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    Spring 2019 Research Incubation Award Recipients

    July 22, 2019
    About the Research Incubation Awards (RIA) The Institute supports a portfolio of ambitious research projects and activities that align with its mission to catalyze new directions and collaborations in interdisciplinary research that applies the computational 3and data-driven approaches. By supporting projects in fields from social sciences, humanities, law, business, and medicine – to engineering, computer science, […]
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    City of Boston Approves New BU Data Sciences Building

    July 12, 2019
    It was announced today that Boston University was approved by the city to build a 17-floor Data Sciences building on Commonwealth Ave (at the corner of Commonwealth Ave and Granby St). KPMB Architects has designed the building to resemble a vertical campus where the Department of Computer Science and the Hariri Institute for Computing will […]
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    SAIL Team Wins at Microsoft-Vivli Datathon

    July 10, 2019
    We are proud to announce that a team representing the Hariri Institute's Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) won the Outstanding Graduate Submission prize at the Microsoft-Vivli Datathon on June 21, 2019. Congratulations to team members Kinan Dak Albab, Megan Fantes, Peter Flockhart, Wyatt Howe, Lucy Qin, and Zack Zhang! Microsoft and Vivli, a global […]
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    BU Hariri Institute Researchers Honored with a Test-of-Time Award at Eurocrypt 2019

    June 18, 2019
    This past month, Boston University Professors Adam Smith (Professor of Computer Science, CAS), Leonid Reyzin (Professor of Computer Science, CAS) and New York University Professor Yevgeniy Dodis (Professor of Computer Science, CIMS) were honored at this year’s Eurocrypt 2019 held in Darmstadt, Germany, with the 2019 IACR Test-Time-Award. The IACR Test-of-Time Award is given yearly […]
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    TechTalks Magazine Highlights Neuroflight and It’s Use of AI in Drone Flight

    June 17, 2019
    Just this week TechTalks magazine produced a story about artificial intelligence and it’s growing influence on the world of drone flight. A company called Neuroflight has created a system which helps drones maintain stability and balance in changing environmental conditions. Previous technology relied upon mathematical control equations to respond to changes in conditions. Machine learning, […]
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    Privacy Amplification with Couplings and Overlapping Mixtures

    June 17, 2019
    Borja Balle, Amazon Research When: Thursday, June 20, 2019 Event Start Time: 1:30 pm Event End Time: 3:00 pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, 111 Cummington Mall, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: Privacy amplification is a key component of many state-of-the-art analyses in differential privacy. Amplification results come under different guises, including amplification by sampling, shuffling […]
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    Bayesian Fairness

    June 6, 2019
    Christos Dimitrakakis, Chalmers University / University of Oslo When: Monday, June 10, 2019 Event Start Time: 11:00 am Event End Time: 12:30 pm (includes lunch following lecture) Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room, MCS 180 Abstract: Bayesian fairness is an overarching concept of fairness that explicitly takes into account the subjective uncertainty of the decision […]
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    Stan Sclaroff named BU’s Dean of Arts & Sciences

    June 3, 2019
    On May 29th it was announced that Professor Stan Sclaroff, Computer Science, CAS was named as the permanent Dean of Arts & Sciences. Professor Sclaroff had been the interim dean of the college since last August 2018. Stan joined the BU College of Arts & Sciences as a Professor in the Computer Science Department in […]

  • A White Paper: “Effective Community-University-Industry Collaboration Models for Smart and Connected Communities Research.”

    May 16, 2019
      Uncovering How to Work Together In 2017 the Hariri Institute for Computing along with the BU Initiative on Cities held two workshops titled “Effective Community-University-Industry Collaboration Models for Smart and Connected Communities Research.” Attendees at these events included principal investigators, research directors, city officials, community partners, NSF program managers, and federal agency and industry […]
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    Newly Elected NAS Member Leonid Levin was Recognized by the Hariri Institute and Computer Science

    May 9, 2019
    Today colleagues, faculty, staff and friends gathered to honor BU Computer Science Professor Leonid Levin with a reception held at the Hariri Institute for Computing. The event was hosted by both the Institute and BU Computer Science. The event celebrated the recent election of Leonid Levin into the National Academy of Sciences. BU President Robert Brown […]