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    White House Announces Big Data Initiative

    April 1, 2012
    On Thursday, March 29, the Obama Administration unveiled details about its Big Data R&D Initiative, committing more than $200 million in new funding through six agencies and departments to improve “our ability to extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data.” The effort, spearheaded by the White House Office of Science […]

  • Why do 90% of people afflicted with Parkinson’s develop speech and voice impairments?

    September 10, 2023
    Cara Stepp and colleagues win a $3.5M NIH grant to uncover the causes By Maureen Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing Parkinson's disease (PD) is the fastest growing neurological disease, with 10 million people affected worldwide. It is a progressive, degenerative brain condition that affects the nervous system and a person's control of their body movement. […]

  • Why do some vaccines protect some individuals and not others?

    February 12, 2024
    Blending machine learning with systems human immunology, Professor Adriana Tomic is working toward creating effective, long-memory vaccines for strong immunity against pandemic-potential viruses By Chloe Wojtanik and  Maureen Stanton  The flu affects about a billion people annually, abruptly forcing people to take sick leave, scramble for childcare coverage, and other disruptions. While the majority will […]
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    Why simple can be better when determining how to allocate pandemic resources

    January 27, 2022
    Boston University researchers developed a model to project COVID-19 quarantine housing needs in congregate settings ten days in advance. BY GINA MANTICA It’s difficult to plan ahead when SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is so unpredictable. But, there is now a straightforward method for predicting one of the resources needed to slow the spread […]
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    Will J. Tomlinson Takes the Helm of SAIL, Bringing Industry Knowledge to Expand Services

    January 27, 2022
    BY GINA MANTICA Will J. Tomlinson will lead faculty members into a new era of research convergence. As Director of the Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL), Tomlinson will elevate SAIL’s software development within and beyond Boston University. He will develop a diverse, resilient culture that researchers leverage to advance their projects and deploy their […]

  • Will Mild Memory Loss Progress to Alzheimer’s Disease?

    June 25, 2024
    By Maureen Stanton As we get older, we often dismiss forgetfulness as a normal aspect of aging, and for many it is. However, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a condition where people have noticeably more memory or thinking problems than what’s expected, is a high-risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). MCI can be caused by many […]
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    Win Treese Joins Institute as Associate Director

    October 27, 2011
    G. Winfield (Win) Treese joined the Hariri Institute as its Associate Director in October 2011, bringing a unique mix of talents and experiences, given his work in technical consulting, startups, industrial research, and academia. Win holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986) and an S.M. in Computer Science from Harvard University (1992). Win was […]

  • Yannis Paschalidis and John Byers Appointed Co-Directors Within Boston University’s AIDA Initiative

    April 10, 2025
    By Maria Yaitanes Hariri Institute Director Yannis Paschalidis, Distinguished Professor (ECE, SE, BME) of Engineering and Founding Professor of Computing & Data Sciences, and Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate, John Byers, Professor of Computer Science and Former Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty for Mathematical & Computational Sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences, have […]
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    Yelp Reviews: Can You Trust Them?

    November 4, 2013
    BU Today interviews Institute Junior Fellow and Assistant Professor or Marketing in Questrom, George Zervas,  about his most recent work on the effect of competition on online reviews, in which George and his co-authors concluded that at least 16 percent of the reviews are fake. The researchers found that the worst offenders are restaurants seeking […]

  • YouTube Bans Anti-Vaccine Misinformation: Experts React

    September 30, 2021
    BY GINA MANTICA At the onset of the pandemic, YouTube revamped its community guidelines to prohibit content containing COVID-19 misinformation. Just yesterday, YouTube announced in a blog post that it will no longer allow misinformation about any vaccines that are approved and confirmed to be safe and effective by health authorities. These new guidelines include […]