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  • 5G doesn’t cause COVID-19, but the rumor it does spread like a virus

    January 4, 2021
    BY: GINA MANTICA People’s fear of 5G technology is rational. Such technology does emit radiation, even if it’s at low levels. But 5G isn’t all that different from 4G, and it certainly doesn’t cause COVID-19 despite such rumors having spread rapidly across the globe. Researchers need to better understand how misinformation like this spreads in […]
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    Cyber Alliance members discuss intersection of computer science & law at DIMACS workshop

    December 23, 2020
    BY: NATALIE GOLD From November 10-12, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science(DIMACS) at Rutgers University held the Workshop on Co-Development of Computer Science and Law. The event focused on the future of converging computational techniques and legal principles, and the necessity of providing a computer science perspective on the legal and social […]
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    Could math change the law? What the 5th Amendment means in cryptography

    December 22, 2020
    BY: GINA MANTICA The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly accelerated the digital boom. This new virtual world, though convenient, comes with issues of digital privacy and cybersecurity that the law is not yet equipped to handle. But reexamining current policies through a technical lens could provide a temporary solution. Concepts from mathematics can help scientists, lawyers, and […]
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    How do you describe a molecule to a machine? A Focused Research Program converges to find the answer

    December 15, 2020
    BY: GINA MANTICA Every surface is composed of thousands of tiny, individual, interacting atoms. To study how two surfaces interact, researchers have to take into account not only the characteristics of each atom, but also the properties of the larger surfaces that the atoms join together to create. Dealing with such large amounts of data […]
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    Event Recap: How to adjust clinical trials in the face of COVID-19

    December 9, 2020
    BY: NATALIE GOLD Clinical trials are a vital part of advancing medicine. Just take the COVID-19 vaccine for example: without the existence and continuation of clinical trials, the United Kingdom would not have been able to begin administering a vaccine this week. But there are other clinical trials unrelated to the coronavirus that are necessary […]
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    The Physics of Climate Change – How Earth’s “greening” affects temperature

    December 8, 2020
    Many people hear the term “greener earth” and envision flourishing rainforests. But former Junior Faculty Fellow Dan Li hears this phrase and pictures mathematical equations. Li and colleagues use computational models to understand the role that physics plays in climate change so that they can propose effective mitigation strategies. Their article, recently published in Science […]
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    Hariri Institute-Funded Project Transforms into Worldwide Collaboration to Visualize Christianity in Modern China

    December 4, 2020
    Scholars and scientists across the globe have found new ways to ensure that important research does not come to a halt during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University recently showed how Hariri Institute-funded collaborative work can not only continue safely, but also flourish in the face of change.  […]
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    Atypical PhD journeys in computing and data science

    November 30, 2020
    The Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellows have organized a “Atypical PhD journeys in computing and data science” panel discussion on December 3rd, 11:00am - 1:00pm. The panel led by 2018 Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellows Quang-Thinh Ha and Shrabasstee Banerjee will dive deep into the unique paths of well-accomplished professionals in the field of computing […]
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    Junior Faculty Fellow Creates Land Value Map to Improve Conservation Policies

    November 30, 2020
    If scientists and lawmakers don’t know how much it costs to conserve private lands, then they cannot enact sufficient policies to protect it. Christoph Nolte, a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Hariri Institute for Computing and an Assistant Professor in Earth & Environment at the BU College of Arts & Sciences, used machine learning to build a map that shows the value of lands across the contiguous United States.

  • AIR Weekly Seminar: Reasoning about Complex Media from Weak Multi-modal Supervision

    November 16, 2020
    The Hariri Institute of Computing has organized a “Reasoning about Complex Media from Weak Multi-modal Supervision” seminar on Monday, November 30th, 11:00am- 12:00pm as a part of its AIR Weekly Seminar series. The speaker for this event is Adriana Kovashka, Professor in Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. The AIR seminar will address the […]