Institute news and updates
[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 […]
The Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering is now accepting Hariri Graduate Fellow nominations for prospective PhD students.
Institute Director Azer Bestavros and Initiative on Cities Director Katharine Lusk co-led the National Science Foundation-Sponsored Workshop on Effective Community-University-Industry Collaboration Models for Smart and Connected Communities Research, as featured in the BU Federal Relations newsletter Beltway BUzz.
Institute Director Azer Bestavros was a featured presenter at the December 2017 Sackler Colloquium on Modeling and Visualizing Science and Technology Developments.
This year’s Boston University Mellon Sawyer Seminar, co-sponsored by the Hariri Institute for Computing and titled, “Humanity and Technology at the Crossroads: Where Do We Go From Here?” invites interested BU faculty to join in a day-long event on the issues of accountability, ethics, and algorithms.
Funded by a partnership of the University and a group of alumni, BU is starting the new initiative Innovate@BU, designed to draw students and ideas from across the University.
The Hariri Institute is excited to host student poster sessions and presentations for five courses this semester: Data Mechanics, Mobile App Development, Machine Learning, Data Science and Spark! Ventures.
The Data Science Initiative, housed at the Hariri Institute for Computing, is pleased to announce that the third annual BU Data Science (BUDS) Day will take place on Friday, January 26, 2018. BUDS Day 2018 is co-chaired by Neha Gondal (Sociology) and Brian Kulis (Electrical & Computer Engineering).
The Hariri Institute is excited to host the JP Morgan Machine Learning Presentation at BU. Coordinated by Assistant Professor of Mathematics & Statistics Kostas Spiliopoulos, the event is open to students in fields such as, but not limited to, mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, physics, chemistry, finance and any interdisciplinary combinations of these.
Join the BU Cyber Alliance for a 11/28 seminar on differential privacy, featuring BU professor, Adam Smith.