[For Immediate Release – April 25, 2014] GOVERNOR PATRICK ANNOUNCES FUNDING TO LAUNCH MASSACHUSETTS OPEN CLOUD PROJECT, CELEBRATES RELEASE OF 2014 MASS BIG DATA REPORT State’s first big data industry status report finds 3,000 new Big Data jobs in Massachusetts over the course of the next year HOLYOKE – Friday, April 25, 2014 – Governor […]
Monday, April 27, 2014 3:00 – 4:00pm, Reception to follow Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Rm 180 Machine Learning and Inference methods have become ubiquitous and have had a broad impact on a range of scientific advances and technologies and on our ability to make sense of large amounts of data. Research in […]
Wednesdays @Hariri / Meet Our Fellows 3:00 PM on March 19, 2014 @MCS-180 From Genes To Neural Systems: The Transcriptome As An Intermediate Phenotype Jason Bohland Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing Department of Health Sciences, Sargent College Boston University Abstract: While it is clear that many neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders have strong genetic components, and that many […]
Professor Andy Andres interviews with Baseball Prospectus about his upcoming MOOC, Sabermetrics 101: Introduction to Baseball Analytics. [Read more]
Wednesdays @Hariri / Meet Our Fellows 3:00 PM on March 5, 2014 @MCS-180 Statistical Inference in High-Dimensional Discrete Spaces: A Bayesian Approach Luis Carvalho Fellow Hariri Institute for Computing Boston University Abstract: Many problems from varied fields can be seen as statistical inference tasks in large dimensional discrete spaces, such as classification, clustering, or variable selection. These problems are […]
UC Berkeley EECS Professor and Director of Berkeley’s MOOCLab, Armando Fox, discusses the positive and productive use of MOOCs as an aid to traditional classroom teaching. The tools built into MOOCs, such as auto-grading with multiple capacities (soon to be more!), allows professors to spend more time interacting with students. Since MOOCs have an exponentially […]
Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 Professor Armando Fox University of California at Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department Faculty Advisor, MOOCLab Abstract The spectacular failure of the Affordable Care Act website (“Obamacare”) has focused public attention on software engineering. Yet experienced practitioners mostly sighed and shrugged, because the historical record shows that only […]
Wednesdays @Hariri 3:00 PM Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 Sarah Cohen Reporter, New York Times Abstract: Data mining and journalism go hand in hand, and data-savvy journalists are those who will succeed in the coming decade. From Edward Snowden’s data dump to the local police’s record on solving crimes, reporters and editors can’t count on government to provide independent analysis […]