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 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 […]
Wednesday@Hariri: Meet Our Fellows Series Christoph Nolte, BU Faculty When: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 Event Start Time: 3:00 pm (refreshments & networking at 2:45 PM) Event End Time: 4:30 pm Where: College of Arts and Sciences, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, Room 132 Abstract: The voluntary, permanent protection of private lands is a key instrument in […]
Earlier this week, Oriol Vinyals, Senior Staff Research Scientist from Google DeepMind, gave a talk on the StarCraft gaming program called AlphaStar to a packed room at the Kilachand Center. Vinyals holds a Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley and is a recipient of the 2016 MIT TR35 innovator award. His research […]
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
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]