Last week, students from Andrei Lapets’ Data Mechanics and Emily Whiting’s Computational Fabrication classes showcased their Spring Semester projects at the Hariri Institute for Computing during Poster Sessions. Posters sessions are held at the conclusion of each semester as an opportunity for students to share their work with other classmates, faculty and industry communities. This […]
AIR SEMINAR SERIES Stella Yu, University of California, Berkeley When: Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 Event Start Time: 10:00 am Event End Time: 11:00 am Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: Computer vision has advanced rapidly with deep learning, achieving super-human performance on a few recognition benchmarks. At the core of the state-of-the-art approaches […]
On April 30, 2019, Professor Leonid Levin, BU Department of Computer Science, CAS was elected as a new member by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Professor Levin is 1 of 100 new members joining a group of 2,347 members, representing 25 countries. The NAS is a society of “distinguished scholars charged with providing independent, objective […]
MASSACHUSETTS OPEN CLOUD (MOC) Graeme Jenkinson Affiliated Lecturer and Senior Research Associate University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology When: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 Event Start Time: 10:00 am Event End Time: 11:30 am Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: DTrace was designed and developed by Sun Microsystems to […]
WEDNESDAYS @HARIRI Jacob Nudel, General Surgery Resident at the Boston Medical Center and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy When: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Event Start Time: 3:00 pm Event End Time: 4:30 pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: Obesity and its associated diseases […]
Earlier last month, BU Today posted an article entitled “Emily Whiting Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship”. The article introduced Emily Whiting, a computer scientist chosen by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship, and her promising research area, building software tools for design novices to create their design work. Emily Whiting, an […]
The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce recently released a report called “2018 Pacesetters Impact Report” for Pacesetters Initiative. In the report, the Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) at Boston University’s Hariri Institute for Computing is mentioned, who supports Pacesetters with data collecting process. Pacesetters Initiative is a program of Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce […]
AIR SEMINAR SERIES Yoram Singer, Princeton University and Google When: Monday, April 22, 2019 Event Start Time: 11:00 am (reception starts at 10:30am) Event End Time: 12:00 pm Where: Kilachand Center, Colloquium Room 101 Abstract: Adaptive gradient-based optimizers such as AdaGrad and Adam are among the methods of choice in modern machine learning. These methods maintain […]
Earlier last month Futurity.org wrote an article entitled “Can the U.S. Win The A.I. Arms Race.” In the article, a mandate signed by President Trump that aims to support artificial intelligence (AI) research is discussed. The mandate is regarded as an excellent opportunity to explore further potential of AI, which generates both concern and hope on its […]
AIR SEMINAR SERIES Karrie Karahalios, Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign When: Monday, April 8, 2019 Event Start Time: 11:00 am (reception at 10:30am, talk at 11am) Event End Time: 12:00 pm Where: Kilachand Center, Colloquium Room 101 Abstract: Algorithms play a large role by shaping what we see and don’t […]