Calendar
View the calendar below to explore all upcoming events sponsored by the Institute and its affiliate centers and initiatives. Browse events by date, or select an event topic to narrow your search.
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Tuesday, December 4
Friday, December 7
- 11:00 AM
CS Distinguished Lecture Series: “Learning Models that See Through Walls and Sense Sleep and Vital Signs"–Professor Dina Katabi, MIT
In this talk, I introduce neural network models that infer the human Pose through obstacles, i.e., they infer the skeletal representations of the joints on the arms and legs, and
Monday, December 10
- 11:00 AM
AIR Seminar Series: "New Algorithms for Interpretable Machine Learning in High Stakes Decisions" – Cynthia Rudin, Duke University
ABSTRACT: With the widespread use of machine learning, there have been serious societal consequences from using black box models for high-stakes decisions, including flawed models for medical imaging, and poor […]
Tuesday, December 11
- 1:00 PM Computer Science Poster Session: Machine Learning (CS542)
- 3:00 PM Computer Science Poster Session: Data Mechanics (CS506)
Wednesday, December 12
- 2:30 PM
Computer Science Poster Session: Privacy Machine Learning (CS591 SI)
Professor Adam Smith
- 3:45 PM
Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: “From Soft Classifiers to Hard Decisions: How Fair Can We Be?”–Sarah Scheffler, Boston Univ
As algorithms are increasingly used to make important decisions in the lives of individuals, computer scientists have begun to investigate how to ensure that these decisions are made in a […]
Friday, December 14
- 4:00 PM
Computer Science Poster Session: Innovation Fellows (CS491) and X-Lab Practicum (CS591)
Professor & Director Ziba Cranmer
Wednesday, January 16
- 3:30 PM
Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: “The 26 Words That Created the Internet: The History and Future of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act”–Jeff Kosseff
By providing unprecedented legal immunity to online platforms for all claims arising from user content, the law is responsible for social media, search engines, Wikipedia, Yelp, and any other online […]
Wednesday, January 30
- 3:30 PM
Cyber Alliance Speaker Series: “It’s Too Complicated, How the Internet Upends Katz, Smith, and Electronic Surveillance Law”–Susan Landau, Tufts University
Electronic surveillance law seeks to balance protecting the privacy of the people while enabling government's surveillance capabilities. In the U.S., legal frameworks governing surveillance have, for forty years, drawn a […]
Thursday, January 31
- 7:30 AM Ideathon Boston Women’s Workforce Council: Q1 Briefing: HR Technologies Changing the Workplace for the Better
- 10:45 AM
Hariri Institute for Computing Colloquium joint with CCS & Mechanical Engineering: “Compatible meshfree discretization”–Nathaniel Trask, Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories
Spatially compatible discretization broadly encapsulates discretizations of PDEs possessing mimetic properties of continuum operators, such as conservation, maximum principles, H(div)/H(curl) - conformity, or discrete […]
Monday, February 4
- 10:30 AM
Some Empirical Observations Linking Representation and Generalization–Samy Bengio, Google
Abstract: Deep learning has shown incredible successes in the past few years, but there is still a lot of work remaining in order to understand some of these successes. Why […]
Wednesday, February 6
- 8:30 AM
Fourth Annual BU Data Science (BUDS) Day
The Data Science Initiative at the Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to host the 4th Annual BU Data Science (BUDS) Day on Wednesday, February 6, 2019.
Monday, February 11
- 12:00 AM
Deadline for Graduate Student Fellow Nominations for Prospective Students
The Hariri Institute for Computing Graduate Student Fellows program recognizes outstanding PhD students who pursue computational and data-driven research at Boston University. A key goal of the Graduate Student Fellows […]
Tuesday, February 19
Wednesday, February 20
- 10:00 AM
Microarchitecture Workshop, Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University
The Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University will be holding a Microarchitecture Workshop (with a focus on security) on February 20, 2019 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM at the Hariri […]
Thursday, February 21
- 5:30 PM
Boston University Student-Faculty Forum
We live our lives in public more and more. Most of us use many forms of social media every day that send rich information about us out to strangers. And […]
Wednesday, February 27
- 2:45 PM
Meet Our Fellows Series: Deep Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis and Assessment – Vijaya Kolachalama, Asst. Professor, BU Medical School
An estimated 5.7 million Americans of all ages were living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in 2018. While there is not yet any available drug treatment for the disease, research indicates […]
- 3:30 PM Cyber Alliance Series: (Talk title forthcoming) – Marshall Van Alstyne, Professor Information Systems, Questrom School of Business