Institute news and updates
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Cathie Jo Martin, Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Professor of Political Science at Boston University a $30,000 fellowship for her work on the influence of literature on British and Danish educational systems […]
Recently Marriott Hotels experienced a data breach of 500 million accounts. This news was covered in a BU Research magazine article (December 5, 2018) where Hariri Institute for Computing Founding Director Azer Bestavros was interviewed. “We are in a [cyber] arms race right now,” he stated. “Hackers are becoming more sophisticated against an industry that […]
The debate of encryption systems that provide End-to-End (E2E) protection versus the viability of Exceptional Access (EA) encryption systems is highlighted in this article in Lawfare magazine on Wednesday, December 5, 2018, written by BU Hariri Institute for Computing Faculty Fellow and RISCS Co-Director Mayank Varia. The article focuses on the recurring “crypto war” between […]
This past September 2018 a Data Science Faculty Fellow, Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow, and a past Hariri Fellow were highlighted in an article in BU Research magazine for their work developing a machine that can measure public sentiment about a given topic or event online. Where did this all start? It began with a talk […]
Wednesday, November 14th, 2018, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM refreshments & networking at 11:30 AM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Ulrich Drepper Engineer, Office of the CTO at Red Hat Software-Configured Compute Environments Abstract: Hardware and software environments are designed as a compromise between many different requirements. This sacrifices performance, among other aspects, while […]
Thursday, November 8th, 2018, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM refreshments & networking at 11:30 AM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Kate Keahey Senior Fellow Computation Institute, University of Chicago Chameleon: New Capabilities for Experimental Computer Science Abstract: Computer Science experimental testbeds allow investigators to explore a broad range of different state-of-the-art hardware options, assess scalability […]
Tuesday, October 30 & Wednesday, October 31, 2018 Metcalf Hall, 2nd Floor of the George Sherman Union 775 Commonwealth Avenue The 4th Annual Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Workshop will be held on Tuesday, October 30 & Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at the Metcalf Hall at Boston University. The workshop welcomes users of the MOC, researchers and […]
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM refreshments & networking at 11:30 AM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Mike Saparov Red Hat Service Reliability Team Why consider a career as an SRE? Abstract: What do SREs actually do? And why do they get paid so much? :) Service Reliability Engineering (SRE) team […]
Wednesday, October 17th, 2018, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM refreshments & networking at 11:30 AM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Rodrigo Fonseca Computer Science, Brown University Networking as a First-Class Cloud Resource Abstract: Tenants in a cloud can specify, and are generally charged by, resources such as CPU, storage, and memory. There are dozens of […]
Hariri-funded researcher and Institute Faculty Fellow Vijaya B. Kolachalama argues that educating medical students with machine learning techniques will allow them to keep up with a rapidly developing technology-integrated healthcare sector in his recently published article on Nature Research Journal. Kolachalama, who teaches an introductory machine learning course within the Graduate Medical Sciences program at Boston University […]