Institute Hosts CS Student Poster Session: Data Mechanics
The Hariri Institute is pleased to host a student poster session Friday, April 28th from 3-5PM. The event will feature 25 group projects completed by students enrolled in the spring iteration of CS 591 L1 (“Data Mechanics”), a computer science course taught by Andrei Lapets, CS Lecturer and Director for Research Development and SAIL at the Hariri Institute for Computing.
Institute Co-sponsors New Directed Study Programs with CS Department
The Hariri Institute for Computing is excited to support two new CS directed study programs for Fall 2017: BU Spark! Innovation Ventures taught by Ziba Cranmer, Director of BU Spark!, and Experiential Lab in Software Engineering (ELSE) taught by Andrei Lapets, Hariri Institute Director for Research Development and Director for SAIL.
Institute Hosts Network Security Student Poster Session
The Institute is pleased to host over the CS558, “Network Security,” student poster session. Led by Institute Fellow and Computer Science Associate Professor, Sharon Goldberg, CS558 provides an introduction to network security for BU undergraduate seniors, masters, and PhD students.
Institute Co-Sponsors Language Processing and Recovery in Aphasia Symposium
The Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to co-sponsor the Language Processing and Recovery in Aphasia Symposium, which aims to showcase the ongoing work at BU with regard to cognitive and computational neuroscience advances in the study of language recovery in aphasia.
Institute Co-Hosts 4/12 DSI Colloquium Featuring Rene Vidal
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
Institute Hosts 4/4 DSI Colloquium with ECE
11:00 PM – 12:30 PM on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at the Hariri Institute for Computing (111 Cummington Mall, Room 180) – Join the Hariri Institute for Computing and the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department for a Data Science Initiative Colloquium. Principled Tuning for Large-scale ML Systems, given by Ioannis Mitliagkas, PhD scholar, Statistics and Computer Science, Stanford University.
Institute Hosts 4/24 DSI Colloquium with Sociology Department
The joint DSI and Sociology Colloquium will feature Kevin Lewis of UC San Diego, for a talk entitled “The Genesis of Homogeneity in Mating Patterns.” Kevin Lewis is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His work examines the formation and evolution of social networks; the principles of human interaction that give rise to global network patterns; and the implications of these processes for the genesis and reproduction of inequality.
Poster Call: Journalism and the Search for Truth in an Age of Social Media Conference
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.
Institute Hosts 4/10 CCS Colloquium with Alexandre Tartakovsky
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).
Han Liu, Princeton University, to Give DSI Colloquium Lecture on 3/24
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