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    Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Jennifer Balakrishnan Honored with NSF CAREER Award

    April 15, 2020
    Assistant Professor Jennifer Balakrishnan has been given the honor of a 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. An assistant professor at Boston University’s Department of Mathematics & Statistics and a Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, Jennifer is known for leading a team that solved the “cursed curve,” a Diophantine equation that was “famously difficult” before her […]
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    Two Speakers Share Automating AI Vision Analysis

    April 10, 2020
    AIR Seminar Series Talk 1: “D-RISE” Deep neural networks are being used increasingly to automate data analysis and decision making, yet their decision-making process is largely unclear and is difficult to explain to the end-users. Vitali Petsiuk, Ph.D Student, Computer Science, Boston University Talk 2: “Tracking with NL-RPN” A novel natural language region proposal network (NL-RPN) […]
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    Elaine Nsoesie Shares Her Insights on Social Distancing

    April 9, 2020
    Recently former Hariri Institute for Computing research fellow, Dr. Elaine Nsoesie, was quoted in an article published by The Hill titled "Social Distancing Works, But Resistance Prompts Worries of Growing Crisis."  The article features the opinions of health officials and infectious disease experts on the implications of social distancing as a measure to control COVID-19. It also […]
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    UK-Based Tech Publisher Highlights Three Hariri Institute Researchers for Their Work Fighting COVID-19

    April 6, 2020
    This week three BU Hariri Institute for Computing researchers were highlighted in an article in Silicon, a UK-based tech publisher. Mayank Varia (Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of RISCS), Ran Canetti (Professor of Computer Science and Director of RISCS), and Ari Tractenberg (Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Cyber Alliance member) […]
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    Virtual Seminars Come to the Institute

    April 2, 2020
    As we transition to a virtual environment, the Hariri Institute is committed to bringing together researchers and faculty in an effort to maintain an engaged community.  This spring, we look forward to hosting virtual seminars and events. As a staff, we have been trained to organize, host, and execute virtual seminars and workshops of all […]
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    Honda Research Institute Holds Info Session for Funding Proposals

    April 2, 2020
    This past March, the Honda Research Institute led an information session covering their special track offered as part of the Hariri Institute’s Research Incubation Awards. The talk was given to a full seminar room at the Hariri Institute for Computing as BU faculty members were given some insights into their proposal ideas. Explicitly, in their […]
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    BU RISCS Researchers Win Two Grants from DARPA

    April 2, 2020
    Recently two research teams with researchers from BU, UC Berkeley, MIT, Microsoft Research, and Caltech were recognized with a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Award. Both projects are part of the DARPA SIEVE program whose mission is to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. The first project, which is for $4M […]
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    Blurring Structure and Learning for Adaptive Local Recognition

    April 1, 2020
    AIR Distinguished Speaker Series Speaker: Evan Shelhamer, Research Scientist at Adobe, Visiting Researcher at MIT When: Monday, April 6, 2020 Time: 11:00am-12:30pm Abstract: The visual world is vast and varied, but there is nevertheless ubiquitous structure. In this talk, I will focus on incorporating locality and scale structure into deep networks for image-to-image tasks like semantic segmentation. To […]
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    Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Joins Study on the Spread of Extremist Ideology on the Web

    March 11, 2020
    Gianluca Stringhini, Junior Faculty Fellow at the Hariri Institute for Computing, recently joined a team of eight academics from across the globe to conduct a study on how online communities, particularly in the Manosphere, have been orchestrating harassment campaigns and spreading extremist ideologies on the web. Using a tool developed by Google called the Perspective API, the […]
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    The Cult of the Internet

    March 11, 2020
    Dr. Mary Anne Franks, Professor of Law & Dean's Distinguished Scholar, University of Miami School of Law When:  Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing Seminar Room MCS 157 111 Cummington Mall Abstract: It is no coincidence that the Internet is effectively controlled by a handful of multi-billion-dollar […]