Category: Archived Events

Language Deprivation and the American Sign Language Lexicon

Join us on Monday, August 5th at 3:00 PM for a guest talk featuring Naomi Caselli, Assistant Professor of Deaf Studies at BU’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development! Event Details Date: Monday, August 5, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Location: Seminar Room, Hariri Institute for Computing Language Deprivation and the American […]

The Community Noise Lab (Unite. Evaluate. Take Actions.)

Join us on Thursday, July 25th at 11:00 AM for a guest talk featuring Erica Walker, postdoctoral researcher and founder of Community Noise Lab at BU’s School of Public Health! Event Details Date: Thursday, July 25, 2019 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Seminar Room, Hariri Institute for Computing The Community Noise Lab (Unite. […]

Privacy Amplification with Couplings and Overlapping Mixtures

Borja Balle, Amazon Research When: Thursday, June 20, 2019 Event Start Time: 1:30 pm Event End Time: 3:00 pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, 111 Cummington Mall, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: Privacy amplification is a key component of many state-of-the-art analyses in differential privacy. Amplification results come under different guises, including amplification by sampling, shuffling […]

Bayesian Fairness

Christos Dimitrakakis, Chalmers University / University of Oslo When: Monday, June 10, 2019 Event Start Time: 11:00 am Event End Time: 12:30 pm (includes lunch following lecture) Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: Bayesian fairness is an overarching concept of fairness that explicitly takes into account the subjective uncertainty of the decision […]

Students Showcase their Projects at the Spring 2019 Poster Sessions

Last week, students from Andrei Lapets’ Data Mechanics and Emily Whiting’s Computational Fabrication classes showcased their Spring Semester projects at the Hariri Institute for Computing during Poster Sessions. Posters sessions are held at the conclusion of each semester as an opportunity for students to share their work with other classmates, faculty and industry communities. This […]

What Did DTrace Get Right and Wrong About Distributed Tracing

MASSACHUSETTS OPEN CLOUD (MOC) Graeme Jenkinson Affiliated Lecturer and Senior Research Associate University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology When: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 Event Start Time: 10:00 am Event End Time: 11:30 am Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: DTrace was designed and developed by Sun Microsystems to […]

Computational Approaches to Surgical Decision-Making

WEDNESDAYS @HARIRI Jacob Nudel, General Surgery Resident at the Boston Medical Center and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy When: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Event Start Time: 3:00 pm Event End Time: 4:30 pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: Obesity and its associated diseases […]

Election Integrity

CYBER ALLIANCE SERIES Ron Rivest, MIT When: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Event Start Time: 3:30 pm (including reception before) Event End Time: 5:00 pm (including reception after) Where: BU Law, Faculty Lounge Rm 1503 Abstract: In this Cyber Alliance talk, MIT Prof. Ron Rivest will review the problem of election security, focusing on the problem of […]