Category: Events

A White Paper: “Effective Community-University-Industry Collaboration Models for Smart and Connected Communities Research.”

  Uncovering How to Work Together In 2017 the Hariri Institute for Computing along with the BU Initiative on Cities held two workshops titled “Effective Community-University-Industry Collaboration Models for Smart and Connected Communities Research.” Attendees at these events included principal investigators, research directors, city officials, community partners, NSF program managers, and federal agency and industry […]

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 […]

AIR Series: First-Person Perception by Anticipating the Unseen and Unheard

AIR SEMINAR SERIES Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin This talk has been canceled and will be rescheduled to a later date. When: Monday, April 1, 2019 Event Start Time: 11:00 am (reception at 10:30am, talk at 11am) Event End Time: 12:00 pm Where: Kilachand Center, Colloquium Room 101 Abstract: Computer vision has seen major […]

AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II

AIR SEMINAR SERIES Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind   When: Monday, March 11, 2019 Event Start Time: 10:30 am (reception 30mins prior to event start) Event End Time: 12:00 pm Where: Kilachand Center, Colloquium Room 101 Abstract: Games have been used for decades as an important way to test and evaluate the performance of artificial intelligence systems. […]