Emotional Accommodation: Women and the Give-and-Take of Emotions in the Workplace
Wed@Hariri: Meet Our Fellows Series Speaker: Sanaz Mobasseri, Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, QST When: Wednesday, January 29, 2019 2:45pm – 4:00pm (Networking and refreshments 2:45pm – 3:00pm, talk 3:00pm – 4:00pm, reception to follow) Where: Questrom Building, 595 Commonwealth Ave, HAR 410 Boston, MA EVENT REGISTRATION Abstract: Conflict between gendered social expectations and conceptions of […]
New Data from Old Sources: A Machine Learning Approach to Census Record Linking
Wed@Hariri: Meet Our Fellows Series Speaker: James Feigenbaum, Assistant Professor, Economics, College of Arts & Sciences When: Wednesday, January 21, 2019 3:15pm – 5:00pm (Networking and refreshments 3:15pm – 3:40pm in Room 416, talk 3:45pm – 4:30pm in Room 315, reception to follow) Where: Economics Building, 270 Bay State Road, Boston, MA EVENT REGISTRATION […]
Stringhini Delivers Wed@Hariri Talk on Weaponized Online Content to a Packed Room
Yesterday, BU Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellow, Gianluca Stringhini gave a talk in front of a packed room on his research titled “Computational Methods to Measure and Mitigate Weaponized Online Information.” This talk is part of the Wed@Hariri Talk Series where Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows share their research with the […]
Computational Methods to Measure and Mitigate Weaponized Online Information
Wed@Hariri: Meet Our Fellows Series Gianluca Stringhini, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENG When: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Networking and refreshments 3:30pm-3:45pm, talk 3:45pm-5:00pm Where: Photonics Building, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Room PHO 339 Abstract: The Web has redefined the way in which malicious activities such as online harassment, disinformation, and radicalization are carried out. To […]
Professor Yiling Chen on How Algorithms Can Improve Decision-Making
How can we make algorithms that are fair, transparent, and better than what they are today? This is the question Gordan McKay Professor Yiling Chen from Harvard University answered in her talk on algorithm-in-the-loop decision-making last week. Professor Chen spoke as a part of the Cyber Alliance Speaker Series. She is interested in analyzing and designing social […]
Leveraging High-Resource Languages to Improve Low-Resource Language Processing
2019 BU Linguistics Colloquium Series Gina-Anne Levow, Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington. When: Monday, November 25, 2019 4:00pm-5:00pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room MCS 157, 111 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA Abstract: Recent years have seen dramatic strides in automatic speech and language processing, ranging from automatic speech recognition to machine translation. While these advances […]
“Machine Learning: New Challenges and Connections”
AIR Distinguished Speaker Series Maria-Florina Balcan, Assoc. Prof., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Univ. When: Monday, December 2, 2019 10:30am-11:00am networking and reception, 11:00am-12:00pm talk Where: Kilachand Center, 610 Commonwealth Ave, Colloquium Room 101 ABSTRACT: Over the past decades, machine learning has evolved into a highly successful discipline that has significantly influenced several fields, including vision, information […]
Wen Li Gives Talk about Electron Dynamics within Earth’s Radiation Belt
Yesterday, Wen Li, BU Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellow, gave a talk on her research titled “Quantitative Assessment of Earth’s Radiation Belt Electron Dynamics Using Physics-Based and Machine-Learning Approaches.” This talk is part of the Wed@Hariri Talk Series where Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows share their research with the Hariri Institute and Boston University communities. […]
Kristopher Grahame Gives Cyber Alliance Talk About Malign Foreign Influence Operations
Last week Kristopher Grahame, FBI agent and member of the U.S. Department of Justice in Boston, delivered a talk titled “Disinformation in the Age of Social Media: A Foreign Influence Briefing” to a full house at the Hillel River Room. This talk was put on by BU Information Security and co-sponsored by the Hariri Institute for Computing and […]
Quantitative Assessment of Earth’s Radiation Belt Electron Dynamics Using Physics-Based and Machine-Learning Approaches
Wed@Hariri: Meet Our Fellows Series Wen Li, Assistant Professor, Astronomy, CAS When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Networking and refreshments 2:45pm-3:00pm, talk 3:00pm-4:00pm, reception to follow Where: Astronomy Building, CAS Room 502, 725 Commonwealth Avenue Abstract: Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts, which extend from ~1,000 to ~60,000 km above the Earth’s surface, consist of “killer” electrons (several […]