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.”
The Institute is pleased to host a Data Science Initiative (DSI) Distinguished Lecture, to be given by Nisheeth Vishnoi on Tuesday, February 13th.
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 […]
Aaron Hertzmann, principal scientist at Adobe and an ACM Distinguished Scientist, describes his work in artistic image rendering and stylization, also called Non-Photorealistic Rendering.
Trevor Darrell, an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, presents recent long-term recurrent network models that learn cross-modal description and explanation, using implicit and explicit approaches, which can be applied to domains including fine-grained recognition and visuomotor policies.
Join the Hariri Institute for Computing and the Computer Science Department for Sarah Adel Bargal’s thesis proposal defense. Sarah Adel is a PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department and a Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow.
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.
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.
[Return to Nexus Newsletter] 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 […]
[Return to Nexus Newsletter] By Sabrina Charania As part of its commitment to enriching the student research experience at BU, the Hariri Institute for Computing supports several computer science (CS) courses that provide experiential learning opportunities to students. These opportunities give students a chance to exchange ideas with industry leaders and allow them to explore how computational […]