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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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
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
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
- 1:00 PM Computer Science Poster Session: Machine Learning (CS542)
- 3:00 PM Computer Science Poster Session: Data Mechanics (CS506)
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
Wednesday, January 16
- 3:30 PM
Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: “The 26 Words That Created the Internet: The History and Future of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act”–Jeff Kosseff
By providing unprecedented legal immunity to online platforms for all claims arising from user content, the law is responsible for social media, search engines, Wikipedia, Yelp, and any other online […]
Wednesday, January 30
- 3:30 PM
Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: “It’s Too Complicated, How the Internet Upends Katz, Smith, and Electronic Surveillance Law”–Susan Landau, Tufts University
Electronic surveillance law seeks to balance protecting the privacy of the people while enabling government's surveillance capabilities. In the U.S., legal frameworks governing surveillance have, for forty years, drawn a […]