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All Topics (October 17 through December 14)

Wednesday, October 17

11:30 AM Red Hat Colloquium: “Networking as a First-Class Cloud Resource”, Rodrigo Fonseca (Brown University)
Rodrigo Fonseca is an associate professor at Brown University’s Computer Science Department. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, and a MSc and BSc from UFMG. In this talk, Rodrigo […]
3:45 PM Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: "The Internet of Bodies", Andrea Matwyshyn (Northeastern)
The BU Cyber Speaker Series presents a talk given by Andrea Matwyshyn from Northeastern University. The talk will introduce the ongoing progression of the Internet of Things (“IoT”) into the […]

Monday, October 22

10:30 AM AIR Seminar: “'Does This Vehicle Belong to You?' Processing the Language of Policing for Improving Police-Community Relations" - Dan Jurafsky (Stanford)
Presented as part this semester's first installment of the recently launched AI Research Initiative (AIR) Seminar Series, Dan Jurafsky (Stanford) will give his talk “'Does This Vehicle Belong to You?' […]

Tuesday, October 23

11:30 AM Red Hat Colloquium: "Why consider a career as an SRE”, Mike Saparov (Red Hat)
Mike Saparov is a Senior Director of SRE @ Red Hat. He joined Red Hat as part of CoreOS, where as a VP of Engineering he oversaw development of CoreOS Linux, […]

Tuesday, October 30

7:00 AM 4th Annual Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Workshop
4th Annual Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Workshop welcomes users of the MOC, researchers and startups interested in cloud computing, students, and industry partners, and provides an opportunity for MOC’s growing […]

Wednesday, October 31

7:00 AM 4th Annual Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Workshop
4th Annual Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Workshop welcomes users of the MOC, researchers and startups interested in cloud computing, students, and industry partners, and provides an opportunity for MOC’s growing […]
11:30 AM
- Seminar
“Visual Question Answering and Beyond”
A presentation of our work on Visual Question Answering (VQA) — providing a brief overview of the VQA task, dataset and baseline models, as well as, highlight some of the
3:30 PM “Machine Learning and Neural Networks for Lawyers”, Jonathan Frankle (MIT)
The Cyber Alliance Speaker Series presents a seminar by Jonathan Frankle, PhD candidate at MIT. Frankle will introduce all of these concepts for a general audience, starting with the definition […]

Wednesday, November 7

3:00 PM Wednesday@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows: "Family Planning Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Experimental Evidence from Malawi, India, and Sri Lanka", Mahesh Karra (Global Development Policy)
The Hariri Institute for Computing continues its Wednesday@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows series with Junior Faculty Fellow Mahesh Karra. Refreshments & networking at 2:45PM.

Thursday, November 8

11:30 AM Red Hat Colloquium: “Chameleon: New Capabilities for Experimental Computer Science”, Kate Keahey (University of Chicago)
This talk will describe the evolution of the testbed as well as the current work towards broadening the range of supported experiments. In particular, Kate will discuss recently deployed hardware […]
6:30 PM BU Spark! & SAIL Info Session
Come learn about paid internships and experiential learning opportunities at BU Spark! and SAIL to collaborate with researchers and external partners on cutting-edge technologies and real-world projects. Applications for […]

Monday, November 12

10:30 AM AIR Seminar: “CreativeAI: Machine Learning meets 3D Content Creation", Niloy Mitra (University College London)
In this talk, Niloy will discuss the latest results in this area and discuss how futuristic content creation workflows are likely to be. This has the potential to revolutionize how […]
6:00 PM BU Spark! & SAIL Info Session
Come learn about paid internships and experiential learning opportunities at BU Spark! and SAIL to collaborate with researchers and external partners on cutting-edge technologies and real-world projects. Applications for […]

Wednesday, November 14

11:30 AM Red Hat Colloquium: “Software-Configured Compute Environments”, Ulrich Drepper (Red Hat)
Red Hat welcomes Ulrich Drepper from the office of the CTO. Drepper joined Red Hat again in 2017, after a seven year hiatus when he worked for Goldmann Sachs. He […]
3:30 PM "Sharenthood: How the Digital Tech Habits of Parents, Teachers, and Other Trusted Adults Harm Kids & Teens", Leah Plunkett (UNH)
In this Cyber Alliance talk, Prof. Plunkett will discuss the questions raised by Sharenthood. The book, written for a general audience, unpacks the everyday, innocent mistakes adults make with kids’ […]

Wednesday, November 28

3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: Danny Weitzner (MIT)
BU Cyber Alliance welcomes Danny Weitzner, Founding Director of the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Monday, December 3

10:30 AM
- Seminar
Building and Evaluating Conversational Agents–Joao Sedoc, Univ of Pennsylvania
Dialog is a challenging problem since it spans multiple conversational turns. To further complicate the problem, there are many contextual cues and valid possible utterances. We propose that dialog is […]

Tuesday, December 4

7:30 AM
- Seminar
Boston Women’s Workforce Council Annual Effective Practices Conference

Friday, December 7

11:00 AM CS Distinguished Lecture Series: “Learning Models that See Through Walls and Sense Sleep and Vital Signs"–Professor Dina Katabi, MIT
In this talk, I introduce neural network models that infer the human Pose through obstacles, i.e., they infer the skeletal representations of the joints on the arms and legs, and

Monday, December 10

11:00 AM AIR Seminar Series: "New Algorithms for Interpretable Machine Learning in High Stakes Decisions" – Cynthia Rudin, Duke University
ABSTRACT: With the widespread use of machine learning, there have been serious societal consequences from using black box models for high-stakes decisions, including flawed models for medical imaging, and poor […]

Tuesday, December 11

Wednesday, December 12

2:30 PM Computer Science Poster Session: Privacy Machine Learning (CS591 SI)
Professor Adam Smith
3:45 PM Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: “From Soft Classifiers to Hard Decisions: How Fair Can We Be?”–Sarah Scheffler, Boston Univ
As algorithms are increasingly used to make important decisions in the lives of individuals, computer scientists have begun to investigate how to ensure that these decisions are made in a […]

Friday, December 14

4:00 PM Computer Science Poster Session: Innovation Fellows (CS491) and X-Lab Practicum (CS591)
Professor & Director Ziba Cranmer