immunology. The workshop is intended for trainees in the biological sciences who want to explore the use of mathematics, statistics, and computation in their own research but may not […]
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    BU Joins Leading Online Course Platform edX

    May 21, 2013
    05.21.2013 By Rich Barlow (from BU Today) Azer Bestavros, who co-chairs BU's council exploring technology and education, says the online platform edX is a perfect fit for the University. Photo by Vernon Doucette BU has joined edX, the Harvard-and-MIT-led online learning platform that shares the University’s commitment to using technology’s benefits for students on campus […]
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    [Ben Lubin] Combinatorial Markets

    April 24, 2013
    Wednesdays @Hariri /Meet our Fellows 3:00 PM   Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 Designing and Pricing Combinatorial Markets Dr. Benjamin Lubin Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Questrom Junior Fellow of the Hariri Institute Abstract: Combinatorial Auctions have found application in many areas, from supply chain management to the high-value government bandwidth auctions that have been widely publicized.  However, […]
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    [Andrei Lapets] Accessible Formal Methods

    April 16, 2013
    Wednesdays @Hariri / Meet our Fellows 3:00 PM Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 Towards Accessible Domain-Specific Integration and Deployment of Formal Tools and Techniques Andrei Lapets Postdoctoral Fellow The Hariri Instititute Abstract: Researchers in the programming languages and formal verification communities have produced a variety of formal analysis and verification tools and techniques. While there exist […]
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    Institute Proposal Makes it to Knight Foundation Finalists Round

    April 14, 2013
    A project entitled "Inside the Vault" to enable interactive citizen access to U.S. government data on financial institutions, which was submitted by the Institute to the Knight Foundation made it to the finalists round. The project's aims to create public insight from information the government already has. We can take that raw data—quarterly filings by thousands […]
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    [Jonathan Appavoo] Cloud Software Systems

    April 10, 2013
    Wednesdays @Hariri / Meet our Fellows 3:00 PM Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 EbbRT - A Modern Approach to Systems Software for Cloud Applications Jonathan Appavoo Computer Science Abstract: Cloud computing has and continues to transform the kind of computational platforms that an individual can access. Slowly but surely it will be possible to economically access […]