BU “Shape-Up” Team Wins the MIT Solve Challenge

Led by Boston University professor Jonathan Jay, the “Shape-Up” team was awarded the “EveryTown for Gun Safety” Prize by MIT Solve, an initiative of MIT, with $100K funding. The team is 1 of the 32 new Solver teams and was selected from a pool of nearly 1,400 applications from over 100 countries. MIT Solve aims to advance […]

Language Deprivation and the American Sign Language Lexicon

Join us on Monday, August 5th at 3:00 PM for a guest talk featuring Naomi Caselli, Assistant Professor of Deaf Studies at BU’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development! Event Details Date: Monday, August 5, 2019 Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Location: Seminar Room, Hariri Institute for Computing Language Deprivation and the American […]

SAIL Team Wins at Microsoft-Vivli Datathon

We are proud to announce that a team representing the Hariri Institute’s Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) won the Outstanding Graduate Submission prize at the Microsoft-Vivli Datathon on June 21, 2019. Congratulations to team members Kinan Dak Albab, Megan Fantes, Peter Flockhart, Wyatt Howe, Lucy Qin, and Zack Zhang! Microsoft and Vivli, a global […]

SAIL Interns Conclude Summer Session with Presentations

Since 2016, the Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) has offered internship opportunities to BU students to grow their software engineering expertise and solve research challenges across disciplines. SAIL interns and fellows work directly with software engineers and researchers in the space where academia meets application, learning and experimenting with new technologies on projects in […]