Institute News

Event Recap: Machine Learning for Model-Rich Problems
BY: NATALIE GOLD Machine learning has quickly emerged as an important innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science and Read more

Realistic machine translation of Gujarati, Somali, & Kazakh
BY: GINA MANTICA In today’s virtual world, equal access to online resources is more important than ever before. But online Read more

Differential Privacy & the 2020 Census: Ask a Data Privacy Expert
Census data is hugely consequential, determining how electoral district boundaries are redrawn and how many Congressional representatives each state gets. Read more

BU and Red Hat Expand Innovative Partnership
$20 million grant enables an ecosystem of education, research, and technology to scale the open hybrid cloud BY GINA MANTICA, Read more

Graduate Student Fellow Hopes to Apply Data Journalism Skills to Study Inequalities
BY: NATALIE GOLD Si Wu’s diverse academic background, from physics to data journalism, provides her with an innovative lens for Read more

Software Engineers Team Up with Sociologists for Criminal Justice Reform
BY: GINA MANTICA Social science that uses qualitative research methods is ideal for understanding complex social and political processes that Read more

Event Recap: Using Computational Tools to Study Sustainability
BY: NATALIE GOLD Environmental and sustainability research has become more important as the world experiences the effects of climate change. Read more

Event Recap: Overcoming Bias in Healthcare
BY: NATALIE GOLD It is essential that people have access to quality healthcare and treatment. Unfortunately, racial, ethnic, and gender Read more

Event Recap: Connecting Data Science and Sustainability
BY: NATALIE GOLD Sustainable living has become even more important, as the effects of climate change are felt by people Read more

Simplifying machine learning for drone flight control
BY: GINA MANTICA Drones can learn to fly on their own thanks to machine learning. But drones trained with current Read more