Calendar

Thursday, February 16

• 5:00 PM SAIL Multi-Party Computation Workshop

  SAIL Software Engineer Nikolaj Volgushev will give an overview of secure multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, including Shamir’s secret sharing and SPDZ. He will also give a tutorial on how to […]

Friday, February 17

• 12:00 PM Hariri Institute Spring Call for Proposals & Nominations

  The Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to bring to the attention of BU faculty the Spring 2016 Call for the following three programs: Hariri Institute Research Awards Program, Hariri […]

Friday, February 24

• 11:00 AM
  • Seminar
  DSI/CS Joint Colloquium: Jana Giceva

  The Data Science Initiative (DSI) and Computer Science Department will hold a joint colloquium Friday, February 24th, with a talk given by Jana Giceva, a PhD candidate in the Department

Thursday, March 9

• 12:00 PM Cisco Lunch & Learn

  Please join us for a Lunch & Learn, hosted by JuanRamon Acosta, Principal Cloud Software Architect, Cisco Systems. The Industry Scholars Lunch & Learn is designed for BU Ph.D students […]

Wednesday, March 15

• 2:45 PM
  • Seminar
  Wed@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows: Jacob Groshek & Shahrooz Zarbafian

  Wed@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows: Jacob Groshek, Junior Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor (Emerging Media Studies) & Shahrooz Zarbafian, Graduate Student Fellow and PhD candidate (Mechanical Engineering)

Monday, March 20

• 5:00 PM DSI Talk: Elliott Bartsch

  Join the Math & Statistics Department and the Data Science Initiative at the Hariri Institute for Computing for a co-hosted DSI event focused on the theoretical and practical approaches to […]

Wednesday, March 22

• 2:45 PM Wed@Hariri: Jim Bessen, "How Computer Automation Affects Jobs and Wages"

  Speaker: Jim Bessen. Abstract: Will new computer technologies lead to mass unemployment in the next 10 or 20 years? Automation has led to declines in manufacturing employment and new computer […]

Friday, March 24

• 10:45 AM
  • Seminar
  DSI Colloquium: Han Liu, "Blessing of Massive Scale"

  This talk introduces a phenomenon that significant statistical benefit may be obtained by increasing the problem scale. To illustrate this phenomenon, I introduce two case studies. The first one shows […]

Wednesday, March 29

• 2:45 PM
  • Seminar
  Wed@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows: Jacob Bor, Rajita Menon, Sarah Zheng

  Wed@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows: Jacob Bor, Assistant Professor, Global Health & Epidemiology (SPH); Rajita Menon, PhD candidate, Physics (CAS); Sarah Zheng, PhD candidate, Operation & Technology Management (QST)

Thursday, March 30

• 4:00 PM BU Spark! Technovation Speaker Series

  BU Spark, the Institute’s new initiative to support student-driven innovation and entrepreneurship, is pleased to host its very first Technovation Speaker Series with Rebecca Norlander, a BU Computer Science […]

Friday, March 31

• 5:00 PM Deadline: Hariri Institute Spring Call for Nominations & Proposals

  The Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to bring to the attention of BU faculty the Spring 2017 Call for the following three programs: Hariri Institute Research Awards Program, Hariri […]

Tuesday, April 4

• 11:00 AM Joint Hariri Institute & ECE DSI Colloquium: Principled Tuning for Large-scale ML Systems

  Join the Hariri Institute for Computing and the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department for a Data Science Initiative Colloquium titled, "Principled Tuning for Large-scale ML Systems," and given by […]

Wednesday, April 5

• 6:00 PM Information Session for New CS Directed Study Programs: BU Spark! Innovation Ventures & Experiential Lab in Software Engineering

  The Hariri Institute for Computing is excited to support two new CS directed study programs for Fall 2017: BU Spark! Innovation Ventures taught by Ziba Cranmer, Director of BU Spark!, […]

Thursday, April 6

• 1:00 PM Red Hat Colloquium Series: An Introduction to OpenNebula – Cloud Federation Features and Use Cases

  The Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI) of the Hariri Institute for Computing will be hosting the second Red Hat Cloud Computing Colloquium Series talk, featuring Ignacio M. Llorente, OpenNebula, Harvard University […]

Monday, April 10

• 12:00 PM CCS Colloquium: "Non-local Mesoscale Model for Multiphase Flow" by Alexandre Tartakovsky

  The Center for Computational Sciences (CSS), a federated center at the Hariri Institute, will host Dr. Alexandre Tartakovsky, a Laboratory Fellow and Team Lead for the Computational Science and Mathematics […]

Wednesday, April 12

• 11:00 AM
  • Seminar
  DSI Colloquium: Global Optimality in Matrix Factorization and Deep Learning, Rene Vidal

  This DSI Colloquium is hosted in collaboration with the Computer Science, Mathematics & Statistics, and Electrical & Computer Engineering departments. Rene Vidal, Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Johns […]

• 5:30 PM Info Session for New CS (CAS) Directed Study Programs

  The Hariri Institute for Computing is excited to support two new CS directed study programs for Fall 2017: BU Spark! Innovation Ventures taught by Ziba Cranmer, Director of BU Spark!, […]

Thursday, April 20

• 12:00 PM Language Processing and Recovery in Aphasia Symposium

  The Hariri Institute is co-sponsoring this symposium, which is organized by the Center for Research in Sensory Communication and Emerging Neural Technology (CRESCENT). The event will showcase the ongoing […]

Monday, April 24

• All Day Conference: Journalism and the Search for Truth in an Age of Social Media

  To pursue a clearer understanding of the scope and implications of the dramatic struggle between fact and fiction, which now goes to the heart of the journalistic enterprise, Boston University […]

• 12:00 PM DSI/Sociology Seminar: The Genesis of Homogeneity in Mating Patterns, Kevin Lewis of UC San Diego

  This seminar is co-sponsored by the Data Science Initiative and Department of Sociology. Kevin Lewis will discuss his work, which examines the formation and evolution of social networks; the principles […]

Wednesday, April 26

• 11:00 AM DSI Colloquium: Online Political Speech & Fact Checking

  As a follow-on activity to the Journalism and the Search for Truth conference hosted by the College of Communication and co-sponsored by the Hariri Institute for Computing, the Institute will […]

Friday, April 28

• 3:00 PM Student Poster Session: Data Mechanics

  The event will feature 25 group projects completed by students enrolled in the spring iteration of CS 591 L1 (“Data Mechanics”), a computer science course taught by Andrei Lapets, CS […]