Helen Jenkins, Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, to Give Wed@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows Talk
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM on Thursday, April 26, 2018 Refreshments & networking at 10:45 AM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 This event has been rescheduled from its original date of March 21, 2018 and will now take place on April 26, 2018. The Hariri Institute for Computing continues its 2017-2018 “Meet Our […]
Maxwell Palmer, Junior Faculty Fellow, Gives 3/14 Wed@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows Talk
The Hariri Institute for Computing continues its 2017-2018 “Meet Our Fellows” series, featuring Maxwell Palmer from the Department of Political Science.
BU Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar: Open Access and Research into History: Issues of Copyright
Tuesday February 20, 2018, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering 610 Commonwealth Avenue Casey Westerman, Archivist for the Institute for Advanced Study, will discuss some of the complex issues raised by the recent case of Kurt Gödel’s “Max Phil” notebooks. These fifteen notebooks, composed by Gödel in Gabelsberger shorthand […]
BU Cyber Alliance to host 3/12 Seminar, Featuring Alexandra Wood (Harvard)
The BU Cyber Alliance is pleased to host Alexandra Wood (Harvard) for a seminar, titled “Bridging Privacy Definitions: Differential Privacy and Privacy Concepts from Law and Policy.”
Journal of Science & Technology Law Symposium: Governing the Internet: Public Access, Private Regulation
9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Friday, February 2, 2018 BU School of Law, Room 102 765 Commonwealth Ave The question of who should regulate the Internet—governments, the private sector, or some combination of both—is one of the most important and controversial topics in the law today. For example, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently […]
BU Cyber Alliance Hosts 2/5 Seminar, Featuring Paul Ohm (Georgetown)
Paul Ohm is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He specializes in information privacy, computer crime law, intellectual property, and criminal procedure. He teaches courses in all of these topics and more and he serves as a faculty director for the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown.
Spark! Ventures Demo Day Showcases Student Innovation
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 presentation and lightning presentations. […]
Improving Face Verification Accuracy Using Hyperplane Similarity
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.
Institute Hosts 5 Student Poster Sessions This December
The Hariri Institute is excited to host student poster sessions and presentations for five courses this semester: Data Mechanics, Mobile App Development, Machine Learning, Data Science and Spark! Ventures.
Hariri Institute Hosts 11/30 JP Morgan Machine Learning Presentation
The Hariri Institute is excited to host the JP Morgan Machine Learning Presentation at BU. Coordinated by Assistant Professor of Mathematics & Statistics Kostas Spiliopoulos, the event is open to students in fields such as, but not limited to, mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, physics, chemistry, finance and any interdisciplinary combinations of these.