Featured Events
The Hariri Institute for Computing brings together faculty and students from across the university by organizing engaging, collaborative events that feature high profile speakers to share their perspectives and expertise on cutting edge ideas in computing and computationally supported research. Join us to meet other members of the BU community, make potential research connections, and gain insight on a variety of topics.
Spring 2021 events will be virtual. For administrative questions, please contact Katherine D’Angelo, Program & Events Manager, at ktd@bu.edu.
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Institute-Sponsored Events
Did You Know You Could…? Series
The “Did you know you could…?” series provides a venue for people to learn skills that either enable or are enabled by computing and data science. Topics they might not even realize they wanted to know! And they can meet other similarly inquisitive people while adding more tools to their belt. The series is intended to be an informal, low-barrier mechanism for convergence and skill-building, and welcomes a broad audience of students, faculty, and staff from across the landscape of disciplines at Boston University to participate.
Offered in the spirit of a brown-bag lunch series (60 minutes in length, with a focused 20-minute lightning presentation, followed by Q&A and an opportunity for networking before and after the seminar), the series events take place monthly.
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Hariri Institute Distinguished Speaker Series
The Hariri Institute Distinguished Speaker Series brings up and coming, innovative speakers with bold ideas in computing-enabled and data-driven areas of research to Boston University. Taking place once per semester, the series hosts a handful of speakers clustered around a common theme over a two-week period. Each speaker gives a broadly accessible, 60-minute presentation highlighting their research, followed by Q&A and an opportunity for networking before and after the seminar. All speakers then participate in a panel discussion at the end of the second week.
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BU Knowledge Transfer Series
Spring 2021: Sharing Research at the Interface of Data Sciences and Sustainability
The BU Knowledge Transfer Series, co-sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Energy
, will bring together faculty across BU actively working on a variety of aspects of data science and sustainability whose work is not well known to each other. Each 90-minute session will feature flash talks from 3-4 faculty members, followed by plentiful discussion time. The ultimate goal is to share knowledge of each person’s work in order to facilitate collaboration and potentially team up to pursue federal funding opportunities. There will be 3 sessions during the Spring 2021 semester: 1) Coupled human-natural systems and behavior, 2) Computing and technology in support of sustainability, and 3) Smart cities and sustainability.
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Centers & Initiatives
AIR Distinguished Speaker Series
The Distinguished Speaker Series appeals to a broad audience internal to BU and external to industry partners and affiliates. The researchers for this series are nationally re-known for their work and can be from the BU community, external academic institutions or external industry partners.
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AIR Weekly Seminar Series
The AIR seminar series features presentations by both BU and external guest speakers. Seminar topics include computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, robotics, and human-computer interaction.
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Cyber Alliance Seminar Series
The alliance has established a seminar series to explore the interaction between cybersecurity technology, law, and policy. In addition, the alliance has invited field experts to give seminars at BU and supported congressional briefings to continue to grow the credentials of the University in this research area. Additionally, faculty are working to create innovative learning opportunities that bring computer science and law students together to tackle challenges of data ethics and cybersecurity law.
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BU Sec Seminar Series
The BU Security Group does research in cryptography and network security within the Department of Computer Science at Boston University. We are also affiliated with the BU Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS), which takes a multidisciplinary approach to security by bringing together experts across the university.
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Red Hat Colloquium Series
A partnership between Red Hat and Boston University, the Red Hat Collaboratory connects BU faculty and students with industry practitioners working in open-source software communities. The Collaboratory aims to advance research focused on emerging technologies in a number of areas including operating systems, cloud computing services, machine learning and automation, and big data platforms.
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