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    New Supercomputer Center Opens

    November 27, 2012
    The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) opened in Holyoke on November 16, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tour attended by Governor Deval Patrick, Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray, local politicians, and representatives of the five universities in the consortium, including BU. The facility has 10 megawatts of power available for computing, and will include […]
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    Napster, Udacity, and the Academy

    November 18, 2012
    A provocative article by Clay Shirky (writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies) entitled Napster, Udacity, and the Academy makes parallels between the Music Industry and the Higher Education “industry”. Quoting from the end of the article: “In the academy, we lecture other people every day about learning from history. […]
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    Hariri Institute Announces 2012 Junior Faculty Fellows

    November 7, 2012
    The Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University is pleased to announce its second cohort of Junior Faculty Fellows. They are: Jason Bohland, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences Luis Carvalho, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Dino Christenson, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Douglas Densmore, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer […]
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    Turing 100: A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Alan Turing

    November 7, 2012
    On Sunday, November 11, and Monday, November 12, 2012, the Hariri Institute, the BU Center for Philosophy and the History of Science, and the BU Department of Computer Science are hosting a interdisciplinary symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Alan Turing. Turing's contributions to computer science, mathematics, logic, artificial intelligence, and philosophy laid much […]

  • A Lecture Heard ‘Round The World

    November 6, 2012
    BU Today published an article summarizing the work of the newly established Council on Educational Technology and Learning Innovation. The article by Rich Barlow, entitled "A Lecture Heard 'Round The World", examines a number of ways that BU might leverage and contribute to emerging on-line educational technologies and services, and to the increased connectedness. Quoting Azer […]
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    Computational Thinking for Archaeologists

    October 2, 2012
    I've been an archaeologist for over 30 years, and for all of that time I've resided comfortably on the far sidelines of technological approaches. In the past several months, however, I've accidentally backed into a parallel universe of deep data and the people who are fascinated by its possibilities and challenges — in other words […]
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    MGHPCC Announces RFP for Research Seed Funds 2012

    September 20, 2012
    The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) has announced its request for proposals for the 2012 Research Seed Funds in computer and computational science. One page pre-proposals are due October 1st, 2012. A total of $500K is available with anticipated award sizes in the range of $50K – $150K. Proposals must involve investigators from two or more of […]
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    Sandia Supports Research on Energy-Efficient Computing

    July 19, 2012
    Sandia National Laboratories, part of the US Department of Energy, recently announced a grant to support research by Ayse Coskun, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Junior Faculty Fellow of the Hariri Institute. The grant will support Prof. Coskun's research on energy-efficient computing, related to her work that is […]
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    Google Award to Support Research on Mining Online Consumer Feedback

    July 11, 2012
    Google recently announced a gift to support research being conducted by John Byers, Associate Professor of Computer Science and a Fellow of the Hariri Institute, and his colleagues Joan Feigenbaum of Yale  and Giorgos Zervas (BU CS PhD '11, now a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale). Their research on "Accountability and Choice in Online Consumer Feedback" […]
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    Automated Tools for Assisting Formal Reasoning

    June 18, 2012
    SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Andrei Lapets (Hariri Institute Postdoctoral Fellow) Research communities in formal verification and in programming languages have developed many tools for formal reasoning and methods. These tools, however, have typically been difficult to use for students and researchers in other domains. This project focuses on developing and evaluating domain-specific environments that […]