Institute news and updates
Earlier this week Emily Whiting and Xiaoting Zhang were highlighted in BU Today’s “The Brink” magazine. The article entitled “Fabric Gives Form to a New DIY Manufacturing Method.” featured their project that focuses on combining computer science and a fabrication process known as fabric framework. Fabric framework makes it easier to create large-scale custom shapes from scratch. […]
Earlier this Summer, IBM donated new enterprise AI servers to the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), a sponsored research project at the Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University. The servers were installed at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). Michael Daitzman, Director for the Red Hat Collaboratory at the Hariri Institute said, “The […]
About the Research Incubation Awards (RIA) The Institute supports a portfolio of ambitious research projects and activities that align with its mission to catalyze new directions and collaborations in interdisciplinary research that applies the computational 3and data-driven approaches. By supporting projects in fields from social sciences, humanities, law, business, and medicine – to engineering, computer science, […]
Halfway through the summer, the Summer 2019 SAIL interns have made significant contributions to a wide array of projects, supported consultations with SAIL collaborators, and participated in workshops, roundtable discussions, and guest lectures on research and technical topics led by SAIL team members and partners. Notably, Yiwen Gu attended the PETRA 2019 conference in Rhodes, […]
Recently an article in BU Today highlighted the work of 3 Hariri Institute Faculty Fellows. Maggie Mulvihill (Assoc. Professor or the Practice of Computational Journalism, COM), Lei Guo (Asst. Professor of Emerging Media Studies, COM), and Jacob Groshek (Assoc. Professor of Emerging Studies, COM). The article titled “What You Read and Watch is Changing Media […]
It was announced today that Boston University was approved by the city to build a 17-floor Data Sciences building on Commonwealth Ave (at the corner of Commonwealth Ave and Granby St). KPMB Architects has designed the building to resemble a vertical campus where the Department of Computer Science and the Hariri Institute for Computing will […]
We are proud to announce that a team representing the Hariri Institute’s Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) won the Outstanding Graduate Submission prize at the Microsoft-Vivli Datathon on June 21, 2019. Congratulations to team members Kinan Dak Albab, Megan Fantes, Peter Flockhart, Wyatt Howe, Lucy Qin, and Zack Zhang! Microsoft and Vivli, a global […]
Recently, our BU Spark! alumnus, Ben Lawson, was interviewed and featured on the College of Arts & Science (CAS) website. In the article “A CAS Student Comes Home to Mentor”, Lawson shared his experience at BU Spark! and why he decided to come back home to be a mentor. Ben Lawson (Class of 2018) graduated […]
In a recent article published in BU Today, it was announced that BU President Robert A. Brown and Provost Jean Morrison will propose to the BU Board of Trustees, the creation of a new collaborative called the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS). This new group will include faculty from across many different disciplines […]
This past month, Boston University Professors Adam Smith (Professor of Computer Science, CAS), Leonid Reyzin (Professor of Computer Science, CAS) and New York University Professor Yevgeniy Dodis (Professor of Computer Science, CIMS) were honored at this year’s Eurocrypt 2019 held in Darmstadt, Germany, with the 2019 IACR Test-Time-Award. The IACR Test-of-Time Award is given yearly […]