[Return to Nexus Newsletter] To meet the increasing demand for research software engineering across BU’s Charles River and Medical campuses, the SAIL continues to grow. In addition to expanding the lab’s student intern program this year, SAIL brought on four new software engineers, Ben Getchell, Dany Fu, Sarah Leinicke, and Lucy Qin. Ben Getchell actually joined […]
[Return to Nexus Newsletter] By Kaitlin Barnes An aircraft collision avoidance system and platform for expediting college transfer credits are just two of the 11 original projects presented at the inaugural Spark! Ventures Demo Day. Over 60 attendees, including project mentors, industry partners, and faculty and staff from CAS, IS&T, CS, CFA, Pardee, and Innovate@BU, joined students for a poster […]
Hosting eight seminars this fall, the BU Cyber Alliance continues to grow, bringing together computer science researchers, law professors, and social scientists to explore the interaction between cybersecurity technology, law, and policy.
What began in 2014 as a small, seed-funded research project to assess pay equity in Boston, multi-party computation (MPC) has emerged as a key research thrust of the Hariri Institute for Computing and is drawing significant attention from U.S. policymakers.
The Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering is now accepting Hariri Graduate Fellow nominations for prospective PhD students.
Institute Director Azer Bestavros was a featured presenter at the December 2017 Sackler Colloquium on Modeling and Visualizing Science and Technology Developments.
This talk by Mike Jones, senior principal research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, will demonstrate how L2 distance is not the best basis of comparison to use in convolutional neural network (CNN) analysis for face verification and propose the hyperplane similarity as a more appropriate similarity function that is derived from the softmax loss function used to train the network.
This year’s Boston University Mellon Sawyer Seminar, co-sponsored by the Hariri Institute for Computing and titled, “Humanity and Technology at the Crossroads: Where Do We Go From Here?” invites interested BU faculty to join in a day-long event on the issues of accountability, ethics, and algorithms.
The Data Science Initiative, housed at the Hariri Institute for Computing, is pleased to announce that the third annual BU Data Science (BUDS) Day will take place on Friday, January 26, 2018. BUDS Day 2018 is co-chaired by Neha Gondal (Sociology) and Brian Kulis (Electrical & Computer Engineering).
Join the BU Cyber Alliance for a 11/28 seminar on differential privacy, featuring BU professor, Adam Smith.