Calendar
View the calendar below to explore all upcoming events sponsored by the Institute and its affiliate centers and initiatives. Browse events by date, or select an event topic to narrow your search.
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Friday, September 18
- 2:00 PM
Manik Varma, "Extreme Classification: A New Paradigm for Ranking & Recommendation"
Manik Verma Researcher, Microsoft Research India The objective in extreme multi-label classification is to learn a classifier that can automatically tag a data point with the most relevant subset of […]
Friday, September 25
- 11:00 AM
DSI Distinguished Lecture: George Karypis, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Big Data Research: Methods, Systems, and Applications
George Karypis, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota
Reception to follow
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Wednesday, September 30
- 3:00 PM
Wed@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows: Kirill Korolev
The Tug of War between Beneficial and Deleterious Mutations in Cancer Abstract: The conventional view is that only a handful of mutations are needed for cancer progression, yet tumor genomes […]
Friday, October 2
- 8:00 AM
Boston University Digital Humanities 2015 Symposium
What ARE the digital humanities? How can digital pedagogy change the classroom experience, and revolutionize your scholarship? What skills do you need to make your way in the "digital academy"? […]
Monday, October 19
- 8:00 AM
2nd Annual New England Network and Systems Day
Hosted by the Hariri Institute for Computing, the New England Network and Systems Day brings together academics and research scientists from local industry, universities and research labs to discuss recent […]
Tuesday, October 20
- 11:00 AM
World Statistics Day with BUSCASA
In 2010, the UN declared October 20th “World Statistics Day” to recognize and bring attention to the importance of statistics. This year’s theme is “Better data, Better lives”, and we […]
Thursday, October 22
- 3:00 PM
Learning with GPU's: A Tech Talk
Boston University Research Computing presents Deep Learning with GPU's, a tech talk by Barton Fiske.
Who is it for: Undergraduate, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Researchers, and Professors.
Why you […]
Friday, October 23
- 3:00 PM
Data Science Initiative, CISE and Hariri Institute Joint Seminar: "Algebraic, Sparse and Low Rank Subspace Clustering"
In the era of data deluge, the development of methods for discovering structure in high-dimensional data is becoming increasingly important. Traditional approaches often assume that the data is sampled from […]
Monday, October 26
- 3:00 PM
Giora Alexandron Gives Data Science Seminar Oct 26, Joint with Digital Learning and Hariri Institute for Computing
"Finding Instructional Resources that Assist Students: A Machine Learning Approach"
Since MOOCs contain both instructional resources and assessment items (questions), and also produce logs of
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