Category: Events

RISCS Hosts 11/9 Charles River Crypto Day

Sponsored and hosted by the Hariri Institute and the BU Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security (RISCS), the Charles River Crypto Day brings together academics and research scientists from local universities and research labs to discuss recent advances in cryptography.

Media Analysis and Understanding

This talk by Guorong Li, an associate professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, will outline recent research in media analysis including learning label-specific features for multi-label classification, learning common space for cross-modal retrieval and car tracking in UAV video.

Institute Announces Fall Call for Hariri Research Award Proposals

The Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to bring to the attention of BU faculty its fall 2017 request for project proposals to be considered for funding under the Hariri Institute Research Awards program. The deadline for proposals is Monday, November 20, 2017, 5pm.

Physics-Aware Design Tools for Digital Fabrication

Mélina Skouras, a postdoctoral associate at MIT, presents novel algorithms based on physics-based simulation and inverse modeling that can be used to alleviate difficulties in digital manufacturing and allow the designer to easily create custom deformable objects.

RISCS Director Hosts Cybersecurity Research on Tap

Ran Canetti, RISCS Director, hosts a Research on Tap event focused on Cybersecurity, or the study of information systems that are accessible to the public and yet resilient to malicious subversion. This event is open to faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars.

ME-ARC Hosts Symposium on Mobile & Electronic Health

The Mobile and Electronic Health Affinity Research Collaborative (ME-ARC) holds its 2nd annual symposium, in support of the collaborative’s work to conduct state-of-the art research and training in mobile and electronic health to improve the health of underserved populations across the lifespan.

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 […]