On Saturday April 1st, the Boston Public School system invited local companies, schools, individuals, and others to a hackathon-like seminar. Where a hackathon generally gives participants 24-48 hours to solve a problem, BPS is giving participants up to two months to solve its newest problem- their bus routes.
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
11 am – 1:00 pm
Hariri Institute for Computing
111 Cummington Mall, Room 180
This DSI Colloquium is hosted in collaboration with the Computer Science, Mathematics & Statistics, and Electrical & Computer Engineering departments.
Global Optimality in Matrix Factorization
Rene Vidal, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
On Monday, February 27, BU’s Digital Health Initiative (DHI) hosted a roundtable to discuss the future of digital health in various functions. Additionally, the event announced a new funding opportunity for faculty interested in pursuing “research that examines the leveraging of technologies and methodologies from computing and data sciences to tackle a range of applications related to healthcare systems, from medical informatics to healthcare delivery and patient activation.” Proposals are due Friday, March 31, 2017. For more information, please review the proposal call and submission form.
BU Spark, the Institute’s new initiative to support student-driven innovation and entrepreneurship, is pleased to host its very first Technovation Speaker Series with Rebecca Norlander, a BU Computer Science Alumna. This event will include an interactive roundtable discussion where panelists will share their journey and answer questions about starting their own innovation venture as well as will as an innovation showcase where panelists will show concrete examples of their MVP over the years. This event is open and free for all Boston University students, faculty, and staff from every discipline. Refreshments will be provided.
Poster Call for Journalism and the Search for Truth in an Age of Social Media (JSTASM):
Implications of “fake news” and internet trolling for democracy, politics and citizen inclusion conference. Hosted by the College of Communication, and co-sponsored by the Hariri Institute for Computing, the conference will take place from April 23-25, 2017, at Boston University.
Two of the 16 faculty recently promoted to the rank of full professor on the Charles River Campus are closely connected to the Hariri Institute and have been supported through the Hariri Research Awards and Junior Faculty Fellows programs. Prakash Ishwar, professor of electrical and computer engineering and systems engineering in the College of Engineering has received full professor status, as well as Richard West, professor of computer science in the College of Arts and Sciences.
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM on Monday, April 10, 2017, lunch served at 12:00 PM. Hariri Institute for Computing; 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180. “Non-local Mesoscale Model for Multiphase Flow” by Alexandre Tartakovsky, Laboratory Fellow and Team Lead, Computational Science and Mathematics Division
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Hosted in collaboration with the Center for Computational Sciences (CSS).
Urban Refuge, a project by international relations professor Noora A. Lori, is gaining noteworthy attention for its goal giving refugees options to choose and find their own resources on a location tracking map tool. The research project was recently turned into an app with help from Microsoft and has received significant funding and technology support from the Software and Application Innovation Laboratory (SAIL) at the Hariri Institute, which was granted this past January. The project has found a home in both the Hariri Institute and the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies.
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM on Friday, March 24, 2017
Reception to follow
Hariri Institute for Computing
111 Cummington Mall, Room 180
Blessing of Massive Scale
Han Liu
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Operations Research & Financial Engineering
Princeton University
The City of Boston has launched Open Data to Open Knowledge, which is in beta form and hosted on a platform called Analyze Boston. The City plans on releasing the official platform this spring. In collaboration with the Boston Public Library, the platform will host datasets that will be available to the public for research inquiries and projects. BU has been significantly involved in developing technology and techniques to move the process along in Boston.