Calendar

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 […]

Thursday, January 31

• 7:30 AM Ideathon Boston Women’s Workforce Council: Q1 Briefing: HR Technologies Changing the Workplace for the Better
• 10:45 AM Hariri Institute for Computing Colloquium joint with CCS & Mechanical Engineering: “Compatible meshfree discretization”–Nathaniel Trask, Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories

  Spatially compatible discretization broadly encapsulates discretizations of PDEs possessing mimetic properties of continuum operators, such as conservation, maximum principles, H(div)/H(curl) - conformity, or discrete […]

Monday, February 4

• 10:30 AM Some Empirical Observations Linking Representation and Generalization–Samy Bengio, Google

  Abstract: Deep learning has shown incredible successes in the past few years, but there is still a lot of work remaining in order to understand some of these successes. Why […]

Wednesday, February 6

• 8:30 AM Fourth Annual BU Data Science (BUDS) Day

  The Data Science Initiative at the Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to host the 4th Annual BU Data Science (BUDS) Day on Wednesday, February 6, 2019.

Monday, February 11

• 12:00 AM Deadline for Graduate Student Fellow Nominations for Prospective Students

  The Hariri Institute for Computing Graduate Student Fellows program recognizes outstanding PhD students who pursue computational and data-driven research at Boston University. A key goal of the Graduate Student Fellows […]

Tuesday, February 19

• 12:00 AM Research Award Call Opens. Special tracks to be announced.

Wednesday, February 20

• 10:00 AM
  • Workshop
  Microarchitecture Workshop, Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University

  The Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University will be holding a Microarchitecture Workshop (with a focus on security) on February 20, 2019 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM at the Hariri […]

Thursday, February 21

• 5:30 PM Boston University Student-Faculty Forum

  We live our lives in public more and more. Most of us use many forms of social media every day that send rich information about us out to strangers. And […]

Wednesday, February 27

• 2:45 PM
  • Seminar
  Meet Our Fellows Series: Deep Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis and Assessment – Vijaya Kolachalama, Asst. Professor, BU Medical School

  An estimated 5.7 million Americans of all ages were living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in 2018. While there is not yet any available drug treatment for the disease, research indicates […]

• 3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Series: (Talk title forthcoming) – Marshall Van Alstyne, Professor Information Systems, Questrom School of Business

Thursday, February 28

• 12:30 PM Two Visiting Speakers to Give Talks on Protein Flexibility and Thrombin Allostery–Professor Ryotaro KOIKE, Dr. Ikuo KURISAKI

  "Motion Tree, a Computational Tool to Describe Protein Flexibility" Professor Ryotaro KOIKE, Nagoya University In our bodies, a large number of proteins work to maintain various biological activities, e.g. […]

Wednesday, March 6

• 3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: Software Engineer for Lawyers

  James Grimmelmann, Cornell University

Monday, March 11

• 10:30 AM AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II- Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind

  Games have been used for decades as an important way to test and evaluate the performance of artificial intelligence systems. As capabilities have increased, the research community has sought games […]

Thursday, March 14

• 9:00 AM DIMACS Workshop with Rutgers University

  Please visit the event website for emails and instructions on how to register.

• DIMACS/MACS Workshop on Usable, Efficient, and Formally Verified Secure Computation

  Groundbreaking results from the 1980s showed the surprising result that any function can be securely computed by a group of participants in a distributed fashion such that each party learns […]

Wednesday, March 20

• 2:45 PM
  • Seminar
  Wednesday at Hariri

  Christoph Nolte, Assistant Professor, Earth&Environment, Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow

• 3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Speaker Series

  Neil Richards, Washington University

Friday, March 22

• 5:00 PM Tech Together Boston

  Please visit the event website for more details and instructions on how to register.