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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 […]
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    Clinical Elastic High Performance Computing

    June 18, 2012
    SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Jonathan Appavoo (Dept. of Computer Science), Dr. Ellen Grant (Children’s Hospital and Harvard University) One of the challenges in analyzing radiology data by computer is that it typically takes days to get the results, because the processing is computationally intensive. In a clinical setting, doctors and patients would benefit from […]
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    Tree and Multipole Algorithms for Exascale Computing

    June 18, 2012
    SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Lorena Barba (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering), Cris Cecka (Harvard), Hans Johnston (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) This project is a collaboration among investigators at BU, Harvard, and UMass aimed at creating an open and high-performance software infrastructure for a family of hierarchical N-body algorithms. “N- body” is the name given to any problem that involves a […]
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    Designing Green Software for High Performance Computing Clusters

    June 18, 2012
    SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Ayse K. Coskun (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering), Gunar Schirner (Northeastern University), Martin C. Herbordt (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) Energy efficiency is one of the central societal and technical issues today, and has become yet more critical with increased focus on the environment and the world’s climate. […]
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    Treese on Cyber Security Radio Panel

    June 4, 2012
    On Saturday, June 2, 2012, Win Treese, Associate Director of the Hariri Institute, participated in a panel discussion about cyber security challenges on WGBH Radio's program "Innovation Hub." The half-hour discussion ranged over many challenges in cyber security, including organized crime, infrastructure protection, cyber warfare, and protecting personal information online. Also appearing on the panel […]
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    When Science and Privacy Collide

    May 24, 2012
    A New York Times article published May 22, 2012, addressed the increasing tussle between privacy concerns and the scientific verification of data-driven social science research. Quoting from that article: In February, Dr. Huberman had published a letter in the journal Nature warning that privately held data was threatening the very basis of scientific research. “If another set of […]
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    Should Liberal Arts Students Learn “Computational Thinking”?

    May 24, 2012
    Machine Dreams Published in BU Today on 05.24.2012 By Rich Barlow Your brain in bytes: should the basic concepts behind computer science and language be required learning for everyone? Should the three Rs be four Rs, as in reading, ’riting, ’rithmetic, and ’rogramming? That’s the argument made by Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Jeannette Wing and […]
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    Report on Barriers to Adoption of Online Learning Systems

    May 3, 2012
    Intended to provide leaders in higher education with lessons learned from existing online learning efforts, and to help accelerate productive use of these systems in the future, this Ithaka S+R report (funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) is a landscape review of important developments in online learning today. Even though there are many “online […]
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    Google’s Eric Schmidt is BU ’12 Commencement Speaker

    May 3, 2012
    Eric E. Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, will deliver the commencement address at Boston University’s 139th graduation ceremonies at BU’s Nickerson Field at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 20. Mr. Schmidt will speak before more than 5,000 graduates and 20,000 guests at New England’s largest graduation ceremony. Schmidt will receive an honorary Doctor of Science. […]