The Charles River Workshop on Private Analysis of Social Networks
The Charles River Workshop on Private Analysis of Social Networks will take place on Monday, May 19, 2014 from 9 am to 5 pm, at the Hariri Institute, 111 Cummington Mall, Boston University. There will be talks and a discussion session covering different aspects of the challenge of performing and releasing analyses of graph data while protecting personal information. The workshop […]
DSI Distinguished Lecture by Dan Roth: Learning and Inference for Natural Language Understanding
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 […]
Institute Hosts Charles River Privacy Day
The Charles River Privacy Day will take place on Friday November 15, 2013, at the Hariri Institute at Boston University. There will be 4-5 talks covering different aspects of the challenge of protecting privacy of personal information in public databases. Confirmed speakers include: Yaniv Ehlrich (MIT/Whitehead) Katrina Ligett (Caltech) Aaron Roth (Penn) The Charles River […]
Institute Hosts Computational Immunology Workshop
From June 10th to June 14th, 2013, the Hariri Institute hosted the Summer School on Quantitative Systems Immunology, a national workshop organized by the Center for Computational Immunology. The workshop is intended for trainees in the biological sciences who want to explore the use of mathematics, statistics, and computation in their own research but may not […]
Upcoming Event: Boston Freedom in Online Communications Day (BFOC)
The Internet offers great promise for improving the communication capabilities of citizens, but our increasing dependence on networked communications also makes it easier for organizations and governments to control, monitor, and block communications. The growing trend toward blocking, tampering, or otherwise restricting communications on the Internet calls for improved techniques both for monitoring the state […]
Turing 100: A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Alan Turing
On Sunday, November 11, and Monday, November 12, 2012, the Hariri Institute, the BU Center for Philosophy and the History of Science, and the BU Department of Computer Science are hosting a interdisciplinary symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Alan Turing. Turing’s contributions to computer science, mathematics, logic, artificial intelligence, and philosophy laid much […]
Institute Hosts CloudTrust Mini Symposium
On Thursday May 10, 2012, the Hariri Institute in collaboration with the RISCS Center at Boston University will be hosting a half-day CloudTrust Mini Symposium — a set of four talks on various aspects of Cloud Computing Security. The Mini Symposium will be held in the Hariri Institute Seminar Room (MCS-180) and is open to the public. CloudTrust […]
Institute Inaugural Symposium Featured on BU Today
The symposium which will be held on Saturday, April 21, 2012, at the Photonics Center, will stress the importance of computational thinking and the transformative nature of computational approaches in not just physical and life sciences, but also in the social sciences and even the arts. Free and open to the public, the symposium is the first […]
Institute Hosts First Charles River Crypto Day
The first Charles River Crypto Day will be held on Friday, December 2, 2011, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m at Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Sciences Engineering, at 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored and hosted by the Hariri Institute, this inaugural […]
Institute Hosts 2nd Charles River Crypto Day
The 2nd Annual Charles River Crypto Day will be held on Friday, November 30th, 2011, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m at Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Sciences Engineering, at 111 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored and hosted by the […]