The course of clinical trials research has been impacted to varying extents by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hariri Institute for Computing, Department of Biostatistics (SPH), the Statistics Program, and Department of Mathematics and Statistics (CAS) at Boston University have organized an event where BU Statistic faculty will have the opportunity to comment on various implications […]
Kate Saenko, Hariri Institute’s Co-Director of Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative (AIR) and Bryan Plummer, a Hariri Institute’s Faculty Affiliate and AIR Core Faculty Affiliate, recently received $2,000,000 in funding from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on their project “TONIC: Trusted Online Content,” which aims to battle automated misinformation in the news. Collaborating with UC […]
This Friday, November 6th, Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School and Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, will be presenting on managing bibliography data and research materials with Zotero in Hariri Institute’s new series, “Did You Know You Could…?” To learn more about the series and this event, […]
Michael Dietze, Hariri Institute Steering Committee Member and Associate Professor, Earth & Environment is involved with the Ecological Forecasting Initiative’s Research Coordination Network (EFI-RCN) that will be launching the inaugural NEON Ecological Forecast Challenge. This challenge is open to any individual or team that is interested in Data Science. This challenge encourages participants to make […]
President A. Robert Brown highlights several accomplishments of Boston University faculty in his address to the faculty this October. The Hariri Institute for Computing is proud that many of our community members were acknowledged for their hard work and accomplishments, see below. To read President A. Robert Brown’s full letter here. Jennifer Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor, […]
A Meet and Learn Series led by the Graduate Student Fellows The “Did you know you could…?” series provides a venue in which people can quickly get exposed to practical topics either enabling or enabled by computing and data science. Topics they might not even have realized they wanted to know! And they can meet other similarly […]
On October 19th, 2020 Serge Belongie, Professor of Computer Science at Cornell, is presenting at the Distinguished Speaker Series hosted by Artificial Intelligence Research (AIR). Professor Belongie is presenting their research during their talk “A New workflow for collaborative machine learning research in biodiversity.” Professor Belongie is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the […]
The U.S. Census Bureau awarded Computer Science faculty Assistant Professor Mark Bun (Co-PI), Assistant Professor Marco Gaboardi (PI), and Professor Adam Smith (co-PI) with a cooperative agreements that looks at improving survey practices and adjusting privacy methods on Thursday, September 17 2020. Their project, Towards an End-to-End Approach to Formal Privacy for Sample Surveys, is […]
Boston University’s Michael Daitzman, Director of Engineering and Product, Mass Open Cloud (MOC), will be giving a keynote on OpenInfra Labs (OIL) – a new OpenStack Foundation (OSF) project launched in collaboration with the MOC – at the virtual Open Infrastructure Summit, hosted by the OSF, October 19 – 23. The Summit features keynotes […]
On September 30th, Boston University’s Office of Research hosted an event spotlighting the Hariri Institute for Computing and Researchers focusing on Cloud computing, secure and private computation, and artificial intelligence (AI) that are shaping the landscape around computational and data-driven research. The Come Together, Right Now: Convergence & Collaboration Around Cloud Computing, Data Security, and AI event, gave the Boston […]