Samy Bengio, Google When: Monday, February 4, 2019 Networking reception, 10:30-11:00am; Seminar 11:00-12:00pm Where: Photonics Building: 8 St. Mary’s Street, 9th Floor, Colloquium Room 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 do […]
Nathanial Trask, Sandia National Laboratories When: Thursday, January 31st 2019 Networking Reception, 10:45am-11:00am: Seminar 11:00am – 12:00pm Where: BU Hariri Institute for Computing, 111 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA, Room 180 Abstract: 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 preservation of an […]
With BU Data Science Day (BUDS) 2019 planning well underway, we wanted to re-visit last year and share just a few of the comments from last year’s BUDS Day 2018 attendees. We’re looking forward to an even better event in 2019. BU Data Science (BUDS) Day Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm […]
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Cathie Jo Martin, Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Professor of Political Science at Boston University a $30,000 fellowship for her work on the influence of literature on British and Danish educational systems […]
Recently Marriott Hotels experienced a data breach of 500 million accounts. This news was covered in a BU Research magazine article (December 5, 2018) where Hariri Institute for Computing Founding Director Azer Bestavros was interviewed. “We are in a [cyber] arms race right now,” he stated. “Hackers are becoming more sophisticated against an industry that […]
The debate of encryption systems that provide End-to-End (E2E) protection versus the viability of Exceptional Access (EA) encryption systems is highlighted in this article in Lawfare magazine on Wednesday, December 5, 2018, written by BU Hariri Institute for Computing Faculty Fellow and RISCS Co-Director Mayank Varia. The article focuses on the recurring “crypto war” between […]
Cynthia Rudin, Duke University When: Monday, December 10, 2018 Networking reception, 10:30-11:00am; Seminar 11:00-12:00pm Where: Kilachand Center, 610 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA, Colloquium Room Abstract: With the widespread use of machine learning, there have been serious societal consequences from using black box models for high-stakes decisions, including flawed models for medical imaging, and poor […]
This past September 2018 a Data Science Faculty Fellow, Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow, and a past Hariri Fellow were highlighted in an article in BU Research magazine for their work developing a machine that can measure public sentiment about a given topic or event online. Where did this all start? It began with a talk […]
Aishwarya Agrawal, Georgia Tech Wednesday, October 31, 2018 11:30am – 12:30pm in MCS 148 Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall Boston, MA 02215 Abstract: In this talk, I will present our work on Visual Question Answering (VQA) — I will provide a brief overview of the VQA task, dataset and baseline models, as well as, […]
Boston University’s President Robert Brown announced that the University plans to build a new 17-story building on Commonwealth Avenue that houses the new Data Sciences Center. In an effort to become one of the nation’s leading interdisciplinary research institutions, the new structure will house the Hariri Institute along with the Math and Computer Science departments […]