Category: Events

BU Cyber Alliance hosts 4/4 Seminar, Featuring Rory Van Loo

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 Refreshments & networking at 2:45 pm Hariri Institute for Computing, 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 This Wednesday@Hariri seminar is hosted in collaboration with the BU Cyber Alliance. Regulating Digital Intermediaries Rory Van Loo Associate Professor of Law, Boston University Abstract: Online platforms such as Amazon and Facebook […]

BU Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar: Accountability, Ethics, and Algorithms

Thursday, March 15, 4:00 PM – 3:30 PM Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering 610 Commonwealth Avenue Ethics and law are implicated in efforts to make the design and implementation of algorithms accountable. Philosophical questions arise at the start: how do the notions of responsibility, jurisdiction, accountability, bias, abuse, and authority figure in a […]

Digital Health Initiative Hosts Special Research Award Event

*Due to the weather forecast, this event has been postponed from its original date of March 13, 2018; it will now take place on Thursday, March 22, 2018. Join the Hariri Institute for Computing and Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy for a discussion about the current Digital Health Initiative (DHI) research proposal call. The […]

J.J. Allaire to Give 3/28 Wed@Hariri Talk on ML

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Refreshments & networking at 2:45 PM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 This Wednesday@Hariri event is presented in collaboration with the AI Research Initiative (AIR) and the Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL). J.J. Allaire Founder, RStudio Machine Learning with TensorFlow and R Abstract: TensorFlow […]