BU Cyber Alliance hosts 2/20 Seminar, Featuring Sendhil Mullainathan
The BU Cyber Alliance hosts Sendhil Mullainathan, of Harvard University, for a presentation titled, “Using Machine Learning to Improve Policy Problems; An Econometric Perspective.”
Category: Archived Cyber Alliance Seminars
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.
BU Cyber Alliance hosts 4/30 Seminar, Featuring Ahmed Ghappour
This talk considers the question of whether and to what extent fact-finders in the criminal legal process should defer to factual outcomes generated by “opaque” algorithms whose form or functionality cannot readily be digested by human-scale observation and reasoning.
BU Cyber Alliance Hosts 11/28 Seminar, Featuring Adam Smith
Join the BU Cyber Alliance for a 11/28 seminar on differential privacy, featuring BU professor, Adam Smith.
BU Cyber Alliance Hosts 11/15 Seminar, Featuring Ellen Goodman (Rutgers)
Ellen Goodman (Rutgers) presents on questions about algorithmic ethics – about the values embedded in artificial intelligence and big data analytics that increasingly replace human decision-making.
BU Cyber Alliance Hosts 10/23 Brown Bag Lunch Series, Featuring Michael Meurer (LAW)
For this Cyber Alliance Speaker Series event, Prof. Meurer will discuss social welfare issues concerning investment in databases that can be used to develop AI technologies, and access to those databases.
BU Cyber Alliance Presents Wed@Hariri Book Talk: “Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the NSA”
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Refreshments & networking at 2:45 PM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the NSA Tim Edgar Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs at the Watson Institute at Brown University This Wednesday@Hariri event is hosted […]