We are proud to announce that a team representing the Hariri Institute’s Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) won the Outstanding Graduate Submission prize at the Microsoft-Vivli Datathon on June 21, 2019. Congratulations to team members Kinan Dak Albab, Megan Fantes, Peter Flockhart, Wyatt Howe, Lucy Qin, and Zack Zhang! Microsoft and Vivli, a global […]
Recently, our BU Spark! alumnus, Ben Lawson, was interviewed and featured on the College of Arts & Science (CAS) website. In the article “A CAS Student Comes Home to Mentor”, Lawson shared his experience at BU Spark! and why he decided to come back home to be a mentor. Ben Lawson (Class of 2018) graduated […]
In a recent article published in BU Today, it was announced that BU President Robert A. Brown and Provost Jean Morrison will propose to the BU Board of Trustees, the creation of a new collaborative called the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS). This new group will include faculty from across many different disciplines […]
This past month, Boston University Professors Adam Smith (Professor of Computer Science, CAS), Leonid Reyzin (Professor of Computer Science, CAS) and New York University Professor Yevgeniy Dodis (Professor of Computer Science, CIMS) were honored at this year’s Eurocrypt 2019 held in Darmstadt, Germany, with the 2019 IACR Test-Time-Award. The IACR Test-of-Time Award is given yearly […]
Just this week TechTalks magazine produced a story about artificial intelligence and it’s growing influence on the world of drone flight. A company called Neuroflight has created a system which helps drones maintain stability and balance in changing environmental conditions. Previous technology relied upon mathematical control equations to respond to changes in conditions. Machine learning, […]
Borja Balle, Amazon Research When: Thursday, June 20, 2019 Event Start Time: 1:30 pm Event End Time: 3:00 pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, 111 Cummington Mall, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: Privacy amplification is a key component of many state-of-the-art analyses in differential privacy. Amplification results come under different guises, including amplification by sampling, shuffling […]
Christos Dimitrakakis, Chalmers University / University of Oslo When: Monday, June 10, 2019 Event Start Time: 11:00 am Event End Time: 12:30 pm (includes lunch following lecture) Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: Bayesian fairness is an overarching concept of fairness that explicitly takes into account the subjective uncertainty of the decision […]
On May 29th it was announced that Professor Stan Sclaroff, Computer Science, CAS was named as the permanent Dean of Arts & Sciences. Professor Sclaroff had been the interim dean of the college since last August 2018. Stan joined the BU College of Arts & Sciences as a Professor in the Computer Science Department in […]
Uncovering How to Work Together In 2017 the Hariri Institute for Computing along with the BU Initiative on Cities held two workshops titled “Effective Community-University-Industry Collaboration Models for Smart and Connected Communities Research.” Attendees at these events included principal investigators, research directors, city officials, community partners, NSF program managers, and federal agency and industry […]
Today colleagues, faculty, staff and friends gathered to honor BU Computer Science Professor Leonid Levin with a reception held at the Hariri Institute for Computing. The event was hosted by both the Institute and BU Computer Science. The event celebrated the recent election of Leonid Levin into the National Academy of Sciences. BU President Robert Brown […]