Category: SAIL

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 […]

Meet the Summer 2019 SAIL Interns

Halfway through the summer, the Summer 2019 SAIL interns have made significant contributions to a wide array of projects, supported consultations with SAIL collaborators, and participated in workshops, roundtable discussions, and guest lectures on research and technical topics led by SAIL team members and partners. Notably, Yiwen Gu attended the PETRA 2019 conference in Rhodes, […]

The Community Noise Lab (Unite. Evaluate. Take Actions.)

Join us on Thursday, July 25th at 11:00 AM for a guest talk featuring Erica Walker, postdoctoral researcher and founder of Community Noise Lab at BU’s School of Public Health! Event Details Date: Thursday, July 25, 2019 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Seminar Room, Hariri Institute for Computing The Community Noise Lab (Unite. […]

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 […]

SAIL Brings on Four New Software Engineers

[Return to Nexus Newsletter] To meet the increasing demand for research software engineering across BU’s Charles River and Medical campuses, the SAIL continues to grow. In addition to expanding the lab’s student intern program this year, SAIL brought on four new software engineers, Ben Getchell, Dany Fu, Sarah Leinicke, and Lucy Qin. Ben Getchell actually joined […]

Meet the SAIL Interns

If you go inside Hariri Institute for Computing at 111 Cummington Mall, a slightly low-profile street on the east campus of Boston University, quite frequently you will find a group of young people exchanging ideas and discussing progress of their projects on a 72-inch screen in a conference room with glass walls.