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    Stringhini Delivers Wed@Hariri Talk on Weaponized Online Content to a Packed Room

    December 12, 2019
    Yesterday, BU Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellow, Gianluca Stringhini gave a talk in front of a packed room on his research titled “Computational Methods to Measure and Mitigate Weaponized Online Information.” This talk is part of the Wed@Hariri Talk Series where Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows share their research with the […]
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    Piotr Nojszewski Reveals Details About Working on RESULT App

    December 11, 2019
    The Massachusetts Attorney General's office collaborated with students from BU Spark! and the BU School of Law to develop an app that helps law enforcement recognize labor trafficking. RESULT (Recognize and Evaluate Signs to Uncover Labor Trafficking) is a web-based app that asks a series of questions aimed to identify forced labor and get help for […]

  • An Official Beginning for the BU Center for Computing & Data Sciences Building

    December 6, 2019
    On Thursday, December 10th a groundbreaking ceremony was held at the site of the new state-of-the-art BU Center for Computing & Data Sciences building. The ceremony took place under a tent at the building’s location at the corner of Commonwealth Ave. and Granby St. About 150 BU faculty, administration, and staff attended the event which […]
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    Kate Saenko and Her Team Looks to Create a Robot for Recycling

    December 6, 2019
    Kate Saenko is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Boston University. She is also the founder and co-director of the Artificial Intelligence Research (AIR) initiative at the Hariri Institute for Computing. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence with a specific focus on dataset bias, adaptive machine learning, learning for image and language understanding, and deep learning. […]
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    Computational Methods to Measure and Mitigate Weaponized Online Information

    December 2, 2019
    Wed@Hariri: Meet Our Fellows Series Gianluca Stringhini, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENG When: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Networking and refreshments 3:30pm-3:45pm, talk 3:45pm-5:00pm Where: Photonics Building, 8 St. Mary's Street, Room PHO 339 Abstract: The Web has redefined the way in which malicious activities such as online harassment, disinformation, and radicalization are carried out. To […]
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    Professor Yiling Chen on How Algorithms Can Improve Decision-Making

    November 25, 2019
    How can we make algorithms that are fair, transparent, and better than what they are today? This is the question Gordan McKay Professor Yiling Chen from Harvard University answered in her talk on algorithm-in-the-loop decision-making last week. Professor Chen spoke as a part of the Cyber Alliance Speaker Series. She is interested in analyzing and designing social […]
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    Leveraging High-Resource Languages to Improve Low-Resource Language Processing

    November 25, 2019
    2019 BU Linguistics Colloquium Series Gina-Anne Levow, Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington. When: Monday, November 25, 2019 4:00pm-5:00pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room MCS 157, 111 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA Abstract: Recent years have seen dramatic strides in automatic speech and language processing, ranging from automatic speech recognition to machine translation. While these advances […]

  • “Machine Learning: New Challenges and Connections”

    November 22, 2019
    AIR Distinguished Speaker Series Maria-Florina Balcan, Assoc. Prof., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Univ. When: Monday, December 2, 2019 10:30am-11:00am networking and reception, 11:00am-12:00pm talk Where: Kilachand Center, 610 Commonwealth Ave, Colloquium Room 101 ABSTRACT: Over the past decades, machine learning has evolved into a highly successful discipline that has significantly influenced several fields, including vision, information […]
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    Wen Li Gives Talk about Electron Dynamics within Earth’s Radiation Belt

    November 22, 2019
    Yesterday, Wen Li, BU Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellow, gave a talk on her research titled "Quantitative Assessment of Earth’s Radiation Belt Electron Dynamics Using Physics-Based and Machine-Learning Approaches." This talk is part of the Wed@Hariri Talk Series where Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows share their research with the Hariri Institute and Boston University communities. […]
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    Kristopher Grahame Gives Cyber Alliance Talk About Malign Foreign Influence Operations

    November 15, 2019
    Last week Kristopher Grahame, FBI agent and member of the U.S. Department of Justice in Boston, delivered a talk titled "Disinformation in the Age of Social Media: A Foreign Influence Briefing" to a full house at the Hillel River Room. This talk was put on by BU Information Security and co-sponsored by the Hariri Institute for Computing and […]