{"id":60,"date":"2013-08-23T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/?p=60"},"modified":"2014-06-03T10:13:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:13:08","slug":"thank-you-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Paul!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2013\/08\/Portait-of-Paul-Maritz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" title=\"Portait of Paul Maritz\" alt=\"Portait of Paul Maritz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2013\/08\/Portait-of-Paul-Maritz-150x150.png\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A $300,000 gift by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Maritz\">Paul Maritz<\/a>, Chief Executive Officer of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopivotal.com\/about-pivotal\/team\">Pivotal<\/a>\u00a0(an EMC-backed startup), is providing the critical resources needed to launch BU\u2019s Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI), which is incubated\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\">Hariri Institute for Computing<\/a>. In a recent visit to the Institute, Paul met with key faculty members involved in CS and CCI projects focusing on novel cloud platforms for high-performance computing, big data, and cyber security. The discussions that ensued helped distill three thrusts required to create \u201cAn Advanced Platform for Data Science\u201d at Boston University, which he is generously funding by this gift.\u00a0Paul\u2019s support is quite important, not only for its financial implications, but also because\u00a0the imprimatur of his name will open doors and convey recognition of CCI and Institute projects.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2013\/08\/20\/maritz-gift-to-launch-cci\/\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $300,000 gift by\u00a0Paul Maritz, Chief Executive Officer of\u00a0Pivotal\u00a0(an EMC-backed startup), is providing the critical resources needed to launch BU\u2019s Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI), which is incubated\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0Hariri Institute for Computing. In a recent visit to the Institute, Paul met with key faculty members involved in CS and CCI projects focusing on novel cloud platforms for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}