Author: Hariri Institute

Election Integrity

CYBER ALLIANCE SERIES Ron Rivest, MIT When: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Event Start Time: 3:30 pm (including reception before) Event End Time: 5:00 pm (including reception after) Where: BU Law, Faculty Lounge Rm 1503 Abstract: In this Cyber Alliance talk, MIT Prof. Ron Rivest will review the problem of election security, focusing on the problem of […]

AIR Series: First-Person Perception by Anticipating the Unseen and Unheard

AIR SEMINAR SERIES Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin This talk has been canceled and will be rescheduled to a later date. When: Monday, April 1, 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: Computer vision has seen major […]

A Q&A with Dino Christenson: “A Better Way to Predict Election Outcomes”

The mid-morning coffee “rush hour” at Pavement Cafe was in full swing. Students were either studying at their tables, laptops and books fully spread out, or standing in a long line waiting to order their favorite drink. This is where I had a chance to sit down with Dino Christenson in late January. Dino is […]

AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II

AIR SEMINAR SERIES Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind   When: Monday, March 11, 2019 Event Start Time: 10:30 am (reception 30mins prior to event start) Event End Time: 12:00 pm Where: Kilachand Center, Colloquium Room 101 Abstract: Games have been used for decades as an important way to test and evaluate the performance of artificial intelligence systems. […]

Two Visiting Speakers to Give Talks on Protein Flexibility and Thrombin Allostery

Special CCS Lunch Seminar When: Thursday, February 28, 2019 Start Time: 12:30pm Where:  3 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA, PRB595 **Lunch will be provided** “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. transport of oxygen, degradation of […]

Deep Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis and Assessment

Wed@Hariri Meet Our Fellows Series Vijaya Kolachalama, Assistant Professor of Medicine, MED When: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Event Start Time (including reception before): 2:45 pm Event End Time (including reception after): 4:30 pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Seminar Room, Room 180 Abstract: An estimated 5.7 million Americans of all ages were living […]

Cyber Alliance and AI Researchers Adam Smith and Ran Canetti Mentioned in an Article on “Improving AI Fairness”

Earlier this week VentureBeat.com wrote an article entitled “Boston University Researchers Develop Framework to Improve AI Fairness.” In the article, a research paper called, “From Soft Classifiers to Hard Decisions: How Fair Can We Be?” is highlighted for the explanation of how we are trusting AI algorithms to make critical decisions sometimes unfairly. This is especially […]